Updates Archives
Monthly updates for April 2019
General availability: Azure Kubernetes Service in North Central US and Japan West
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is now generally available in North Central US and Japan West.
PowerShell support in Azure Functions
With the preview of PowerShell support in Azure Functions, it is now possible to automate operational tasks and take advantage of the native Azure integration to modernize the delivering and management of services.
Azure Batch updates now available
Here are the latest new or enhanced capabilities for Azure Batch, available now.
General Availability: Azure Monitor for containers is now available in Azure China
Azure Monitor for containers is now general available in Azure China.
Service Fabric Mesh preview - spring update for features in development
Service Fabric Mesh preview is being updated with some new features, and improvements based on feedback we’ve received.
Azure Traffic Manager will stop automatically enabling, disabling, or deleting endpoints for Azure Cloud Services on May 1, 2019
Target retirement date: May 01, 2019
Currently, Azure Traffic Manager can automatically enable, disable, or delete endpoints when starting, stopping, or deleting the corresponding cloud service. However, this option will be retired on May 1, 2019, and you’ll need to manually enable, disable, or delete profile endpoints in Traffic Manager when starting, stopping, or deleting a cloud service. You’ll continue to be billed for the endpoints unless they are manually disabled or deleted.
Pod security policy for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is now available in preview
Pod Security Policy enables customers to control sensitive aspects of a pod specification by defining a set of conditions that a pod must run with in order to be accepted.
Service Fabric version 6.5 runtime and SDK are in development
Service Fabric version 6.5 runtime and SDK are in development with new features and improvements.
Service Fabric Version 6.4 CU5 Refresh Release
General availability of Azure Service Fabric version 6.4 CU5 with the corresponding SDK and tooling.
Price reductions for Azure Container Instances are now available
Azure Container Instances overall price reductions of anywhere between 35% and 50% depending on region and usage pattern.
App Service Migration Assistant for ASP.NET applications is now available
Easily migrate existing .NET applications to Azure App Service with the new Migration Assistant
General availability: Azure Kubernetes Service in South Central US, Korea South, and Korea Central
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is now generally available in South Central US, Korea South, and Korea Central.
Public preview: Windows Server 2019 container support in Azure App Service
Windows Server 2019 Container Support is now available in the public preview of Windows Containers on Azure App Service.
Azure Functions Premium plan
The Premium Plan is a new hosting option for Function Apps which provides pre-warmed workers to run your app with no delay after being idle, VNET connectivity, and more powerful hardware, without compromising on latency or scale
B-series update: B1ls is now available
The new B1ls Azure virtual machine, which has the smallest memory and lowest cost among Azure VM instances, is now available.
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