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General availability: Application Gateway Web Application Firewall (WAF) inspection limit & size enforcement
Azure’s regional Web Application Firewall (WAF) running on Application Gateway now supports greater control over request body inspection, and maximum size limits for request bodies and file uploads.
Public Preview – DR for Shared Disks – Azure Site Recovery
Target availability: Q2 2024
Now you can use the benefits of Shared Disk for your mission-critical applications such as SQL FCI, SAP ASCS, Scale-out File Servers, etc., while ensuring business continuity and disaster recovery with Azure Site Recovery.
Azure Red Hat OpenShift April 2024 updates
New features include support for ARO in Azure Terraform provider, ability to bring your own NSG, new GPU instance types for Day 2 operations, and more!
Public Preview: Azure Backup enables vaulted backups for Azure Files for comprehensive data protection.
Target availability: Q1 2024
Azure Backup now supports transferring Azure Files backups to the vault for comprehensive protection against severe data loss scenarios like ransomware attack.
March 2024
Custom .Net deserializer for Azure Stream Analytics will be retired on 30 September 2024.
Target retirement date: September 30, 2024
Custom .Net deserializer for Azure Stream Analytics will be retired on 30 September 2024.
Custom .net deserializer for Azure Stream Analytics will be retired on 30 September 2024
Target retirement date: October 01, 2024
Custom .net deserializer for Azure Stream Analytics will be retired on 30 September 2024. After that date, it won't be possible to use the feature. Please transition to a JSON, AVRO, or CSV built-in deserializer by that date.
General availability: Availability zone volume placement for Azure NetApp Files
Deploy new Azure NetApp Files volumes in Azure availability zones (AZs) of your choice to support workloads across multiple availability zones
General Availability: Azure Files geo-redundancy for standard large file shares
Target availability: Q1 2024
Azure Files geo-redundancy for 100TiB standard SMB file shares is now generally available.
Public Preview: Agentless multi-disk crash consistent backup by Azure Backup for VM
Azure VM backup now supports agentless multi-disk crash consistent backups in public preview.
Support for Connector for AWS in Cost Management is ending on 31 March 2025
Target retirement date: April 01, 2025
The Connector for AWS in the Cost Management service will be retired on 31 March 2025. By that date, please consider alternative cost management reporting for AWS available in the market.
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.
Public preview: Deployment safeguards in AKS
You can now use deployment safeguards to implement Kubernetes best practices and get warnings on deployment or deny the deployment of manifest files that are not following best practices.
Public Preview: Tomcat support in Azure Container Apps
You can now deploy a Java application using a WAR file to Azure Container Apps.
Azure API Center Updates
Target availability: Q1 2024
We are pleased to announce an update to the Azure API Center extension for Visual Studio Code, introducing new capabilities for API inventory and design. Additionally, we are unveiling a new API governance feature in API Center, enabling API linting and analysis based on customer-owned design guidelines.
General Availability: 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.
Public preview: Azure NetApp Files volume enhancement – allow the same file path for volumes in different availability zones
Public Preview of Azure NetApp Files volume enhancement – file path uniqueness
February 2024
General Availability: Azure NetApp Files Standard Network Features - Edit Volumes
Azure NetApp Files Standard Network Features - Edit Volumes GA
Public preview: Configuration-as-code customizations in Microsoft Dev Box
Customization enables developers to efficiently configure workstations to their exact project requirements, within guardrails set by admins that enforce governance and security policies.
General availability: Customer managed key encryption for Enterprise tier caches
Target availability: Q1 2024
Encrypt Redis persistence files using customer managed keys.
Public Preview: Azure NetApp Files Standard Network Features - Edit Volumes in US Gov Regions
Azure NetApp Files in US Gov region now supports ability to edit existing ANF volumes and upgrading Basic network features to Standard network features.
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