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General Availability: Automatic Scaling for App Service Web Apps
Azure App Service is pleased to announce general availability of the "Automatic Scaling" feature.
Community support for Standard_M192ids_v2 is ending on 31 March 2027
Target retirement date: March 18, 2027
Support for Standard_M192ids_v2 will be retired on 31 March 2027
Community support for Standard_M192is_v2 is ending on 31 March 2027
Support for Standard_M192is_v2 will be retired on 31 March 2027.
December 2023
Generally Available: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.9 now supported on Azure Virtual Machines
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.9 is the latest minor release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, which provides stability and security for production environments along with bug fixes and enhancements for improved performance and reliability. It also includes more features and capabilities to help customers customize their operating environment while maintaining the consistency needed for more efficient management and deployment across varied infrastructures.
November 2023
Generally Available: Collect Syslog from AKS nodes using Azure Monitor Container Insights
The Syslog collection feature in Azure Monitor - Container Insights is generally available.
Generally Available: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.3 now supported on Azure Virtual Machines
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9.3, the latest version of RHEL 9 from Red Hat is now generally available on Azure Virtual Machines (VMs). Availability of RHEL 9.3 for VMs on Azure is a step forward towards offering a more scalable, flexible Linux platform that pairs container innovation with a strong security posture.
Announcing the public preview of Azure confidential VMs with Intel TDX
Microsoft is excited to announce the public preview of DCesv5 and ECesv5-series confidential VMs. These VMs are powered by 4th Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors with Intel® Trust Domain Extensions (TDX). They enable organizations to bring confidential workloads to the cloud without code changes to applications and will be available starting December 1st.
Public Preview: Azure integration with Canonical’s Snapshot Service for safe deployment
Azure Guest Patching Service and Azure Kubernetes Service will now apply the same package update from a specific date to all regions following safe deployment principles.
September 2023
App Service Environment version 1 and version 2 will be retired on 31 August 2024
Target retirement date: August 31, 2024
Migrate to App Service Environment v3 by 31 August 2024.
Generally Available: Azure Update Manager
Azure Update Manager, previously known as Update Management Center, is now generally available.
July 2023
Public preview: Assess cost optimization opportunities using new workbook template in Azure Advisor
Target availability: Q3 2023
Review cost optimization insights for your Azure environment and identify savings using the new Cost Optimization workbook template in Azure Advisor.
May 2023
Generalized Azure Compute Gallery custom image support in Update management center
VM Image support for Update management center has expanded with the addition of support for generalized Azure Compute Gallery custom images.
April 2023
Preview: Introducing DCesv5 and ECesv5-series Confidential VMs with Intel TDX
Today, we’re excited to announce the expansion of our Confidential VM family with the launch of the DCesv5-series and ECesv5-series in preview. Featuring 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, these VMs are backed by an all-new hardware-based Trusted Execution Environment called Intel® Trust Domain Extensions (TDX). Organizations can use these VMs to seamlessly bring confidential workloads to the cloud without any code changes to their applications.
App Service Environment version 1 and version 2 will be retired on 31 August 2024
Target retirement date: August 31, 2024
Migrate to App Service Environment v3 by 31 August 2024.
GA: Azure Active Directory workload identity with AKS
You can now use AAD workload identity with AKS in production
March 2023
The “managed” IoT Edge solution on Azure stack Edge will be retired on March 31, 2024. Transition your IoT Edge workloads to an IoT Edge solution running on a Linux VM on Azure Stack Edge.
Target retirement date: March 31, 2024
The “managed” IoT Edge solution on Azure Stack Edge will be retired on 31 March 2024
Now available: Azure Kubernetes Service Edge Essentials
Azure Kubernetes Service Edge Essentials is a Microsoft supported lightweight Kubernetes distribution that is fine tuned to run on edge devices with constrained resources.
January 2023
General Availability: Azure Active Directory authentication for exporting and importing Managed Disks
New integration with Azure Active Directory (AD) to export and import data to Azure Managed Disks improves security
December 2022
Generally available: Software inventory & agentless dependency analysis generally available with Azure Migrate
Now generally available for Hyper-V virtual machines and bare-metal servers
November 2022
Generally available: Azure IoT Edge for Linux on Windows (EFLOW) update
The update brings enhancements to IoT Edge 1.4 and more.
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