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April 2024

Apr 24

General availability: Application Gateway Web Application Firewall (WAF) inspection limit & size enforcement

NOW AVAILABLE

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.

  • Web Application Firewall
  • Application Gateway
  • Security
  • Features
Apr 19

Public Preview – DR for Shared Disks – Azure Site Recovery

IN PREVIEW

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.

  • Services
  • Management
  • Features
  • Compliance
Apr 10

Azure Red Hat OpenShift April 2024 updates

NOW AVAILABLE

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!

  • Azure Red Hat OpenShift
  • Features
Apr 1

Public Preview: Azure Backup enables vaulted backups for Azure Files for comprehensive data protection.

IN PREVIEW

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.

  • Security
  • Features

March 2024

Mar 29

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.

  • SDK and Tools
  • Features
  • Retirements
Mar 29

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.

  • Azure Stream Analytics
  • Retirements
Mar 29

General availability: Availability zone volume placement for Azure NetApp Files

NOW AVAILABLE

Deploy new Azure NetApp Files volumes in Azure availability zones (AZs) of your choice to support workloads across multiple availability zones

  • Azure NetApp Files
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Features
Mar 27

General Availability: Azure Files geo-redundancy for standard large file shares

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q1 2024

Azure Files geo-redundancy for 100TiB standard SMB file shares is now generally available.

  • Azure Files
  • Storage Accounts
  • Features
Mar 25

Public Preview: Agentless multi-disk crash consistent backup by Azure Backup for VM

IN PREVIEW

Azure VM backup now supports agentless multi-disk crash consistent backups in public preview.

  • Azure Backup
  • Compliance
Mar 22

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.

  • Microsoft Cost Management
  • Retirements
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 18

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.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • 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
Mar 11

Azure API Center Updates

IN PREVIEW

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.

  • Features
Mar 7

General Availability: App Service Backup and Restore over Azure Virtual Network

NOW AVAILABLE

Customers can now use custom backups, to back up their web app's files and configuration data to a firewall-protected storage account.

  • Features
Mar 5

Public preview: Azure NetApp Files volume enhancement – allow the same file path for volumes in different availability zones

IN PREVIEW

Public Preview of Azure NetApp Files volume enhancement – file path uniqueness

  • Azure NetApp Files
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Features

February 2024

Feb 20

General Availability: Azure NetApp Files Standard Network Features - Edit Volumes

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure NetApp Files Standard Network Features - Edit Volumes GA

  • Azure NetApp Files
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Features
Feb 20

Public preview: Configuration-as-code customizations in Microsoft Dev Box

IN PREVIEW

Customization enables developers to efficiently configure workstations to their exact project requirements, within guardrails set by admins that enforce governance and security policies.

  • Microsoft Dev Box
  • Services
  • Features
Feb 14

General availability: Customer managed key encryption for Enterprise tier caches

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q1 2024

Encrypt Redis persistence files using customer managed keys.

  • Azure Cache for Redis
  • Features
Feb 6

Public Preview: Azure NetApp Files Standard Network Features - Edit Volumes in US Gov Regions

IN PREVIEW

Azure NetApp Files in US Gov region now supports ability to edit existing ANF volumes and upgrading Basic network features to Standard network features.

  • Azure NetApp Files
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Services
  • Features

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