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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.
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
Azure Database for PostgreSQL Single Server will be retired—migrate to Flexible Server by 28 March 2025
Target retirement date: March 30, 2023
On 28 March 2025, Azure Database for PostgreSQL Single Server will be retired, and you'll need to migrate to Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server by that date.
Action Required: Transition to DCR-based KQL transformations by 31 March 2026
Target retirement date: March 31, 2026
Custom fields feature will be retired on 31 March 2026
Azure CDN will be retiring Azure CDN Standard from Akamai on 31 October 2023 – transition to another CDN profile to avoid service interruption
Target retirement date: November 01, 2023
Azure CDN Standard from Akamai is being retired and services will end on 31 October 2023
SQL Server connector’s V1 actions and triggers will be retired on 31 March 2024 – transition to SQL Server connector’s V2 actions and triggers
Target retirement date: March 31, 2024
SQL Server connector’s V1 actions and triggers will be retired on 31 March 2024
Retirement notice: Migrate from Public Peering by March 31, 2024
Target retirement date: April 01, 2024
ExpressRoute Public Peering will be retired on March 31, 2024.
Classic experience to protect VMware machines using Azure Site Recovery will be retired on 30 March 2026
Target retirement date: March 30, 2026
Azure Site Recovery’s classic experience to protect VMware VMs will be retired on 30 March 2026
Azure Image Builder Portal Functionality now available
Using Azure Image Builder’s new portal functionality, you can now build and validate custom images inside the portal. Now available!
Azure Service Fabric 9.1 Second Refresh Release
This release includes quality improvements.
Azure HDInsight for Apache Kafka 3.2.0 is now available for public preview.
Azure HDInsight for Apache Kafka 3.2.0 now available for public preview and ready for production workloads.
Generally available: Mount Azure Files and ephemeral storage in Azure Container Apps
Persist data in Azure Container Apps via mounted volumes.
Azure Maps is now HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) compliant
Azure Maps ensures HIPAA compliance is achieved for protected health information (PHI), such as geocoding patient home addresses.
Public Preview: Simplified flush operation for caches using active geo-replication
Flush all data from active geo-replicated caches using portal, PowerShell, or CLI
Public Preview: In-place scaling for enterprise caches
Scale enterprise caches up or out without disrupting the operation of the current cache using in-place scaling.
Public preview: AKS support for Kubernetes 1.26 release
You can now try out Kubernetes v1.26 features with Azure Kubernetes Service
Public Preview: Storage in-place sharing in Microsoft Purview in additional regions
Storage in-place data sharing with Microsoft Purview public preview is now supported for Azure Data Lake Gen2 and Blob storage accounts in East US, East US2, North Europe, Southcentral US, West Central US, West Europe, West US, West US2
Public Preview: Connection audit logs for Enterprise tier caches
Log all connections to your cache.
Azure HDInsight for Apache Kafka 3.2.0 is now available for public preview.
Azure HDInsight for Apache Kafka 3.2.0 now available for public preview and ready for production workloads.
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