Azure updates

Public preview: Azure Load Balancer now supports Admin State

Override Azure Load Balancer’s health probe behavior on a per backend pool instance basis using the new Load Balancer Admin State feature to make taking your VM out of rotation for maintenance easy.

• Load Balancer
• Features

Public preview: Azure NetApp Files support for Active Directory connection per NetApp account

Azure NetApp Files support for one Active Directory connection per NetApp account now enables connecting a NetApp account to its own distinct Active Directory Forest and Domain. Azure NetApp Files can now be used with more than one Active Directory Forest and Domain in a region under a subscription.

• Azure NetApp Files
• Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD)
• Security
• Features

Azure Virtual Network Manager’s virtual network verifier is now in public preview

Azure Virtual Network Manager’s virtual network verifier feature is now in public preview, enabling you to check if your network policies allow or disallow traffic between your Azure network resources.

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

Public preview: Azure Bastion Premium

Azure Bastion Premium SKU secures customers’ highly sensitive workloads with advanced monitoring and security features

• Azure Bastion
• Security
• Services
• Features

Public Preview: Kubernetes Metadata and Logs Filtering in Azure Monitor - Container Insights

Target availability: Q2 2024

Kubernetes Metadata and Logs Filtering is now in Public Preview. Gain richer context and improved visibility into their workloads!

• Azure Monitor
• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Azure Managed Grafana
• Microsoft Build
• Features

Public preview: Azure Load Balancer health event logs

Azure Load Balancer now supports health event logs to help you identify and troubleshoot ongoing issues affecting your load balancer resource’s health.

• Load Balancer
• Services
• Features

Public preview: Advanced Container Networking Services for Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS)

Advanced Container Networking Services for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is a suite of services that tackles observability, security, and compliance challenges in your containerized applications. Gain deep insights with Advanced Network Observability, our first feature of the suite that unlocks Hubble metrics, CLI, and UI for powerful traffic monitoring and performance optimization.

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Network Watcher
• Security
• Services
• Management
• Features
• Compliance

Public Preview: Azure HDInsight on AKS is now available for preview in 6 new regions

Azure HDInsight on AKS is a modern, reliable, secure, and fully managed Platform as a Service (PaaS) that runs on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). HDInsight on AKS allows you to deploy popular Open-Source Analytics workloads like Apache Spark™, Apache Flink®️, and Trino without the overhead of managing and monitoring containers. For more information about Azure HDInsight on AKS, see the documentation

• HDInsight on AKS
• Regions & Datacenters
• Open Source
• Features

Visual Studio Code extension for sAzure Web PubSub now in preview

New option helps developers manage Web PubSub resources

• Azure Web PubSub
• Features

Public preview: Azure NetApp Files application volume group for Oracle

Application volume group for Oracle is designed to greatly simplify the deployment of Azure NetApp Files volumes required to install and operate Oracle databases on Azure virtual machines at enterprise scale, with optimal performance and according to best practices.

• Azure NetApp Files
• Features

Preview: Introducing Reporting Capabilities for Azure Site Recovery

Azure Site Recovery is introducing reporting capabilities to enable your BCDR Admin get rich insights into your estate protected with Site Recovery for audit and tracking purposes. These reports are highly customizable and are available out of box on Business Continuity Center, Recovery Service Vault and Backup Center. These reports provide historical evidence on failover jobs and replicated items.

• Management
• Compliance

Public preview of the App Configuration Extension for AKS

Azure App Configuration extension for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) allows you to install and manage Azure App Configuration Kubernetes Provider on your AKS cluster via Azure Resource Manager (ARM). 

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• App Configuration
• Security
• Microsoft Build
• Features

Azure portal now offers in context observability for AKS object overviews

View your key performance metrics for your AKS resources in context with the Azure Portal

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Microsoft Azure portal
• Azure Monitor
• Microsoft Build
• Features

Public preview: Managed Prometheus visualizations for Azure Monitor container insights

Container insights now supports out of the box visualizations using only managed Prometheus.

• Azure Monitor
• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Managed Prometheus
• Microsoft Build
• Features

Preview: Windows gRPC support is now available on App Service

gRPC support for App Service Windows now in preview

• Features

Public preview: Azure Log Analytics enhances resilience with workspace replication across regions

Target availability: Q2 2024

Azure Log Analytics is announcing Workspace Replication, a new capability that enhances workspace resilience by enabling you to switch your workspace operation to another region if your primary region isn’t healthy.

• Azure Monitor
• Log Analytics
• Services
• Microsoft Build
• Features

Expanding extensibility model to Pulumi in Azure Deployment Environments

Expanding extensibility model to Pulumi in Azure Deployment Environments

• Azure Deployment Environments
• Microsoft Build
• Features

Public preview: Azure Firewall integration in Microsoft Copilot for Security

The Azure Firewall integration helps analysts perform detailed investigations of the malicious traffic intercepted by the IDPS feature of their firewalls across their entire fleet using natural language questions in the Copilot for Security standalone experience.

• Azure Firewall
• Microsoft Copilot for Azure
• Security
• Services
• Microsoft Build
• Features

Public preview: Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) integration in Microsoft Copilot for Security

Increase your security posture and receive an analysis of the top Azure WAF rules triggered, top offending IPs in the environment, SQL injection and Cross-site scripting attacks blocked by WAF, along with natural language explanation of the analysis.

• Web Application Firewall
• Microsoft Copilot for Azure
• Azure Front Door
• Microsoft Copilot for Security
• Application Gateway
• Security
• Microsoft Build
• Features