Updates Archives

Public Preview: Azure Monitor Alerts integration with Event Grid for Azure Key Vault system events

​​​​​​​Azure Monitor alerts as a destination in Event Grid event subscriptions allow you to receive notification of critical events via action groups as Short Message Service (SMS), email, push notification, and more. You can leverage on the low latency event delivery of Event Grid with the flexibility and direct-to-customer notifications of Azure Monitor alerts.

• Alerts
• Compliance
• Services
• Features

Export cost details using the FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification (FOCUS)

Sign up for an early preview of Cost Management exports that provide cost data aligned to the open-source FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification (FOCUS).

• Microsoft Cost Management
• Open Source
• Management
• Features
• Pricing & Offerings

Azure support for TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 will end by 31 October 2024

Target retirement date: October 31, 2024

If you have resources that interact with Azure services and still use TLS 1.1 or earlier, transition them to TLS 1.2 or later by 31 October 2024

• Retirements

Public Preview: App Service End-to-end (E2E) Encryption for Linux Multi-tenant Resources

Encrypt traffic between multi-tenant App Service front-ends and workers using the new End-to-end (E2E) TLS Encryption (Preview) feature.

• App Service (Linux)
• Security
• Features

General availability: Introducing NGads V620 Series VMs optimized for gaming scenarios

The NGads V620 Series are now in public preview in the East US2, Europe West and West US3 regions. This new series enables service providers to build differentiated cloud gaming experiences.

• Virtual Machines
• Services

Azure Monitor Logs archive provides up to 12 years of retention

Azure Monitor Logs extends archive retention to up to 12 years

• Features

General availability: Using a common port for public and private listeners

Easily manage public-facing and private-facing traffic on a common port.

• Application Gateway
• Security
• Services
• Management
• Features

General availability: 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.

• Application Gateway
• Web Application Firewall
• Security
• Features

Public Preview: Azure SQL updates for early-November 2023

Target availability: Q4 2023

Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in early-November 2023.

• Azure SQL Database
• Features

Customer-Managed Keys (preview) integration with Azure Chaos Studio

Customer-Managed Keys (preview) integration with Azure Chaos Studio

• Security
• Features

Azure NetApp Files datastores for Azure VMware Solution is available in US Government regions.

Azure NetApp Files datastores for Azure VMware Solution is available in US Government (VA, AZ) regions.

• Azure NetApp Files
• Azure VMware Solution
• Regions & Datacenters
• Features

Azure Red Hat OpenShift November 2023 updates

Azure Red Hat OpenShift now offers extended support, larger cluster size, and tagging support.

• Azure Red Hat OpenShift
• Features

Provider for running Karpenter on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

You can now use an open-source provider for running Karpenter on AKS to improve the efficiency and cost of running workloads on Kubernetes clusters.

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Open Source

GA: Kubernetes Event-driven Autoscaling (KEDA) Add-on for AKS

You can now use the KEDA add-on for AKS in production.

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Open Source
• Features

GA: Kubernetes 1.28 support in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

You can now take advantage of Kubernetes 1.28 features in production.

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Open Source
• Features

GA: Application routing add-on for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

You can now enable an ingress controller with SSL termination to quickly and securely access your applications in AKS

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Security
• Features

Public preview: Dual-stack networking in Azure CNI Overlay for AKS

You can now use dual-stack networking to communicate with services requiring IPv6 communication..

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Features

Public preview: Artifact streaming support in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

You can now scale your AKS workloads without having to fully wait for images to be pulled into the clusters.

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Features

Public preview: Image integrity support in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

You can now ensure that only signed container images are deployed to your AKS clusters.

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Azure Container Registry
• Security
• Features