Updates Archives
Monthly updates for May 2024
General availability: Latest PostgreSQL minor versions supported by Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server
Target availability: Q2 2024
Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server now supports minor versions 16.2, 15.6, 14.11, 13.14, and 12.18.
General Availability: Azure Cosmos DB Data Explorer keyboard shortcuts
Target availability: Q2 2024
Work Smarter: Enhance Productivity with Azure Cosmos DB Data Explorer shortcut keys.
General availability: Azure Cosmos DB API for MongoDB RU supports version 5.0 and 6.0
Target availability: Q2 2024
Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB now supports MongoDB v5 and v6.
Public preview: Standby pools for Virtual Machine Scale Sets with flexible orchestration
Standby Pools for Virtual Machine Scale Sets with Flexible Orchestration provides the ability to reduce scale out latency and increase scale out performance.
Azure Ultra Disk Storage is now available in Italy North
Now available in Italy North region, Azure Ultra Disk Storage provides high-performance along with sub-millisecond latency for your most-demanding workloads.
Generally Available: Azure Red Hat OpenShift v4.14 at install time
Azure Red Hat OpenShift version 4.14 is now available at install time.
Public Preview: Azure Storage Actions is now available in 14 more regions
Azure Storage Actions is a fully managed platform that helps you automate data management operations for object storage and data lakes. The preview is now available in 14 more regions.
General Availability: Microsoft Azure now available from new cloud region in Mexico
Microsoft has announced the opening of its first hyper-scale cloud region in Mexico.
Azure Front Door log scrubbing of sensitive data is generally available
Azure Front Door supports removing sensitive data from Azure Front Door access log.
General Availability - Azure API Center
Target availability: Q2 2024
Azure API Center is now generally available, providing a centralized solution to manage the challenges of API sprawl, which is exacerbated by the rapid proliferation of APIs and AI solutions. Azure API Center offers a unified inventory for seamless discovery, consumption, and governance of APIs, regardless of their type, lifecycle stage, or deployment location.
Action needed: Update Azure Autoscale Notifications to using additional email addresses for notifications
Azure Classic roles will be retired by 31st August, 2024 – transition to using only additional email addresses for Azure Autoscale Notifications as Azure Autoscale is dependent on the Azure Classic Roles.
Azure Governance Update - Management Groups
Beginning May 3, 2024, Azure will start enabling the root management group for tenants that have not enabled it yet. Using Azure management groups leverages best practices when applying Azure Policy and having it pre-enabled reduces the initial set up work to follow the best practices.
Azure Virtual Network Manager user-defined route (UDR) management now in public preview
UDR management in Azure Virtual Network Manager is now in public preview, enabling users to describe their desired routing behavior via configuration, simplifying the management of routing behaviors at scale.
Generally available: Azure IoT Edge v1.5.0 (LTS) release
The Azure IoT Edge release of v1.5 is the latest LTS version of Azure IoT Edge.
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