Updates Archives
Monthly updates for July 2023
Generally available: Cloud Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) by Palo Alto Networks - an Azure Native ISV Service
The first ISV next-generation firewall service natively integrated in Azure is now generally available.
Public preview: Assess cost optimization opportunities using new workbook template in Azure Advisor
Target availability: Q3 2023
Review cost optimization insights for your Azure environment and identify savings using the new Cost Optimization workbook template in Azure Advisor.
Updated default TLS policy for Azure Application Gateway
The default TLS policy for new deployments of Azure Application Gateway is now set to AppGwSslPolicy20220101.
Azure DevOps July 2023 updates
Target availability: Q3 2023
In July, we've delivered multiple improvements across Azure DevOps services. You can now dismiss dependency scanning alerts in Advanced Security that you believe to be a false positive or acceptable risk. In Azure Repos, we changed the default behavior to remove "Edit policies" permission when creating a new branch.
Speech-to-text REST API v3.0 will be retired by 31 March 2026.
Target availability: Q1 2026
Speech-to-text REST API v3.0 will be retired by 31 March 2026. Update your code that uses Speech-to-text REST API. We recently updated the Speech-to-text REST API to version 3.1. Version 3.1 builds on the capabilities of the previous version and adds new features including language identification and multi-speaker diarization. With these enhancements, we'll retire version 3.0 of the API on 31 March 2026.
Azure SQL—Public preview updates for mid-July 2023
Target availability: Q3 2023
Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in mid-July 2023
The Classic VMs retirement deadline is now September 6, 2023
Target retirement date: September 06, 2023
Migrate your Classic VMs before September 6, 2023 to avoid service disruptions.
Public preview: Azure 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.
Public Preview: Firmware analysis in Defender for IoT
Target availability: Q3 2023
The new firmware analysis feature in Defender for IoT enables security teams to get deeper visibility into IoT/OT devices by providing better insights into the foundational software they are built on.
Windows Server end-of-support (EOS): Upgrade seamlessly with Azure Migrate (Public preview)
Target availability: Q3 2023
With Azure Migrate, seamlessly upgrade legacy Windows servers while migrating to Azure, minimizing effort, downtime, and risk. By creating a copy of the server in Azure and performing the upgrade there, the impact on the original server is minimized, ensuring a secure and efficient transition.
Preview: Azure Boost
Target availability: Q3 2023
Azure Boost is one of Microsoft Azure’s latest and most significant infrastructure innovations, enabling greater network and storage performance at scale, improves security, and reduced servicing impact.
Public preview: Bring your own key on Ephemeral OS disk for AKS
Target availability: Q3 2023
You can now use your own keys to encrypt your ephemeral OS disks.
Public preview: Network observability add-on for AKS
Target availability: Q3 2023
You can now get complete observability into the network health and connectivity of your AKS cluster.
Public preview: Support for Python 3.11 in Azure Functions
Target availability: Q3 2023
Take advantage of Python 3.11 features with Azure Functions
Public Preview: OData API type in Azure API Management
We are excited to announce the public preview of the OData API type in Azure API Management. This new capability extends the benefits and capabilities of Azure API Management to OData APIs, including the ability to secure them with standard API protections, such as authentication, authorization, and rate limiting, in combination with OData-specific policies for request validation.
Generally available: Event Grid upgrade enhancements for AKS
Target availability: Q3 2023
You can now receive and programmatically handle AKS generated upgrade events in Event Grid
Azure Machine Learning - Public Preview for July
New features now available in Public Preview enable you to create AI workflows that connect to various language models and data sources and use prompt flow and Azure OpenAI models to build LLM applications.
Azure Machine Learning - General Availability for July
A new feature now available in GA enables you to create compute clusters in locations that are different from the location of the workspace.
General availability: IoT Hub Service Upgrade
All IoT Hubs will be going through a service upgrade between July 2023 and November 2023 with potential impact to your IoT Hub.
Public Preview : Crash Consistent VM Restore points
For Azure partners and customers seeking to develop business continuity and disaster recovery solutions, crash-consistent VM restore points serve as feature-rich building blocks, offering an agentless solution available natively on the Azure platform.
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