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March 2024

Mar 27

Generally Available: Free managed certificates on Azure Container Apps

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Container Apps now provides a free managed certificate for your custom domain.

  • Azure Container Apps
  • Security
  • Features
Mar 27

Public preview: Support for Key Vault Certificates in Azure Container Apps

IN PREVIEW

You can now use Azure Key Vault to store and manage your own TLS/SSL certificates for use with Azure Container Apps.

  • Azure Container Apps
  • Security
  • Features
Mar 27

Public Preview: Azure Container Apps OpenTelemetry collector support

IN PREVIEW

You can now use open-source standards to send your app’s data.

  • Azure Container Apps
  • Features
Mar 25

General Availability: Automatic Scaling for App Service Web Apps

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure App Service is pleased to announce general availability of the "Automatic Scaling" feature.

  • App Service
  • App Service (Linux)
  • Features
Mar 22

Azure Maps Native SDK for Android and iOS will be retired on 31 March 2025 – transition to use Azure Maps Web SDK in a web view

Target retirement date: March 31, 2025

Azure Maps Native SDK for Android and iOS will be retired on 31 March 2025

  • Azure Maps
  • Retirements
Mar 13

Public Preview: JVM memory fit in Azure Container Apps

IN PREVIEW

Java apps are now attuned to the container environment and primed for better performance and reliability by default.

  • Azure Container Apps
  • Features
Mar 13

Public Preview: Managed Java components in Azure Container Apps

IN PREVIEW

You can now leverage managed Java components in Azure Container apps for service registry and externalized application properties.

  • Azure Container Apps
  • Features
Mar 13

Public Preview: Tomcat support in Azure Container Apps

IN PREVIEW

You can now deploy a Java application using a WAR file to Azure Container Apps.

  • Azure Container Apps
  • Features

February 2024

Feb 5

Mount Azure Storage as a local share in App Service Linux Now supports NFS

NOW AVAILABLE

NFS support is now available for App Service Linux code and container when mounting a Azure File share as a local share for the web app. 

  • App Service
  • Features

January 2024

Jan 31

Generally Available: Azure Container Apps supports additional TCP ports

NOW AVAILABLE

You can now run containers apps that accept TCP connections on multiple ports.

  • Azure Container Apps
  • Features
Jan 22

Public Preview: Circuit Breaker in Azure API Management

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q1 2024

Customers now have the capability to configure the circuit breaker property in the backend resource, providing protection for a backend service against being overwhelmed by excessive requests.

  • API Management
  • Features
Jan 22

Public Preview: Load Balancer in Azure API Management

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q1 2024

Customers have the ability to create a load balancer that directs traffic to multiple endpoints.

  • API Management
  • Features

December 2023

Dec 13

Delaying Domain Front Block on Azure Front Door and CDN services

IN DEVELOPMENT

Azure Front Door and Azure CDN Standard from Microsoft (classic) are postponing the domain fronting blocking enforcement to January 22, 2024, and will add two log fields to help you check if your resources display domain fronting behavior by December 25, 2023.

  • Azure Front Door
  • Content Delivery Network
  • Security
  • Features
Dec 8

Retirement: Azure Container Apps preview API versions 2023-04-01-preview

Target retirement date: March 06, 2024

Azure Resource Manager API version 2023-04-01-preview will be retired in March 2024. Upgrade to a newer version before then.

  • Azure Container Apps
  • Retirements

November 2023

Nov 27

Announcing General Availability of Microsoft Defender for APIs

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q4 2023

The general availability of Defender for APIs, a new offering as part of Microsoft Defender for Cloud, that helps organizations prevent, detect, and respond to API threats with an integrated cloud security context.

  • API Management
  • Features
Nov 21

General Availability of Azure App Configuration Kubernetes Provider

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure App Configuration Kubernetes Provider lets you centrally configure the applications running in Kubernetes clusters. The latest version offers workload identity authentication in the provider and dynamic refresh of the configuration data.

  • App Configuration
  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Security
  • Features
Nov 15

Azure Container Storage is now available with Azure Linux container host

IN PREVIEW

Azure Container Storage (in preview) offers volume management built natively for containers. With the latest update, you can deploy Azure Container Storage on Azure Linux container host.

  • Azure Container Storage
  • App Service (Linux)
  • Managed Disks
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
Nov 15

Public preview: Vector database add-ons for Azure Container Apps

IN PREVIEW

You can now get started quickly with cognitive search using Azure Container Apps and its native integration with three popular open source vector database variants.

  • Azure Container Apps
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
Nov 15

Public preview: Azure Container Apps adds native support for CNCF Buildpacks to automatically containerize your code

IN PREVIEW

You can now focus on your code and quickly take your application from source to cloud. There’s no need to understand containers or how to package application code for deployment.

  • Azure Container Apps
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
Nov 15

Generally available: Azure Container Apps Landing Zone Accelerator

NOW AVAILABLE

You can now provision Container Apps with workload profiles securely at an enterprise scale with a landing zone.

  • Azure Container Apps
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features

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