Azure updates

General availability: Azure SDKs support for Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL

Target availability: Q1 2024

Now you can use Azure SDKs including .NET SDK, Go SDK, Java SDK, JavaScript SDK, and Python SDK to manage the lifecycle of Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL clusters.

• Azure Cosmos DB
• Features

General availability: Azure CLI support for Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL

Target availability: Q1 2024

You can now use Azure CLI to manage the whole lifecycle of Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL clusters from provisioning to scaling to configuration changes and starting/stopping cluster compute.

• Azure Cosmos DB
• Features

General availability: Application Gateway for Containers

Application Gateway for Containers is the next evolution to Application Gateway's Ingress Controller; bringing performance, scale, deployment, and feature enhancements.

• Application Gateway for Containers
• Application Gateway
• Security
• Features

Enable replication for added VMware VM data disks

Azure Site Recovery now supports enabling replication for data disks that you add to a VMware VM that's already enabled for disaster recovery.

• Azure Site Recovery
• Management
• Features

Announcing NBCROW Compression in Kusto's TDS Implementation

A new feature that reduces the data transfer for MSSQL queries on Kusto.

• Azure Data Explorer
• Azure Synapse Analytics
• Features

Sending a log search alert with cross tenant target resource will no longer be supported

As of March 15, 2024, this behavior will change and sending a log search alert with a cross tenant target resource (except for the lighthouse case) will no longer be supported. Alerts will not be sent to unauthorized target resources, and log search alert rules with an unauthorized target will be ignored. This will ensure that only authorized users can receive and investigate log search alerts.

• Alerts
• Compliance
• Features

General Availability: Azure NetApp Files Standard Network Features - Edit Volumes

Azure NetApp Files Standard Network Features - Edit Volumes GA

• Azure NetApp Files
• Regions & Datacenters
• Features

Generally available: Support for Azure VMs using Ultra disks in Azure Backup

General availability for the support for Azure VMs using Ultra disks in Azure Backup.

• Azure Backup
• Compliance
• Management
• Features

Generally available: Support for Azure VMs using Premium SSD v2 in Azure Backup

General availability for the support for Azure VMs using Premium SSD v2 in Azure Backup.

• Azure Backup
• Compliance
• Management
• Features

General Availability: Trusted launch for Azure VMs in China regions

Azure China cloud regions now support Trusted Launch Virtual Machines to improve security posture of an Azure Virtual Machine.

• Regions & Datacenters
• Compliance
• Security
• Operating System

Generally available: Azure Blob Storage Cold Tier support on Change Feed and Object Replication

Azure Blob Change Feed and Object Replication now support Azure Blob Storage Cold Tier.

• Hot/Cool/Cold Blob Storage Tiers
• Storage Accounts
• Azure Blob Storage
• Features

General availability: Azure SQL updates for mid-February 2024

Target availability: Q1 2024

General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in mid-February 2024.

• Azure SQL Database
• Features

General availability: Customer managed key encryption for Enterprise tier caches

Target availability: Q1 2024

Encrypt Redis persistence files using customer managed keys.

• Azure Cache for Redis
• Features

Azure Firewall: Flow Trace Logs and Autoscaling based on number of connections are now generally available

Flow Trace Logs provide more visibility into the TCP handshake, providing insight into whether traffic is properly flowing through the firewall. In addition, Azure Firewall can now autoscale based on number of connections, providing more scaling adaptability to dynamic workloads.

• Azure Firewall
• Security
• Features

Azure Elastic SAN is now generally available

Azure Elastic SAN is now generally available, the industry’s first fully managed and cloud-native SAN offering that simplifies deploying, scaling, managing, and configuring a SAN in the cloud.

• Azure Elastic SAN
• Storage Accounts
• Azure Disk Storage
• Services
• Regions & Datacenters
• Features

Generally available: Zone Redundant Storage for Azure Disks is now available in Canada Central

Zone Redundant Storage (ZRS) for Azure Disks is now available on Azure Premium SSD and Standard SSD in the Canada Central region.

• Azure Disk Storage
• Managed Disks
• Regions & Datacenters
• Features

General availability: Improvements in Azure Key Vault

Improvements in Azure Key Vault: FIPS 140-2 Level 3, PCI DSS and PCI 3DS certified for all customers.

• Key Vault
• Azure Key Vault Managed HSM
• Security
• Management
• Features

Generally available: Support for up to 100 TB of storage for the FHIR service

The FHIR service in Azure Health Data Services supports up to 100 TB of storage. The FHIR service can store and exchange large amounts of health data, and each FHIR service instance has a 4 TB storage limit by default. However, if you have more data, you can ask Microsoft to increase storage up to 100 TB for your FHIR service.

• Azure Health Data Services
• Services

Azure Ultra Disk Storage is now available in Canada East

Now available in Canada East region, Azure Ultra Disk Storage provides high performance along with sub-millisecond latency for your most-demanding workloads.

• Ultra Disk Storage
• Managed Disks
• Azure Disk Storage
• Regions & Datacenters
• Features