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March 2024

Mar 14

Billing for Azure Monitor stateful log search alerts

IN PREVIEW

Starting from May 1, 2024, you will be charged for stateful log alerts in Azure Monitor.

  • Alerts
  • Compliance
  • Services
  • Features
Mar 12

WhatsApp Business Platform now available for applications built on Azure

NOW AVAILABLE

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.

  • Services
  • SDK and Tools
  • Features
Mar 12

Generally Available: Azure Chaos Studio supports new fault for Azure Event Hubs

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Chaos Studio supports new faults for Azure Event Hubs.

  • Services
  • Features
Mar 11

Azure API Center Updates

IN PREVIEW

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.

  • Features
Mar 11

Generally available: Azure Blob Storage Cold Tier in Poland Central, Qatar Central and Azure China

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Blob Storage Cold Tier in generally available in Poland Central, Qatar Central and Azure China.

  • Storage Accounts
  • Azure Blob Storage
  • Hot/Cool/Cold Blob Storage Tiers
  • Features
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
Mar 7

Generally available: Service Level Agreements on Azure Blob Storage Cold Tier

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Blob Storage Cold Tier has published Service Level Agreements.

  • Storage Accounts
  • Hot/Cool/Cold Blob Storage Tiers
  • Azure Blob Storage
  • Features
Mar 7

General availability: Azure Virtual Network encryption now in additional regions

NOW AVAILABLE

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.

  • Virtual Network
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Services
  • Features
Mar 7

Public preview: Change Actor

IN PREVIEW

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. 

  • Azure Resource Graph
  • Management
  • Features
Mar 6

Generally available: Azure Functions Support for Node.js 20

NOW AVAILABLE

Develop functions using Node.js 20 locally and deploy them to all Azure Functions plans on Linux and Windows.

  • Azure Functions
  • Features
Mar 5

Public preview: Azure NetApp Files volume enhancement – allow the same file path for volumes in different availability zones

IN PREVIEW

Public Preview of Azure NetApp Files volume enhancement – file path uniqueness

  • Azure NetApp Files
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Features
Mar 5

Public preview: New Generation AMD VMs - Dasv6/Easv6/Fasv6

IN PREVIEW

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.

  • Pricing & Offerings
Mar 5

Azure Sphere OS version 24.03 is now available for evaluation

NOW AVAILABLE

Participate in the retail evaluation now to ensure full compatibility. The OS evaluation for this release period provides 28 days for backward-compatibility testing.

  • SDK and Tools
  • Operating System
Mar 4

Public Preview: Well-Architected Framework assessment on Azure Advisor

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q1 2024

Initiate a self-serve experience of Assessments and manage their recommendations on Azure Advisor

  • Azure Advisor
  • Services
  • Management
Mar 1

Cloud Services (classic) deployment model is retiring on 31 August 2024

Target retirement date: August 31, 2024

Cloud Services (classic) retiring in August 2024.

  • Cloud Services
  • Retirements

February 2024

Feb 29

General Availability: Encryption at host for Premium SSD v2 and Ultra Disks is now available in more regions.

NOW AVAILABLE

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.

  • Azure Disk Storage
  • Ultra Disk Storage
  • Managed Disks
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Features
Feb 28

GA: Istio-based service mesh add-on for Azure Kubernetes Service

NOW AVAILABLE

You can deploy an officially supported Istio addon for AKS

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Features
Feb 27

General availability: Application Gateway for Containers

NOW AVAILABLE

Application Gateway for Containers is the next evolution to Application Gateway's Ingress Controller; bringing performance, scale, deployment, and feature enhancements.

  • Application Gateway for Containers
  • Application Gateway
  • Features
  • Security
Feb 27

Enable replication for added VMware VM data disks

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Site Recovery now supports enabling replication for data disks that you add to a VMware VM that's already enabled for disaster recovery.

  • Azure Site Recovery
  • Management
  • Features
Feb 26

GA: Azure API Management Developer Portal Unveils Enhanced Features for Increased Developer Productivity

NOW AVAILABLE

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.  

  • Features

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