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Private Preview: Force detach zone redundant disks during zone outage
Force detach zone redundant disks during zone outage and take advantage of ZRS ability to achieve an RPO of 0.
January 2024
Private Preview: Upgrade existing Azure Gen1 VMs to Gen2-Trusted launch
Target availability: Q1 2024
Support to upgrade existing Gen1 VMs to Trusted launch in preview.
December 2023
Delaying Domain Front Block on Azure Front Door and CDN services
Azure Front Door and Azure CDN Standard from Microsoft (classic) are postponing the domain fronting blocking enforcement to January 22, 2024, and will add two log fields to help you check if your resources display domain fronting behavior by December 25, 2023.
Application Insights Availability Tests TLS 1.3 Enablement
TLS 1.3 will be enabled for Availability Tests in Azure Monitor Application Insights starting on 4 December 2023
November 2023
Azure Functions brings new flexibility with scale, VNet and long execution time
You can now request for access to try out Flex Consumption, a new Azure Functions hosting plan that provides fast scaling and networking features with a serverless billing model.
TLS 1.2 to become the minimum TLS version for Azure Storage
Target availability: Q4 2024
TLS 1.2 to become the minimum TLS version for Azure Storage
October 2023
Changes to My Groups admin controls
Target retirement date: June 30, 2024
New settings will enable admins to restrict end users from viewing and editing security groups in My Groups. The existing settings that allow enabling or disabling of My Groups will be retired in June 2024.
June 2023
Azure Virtual Desktop Insights Powered by the Azure Monitor Agent
Public preview of Azure Virtual Desktop Insights Powered by Azure Monitor Agent feature in Azure Virtual Desktop
May 2023
Transition to Azure AD to query data from Azure Monitor application insights by 31 March 2026
Target retirement date: March 31, 2026
API keys for querying data from Azure Monitor application insights will be retired on 31 March 2026
Switch to Azure AD authentication for application insights by 30 September 2025
Target retirement date: September 30, 2025
API keys used to stream live metrics telemetry into application insights will be retired on 30 September 2025.
Alert processing rules fields update
Target availability: Q3 2023
Alert processing rules are a set of rules that allow for modifications to be made to fired alerts, distinct from alert rules which generate new alerts. With alert processing rules, you can add or remove action groups from your fired alerts.
Retirement of SQL Server Native Client (SNAC) OLE DB provider for linked servers in Azure SQL Managed Instance
Target retirement date: June 01, 2023
All existing linked server objects configured to use SQLNCLI will automatically switch to using the fully compatible third (current) generation of provider – known as Microsoft OLE DB Driver for SQL Server or MSOLEDBSQL.
March 2023
AKS will stop support for Windows Server 2019 on March 1 2026
Transition your Kubernetes workloads on Windows Server 2019 to Windows Server 2022 by March 1 2026.
Retirement: Azure Database Migration Service (classic) - SQL Server scenarios deprecation
Target retirement date: March 15, 2026
Azure Database Migration Service (classic) - SQL Server scenarios will not be supported after March 15, 2026.
February 2023
In development: New planned datacenter region in Saudi Arabia (Saudi Arabia Central)
The new datacenter region will also include Availability Zones, providing customers with high availability and additional tolerance to datacenter failures.
October 2022
In development: Larger SKUs for App Service Environment v3
Using the new Isolated v2 SKUs, you can now run larger and more complex workloads.
In development: Go language support
Go language (v1.18 and v1.19) natively supported on Azure App Service.
May 2022
In development: Dynatrace for Azure
Target availability: Q2 2022
Natively integrated SaaS solution that provides deep cloud observability, advanced AIOps, and continuous runtime application security capabilities on Azure.
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