Azure updates

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

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
• Services
• Regions & Datacenters
• Features

Private Preview: Azure Site Recovery support for Azure Trusted Launch VMs (Windows OS)

Azure Site Recovery support for Azure Trusted Launch VMs

• Azure Site Recovery
• Compliance
• Management
• Features

Public Preview: Azure API Center – January Updates

Target availability: Q1 2024

Azure API Center is your one-stop solution for inventorying and managing your organization’s APIs. In this update, we are bringing you new features and improvements to help you discover, reuse, and consume your APIs more easily and efficiently. These features are designed to help you streamline your API lifecycle, improve your developer experience, and increase your API adoption.

• Features

Public preview: Istio add-on for AKS now supports plug-in certificate authority (CA)

You can now bring your own certificates and keys to use with Istio add-on for signing workload certificates for improved security.

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Features

Public preview: Upgrade support in Istio add-on for AKS

You can now upgrade to new Istio revisions as they are made available in the Istio add-on for AKS.

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Features

Public Preview: New major version of durable Functions extension

Durable Functions extension v3.0.0 is currently in public preview. This new major version introduces major changes that benefit those using Azure Storage backend.

• Features

Public Preview: Azure Functions Support for Java 21 on Linux

Azure Functions now supports Java 21 in preview on dedicated, consumption, and premium plans for Linux.

• Azure Functions
• Features

Public Preview: Distributed tracing v2 for durable Functions

Distributed tracing v2 for durable Functions is in public preview. This version supports all languages and storage backends and provides detailed spans.

• Azure Functions
• Features

Public preview: Node OS API options feature for AKS

You can now get Node IP for tasks such as troubleshooting, without needing kubectl access

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Features

Public preview: Disable Secure Shell (SSH) support in AKS

You can now disable SSH for AKS to reduce the attach surface on your cluster.

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Security
• Features

Public preview: Kube-reserved resource optimization in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

You will see AKS reserve up to 20% less memorry on nodes.

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Features

Public preview: Azure SQL updates for late-January 2024

Target availability: Q1 2024

Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in late-January 2024.

• Azure SQL Database
• Features

Public preview: ExpressRoute guided portal experience for multi-site resiliency

With multi-site resiliency, you can configure your ExpressRoute circuits through more than a single peering location. This helps ensure that your’ private connection to Microsoft remains available even if one of the locations experiences an outage. The experience is targeted at helping you design a highly resilient ExpressRoute solution to connect their on-premises with Microsoft backbone and Azure Virtual Networks.

• Azure ExpressRoute
• ExpressRoute Circuits
• ExpressRoute Gateways
• Services

Public Preview: Azure Business Continuity Center is now available in all regions

Azure Business Continuity Center is now available in all regions

• Azure Backup
• Management

Improved exports experience

Target availability: Q1 2024

Introducing an improved exports experience that makes FinOps easier and more efficient with access to additional datasets and optimized for handling large data. You can also create and manage your exports with a few clicks, download your cost data in FOCUS format, and maintain compatibility with previous schema versions, enhance your security and compliance while saving time and money.

• Management
• Features

Preview: Selectable search parameter capability for the FHIR service in Azure Health Data Services

The selectable search parameter capability for the FHIR service in Azure Health Data Services allows you to tailor and enhance searches on FHIR resources. You can choose which inbuilt search parameters to enable or disable for the FHIR service according to your unique requirements. By enabling only the search parameters you need, you can store more FHIR resources and potentially improve performance of FHIR search queries.

• Azure Health Data Services
• Services

New Features for graph-match KQL Operator: Enhanced Pattern Matching and Cycle Control

Target availability: Q1 2024

The graph-match operator in Kusto Query Language (KQL) allows you to query your data as a graph and find matches for a specified pattern. The latest update introduces two new features: the cycles parameter and the nonlinear patterns. These features enable you to control how cycles are matched and express more complex and flexible patterns in your graph queries.

• Azure Data Explorer
• Azure Monitor
• Features

Public Preview: Azure Automation Runtime environment & support for Azure CLI commands in runbooks

Azure Automation introduces Runtime environment (preview) and enables support for Azure CLI commands in runbooks.

• Management