Updates Archives
Monthly updates for November 2023
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.
General availability: Using a common port for public and private listeners
Easily manage public-facing and private-facing traffic on a common port.
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.
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 Red Hat OpenShift November 2023 updates
Azure Red Hat OpenShift now offers extended support, larger cluster size, and tagging support.
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.
GA: Kubernetes Event-driven Autoscaling (KEDA) Add-on for AKS
You can now use the KEDA add-on for AKS in production.
GA: Kubernetes 1.28 support in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
You can now take advantage of Kubernetes 1.28 features in production.
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
Latency metrics for disks and performance metrics for temporary disks on Azure Virtual Machines
New latency metrics on OS, data and temporary disks are now available in preview, allowing you to see how long it takes to complete input/output (IO) requests to Azure Disks . In addition, new performance metrics for temporary disks are generally available now and allow users to see the IOPS, throughput and queue depth for virtual machines with temporary disks.
General Availability: Azure Advisor recommendation improves the reliability of Azure Disks with Zone Redundant Storage
Target availability: Q4 2023
Enable disks to tolerate zonal failures without causing disruptions to your application. To learn more, visit Reliability recommendations - Azure Advisor | Microsoft Learn
Ability to add dynamic values in Alert’s custom fields
Alerts help you detect and address issues before users notice them by proactively notifying you when Azure Monitor data indicates there might be a problem with your infrastructure or application. We added to the Custom properties section in the alert payload ability to add dynamic value extracted from the alert payload, or a combination of both can be added to the alert notification payload.
Generally available: Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage is now available in more regions
Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage is now available in more regions and offers the most advanced general-purpose block storage solution with the best price performance
GA: gRPC support on Azure App Service
Target availability: Q4 2024
Host your gRPC workloads on App Service Linux.
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