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Monthly updates for May 2024

May 31

We’re retiring Azure Time Series Insights on 7 July 2024 – transition to Azure Data Explorer

Target retirement date: July 07, 2024

We’ll retire Azure Time Series Insights on 7 July 2024.

  • Azure Time Series Insights
  • Retirements
May 30

Public Preview: Analyze data using Log Analytics Simple mode

IN PREVIEW

Azure Monitor Logs is excited to introduce the next leap in log experience: Simple mode.  Simple Mode allows users to utilize Azure Monitor Logs in a simple, point-and-click experience, eliminating the need for KQL for most common use cases. 

  • Azure Monitor
  • Log Analytics
  • Microsoft Build
  • Features
May 30

Feature Update: Azure Action Groups

NOW AVAILABLE

Customers using action groups with the notification type Email Resource Manager Role may see that different or more users are getting emails than were previously.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Action Groups
  • Services
  • Features
May 30

Public preview: Azure Load Balancer now supports Admin State

IN PREVIEW

Override Azure Load Balancer’s health probe behavior on a per backend pool instance basis using the new Load Balancer Admin State feature to make taking your VM out of rotation for maintenance easy.

  • Load Balancer
  • Features
May 30

Public preview: Azure NetApp Files support for Active Directory connection per NetApp account

IN PREVIEW

Azure NetApp Files support for one Active Directory connection per NetApp account now enables connecting a NetApp account to its own distinct Active Directory Forest and Domain. Azure NetApp Files can now be used with more than one Active Directory Forest and Domain in a region under a subscription.

  • Azure NetApp Files
  • Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD)
  • Security
  • Features
May 30

Azure Virtual Network Manager’s virtual network verifier is now in public preview

IN PREVIEW

Azure Virtual Network Manager’s virtual network verifier feature is now in public preview, enabling you to check if your network policies allow or disallow traffic between your Azure network resources.

  • Azure Virtual Network Manager
  • Security
  • Services
  • Management
  • Features
May 30

Public preview: Azure Bastion Premium

IN PREVIEW

Azure Bastion Premium SKU secures customers’ highly sensitive workloads with advanced monitoring and security features

  • Azure Bastion
  • Security
  • Services
  • Features
May 29

Public Preview: Kubernetes Metadata and Logs Filtering in Azure Monitor - Container Insights

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q2 2024

Kubernetes Metadata and Logs Filtering is now in Public Preview. Gain richer context and improved visibility into their workloads!

  • Azure Monitor
  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Azure Managed Grafana
  • Microsoft Build
  • Features
May 29

General Availability: Azure NetApp Files backup

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure NetApp Files backup expands the data protection capabilities of Azure NetApp Files by providing fully managed backup solution for long-term snapshot archive, recovery, and compliance.

  • Azure NetApp Files
  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Features
May 29

Public preview: Azure Load Balancer health event logs

IN PREVIEW

Azure Load Balancer now supports health event logs to help you identify and troubleshoot ongoing issues affecting your load balancer resource’s health.

  • Load Balancer
  • Services
  • Features
May 28

Generally Available: Azure Chaos Studio supports a new Pause Process fault for Windows virtual machines

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Chaos Studio supports a new Pause Process fault for Windows virtual machines.

  • Services
  • Features
May 28

Public preview: Advanced Container Networking Services for Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS)

IN PREVIEW

Advanced Container Networking Services for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is a suite of services that tackles observability, security, and compliance challenges in your containerized applications. Gain deep insights with Advanced Network Observability, our first feature of the suite that unlocks Hubble metrics, CLI, and UI for powerful traffic monitoring and performance optimization.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Network Watcher
  • Security
  • Services
  • Management
  • Features
  • Compliance
May 28

General availability: Azure NetApp Files support for large volumes up to 500TiB in size

NOW AVAILABLE

You can now create Azure NetApp Files large volumes between 50TiB to 500TiB in size.

  • Azure NetApp Files
  • SDK and Tools
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Features
May 28

General availability: Activity log alerts can now run in EU Data Boundary

NOW AVAILABLE

Activity log alert rules can now be saved in European regions, ensuring the alert metadata and processing remains within EU Data Boundary. 

  • Azure Monitor
  • Features
  • Compliance
May 28

General Availability: VM Hibernation for General Purpose VMs

NOW AVAILABLE

Hibernate VMs when not in use to save compute costs, while persisting the in-memory state.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Features
May 28

General Availability: Azure API Center Extension for VS Code

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q2 2024

The Azure API Center extension for Visual Studio Code is now generally available. You can use this extension to build, discover, try, and consume APIs in your API center. 

  • API Management
  • Features
May 27

Public Preview: Azure HDInsight on AKS is now available for preview in 6 new regions

IN PREVIEW

Azure HDInsight on AKS is a modern, reliable, secure, and fully managed Platform as a Service (PaaS) that runs on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). HDInsight on AKS allows you to deploy popular Open-Source Analytics workloads like Apache Spark™, Apache Flink®️, and Trino without the overhead of managing and monitoring containers. For more information about Azure HDInsight on AKS, see the documentation

  • HDInsight on AKS
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Open Source
  • Features
May 27

Visual Studio Code extension for Azure Web PubSub now in preview

IN PREVIEW

New option helps developers manage Web PubSub resources

  • Azure Web PubSub
  • Features
May 27

Public preview: Azure NetApp Files application volume group for Oracle

IN PREVIEW

Application volume group for Oracle is designed to greatly simplify the deployment of Azure NetApp Files volumes required to install and operate Oracle databases on Azure virtual machines at enterprise scale, with optimal performance and according to best practices.

  • Azure NetApp Files
  • Features
May 27

Monitor effectively using Azure Monitor for Azure Site Recovery

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Site Recovery (ASR) now surfaces default alerts via Azure Monitor for critical events such as replication health turning unhealthy, failover failures, agent expiry, and so on. You can monitor these alerts via the Azure Business Continuity Center, Azure Monitor dashboard, or your Recovery Services vault and route these alerts to various notification channels of choice (Email, ITSM, Webhook, SMS). 

  • Azure Site Recovery
  • Management
  • Compliance

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