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Azure Red Hat OpenShift January 2024 updates
Target availability: Q1 2024
Azure Red Hat OpenShift now offers Resource Health for clusters with integration with Azure Monitor via Signals and Alerts.
Automatic Image Creation using Azure VM Image Builder is now generally available
We’re happy to announce automatic image creation using Azure Image Builder is now generally available. This feature improves your speed and efficiency by allowing you the ability to start image builds for new base images automatically.
General availability: Azure Data Explorer adds new geospatial capabilities
Kusto now has three new geospatial functions: geo_polygon_to_h3cells(), geo_angle() and geo_azimuth(). These functions are designed to help you better understand and analyze your geospatial data.
Generally Available: Azure Monitor VM Insights Dependency Agent support for RHEL 8.6 Linux VMs
Azure Monitor VM Insights now supports Dependency Agent for RHEL 8.6 Linux VMs, enabling you to monitor their network connections and processes in the Azure portal.
Azure Advisor integration with Azure Monitor Log Analytics Workspace
Advisor is a personalized cloud consultant that helps you follow best practices to optimize your Azure deployments. It analyzes your resource configuration and usage telemetry and then recommends solutions that can help you improve the cost effectiveness, performance, Reliability, and security of your Azure resources. We in Azure Monitor believe that observability should be cost effective, and we want to help our customers control their cost, operational excellence, performance, reliability, and security of their Azure resources. This, in turn, helps grow their overall satisfaction with, and usage of Azure. We have introduced several cost optimization related recommendations and added Azure Advisor to the Log Analytics Workspace admin experience. more recommendations are on the way.
Azure Spring Apps Feature Update Q4 2024: Spring Cloud Gateway supports a response cache and more
Recent updates to the Enterprise plan include improved response caching in Spring Cloud Gateway, a more secure try-out option in API Portal, and enhanced application-level settings in Service Connector. Additionally, there's richer build history information to help with troubleshooting. For both Enterprise and Basic/Standard plans, Azure Spring Apps now offer scheduled maintenance for updates and an auto-sync feature for certificates, making application management more efficient and secure.
General Availability: Azure MySQL Import feature for Azure Database for MySQL Single to Flexible Server migrations
Target availability: Q1 2024
Easily migrate your Azure Database for MySQL – Single Server workloads to Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server with Azure MySQL Import.
General availability: Azure Virtual Network encryption
Azure Virtual Network encryption is a feature of Azure Virtual Networks. Virtual network encryption allows you to seamlessly encrypt and decrypt traffic between Azure Virtual Machines.
General Availability: Customer-managed keys for Azure NetApp Files volume encryption
Azure NetApp Files volumes supports encryption with customer-managed keys (CMK), using Azure Key Vault for key storage, to enable an extra layer of security for data at rest.
Create tests by adding HTTP requests in Azure Load Testing
Azure Load Testing now supports creating load tests by HTTP requests.
General Availability: Premium SSD v2 and Ultra disks support with Trusted launch
Trusted launch VMs now support Azure Premium SSD v2 and Ultra disks storage.
Azure Load Testing supports Web Driver Sampler plugin for Apache JMeter
With Azure Load Testing, you can now measure response time as experienced by the end user leveraging the Web Driver Sampler plugin for Apache JMeter
Azure Load Testing supports fetching secrets from Azure Key Vault with access restrictions (private AKV)
You can now use secrets from an Azure Key Vault with access restrictions in Azure Load Testing.
Azure Ultra Disk Storage is now available in UK West and Poland Central
Now available in the UK West and Poland Central regions, Azure Ultra Disk Storage provides high performance along with sub-millisecond latency for your most-demanding workloads.
Generally available: Zone Redundant Storage for Azure Disks is now available in more regions
Zone Redundant Storage (ZRS) for Azure Disks is now available on Azure Premium SSD and Standard SSD in the West US3 and Germany West Central regions.
Azure Spring Apps Enterprise is now eligible for Azure savings plan for compute
Target availability: Q1 2023
Enjoy up to 47% savings when you commit to Azure savings plan for Azure Spring Apps Enterprise.
December 2023
General availability: Security Update for Azure Front Door WAF CVE-2023-50164
Stay protected against CVE-2023-50164 with the help of Azure’s global WAF running on Azure Front Door.
Generally available: Azure Site Recovery update rollup 70 - December 2023
This article describes the improvements for the latest version of Azure Site Recovery components.
General availability: Security Update for Application Gateway WAF CVE-2023-50164
Stay protected against CVE-2023-50164 with the help of Azure’s regional WAF running on Application Gateway.
General availability: “As on-premises” sizing in Azure Migrate SQL Discovery and Assessment
Target availability: Q4 2023
Quickly create a reliable assessment without waiting for performance data collection with “As on-premises sizing in Azure Migrate SQL Assessments.
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