Updates Archives
Monthly updates for March 2023
Batch Service in select regions will be retired on 31 March 2026
Target retirement date: April 01, 2026
Migrate your Batch workloads before 31 March 2026 to other regions where Azure Batch will continue to be available.
Azure Automation is retiring Agent-based User Hybrid Runbook Worker (Windows & Linux) on 31 August 2024
Target retirement date: September 01, 2024
Azure Automation is retiring Agent-based User Hybrid Runbook Worker on 31 August 2024
Azure Maps Elevation APIs and Render V2 DEM tiles will be retired on 5 May 2023
To avoid service disruption in your applications, please review the following migration options and transition before 5 May 2023.
Generally available: Azure Private Link support for Inbound traffic in Azure API Management
With Azure Private Link support in Azure API Management, you can now integrate clients in a virtual network privately.
Public Preview: Workspaces in Azure API Management
Workspaces for Azure API Management is now in public preview. This new capability enables granular access control in multi-team Azure API Management deployments.
Public preview: Azure Maps Creator – Improved indoor maps onboarding and new Features API
Target availability: Q1 2023
An updated Conversion service now allows you to easily onboard indoor maps and a new Features API to read and edit your map features!
General availability: Azure Virtual Network Manager
Azure Virtual Network Manager (AVNM) is now generally available. AVNM is a one-stop shop for managing the connectivity and security of your network resources at scale.
General availability: Reserved namespaces for subdomains
Azure Traffic Manager now enables reserving domain labels across all traffic manager profiles.
Announcement: Azure Active Directory backed authentication for JMS 2.0 API on Azure Service Bus
Announcement of AAD support for the JMS 2.0 API of Azure Service Bus.
General Availability: ASP. NET web app migration to Azure App Service using PowerShell Scripts
ASP. NET web app migration to Azure App Service using PowerShell Scripts is now generally available.
Azure Maps is now HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) compliant
Azure Maps ensures HIPAA compliance is achieved for protected health information (PHI), like when calculating travel time and distance from a patient’s location to the nearest healthcare facility.
Generally available: Encryption scopes on hierarchical namespace enabled storage accounts
You can now use separate encryption keys for each customer in a single hierarchical namespace enabled storage account.
General availability: Serilog Sink for Azure Data Explorer
Azure Data Explorer now supports ingestion of data from .NET Applications via the Serilog Sink.
Select Batch Pool autoscale service-defined variables will be retired on 31 March 2024
Target retirement date: April 01, 2026
Remove references in your autoscale formula for the service-defined variables
Retirement Announcement: Assigning alert trigger playbooks within Microsoft Sentinel analytics rules
Target retirement date: March 15, 2026
Effective 15 March 2026, adding playbooks within Microsoft Sentinel analytics rules creation/edit will be deprecated.
Azure Batch classic compute node communication model will be retired on 31 March 2026
Target retirement date: April 01, 2026
Transition Batch pools to the Simplified compute node communication model
We’re retiring Cluster Configuration with Flux v1 on 24 May 2025 – transition to GitOps extension for Kubernetes to move to Flux v2
Target retirement date: May 24, 2025
Migrate to GitOps Extension for Flux v2 by 24 May 2025
Container insights recommended alerts (custom metrics) (preview) will be retired on 14 March 2026
Target retirement date: March 14, 2026
Transition to Prometheus recommended alert rules (preview) before 14 March 2026.
Retirement notice: The Azure Storage PHP client libraries will be retired on 17 March 2024
Target retirement date: March 17, 2024
Azure Storage PHP client libraries will be retired on 17 March 2024
Retirement: Azure Database Migration Service (classic) - SQL Server scenarios deprecation
Target retirement date: March 15, 2026
Azure Database Migration Service (classic) - SQL Server scenarios will not be supported after March 15, 2026.
Updates by date
Get answers to your questions from Microsoft and Community experts.
Community supportRead commonly asked questions on Azure updates.
FAQTell us what you think of Azure and what you want to see in the future.
Provide feedbackAzure is available in more regions than any other cloud provider.
Check product availability in your region