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March 2024

Mar 22

Azure HDInsight 4.0 will be retired on 31 March 2025 - migrate your HDInsight clusters to 5.1

Target retirement date: March 31, 2025

Azure HDInsight 4.0 will be retired on 31 March 2025 - migrate your HDInsight clusters to 5.1

  • SDK and Tools
  • Retirements
  • Features
Mar 22

Announcing Azure HPC Cache Retirement

Target retirement date: October 01, 2025

Azure HPC Cache is retiring. End of support is 30 September 2025.

  • Azure HPC Cache
  • Retirements
Mar 22

Announcing Avere vFXT for Azure Retirement

Target retirement date: October 01, 2025

Avere vFXT for Azure is retiring. End of support is 30 September 2025.

  • Avere vFXT for Azure
  • Retirements
Mar 21

Private Preview: Force detach zone redundant disks during zone outage

IN DEVELOPMENT

Force detach zone redundant disks during zone outage and take advantage of ZRS ability to achieve an RPO of 0.

  • Managed Disks
  • Azure Disk Storage
  • Virtual Machines
  • Windows Virtual Machines
  • Linux Virtual Machines
  • Features
Mar 21

General Availability: Azure NetApp Files support for 1 TiB capacity pools

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure NetApp Files now supports smaller 1 TiB capacity pool sizes, lowered from 2 TiB, when used with volumes using standard network features.

  • Azure NetApp Files
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Features
Mar 21

Public Preview: Next generation of general purpose service tier for Azure SQL Managed Instance

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q1 2024

The next generation of general purpose service tier brings improved performance, 32 TB storage and higher database density.

  • Azure SQL Managed Instance
  • Azure SQL
  • Features
Mar 21

Public preview: Public IP Domain Name Label Scope

IN PREVIEW

Announcing the public preview for a new capability in Azure public IP address that can prevent DNS subdomain takeover while still allowing for re-use of DNS names.

  • Azure DNS
  • Features
Mar 20

Public preview: Database watcher for Azure SQL

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q1 2024

Enable in-depth, managed monitoring of Azure SQL databases, elastic pools, and managed instances.

  • Azure Data Explorer
  • Azure SQL
  • Features
Mar 20

Generally available: Application Gateway (v2) IPv6 support

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Application Gateway v2 enables dual-stack (IPv4 and IPv6) connectivity from the clients, providing more flexible and reliable access to the backend Applications.

  • Application Gateway
  • Services
  • Features
  • Security
Mar 19

General availability: Listener TLS certificates management in the Azure portal

NOW AVAILABLE

You can now manage the TLS certificates associated with Listeners through Azure portal.

  • Application Gateway
  • Services
  • Management
  • Features
  • Security
Mar 19

Generally available: Azure Health Data Services DICOM service with Azure Data Lake Storage

NOW AVAILABLE

With the integration of Azure Data Lake Storage and the DICOM service, organizations can now enjoy full control over their imaging data and increased flexibility for accessing and working with that data through the Azure storage ecosystem and APIs.

  • Azure Health Data Services
  • Services
Mar 19

Operator and CRD support with Azure Managed Prometheus

IN PREVIEW

Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus will support CRD-based configs for scrape jobs to collect metrics from workloads running in your AKS cluster. With this new update, customers can use custom resources (service monitor and pod monitor) to configure metric collection with Managed Prometheus.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Managed Prometheus
  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Features
Mar 19

Microsoft open sources Retina: A cloud-native container networking observability platform

NOW AVAILABLE

The Microsoft's Azure Container Networking team is announcing Retina, a cloud-native container networking observability platform that enables Kubernetes users, admins, and developers to visualize, observe, debug, and analyze Kubernetes’ workload traffic irrespective of Container Network Interface (CNI), operating system (OS), and cloud.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Network Watcher
  • Services
  • Open Source
  • Features
Mar 19

Billing for Azure Monitor stateful log search alerts

IN PREVIEW

Starting from May 1, 2024, you will be charged for stateful log alerts in Azure Monitor.

  • Compliance
  • Services
  • Features
Mar 18

Public preview: Kubernetes AI Toolchain Operator (KAITO) add-on for AKS

IN PREVIEW

You can now choose from preset LLMs with images hosted by AKS and split inferencing across multiple lower-GPU count VMs

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Features
Mar 18

Generally Available: Cost analysis add-on for AKS

NOW AVAILABLE

You can now better understand the infra costs associated with running applications at the namespace and cluster levels and identify opportunities to optimize resource utilization through an Azure native experience.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Features
Mar 18

Open-Source Fleet Workload Placement Scheduling and Override

NOW AVAILABLE

You can now schedule workloads in Fleet based on cost and availability of resource heuristics.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Open Source
Mar 18

Generally Available: Windows Gen 2 VM support in AKS

NOW AVAILABLE

YOu can now use Gen 2 VM SKUs for Windows nodepools in AKS.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Features
Mar 18

Public preview: Windows GPU support in AKS

IN PREVIEW

You can now run GPU workloads, such as machine learning, video encoding, large simulations, and gaming, on Windows nodepools in AKS.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Features
Mar 18

Generally Available: Kubernetes 1.29 support in AKS

NOW AVAILABLE

You can now take advantage of Kubernetes 1.29 version with AKS in production environment.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Features

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