Updates Archives
Monthly updates for August 2023
Generally Available: Azure Monitor VM Insights using Azure Monitor Agent
VM Insights using Azure Monitor Agent provides various benefits like cost savings, simplified management experience and enhanced security & performance.
Azure Firewall Single-Click Upgrade and Downgrade is now in general availability
This feature allows you to upgrade your firewall without service downtime, with a single click of a button.
Azure Firewall: Poland Central Region is now in general availability
Azure Firewall is now generally available in the Poland Central region.
Generally Available: Trusted launch as default for VMs deployed through the Azure portal
Trusted launch is now enabled by default for VMS deployed through the Azure portal, enhancing the foundational security of these VMs.
Generally available: Azure Container Apps jobs
Target availability: Q3 2023
You can now run production workloads that perform a task for a finite duration and exit, and schedule these workloads or run them in response to events.
Generally Available: Azure Container Apps support for UDR, NAT Gateway, and smaller subnets
Target availability: Q3 2023
You can now define UDRs to manage how outbound traffic is routed for your container app environment’s subnet.
Generally available: Azure Container Apps dedicated plan
Target availability: Q3 2023
You can now run your apps on dedicated workload profiles that offer more CPU and memory if needed.
Generally Available: ASP.NET Core integration in Azure Functions
Target availability: Q3 2023
Azure Functions now supports using ASP.NET types such as HttpRequest, HttpResponse, and IActionResult from .NET isolated function projects.
Generally Available: Auto-upgrade scheduled maintenance for AKS
Target availability: Q3 2023
You can now have dedicated maintenance for weekly AKS releases, auto upgrades and Node OS patching.
General availability: Azure SQL updates for late-August 2023
Target availability: Q3 2023
General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in late-August 2023.
Generally available: Latest PostgreSQL minor versions supported by Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server
Target availability: Q3 2023
Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server now supports minor versions 15.3, 14.8, 13.11, 12.15, 11.20.
Generally available: Azure Site Recovery Higher Churn Support
Azure Site Recovery High Churn Support
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: 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
General Availability: AzAcSnap 9 — Azure Application Consistent Snapshot tool updates
AzAcSnap Version 9 Release
Generally available: Cross Subscription Restore for Azure Virtual Machines
Cross Subscription Restore support for Azure VM is generally available.
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.
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.
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