Azure updates

Default Internet outbound access for Simplified node communication Batch pools without public IP addresses will be retired on 30 September 2025

Target retirement date: October 01, 2025

End of life announcement for default Internet outbound access for Simplified node communication Batch pools without public IP addresses on 30 September 2025

• Retirements

HPC Pack 2016 will be retired on 12 January 2027

Target retirement date: January 13, 2027

End of life announcement for HPC Pack 2016 on 12 January 2027

• Retirements

Support for Standard_M192idms_v2 will be retired on 31 March 2027

Target retirement date: March 14, 2027

Community support for Standard_M192idms_v2 is ending on 31 March 2027

• Retirements
• Features

Community support for Standard_M192ids_v2 is ending on 31 March 2027

Target retirement date: March 18, 2027

Support for Standard_M192ids_v2 will be retired on 31 March 2027

• Retirements
• Features

Community support for Standard_M192ims_v2 is ending on 31 March 2027

Target retirement date: March 19, 2027

Support for Standard_M192ims_v2 will be retired on 31 March 2027.

• Retirements
• SDK and Tools
• Features

Community support for Standard_M192is_v2 is ending on 31 March 2027

Support for Standard_M192is_v2 will be retired on 31 March 2027.

• Retirements
• SDK and Tools
• Features

Some compliance features in Microsoft Defender for Cloud will be retired on September 30, 2025

Target retirement date: September 30, 2025

Microsoft Actions and Compliance offerings, two regulatory compliance features in public preview, will no longer be available through the Defender for Cloud portal pages starting September 30, 2025.

• Microsoft Defender for Cloud
• Compliance
• Security
• Retirements

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

• Retirements
• SDK and Tools
• Features

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

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

Private Preview: Force detach zone redundant disks during zone outage

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

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

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
• Pricing & Offerings
• Regions & Datacenters
• Features

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

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

Public preview: Public IP Domain Name Label Scope

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

Public preview: Database watcher for Azure SQL

Target availability: Q1 2024

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

• Azure Data Explorer
• Azure SQL
• Features

Generally available: Application Gateway (v2) IPv6 support

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
• Security
• Features

General availability: Listener TLS certificates management in the Azure portal

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

• Application Gateway
• Services
• Security
• Management
• Features

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

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

Operator and CRD support with Azure Managed Prometheus

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