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Generally available: Microsoft Dev Box in Southeast Asia, Brazil South, South Africa North, and Switzerland North
Microsoft Dev Box is generally available in Southeast Asia, Brazil South, South Africa North, and Switzerland North.
GA: Azure SQL Trigger support for Azure Functions
You can now build application logic in Azure Function apps which can be driven by the data from Azure SQL database
General Availability: Azure Files geo-redundancy for standard large file shares
Target availability: Q1 2024
Azure Files geo-redundancy for 100TiB standard SMB file shares is now generally available.
Generally Available: Free managed certificates on Azure Container Apps
Azure Container Apps now provides a free managed certificate for your custom domain.
General availability: Azure SQL updates for late-March 2024
Target availability: Q1 2024
General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in late-March 2024 .
General availability: Migration service in Azure Database for PostgreSQL
Target availability: Q1 2024
Seamlessly migrate PostgreSQL to Azure using a managed service for complete schema and data transfers, hassle-free.
General availability: Rate Limiting on ExpressRoute Direct Circuits
Rate Limiting is now generally available over ExpressRoute Direct port circuits, providing enhanced control over bandwidth usage. This Quality of Service (QoS) feature prevents circuits from bursting beyond their configured bandwidth, thereby improving network performance and reliability. Rate Limiting can be enabled for each circuit individually, offering flexibility to prioritize certain circuits. This feature can be activated during or after the creation of the ExpressRoute Direct circuit.
Breaking Changes to Azure API Management Workspaces
Target availability: Q1 2024
As part of our commitment to enhancing workspaces (in Public Preview) within Azure API Management, we are implementing several critical breaking changes effective June 14, 2024. These changes are designed to streamline functionality and improve overall performance. These breaking changes will be effective from June 14, 2024. We strongly advise making any necessary adjustments to your workspace configurations before this date to ensure uninterrupted service.
General Availability: Automatic Scaling for App Service Web Apps
Azure App Service is pleased to announce general availability of the "Automatic Scaling" feature.
Azure Synapse Runtime for Apache Spark 3.2 End of Support
Target retirement date: July 08, 2024
End of Support for Azure Synapse Runtime for Apache Spark 3.2. Apache Spark 3.2 will be retired and disabled as of July 8, 2024.
Support for Standard_M192idms_v2 will be retired on 31 March 2027
Target retirement date: March 14, 2027
Community support for Standard_M192idms_v2 is ending on 31 March 2027
General Availability: Azure NetApp Files support for 1 TiB capacity pools
Azure NetApp Files now supports smaller 1 TiB capacity pool sizes, lowered from 2 TiB, when used with volumes using standard network features.
Generally available: Application Gateway (v2) IPv6 support
Azure Application Gateway v2 enables dual-stack (IPv4 and IPv6) connectivity from the clients, providing more flexible and reliable access to the backend Applications.
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: Azure Health Data Services DICOM service with Azure Data Lake Storage
With the integration of Azure Data Lake Storage and the DICOM service, organizations can now enjoy full control over their imaging data and increased flexibility for accessing and working with that data through the Azure storage ecosystem and APIs.
Microsoft open sources Retina: A cloud-native container networking observability platform
The Microsoft's Azure Container Networking team is announcing Retina, a cloud-native container networking observability platform that enables Kubernetes users, admins, and developers to visualize, observe, debug, and analyze Kubernetes’ workload traffic irrespective of Container Network Interface (CNI), operating system (OS), and cloud.
Generally Available: Cost analysis add-on for AKS
You can now better understand the infra costs associated with running applications at the namespace and cluster levels and identify opportunities to optimize resource utilization through an Azure native experience.
Open-Source Fleet Workload Placement Scheduling and Override
You can now schedule workloads in Fleet based on cost and availability of resource heuristics.
Generally Available: Windows Gen 2 VM support in AKS
YOu can now use Gen 2 VM SKUs for Windows nodepools in AKS.
Generally Available: Kubernetes 1.29 support in AKS
You can now take advantage of Kubernetes 1.29 version with AKS in production environment.
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