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March 2024

Mar 25

General Availability: Automatic Scaling for App Service Web Apps

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure App Service is pleased to announce general availability of the "Automatic Scaling" feature.

  • App Service
  • App Service (Linux)
  • Features
Mar 22

Action required: Upgrade your App Service apps to Node 20 LTS by 30 April 2025

Target retirement date: April 30, 2025

Extended support for Node 18 LTS is ending

  • Retirements
Mar 7

General Availability: App Service Backup and Restore over Azure Virtual Network

NOW AVAILABLE

Customers can now use custom backups, to back up their web app's files and configuration data to a firewall-protected storage account.

  • Features

February 2024

Feb 5

Mount Azure Storage as a local share in App Service Linux Now supports NFS

NOW AVAILABLE

NFS support is now available for App Service Linux code and container when mounting a Azure File share as a local share for the web app. 

  • App Service
  • Features

November 2023

Nov 7

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

NOW AVAILABLE

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

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Features
  • Security

October 2023

Oct 5

App Service: Backup and Restore over Azure Virtual Network

IN PREVIEW

Customers can now use custom backups, to back up their web app's files and configuration data to a firewall-protected storage account.

  • App Service
  • Features
Oct 5

Public preview: Announcing Microsoft Playwright Testing service: Scalable end-to-end testing for modern web apps

IN PREVIEW

Now in preview: Microsoft Playwright Testing, a new service for running Playwright tests easily at scale. Playwright, a fast-growing, open-source framework, enables reliable end-to-end testing and automation for modern web apps. Microsoft Playwright Testing service uses the cloud, enabling you to simultaneously run Playwright tests with much higher parallelization across different operating system-browser combinations. Learn more https://aka.ms/MPT/about

  • Services

September 2023

Sep 22

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

June 2023

Jun 27

Public Preview: Azure OpenAI Service On Your Data

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q2 2023

Introducing Azure OpenAI Service on your data in public preview, which unlocks the power of OpenAI models like ChatGPT and GPT-4 with your own data. It streamlines communication, enhances customer service, boosts productivity without training, provides access to specific data sources for accurate insights, and enables seamless data connectivity, web app deployment, and transformative conversational AI experiences.

  • Azure OpenAI Service
  • Services
  • SDK and Tools
  • Features
Jun 13

Public Preview: App Service support for .NET 8

IN PREVIEW

Early access feature of App Service enables support for .NET 8.

  • App Service
  • Microsoft Build
Jun 13

Public Preview: Azure Cosmos DB Vercel integration

IN PREVIEW

Build your apps now using Vercel to easily connect an existing Azure Cosmos DB database to your Vercel projects.

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Features

May 2023

May 23

Public Preview: App Service automatic scaling support in portal UX

IN PREVIEW

Now you can use the Azure Portal to configure App Service auto-scaling rules.

  • App Service
  • Microsoft Build
May 23

Generally Available: Linked backends for Azure Static Web Apps

NOW AVAILABLE

You can now link your backend APIs to your Static Web Apps applications for seamless routing and integrated security.

  • Static Web Apps
  • Microsoft Build
  • Features
May 9

Public Preview: App Service Minimum TLS Cipher Suite Now on Azure Portal

IN PREVIEW

Disable Weak TLS Cipher Suites for Your App Service Web Apps (Preview)

  • App Service
  • App Service (Linux)
  • Features
  • Security
May 8

Preview: Automatic Scaling for App Service Web Apps

IN PREVIEW

App Service has an automatic scaling capability that adjusts the number of running instances of your application based on incoming HTTP requests.

  • App Service
  • Features

April 2023

Apr 26

Generally available: API Management Authorizations

NOW AVAILABLE

API Management Authorizations are now generally available, providing a simple and reliable way to unbundle and abstract authorizations from web APIs.

  • API Management
  • Features
Apr 18

Generally Available: Azure App Service - New Premium v3 Offerings

NOW AVAILABLE

Introducing two new offerings in the Premium v3 (Pv3) service tier on Azure App Service  

  • Services
  • Features

March 2023

Mar 31

Action recommended: Implement disaster recovery strategies for your Azure App Service web apps by 31 March 2025

Target retirement date: March 31, 2025

We'll no longer place apps in disaster recovery mode in the event of a regional disaster.

  • App Service
  • Retirements
Mar 29

Public Preview: Azure Migrate - Discover ASP.NET & Java web apps and assess ASP.NET in all environments

IN PREVIEW

Discovery of Java & ASP.NET web apps and assessment of ASP.NET web apps to Azure App Service code (native) on VMware, Hyper-V and Physical servers is now in public preview.

  • App Service
  • Azure Migrate
  • SDK and Tools
  • Features
Mar 20

General Availability: ASP. NET web app migration to Azure App Service using PowerShell Scripts

NOW AVAILABLE

ASP. NET web app migration to Azure App Service using PowerShell Scripts is now generally available.

  • App Service
  • SDK and Tools
  • Features

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