Azure updates

Public preview: Public IP Domain Name Label Scope

Announcing the public preview for a new capability in Azure public IP address that can prevent DNS subdomain takeover while still allowing for re-use of DNS names.

• Azure DNS
• Features

GA: Application routing add-on for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

You can now enable an ingress controller with SSL termination to quickly and securely access your applications in AKS

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Security
• Features

Retirement: HTTP application routing add-on (preview) for AKS will retire 03/03/2025

Target retirement date: March 03, 2025

Transition your ingresses to Web Application routing add-on before 3/3/2025 to avoid service disruptions.

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Retirements

General availability: IoT Hub Service Upgrade

All IoT Hubs will be going through a service upgrade between July 2023 and November 2023 with potential impact to your IoT Hub.

• Azure IoT Hub
• Services

Public Preview: Network Observability add-on on AKS

Enable network observability add-on on AKS clusters to gain insights into how your cluster operate and to identify potential problems before they cause outages or performance degradation.

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Azure Monitor
• Virtual Network
• Services
• Management
• Features

Generally available: Azure DNS Private Resolver is available in 8 additional regions

Azure DNS Private Resolver is now available in West US, Canada East, Qatar Central, UAE North, Australia Southeast, Norway East, Norway East, and Poland Central.

• Regions & Datacenters

General availability: Azure Sphere OS version 23.02

This quality release includes bug fixes in the Azure Sphere OS.

• Azure Sphere
• Operating System

General availability: Azure Sphere TKS updated; OS version 22.11 expected December 1

Participate in retail evaluation now to ensure compatibility. The Azure Sphere team has also updated the trusted keystore of Azure Sphere devices, resulting in an additional reboot for production devices.

• Security
• Operating System

Generally available: New KMS DNS in Azure US Government Cloud

All Azure Windows VMs provisioned in Azure US Government Cloud after 1 February, 2023, will be activated via aazkms.core.usgovcloudapi.net, which points to one new KMS IP address, 52.126.105.2.

• Services
• Operating System

Generally available: New KMS DNS in Azure China Cloud

All Azure Windows VMs provisioned in Azure China Cloud after December 15, 2022, will be activated via azkms.core.chinacloudapi.cn, which points to two new KMS IP addresses, 159.27.28.100 and 163.228.64.161.

• Services
• Operating System

General availability: Azure App Service Environment v3 support for custom domain suffix

General availability: Azure App Service Environment v3 support for custom domain suffix

• App Service
• Features

Generally available: New KMS DNS in Azure Global Cloud

All Azure Windows VMs provisioned in Azure Global Cloud from July 2022, are activated via azkms.core.windows.net, which points to two new KMS IP addresses, 20.118.99.224 and 40.83.235.53.

• Windows Virtual Machines
• Services
• Operating System

IoT Hub IP address change notification

IoT Hub will be updating the underlying infrastructure and will go through an internal service update. The update will change the underlying DNS record for IoT Hub, resulting in a change of the IP address.

• Azure IoT Hub
• Services