Updates Archives
Monthly updates for August 2023
Preview: Export Cost Management data to secure storage accounts with firewall
Export Cost Management data to secure storage accounts with firewall
Azure App Configuration - public preview release of snapshots feature
Key-value pairs from App Config store ensure controlled deployments.
Azure Logic Apps (Standard): Upgrade to Node 18 LTS by 11 September 2023
Target retirement date: September 11, 2023
Support for Node 16 LTS is ending on 11 September 2023. Any application hosted on Azure Logic Apps that relies on this version will not be supported and must be upgraded to Node 18 LTS by 11 September 2023.
Retirement: Kubernetes 1.24 support in AKS
Target retirement date: August 16, 2023
Migrate to Kubernetes 1.25 or higher in AKS.
General Availability: Improve VM resiliency with Azure Advisor's Availability Zone recommendation.
Target availability: Q3 2023
Avoid downtime and business interruptions by migrating your virtual machines to availability zones
Quick create Azure Front Door endpoints for Azure Storage accounts
Azure Storage is announcing native integration with Azure Front Door for content delivery with blob storage as your origin
General Availability: AzAcSnap 9 — Azure Application Consistent Snapshot tool updates
AzAcSnap Version 9 Release
Public preview: Rate-limit rules for Application Gateway Web Application Firewall
Protect applications from abnormally high levels of traffic with rate-limit rules on Azure’s regional Web Application Firewall running on Application Gateway.
Generally available: Cross Subscription Restore for Azure Virtual Machines
Cross Subscription Restore support for Azure VM is generally available.
Retirement: Azure Container Apps preview API versions 2022-06-01-preview and 2022-11-01-preview
Target retirement date: November 16, 2023
If you're using Azure Resource Manager API version 2022-06-01-preview or 2022-11-01-preview to manage Azure Container Apps, please update your API requests to use version 2023-04-01-preview or later.
Generally available: 40MB/s/TiB and 500MB/s/TiB performance tiers for Azure Managed Lustre
Azure Managed Lustre now offers two new performance tiers, offering tailored solutions and added cost and performance flexibility for various workload sizes: 40MB/s/TiB and 500MB/s/TiB
General availability: Azure Front Door Standard/Premium in Azure Government
Azure Front Door Standard/Premium is the new Azure native, modern cloud content delivery network (CDN) catering to both dynamic and static content delivery acceleration with enhanced security and a simple and predictable pricing model.
Public Preview: Custom NFSv4.1 ID Domain in Azure NetApp Files
Non-LDAP volumes can now be configured to use a custom authentication ID Domain that matches your NFS environment.
Public Preview: Azure Elastic SAN Updates: Private endpoints & shared volumes
Introducing the latest updates to Azure Elastic SAN (in preview), private endpoint support and volume sharing support via SCSI (Small Computer System Interface) Persistent Reservation.
Generally Available: SDK type bindings in Azure Functions
Target availability: Q3 2023
Azure Functions now supports binding to types from the Azure SDK, providing a richer development experience.
Generally Available: Application Insights integration for the Azure Functions .NET worker
Target availability: Q3 2023
.NET function apps using the isolated worker model can now better control how telemetry is emitted to Application Insights.
Generally Available: Durable Functions for Python v2 Programming Model
Target availability: Q3 2023
You can now develop durable functions in Azure Functions using the Python v2 programming model
Generally Available: Kubernetes 1.27 support in AKS
Target availability: Q3 2023
You can now take advantage of Kubernetes release 1.27 enhancements in production.
Generally available: Azure Key Vault references for secrets in Azure Container Apps
Target availability: Q3 2023
You can now use Azure Key Vault references to access your secrets in Azure Container Apps.
Generally Available: Private Link service integration
Target availability: Q3 2023
You can now directly create a Private Link Service (PLS) for Kubernetes services via annotations in the service manifest file.
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