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Monthly updates for July 2024

Jul 25

IN PREVIEW

Converting to Azure Premium SSD V2 feature speaks to the ability to change your existing Standard SSD, Standard HDD, or Premium SSD v1 disks to PV2 disks in a few clicks with minimal downtime. This process avoids disk destruction, eliminates the need to use snapshots as a staging resource, and doesn’t require waiting for background data copying.

Jul 25

IN PREVIEW

Azure Monitor is announcing the public preview of a new logs plan called Auxiliary Logs.

Jul 25

IN PREVIEW

Azure NetApp Files large volumes now support throughput up to 12.5-GiB/s and maximum volume size up to 2 PiB.

Jul 25

IN PREVIEW

Azure is proud to announce the public preview of the 6th generation Intel-based VMs, with up to 20% higher vCPU performance and 3x larger L3 cache than the previous generation Intel Dl/D/Ev5 VMs.

Jul 25

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Monitor Basic Logs is announcing new capabilities to maximize customer benefit and enhance functionality.

Jul 25

NOW AVAILABLE

AzAcSnap 10 with new features is now available

Jul 25

NOW AVAILABLE

Learn about Delete or Reset Azure Site Recovery replication appliance

Jul 25

RETIREMENT

App Service Environment version 1 and version 2 will be retired on 31 August 2024

Jul 18

RETIREMENT

Azure Lab Services will be retired on June 28, 2027, with new sign-ups closing on July 15, 2024. Users should transition to alternative Microsoft VDI services or recommended partner solutions by the retirement date to avoid disruptions.

Jul 18

IN PREVIEW

We are excited to announce preview support to enable Trusted launch on existing Azure Gen1/Gen2 Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS) Uniform by upgrading the VMSS Uniform resource to Gen2-Trusted launch.

Jul 18

RETIREMENT

Deprecation of Azure Synapse Runtime for Apache Spark 3.2 

Jul 18

RETIREMENT

Azure Synapse runtime for Apache Spark 3.3 will be retired and disabled March 2025.

Jul 18

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Functions now supports .NET 8 using the in-process model

Jul 18

NOW AVAILABLE

You can now use Redis as an Azure Function trigger.

Jul 18

IN PREVIEW

You can now monitor and configure Spring Boot web applications using managed Admin Java component

Jul 18

IN PREVIEW

You can now use managed identities in your scale rules in Azure Container Apps.

Jul 18

NOW AVAILABLE

You can now encrypt network traffic transmitted between applications within an Azure Container Apps environment using peer-to-peer-encryption.

Jul 18

NOW AVAILABLE

You can now use Azure Key Vault to store and manage your own TLS/SSL certificates for Azure Container Apps at the environment level.

Jul 18

NOW AVAILABLE

ExpressRoute Traffic Collector can now be enabled on ExpressRoute provider circuits.

Jul 18

NOW AVAILABLE

Announcing support for ExpressRoute FastPath Virtual Network Peering and User Defined Routes (UDR) connectivity.

Jul 18

NOW AVAILABLE

This feature enables a group of virtual networks to directly communicate to each other without an additional hop, thus improving the latency and management overhead of establish each virtual network's desired connectivity.

Jul 18

IN PREVIEW

Preview of cross region data transfers for Azure Data Box

Jul 18

RETIREMENT

The API “Microsoft.AlertsManagement alerts 2018-05-05-preview” that is in preview mode will be deprecated from the date 10-10-2024

Jul 18

NOW AVAILABLE

Pgvector 0.7 is now available for Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server.

Jul 18

NOW AVAILABLE

In-place major version upgrade support for PostgreSQL 16 in Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server.

Jul 18

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server now supports minor versions 16.3, 15.7, 14.12, 13.15, and 12.19

Jul 18

NOW AVAILABLE

Delete multiple items at once now in Azure Cosmos DB with Data Explorer.

Jul 18

NOW AVAILABLE

The .update command is now Generally Available (GA)

Jul 11

RETIREMENT

Azure will retire Guest OS Families 2, 3, and 4, with end-of-life dates for Windows Server 2008 R2 in December 2024, and Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2 in February 2025. Learn how to transition to supported OS Families.

Jul 11

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Backup is announcing General Availability of encryption of data in Backup vaults using Customer Managed Keys.

Jul 11

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Backup can now help you back up virtual machines using private endpoint-enabled disks. You can now also specify network settings to be used by the restored disks while initiating the restore process.

Jul 11

NOW AVAILABLE

We now have the ability for customers to scale down their unused capacity at the SAN level. We have also released diagnostic logging and expanded into new regions.

Jul 11

IN PREVIEW

Customers now have access to pod level metrics and DNS metrics for troubleshooting their AKS cluster networks.

Jul 9

NOW AVAILABLE

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

Jul 5

NOW AVAILABLE

Users can now run their Azure Databricks job without configuring and deploying infrastructure.

Jul 5

NOW AVAILABLE

Serverless compute for notebooks allows you to run your notebooks quickly without configuring and deploying infrastructure.

Jul 5

NOW AVAILABLE

DLT with serverless compute allows you to run your streaming data pipelines without configuring and deploying infrastructure.

Jul 5

IN PREVIEW

When a Network Virtual Appliance (NVA) is deployed into a Virtual WAN hub, it can serve as a third-party gateway with various functionalities. Cisco FTD is the newest NVA integration with the Virtual WAN hub.

Jul 5

IN PREVIEW

Migrate Azure CDN Standard from Microsoft (classic) to Azure Front Door for enhanced security, rules engine, logging and analytics capabilities.

Jul 5

IN DEVELOPEMENT

Azure ExpressRoute is rolling out several product enhancements to help customers improve their multi-site and zonal resiliency posture with ExpressRoute deployments.

Jul 5

IN PREVIEW

Online MongoDB migration capabilities in Azure Data Studio for uninterrupted database transfers.

Jul 5

IN PREVIEW

Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in early-July 2024.

Jul 5

IN PREVIEW

Connect cross-subscription resources to your Azure Load Balancer

Jul 5

IN PREVIEW

Azure Backup support for backup and restore of Elastic SAN Volumes is now in private preview.

Jul 5

RETIREMENT

Onco-Phenotype model within Azure AI Health Insights will be retired on July 31st, 2024.

Jul 5

IN PREVIEW

One feature now available in public preview enables you to consume predictions from a diverse set of models in a uniform and consistent way. Developers can talk with different models deployed in Azure Machine Learning without changing the underlying code they are using.  

Jul 5

NOW AVAILABLE

Three features now available in GA enable you to provide a secure and efficient way to deploy and consume AI/ML models, submit training jobs through the Studio UI—including hyperparameter tuning—using an improved submission experience, and ensures a seamless interactive experience for developing LLM applications. 

Jul 5

NOW AVAILABLE

We are now introducing a new region - Spain Central for Azure HDInsight.

Jul 5

NOW AVAILABLE

We are now introducing support for running queries also on Azure Data Explorer (ADX) tables, and even joining data between those data sources in a single query.

Jul 5

IN PREVIEW

Customers will now be able to detach the ZRS disks and attach them to another VM, decreasing the RTO.

Jul 5

IN PREVIEW

We are excited to offer Azure customers enhanced security and performance with ED25519 SSH key support for Linux virtual machines (VMs) in Azure.

Jul 5

IN PREVIEW

Azure Monitor, Microsoft’s comprehensive solution for monitoring and optimizing cloud resources, announces the launch of Continuous Performance Diagnostics. This new feature elevates the existing on-demand Performance Diagnostics for Azure VMs by providing continuous, actionable insights into high resource usage. It empowers you to swiftly diagnose performance issues, optimize resource utilization, and maximize efficiency. Now available in Public Preview for Windows VMs, Continuous Performance Diagnostics is the next leap in Azure VM performance troubleshooting with Azure Monitor.

Jul 5

IN PREVIEW

Windows Server 2025 preview is now available. Check out the advanced security, performance increases, and modernized experience of the newest version of Windows Server.

Jul 5

IN PREVIEW

Use the latest version of Redis on your cache instances.

Jul 5

IN PREVIEW

Experience seamless online migration for PostgreSQL with migration service in Azure Database for PostgreSQL.

Jul 5

IN PREVIEW

Keep your PostgreSQL extensions up-to-date with a single command for enhanced security and stability.

Jul 5

NOW AVAILABLE

New and updated Azure Advisor recommendations created for Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server.

Jul 5

NOW AVAILABLE

Optimize database performance with dynamic IOPS scaling for Azure PostgreSQL Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server.

Jul 5

NOW AVAILABLE

General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in late-June 2024.

Jul 5

IN PREVIEW

The new Geo-Replication feature for Service Bus is now in public preview. This feature allows to replicate data and metadata for a namespace between a primary and a secondary region.

Jul 5

IN PREVIEW

Increase your security posture and generate a non-intrusive mitigation when a request matches a WAF bot rule or custom rule using Azure WAF JS challenge.

Jul 5

IN PREVIEW

Azure Container Apps is now available in public preview in Azure Government Cloud Virginia.

Jul 5

ANNOUNCEMENT

You can now configure different egress IPs for your pods without creating multiple nodes with instance-level public IPs.

Jul 5

NOW AVAILABLE

You can now use OS Security Patch channel for Linux in AKS to limit disruption from patching.

Jul 5

NOW AVAILABLE

You can now access the API server and control plane of a private cluster more easily.

Jul 5

IN PREVIEW

Upgrade Policies help ensure your virtual machines in your scale set remain up to date with the latest scale set model.

Jul 5

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Monitor is announcing the release of new and updated Azure Policy built-in policies and initiatives for enabling platform logging at-scale for Azure services.

Jul 5

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Monitor now offers a way to get Live Metrics while using vender-neutral OpenTelemetry APIs that are the foundation of the Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Distro

Jul 5

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Virtual Network Manager mesh and direct connectivity are generally available in all public regions

Jul 5

NOW AVAILABLE

Run load tests in debug mode with enhanced logging. You get the debug logs and request and response data for failed requests.

Jul 5

IN PREVIEW

Aggregate ingested data to workspace continuously per given query and cadence to enable efficient queries on large data sets and time ranges.

Jul 5

NOW AVAILABLE

Manage Log Analytics Dedicated cluster in Azure portal.

Jul 5

IN PREVIEW

With Foundation Model Training, Azure Databricks users can use their own data to customize a foundation model to optimize performance

Jul 5

IN PREVIEW

Load test your functions directly from Azure Functions in Azure portal.

Jul 5

END OF SUPPORT

End of Azure Standard support offer on June 30, 2024. Customers without another paid support plan and who wish to maintain technical support coverage should purchase support.

Jul 5

NOW AVAILABLE

vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB has expanded its capabilities and now supports Mongo Version 7.0.

Jul 5

IN PREVIEW

Now Azure Synapse Link for Azure Cosmos DB customers can migrate to continuous backup.

Jul 5

IN PREVIEW

Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in mid-June 2024.

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