Updates Archives
Monthly updates for May 2024
Generally Available: Azure Chaos Studio supports a new Pause Process fault for Windows virtual machines
Azure Chaos Studio supports a new Pause Process fault for Windows virtual machines.
Public preview: Advanced Container Networking Services for Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS)
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.
General availability: Azure NetApp Files support for large volumes up to 500TiB in size
You can now create Azure NetApp Files large volumes between 50TiB to 500TiB in size.
General availability: Activity log alerts can now run in EU Data Boundary
Activity log alert rules can now be saved in European regions, ensuring the alert metadata and processing remains within EU Data Boundary.
General Availability: VM Hibernation for General Purpose VMs
Hibernate VMs when not in use to save compute costs, while persisting the in-memory state.
General Availability: Azure API Center Extension for VS Code
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.
Public Preview: Azure HDInsight on AKS is now available for preview in 6 new regions
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
Visual Studio Code extension for sAzure Web PubSub now in preview
New option helps developers manage Web PubSub resources
Public preview: Azure NetApp Files application volume group for Oracle
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.
Monitor effectively using Azure Monitor for Azure Site Recovery
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).
Preview: Introducing Reporting Capabilities for Azure Site Recovery
Azure Site Recovery is introducing reporting capabilities to enable your BCDR Admin get rich insights into your estate protected with Site Recovery for audit and tracking purposes. These reports are highly customizable and are available out of box on Business Continuity Center, Recovery Service Vault and Backup Center. These reports provide historical evidence on failover jobs and replicated items.
Announcing General Availability of Graph Semantics in Kusto
Target availability: Q2 2024
The Graph Semantics extension to Kusto is now generally available. Users are encouraged to integrate this tool into their production workflows to enhance understanding of complex datasets and uncover hidden patterns.
Azure Firewall: New Regions Availability
Azure Firewall Basic, Standard, Premium and Azure Firewall Manager are now generally available in four new regions.
Public preview of the App Configuration Extension for AKS
Azure App Configuration extension for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) allows you to install and manage Azure App Configuration Kubernetes Provider on your AKS cluster via Azure Resource Manager (ARM).
Azure portal now offers in context observability for AKS object overviews
View your key performance metrics for your AKS resources in context with the Azure Portal
Public preview: Managed Prometheus visualizations for Azure Monitor container insights
Container insights now supports out of the box visualizations using only managed Prometheus.
Preview: Windows gRPC support is now available on App Service
gRPC support for App Service Windows now in preview
Public preview: Azure Log Analytics enhances resilience with workspace replication across regions
Target availability: Q2 2024
Azure Log Analytics is announcing Workspace Replication, a new capability that enhances workspace resilience by enabling you to switch your workspace operation to another region if your primary region isn’t healthy.
Expanding extensibility model to Pulumi in Azure Deployment Environments
Expanding extensibility model to Pulumi in Azure Deployment Environments
Public preview: Azure Firewall integration in Microsoft Copilot for Security
The Azure Firewall integration helps analysts perform detailed investigations of the malicious traffic intercepted by the IDPS feature of their firewalls across their entire fleet using natural language questions in the Copilot for Security standalone experience.
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