Azure updates

General availability: Virtual network flow logs

Gain visibility of IP traffic flowing through your virtual networks

• Network Watcher
• Virtual Network
• Azure Virtual Network Manager
• Services
• Features

Azure Virtual Network Manager security admin rule generally available in all public regions

Azure Virtual Network Manager's security admin rule configuration is now generally available in all public regions, empowering users to enforce security rules across their virtual networks globally.

• Azure Virtual Network Manager
• Regions & Datacenters
• Features

Public Preview: Azure Monitor Agent Upload to Storage and Event Hubs

Azure Monitor Agent can now upload to Azure Storage and Event Hubs.

• Log Analytics
• Azure Monitor
• Management
• Features

Azure Advisor will no longer display aggregated potential yearly savings beginning 30 September 2024

Target retirement date: April 19, 2024

Learn how to continue calculating aggregated potential yearly savings.

• Azure Advisor
• Retirements

Five Azure classic networking services will be retired on 31 August 2024

Target retirement date: August 31, 2024

Classic Networking Services retiring in August 2024.

• Virtual Network
• Retirements

General availability: HBv4-series & HX-series VMs are now available in Sweden Central.

HBv4 virtual machines (VMs) are optimized for various HPC workloads such as computational fluid dynamics, finite element analysis, frontend and backend EDA, rendering, molecular dynamics, computational geoscience, weather simulation, and financial risk analysis. HX-series Virtual Machines (VMs) are optimized for large memory HPC workloads such as backend EDA, finite element analysis, computational geoscience, and big data analytics.

• Virtual Machines
• Regions & Datacenters
• Services

Using Azure Virtual Network Manager network groups in security admin rules is now in public preview

Using your Azure Virtual Network Manager network groups in the source and/or destination of security admin rules is now in public preview, enabling users to achieve network isolation across different environments and manage network segments more easily at scale.

• Azure Virtual Network Manager
• Security
• Services
• Management
• Features

General availability: Azure Virtual Network encryption availability in all regions

Azure Virtual Network encryption is a feature of Azure Virtual Networks. Virtual network encryption allows you to seamlessly encrypt and decrypt traffic between Azure Virtual Machines.

• Virtual Network
• Regions & Datacenters
• Services
• Features

GA: New Property for Disks-LastOwnershipUpdateTime

Introducing LastOwnershipUpdateTime for Disks in Azure Portal, PowerShell, and CLI. It indicates the last state change time for the Disk, useful for tracking its current state and when it was last updated.

• Managed Disks
• Azure Disk Storage
• Features

General Availability: Virtual private network (VPN) with Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra

Target availability: Q2 2024

For enhanced security in your virtual network architectures where outbound connectivity is not allowed.

• Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra
• Features

General Availability: Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server networking with Azure Private Link

Target availability: Q2 2024

Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server now supports Private Endpoints in General Availability.

• Azure Database for PostgreSQL
• Features

App Service virtual network integration multi plan subnet join

We're excited to announce that the multi plan subnet join for virtual network integration is now available in preview in all regions!

• Features

Public preview: Backup and restore of virtual machines with private endpoint enabled disks

Azure Backup can now help you back up virtual machines using private endpoint-enabled disks. You can now also specify network settings to be used by the restored disks while initiating the restore process.

• Azure Backup
• Security
• Management
• Features

Azure Virtual Network Manager Security Admin Rule generally available in 45 regions

Azure Virtual Network Manager's security admin rule configuration is now generally available in 45 regions, empowering users to enforce security rules across their virtual networks globally.

• Azure Virtual Network Manager
• Regions & Datacenters
• Features

Standard_NC6s_v3, Standard_NC12s_v3 and Standard_NC24s_v3 Azure virtual machines will be retired on September 30, 2025

Standard_NC6s_v3, Standard_NC12s_v3 and Standard_NC24s_v3 Azure virtual machines will be retired on September 30, 2025

• Retirements

GA: Improved throughput performance on Azure Disks’ Standard SSD

Azure Disks Standard SSD throughput limits are now 100 MB/s on disks sized 8191 GBs and lower.

• Azure Disk Storage
• Managed Disks
• Services
• Features

Public Preview: On-demand capacity reservations for Specialty SKUs

Target availability: Q2 2024

You can now reserve capacity with SLA for following Specialty VM sizes, Mv3 series, NC-series (v3 and newer), NV-series (v2 and newer), and Lsv2 series

• Pricing & Offerings

General Availability: Automatic Scaling for App Service Web Apps

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

• App Service
• App Service (Linux)
• Features