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Public preview: Standby pools for Virtual Machine Scale Sets with flexible orchestration
Standby Pools for Virtual Machine Scale Sets with Flexible Orchestration provides the ability to reduce scale out latency and increase scale out performance.
April 2024
General availability: Improved network topology experience in Network Watcher and Azure Monitor Network Insights
Enhancing network and resource health visualization with unified and dynamic topology across subscriptions, regions, and resource groups integrated with actionable connectivity and traffic insights
Run Azure Load Testing on Azure App Service web apps
Target availability: Q2 2024
Load test your web apps directly from Azure App Service in Azure portal.
Azure Load Testing availability in Fairfax (USGov Virginia)
Target availability: Q2 2024
Azure Load Testing GA in Fairfax cloud - USGov Virginia. US Government customers on the Fairfax cloud can now use Azure Load Testing to simplify their end-to-end load testing process.
March 2024
GA: Azure Logic Apps Designer for Consumption
Target availability: Q1 2024
We're thrilled to announce the general availability of the new Azure Logic Apps Designer for Consumption, revolutionizing your workflow experience with unparalleled speed, smoothness, and reliability. Unifying the designer experience across all supported platforms, including standard Azure Logic Apps, the Azure Logic Apps Visual Studio Code extension, and consumption Azure Logic Apps in the portal, ensures seamless usability and familiarity wherever you work.
Public Preview: Azure SQL Database Mirroring in Microsoft Fabric
Target availability: Q1 2024
Mirroring Azure SQL Database provides an easy experience to continuously replicate SQL DB data directly into Microsoft Fabric.
General availability: Listener TLS certificates management in the Azure portal
You can now manage the TLS certificates associated with Listeners through Azure portal.
Generally Available: VM IP based load balancer in AKS
You can now choose IP-based backend pool membership for new or existing clusters in AKS.
Generally Available: HostPort auto assign in AKS
AKS now lets you deploy pods without manually specifying host ports.
Generally Available: Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) support for 5K Node limit by default for standard tier clusters
You can now scale your AKS cluster to larger than 1000 nodes without having to request any special limit increases or whitelisting.
February 2024
General availability: Application Gateway for Containers
Application Gateway for Containers is the next evolution to Application Gateway's Ingress Controller; bringing performance, scale, deployment, and feature enhancements.
Update records in a Kusto Database (public preview)
The new .update command allows you to update records (rows) in a Kusto Database (either in Azure Data Explorer or in Fabric KQL Database). This is a new tool to help you build great data pipeline!
Public preview: AKS cluster control plane metrics in managed Prometheus
You can now monitor the health, load and performance of the API server and etcd in the control plane of your AKS clusters
January 2024
Generally available: Up to 50 test fail criteria in Azure Load Testing
You can now specify up to 50 test criteria in your load test.
Public Preview: Load Balancer in Azure API Management
Target availability: Q1 2024
Customers have the ability to create a load balancer that directs traffic to multiple endpoints.
Create tests by adding HTTP requests in Azure Load Testing
Azure Load Testing now supports creating load tests by HTTP requests.
Azure Load Testing supports Web Driver Sampler plugin for Apache JMeter
With Azure Load Testing, you can now measure response time as experienced by the end user leveraging the Web Driver Sampler plugin for Apache JMeter
Azure Load Testing supports fetching secrets from Azure Key Vault with access restrictions (private AKV)
You can now use secrets from an Azure Key Vault with access restrictions in Azure Load Testing.
Public Preview: Azure Data Explorer connector for Apache Flink
Azure Data Explorer connector for Apache Flink (Public Preview)
December 2023
Generally available: PostgreSQL 16 support in Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server
Target availability: Q4 2023
Unlock advanced logical replication, query optimizations, and faster data loading with PostgreSQL 16 on Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server.
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