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Azure Container Storage is now available with Azure Linux container host
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.
Public preview: Vector database add-ons for Azure Container Apps
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.
Public preview: Azure Container Apps adds native support for CNCF Buildpacks to automatically containerize your code
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.
Generally available: Azure Container Apps Landing Zone Accelerator
You can now provision Container Apps with workload profiles securely at an enterprise scale with a landing zone.
Public preview: Policy-driven resiliency in Azure Container Apps
You can now use and customize policies that provide high value resiliency capabilities and apply them to your Container Apps.
Public preview: Dedicated GPU workload profiles
You can now run GPU-enabled workloads in Azure Container Apps.
Public Preview: App Service End-to-end (E2E) Encryption for Linux Multi-tenant Resources
Encrypt traffic between multi-tenant App Service front-ends and workers using the new End-to-end (E2E) TLS Encryption (Preview) feature.
October 2023
Announcing Public Preview of Azure API Management Pricing Tiers: Basic v2 and Standard v2
Target availability: Q4 2023
We're thrilled to announce the public preview launch of our latest Azure API Management pricing tiers: Basic v2 and Standard v2. These new tiers address highly sought-after customer requests, bring quality-of-service enhancements, and offer a flexible starting point for API Management, allowing organizations of any size to embark on their API journey.
App Service: Backup and Restore over Azure Virtual Network
Customers can now use custom backups, to back up their web app's files and configuration data to a firewall-protected storage account.
Azure Container Apps is now eligible for Azure savings plan for compute
You can now take advantage of Azure savings plan pricing for Azure Container Apps.
September 2023
App Service Environment version 1 and version 2 will be retired on 31 August 2024
Target retirement date: August 31, 2024
Migrate to App Service Environment v3 by 31 August 2024.
Retirement notice: Azure Communication Services Network Traversal (TURN) Public Preview is retiring.
Target retirement date: March 31, 2024
Azure Communication Services Network Traversal (TURN) will be retired on 31 March 2024.Please migrate to an external service...
GA: Azure Container Apps in Azure China cloud
You can now run microservices, API’s, and other container workloads without managing infrastructure in Azure China cloud
Public Preview: Azure Communication Services Job Router
Target availability: Q3 2023
Intelligent queueing and routing of inbound customer communications.
General availability: Domain fronting update on Azure Front Door and Azure CDN
Azure Front Door supports the use of different values for the TLS SNI extension and the host header, provided that both values are added as domains in the same Azure subscription.
Azure Maps Data V1 / V2 APIs will be retired on 16 September 2024 – transition to Azure Maps Data Registry APIs
Target retirement date: September 16, 2024
Azure Maps Data V1 / V2 APIs will be retired on 16 September 2024
Azure Maps Render V1 APIs will be retired on 17 September 2026 – transition to Azure Maps Render V2 APIs
Target retirement date: September 17, 2026
Azure Maps Render V1 APIs will be retired on 17 September 2026
Public Preview: Web PubSub support for Socket.IO
Use your preferred Socket.IO APIs, while letting Azure handle messages and scaling for you
Azure Maps Gen1 Price Tier will be retired on 15 September 2026 -- transition to Azure Maps Gen2 Price Tier
Target retirement date: September 15, 2026
Azure Maps Gen1 Price Tier will be retired on 15 September 2026
General availability: Use Azure Key Vault to securely store and retrieve access key when mounting Azure Storage as a local share in App Service
You can now use Azure Key Vault to securely store and retrieve Azure Storage account access key when mounting it as a local share in App Service. Azure Key Vault has the benefits of storing application secrets centrally and securely with the ability to monitor, administer, and integrate with other Azure services like Azure App Service. This feature is available for App Service Linux code and container, Windows containers and Windows code. Please refer to https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/app-service/configure-connect-to-azure-storage?tabs=key-vault%2Ccli&pivots=container-linux for more details.
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