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Billing for Azure Monitor stateful log search alerts
Starting from May 1, 2024, you will be charged for stateful log alerts in Azure Monitor.
WhatsApp Business Platform now available for applications built on Azure
Target availability: Q1 2024
Azure Communication Services Advanced Messaging is now generally available, enabling developers to send and receive messages from their applications through third party social messaging platforms, like the WhatsApp Business Platform. This latest messaging service helps businesses create intelligent B2C communication workflows to reach more customers at scale and deliver safe, reliable communications to customers worldwide.
Generally Available: Azure Chaos Studio supports new fault for Azure Event Hubs
Azure Chaos Studio supports new faults for Azure Event Hubs.
Azure API Center Updates
Target availability: Q1 2024
We are pleased to announce an update to the Azure API Center extension for Visual Studio Code, introducing new capabilities for API inventory and design. Additionally, we are unveiling a new API governance feature in API Center, enabling API linting and analysis based on customer-owned design guidelines.
Generally available: Azure Blob Storage Cold Tier in Poland Central, Qatar Central and Azure China
Azure Blob Storage Cold Tier in generally available in Poland Central, Qatar Central and Azure China.
General Availability: App Service Backup and Restore over Azure Virtual Network
Customers can now use custom backups, to back up their web app's files and configuration data to a firewall-protected storage account.
Generally available: Service Level Agreements on Azure Blob Storage Cold Tier
Azure Blob Storage Cold Tier has published Service Level Agreements.
General availability: Azure Virtual Network encryption now in additional regions
Azure Virtual Network encryption is a feature of Azure Virtual Networks. Virtual network encryption allows you to seamlessly encrypt and decrypt traffic between Azure Virtual Machines. Now available in additional regions.
Public preview: Change Actor
Change Actor allows you to see who initiated the change and with which client that change was made, for changes across all your tenants and subscriptions.
Generally available: Azure Functions Support for Node.js 20
Develop functions using Node.js 20 locally and deploy them to all Azure Functions plans on Linux and Windows.
Public preview: Azure NetApp Files volume enhancement – allow the same file path for volumes in different availability zones
Public Preview of Azure NetApp Files volume enhancement – file path uniqueness
Public preview: New Generation AMD VMs - Dasv6/Easv6/Fasv6
Target availability: Q1 2024
Azure introduces the latest AMD-based VMs in public preview for the D, E, and F series VMs, built on the 4th Generation AMD EPYC™ (Genoa) CPU.
Azure Sphere OS version 24.03 is now available for evaluation
Participate in the retail evaluation now to ensure full compatibility. The OS evaluation for this release period provides 28 days for backward-compatibility testing.
Public Preview: Well-Architected Framework assessment on Azure Advisor
Target availability: Q1 2024
Initiate a self-serve experience of Assessments and manage their recommendations on Azure Advisor
Cloud Services (classic) deployment model is retiring on 31 August 2024
Target retirement date: August 31, 2024
Cloud Services (classic) retiring in August 2024.
February 2024
General Availability: Encryption at host for Premium SSD v2 and Ultra Disks is now available in more regions.
Encryption at host for Premium SSD v2 and Ultra Disks is now available in Canada East, West Europe, South Central US and West US 3.
GA: Istio-based service mesh add-on for Azure Kubernetes Service
You can deploy an officially supported Istio addon for AKS
General availability: Application Gateway for Containers
Application Gateway for Containers is the next evolution to Application Gateway's Ingress Controller; bringing performance, scale, deployment, and feature enhancements.
Enable replication for added VMware VM data disks
Azure Site Recovery now supports enabling replication for data disks that you add to a VMware VM that's already enabled for disaster recovery.
GA: Azure API Management Developer Portal Unveils Enhanced Features for Increased Developer Productivity
Target availability: Q1 2024
The API Management developer portal is an automatically generated, fully customizable website with the documentation of your APIs. It's where API consumers can discover your APIs, learn how to use them, request access, and try them out. We recently improved the portal editor interface to boost your productivity and enhance the interactions with your favorite features and tools.
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