Updates Archives
Monthly updates for March 2023
Generally Available: Larger SKUs for App Service Environment v3
Enterprises are now able to operate more securely with large SKUs to support more demanding workloads with App Service Environment v3.
Preview: customer managed key encryption for Enterprise tier caches
Encrypt Redis persistence files using customer managed keys
Azure SQL—General availability updates for late-March 2023
General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in late-March 2023
Generally available: Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage in East US 2, North Europe and West US 2
Now available in East US 2, North Europe and West US 2region, Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage offers the most advanced general-purpose block storage solution with the best price-performance.
Generally available: Azure Monitor Alerts now support duplicating alert rules
Azure Monitor alert rule can now be duplicated via the Azure portal.
Multi-Column Distribution for Dedicated SQL pools is now available!
Multi-Column Distribution (MCD) is highly desirable for easing migrations, promotes faster query performance and reduces data skew.
Public Preview: Azure Migrate - Discover ASP.NET & Java web apps and assess ASP.NET in all environments
Discovery of Java & ASP.NET web apps and assessment of ASP.NET web apps to Azure App Service code (native) on VMware, Hyper-V and Physical servers is now in public preview.
General availability: Microsoft Purview DevOps policies for Azure SQL Database
Purview DevOps policies can be used to assign permissions needed for performance monitoring and security auditing at scale and without direct connection to the database.
Generally available: New Azure Monitor audit logging policy released
Azure Monitor is announcing the release of new Azure Policy built-in policies and initiatives for enabling platform logging of audit events for Azure services.
General availability: Migration feature with Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server
Use the new migration tool to migrate workloads from Single Server to Flexible Server on Azure Database for PostgreSQL, a managed service running the open-source Postgres database on Azure.
Azure HDInsight for Apache HBase 2.4.11 is now available for public preview.
Azure HDInsight for Apache HBase 2.4.11 now available for public preview and ready for production workloads.
Public Preview: Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore
Unlock the full potential of the Azure ecosystem with a MongoDB compatible database that simply works. A new architecture designed to provide seamless integration and unbeatable performance.
Generally available: nconnect support for Azure Files NFS v4.1 shares
Target availability: Q1 2023
Azure Files NFS v4.1 share now support nconnect option.
Generally available: Azure Site Recovery - Migrate Azure Automation account's authentication from Run As accounts to Managed Identity
This article describes a new feature update for Azure Site Recovery.
Generally available: Resource governance for client applications in Azure Event Hubs
Independently throttle your event streaming workloads using application groups and client applications information at namespace or event hub/Kafka topic level.
Generally available: Simpler way to renaming Network Interface (NIC) and Disks for protected VMs in Azure Site Recovery
This article describes a new feature update for Azure Site Recovery.
Public Preview: Azure Chaos Studio is now available in Brazil South region
Azure Chaos Studio is now available in Brazil South region.
Batch custom image pools using VHD or managed images will be retired on 31 March 2026
Target retirement date: April 01, 2026
Transition custom image pools use images from Azure Compute Gallery
Docker container runtime retirement for Windows node pools effective May 1, 2023
Migrate to containers before May 1, 2023
AKS will stop support for Windows Server 2019 on March 1 2026
Transition your Kubernetes workloads on Windows Server 2019 to Windows Server 2022 by March 1 2026.
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