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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
Public preview: Image integrity support in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
You can now ensure that only signed container images are deployed to your AKS clusters.
TLS 1.2 to become the minimum TLS version for Azure Storage
Target availability: Q4 2024
TLS 1.2 to become the minimum TLS version for Azure Storage
October 2023
General availability: Default Rule Set 2.1 for regional WAF with Application Gateway
Increase your security posture and reduce false positives with Default Rule Set 2.1, now generally available on the regional WAF with Application Gateway
Public preview: Announcing the new Azure Bastion Developer SKU
The Bastion Developer SKU represents a novel, cost-effective, and streamlined version of the Bastion service.
GA: Bring our own keys (BYOK) on Ephemeral OS Disk
You can now encrypt OS and Data disks of your AKS nodes in production with your own managed keys.
Windows Server 2012/R2 reaches end of support
Windows Server 2012/R2 reaches end of support today on October 10, 2023. Microsoft has several options for organizations to remain protected.
General Availability: Upgrade your existing Azure Gen2 VMs to Trusted Launch
Enable Trusted Launch foundational compute security on existing Azure Generation 2 VMs.
Generally Available: Multi-user authorisation for Backup vaults
Multi-user authorization provides enhanced protection for your backup data against unauthorized critical operations.
Generally available: Enhanced soft delete for Azure Backup
Enhanced soft delete helps you recover your backup data even after it has been deleted, giving you protection against data loss scenarios like ransomwares, malicious actors, and accidental deletes.
September 2023
GA: Node OS patching - NodeImage feature in AKS
You can have a flexible and customized strategy for node-level OS security updates.
General Availability: GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps
Learn how to enable GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps code scanning, secret scanning, and dependency scanning in Azure DevOps and connect to Microsoft Defender for Cloud.
Authenticate Azure Monitor logs connector in Logic App with managed identity
When you enable managed identity authentication in Logic App, and grant it permissions in Log Analytics workspace, or Application Insights component, you can query data without needing...
General Availability: Malware Scanning in Defender for Storage
Target availability: Q3 2023
Malware Scanning in Defender for Storage enables organizations to detect and prevent malware distribution events with content scanning upon upload and near real-time malware detection powered by Microsoft Defender Antivirus technologies.
General availability: Azure Backup support for Azure Files in China North2, China East 2, China North 3, and China East 3
Target availability: Q3 2023
Azure Backup now supports Azure Files in China North2, China East 2, China North 3, and China East 3
General availability: Sensitive Data Protection for Application Gateway Web Application Firewall
Protect the sensitive data getting stored in your Web Application Firewall (WAF) using log scrubbing on Azure’s regional Web Application Firewall running on Application Gateway.
August 2023
Azure Firewall Single-Click Upgrade and Downgrade is now in general availability
This feature allows you to upgrade your firewall without service downtime, with a single click of a button.
Azure Firewall: Poland Central Region is now in general availability
Azure Firewall is now generally available in the Poland Central region.
Azure Firewall: Explicit Proxy is now in public preview
This configuration allows traffic from the sending application to be directed to the private IP address of the firewall, facilitating direct egress from the firewall without the need for a UDR.
Azure Firewall: Auto-Learn SNAT routes feature is now in public preview
Azure Firewall can now learn address ranges and automatically configure them to be excluded from SNAT, to reduce time and complexity spent manually defining SNAT private ranges.
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