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November 2024
Nov 07
IN PREVIEW
New portal experience simplifies testing and debugging. Kafka compatibility enables seamless integration with Apache Kafka workloads.
Nov 07
RETIREMENT
Retirement notice: Azure CDN Standard/Premium from Edgio (formerly Verizon) will be retired on November 4, 2025
Nov 07
NOW AVAILABLE
Converting to Azure Premium SSD v2 (Pv2) feature allows you 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.
Nov 07
IN PREVIEW
Azure File Sync now supports managed identities, eliminating shared keys for authentication. This feature, in public preview, is available at no extra cost in all Azure Public and Gov regions.
Nov 07
RETIREMENT
Important: Azure Health Data Services in the Qatar Central region will be retired on October 31, 2025.
Nov 07
IN PREVIEW
Enhance cloud security with Confidential Containers on Azure Red Hat OpenShift, protecting sensitive workloads using hardware-level encryption and isolation.
Nov 07
NOW AVAILABLE
Azure Elastic SAN has released new features around improving data integrity, simplifying the management experience of a SAN, improving cost-effectiveness for AVS, and published a Service Level Agreement (SLA).
Nov 07
IN PREVIEW
Explore new performance enhancements and JSON functions in PostgreSQL 17.
Nov 07
NOW AVAILABLE
Debug queries more efficiently with the improved error messaging in Azure Cosmos DB Data Explorer.
Nov 07
NOW AVAILABLE
Power your AI JavaScript apps with Azure Cosmos DB vector database capabilities.
Nov 07
NOW AVAILABLE
General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in early November 2024.
Nov 07
NOW AVAILABLE
Unlock scalable, high-performance MongoDB clusters with new API for Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB.
Nov 07
IN PREVIEW
New database development and deployment toolkit for Microsoft SQL Server, Azure SQL, and Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse.
Nov 07
IN PREVIEW
Power new AI solutions using native support for vectors in Azure SQL.
Nov 07
IN PREVIEW
Experience Azure SQL Database Hyperscale: Boosted 150 MB/s log rate and new continuous priming for failover performance.
Nov 07
NOW AVAILABLE
Override Azure Load Balancer’s health probe behavior on a per backend pool instance basis using Load Balancer Admin State feature to make taking your VM out of rotation for maintenance easy.
Nov 07
NOW AVAILABLE
ExpressRoute seamless gateway migration now allows migration with a single prefix, eliminating the previous requirement to create a second address prefix in the Gateway.
Nov 07
NOW AVAILABLE
Azure Virtual Network Manager’s new UDR Management feature streamlines routing automation, reducing manual setup and enhancing network scalability with effortless route configuration and deployment.
Nov 07
NOW AVAILABLE
Enhance reliability and performance with Azure Load Balancer Health Status, providing detailed insights and seamless monitoring of your backend instances' health.
Nov 07
NOW AVAILABLE
Connect cross-subscription resources to your Azure Load Balancer.
Nov 07
RETIREMENT
TLS 1.0/1.1 and Legacy TLS configurations for Application Insights Availability Tests will be retired on March 1, 2025
October 2024
Oct 31
IN PREVIEW
Azure NetApp Files now supports the capability to edit network features of existing volumes with no downtime.
Oct 31
IN PREVIEW
Managing APIs just got easier with Azure API Center’s new linking feature: seamless integration with an Azure API Management service. This ensures your API inventory stays automatically synced and updated.
Oct 31
NOW AVAILABLE
This feature is the ability to increase your Premium SSD v2 and Ultra disks storage capacity without stopping your VM.
Oct 31
NOW AVAILABLE
New ability for apps from multiple App Service plans to integrate with the same subnet
Oct 31
RETIREMENT
Azure Monitor support for Change Analysis API will be retired on October 31st, 2025.
Oct 31
RETIREMENT
Azure Stream Analytics PowerBI output connector will be retired on Oct 31, 2027.
Oct 31
NOW AVAILABLE
Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage is now available in several new regions, offering top-tier performance for demanding workloads at a low cost.
Oct 31
NOW AVAILABLE
Bot Manager Rule Set 1.1 is an enhancement to Bot Manager Rule Set 1.0 and provides customers enhanced protection against malicious bots and increases detection of good bots.
Oct 31
NOW AVAILABLE
Optimize performance of your .NET apps at the code level.
Oct 24
RETIREMENT
Transition TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 to TLS 1.2 or later to avoid service disruptions.
Oct 24
NOW AVAILABLE
Greater capacity and no hourly request quota limits.
Oct 24
IN PREVIEW
You can now develop functions using Node.js 22 locally and deploy them to all Azure Functions plans on Linux and Windows.
Oct 24
NOW AVAILABLE
In September, the FinOps toolkit 0.6 added a new library for FinOps best practices, new Power BI reports for governance and workload optimization, support for all Cost Management datasets in FinOps hubs, and more.
Oct 24
NOW AVAILABLE
Azure Load Testing supports setting fail criteria on server metrics generated from the application components monitored in the test.
Oct 24
NOW AVAILABLE
Scale Enterprise and Enterprise Flash tier caches up or out.
Oct 24
NOW AVAILABLE
General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in late-October 2024.
Oct 17
NOW AVAILABLE
We are excited to offer Azure customers highly secure and faster ED25519 SSH keys support for Linux Virtual Machines (VMs) in Azure.
Oct 17
NOW AVAILABLE
Azure Cobalt 100 Arm-based VMs are now generally available in over 20 regions in North America, Asia, and EMEA.
Oct 17
IN PREVIEW
VM watch makes it easier to collect and transmit health signals from virtual machines and virtual machine scale sets.
Oct 17
NOW AVAILABLE
Reduced pricing now available for JBoss EAP on App Service!
Oct 17
NOW AVAILABLE
Announcing the general availability of ExpressRoute Metro, a new private connectivity architecture designed to enhance network resiliency for our customers.
Oct 17
NOW AVAILABLE
You can now backup VMs using Premium SSDv2 and Ultra Disk with Azure Backup to GRS vaults to guard against disasters in the primary region. You can also enable cross-region to restore to test restored on-demand in the secondary region.
Oct 17
NOW AVAILABLE
Azure Elastic SAN is now generally available as a VMware Certified datastore for Azure VMware Solution (AVS). Elastic SAN offers the cheapest per GiB storage for AVS, so you can optimize your storage and lower your costs.
Oct 10
RETIREMENT
All versions of the EA Azure Price Sheet - Download by Billing Account API prior to version 2023-09-01 will be retired on June 1, 2026. Please migrate to version 2023-11-01 to take advantage of the newer and enhanced price sheet.
Oct 10
NOW AVAILABLE
New cost-effective solution for apps that need more memory resources without extra cores on Azure App Service Environment v3.
Oct 10
NOW AVAILABLE
The default maximum egress for general-purpose v2 and Blob storage accounts has been increased to 200 Gbps in regions where the limit was previously 120 Gbps.
Oct 10
RETIREMENT
Support for custom text analytics for health (preview) in Azure AI Language is ending on January 10th, 2025
Oct 10
RETIREMENT
Support for custom sentiment analysis (preview) in Azure AI Language is ending on January 10th, 2025
Oct 10
NOW AVAILABLE
Configure a new set of server parameters for performance management—now modifiable in Azure Database for PostgreSQL — Flexible Server.
Oct 10
IN PREVIEW
Get up to 32 TiB and up to 20,000 IOPS per physical shard for larger workloads.
Oct 10
IN PREVIEW
Cross-region replication on multishard clusters enables disaster recovery and read scalability for larger workloads.
Oct 10
IN PREVIEW
Support larger workloads and get improved performance with mMultishard vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB clusters.
Oct 10
IN PREVIEW
Get support for the postgresql_anonymizer extension, also known as the anon extension—now available in version 1.3.2. This extension helps mask or anonymize sensitive data directly within your database, providing an extra layer of data protection.
Oct 10
IN PREVIEW
Use one of the fastest vector indexing algorithms for enhanced retrieval performance and accuracy in Azure Database for PostgreSQL.
Oct 10
NOW AVAILABLE
Use an updated version of Redis on your cache instances.
Oct 10
NOW AVAILABLE
Authenticate requests to the dedicated gateway using role-based access control (RBAC) and have more control over what data is cached with a new request option to bypass the integrated cache.
Oct 10
NOW AVAILABLE
Easily reschedule maintenance—and automate using Azure CLI—within a maximum 30-day window.
Oct 10
NOW AVAILABLE
Easily customize Azure Cosmos DB Data Explorer views using new custom column selector and filter history.
Oct 10
NOW AVAILABLE
General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in early-October 2024.
Oct 10
NOW AVAILABLE
ExpressRoute's multi-site resiliency ensures businesses achieve maximum reliability and redundancy by providing multiple layers of connectivity protection across diverse geographic locations. This robust setup minimizes downtime and enhances operational continuity, making it ideal for enterprises requiring consistent and secure network performance.
Oct 10
NOW AVAILABLE
Azure Private Endpoint traffic will no longer require source network address translation on customer's NVA to prevent Asymmetric Routing.
Oct 10
RETIREMENT
Support for Azure Load Balancer numberOfProbes property is ending
Oct 10
NOW AVAILABLE
You can now bring a “global” BYOIP range to azure that can be divided into multiple “regional” ranges across multiple Azure regions
Oct 03
IN PREVIEW
Oct 03
IN PREVIEW
Oct 03
IN PREVIEW
Oct 03
IN PREVIEW
Oct 03
RETIREMENT
Plan out your migration from Azure Spring Apps to Azure Container Apps.
Oct 03
RETIREMENT
Start using the Azure Monitor Agent instead of the Azure Diagnostics Agent before March 31st, 2026.
Oct 03
NOW AVAILABLE
As we continue to enhance your experience with Azure Monitor, we want to remind you about an important update of Log search alerts V2 non common scheme e-mail templates.
Oct 03
RETIREMENT
Azure Sphere (Legacy) service interfaces will be retired on September 27th, 2027 – plan your migration to Azure Sphere (Integrated).
Oct 03
IN PREVIEW
Take advantage of Azure Business Continuity (ABC) Center, a streamlined, centralized management center that simplifies backup and disaster recovery across various environments (Azure, Hybrid) and solutions (Azure Backup and Azure Site Recovery).
Oct 03
NOW AVAILABLE
Save an additional 15% discount on 1-year Azure Reserved Virtual Machine Instance rates for the latest Linux VMs. Offer valid from October 1, 2024, to March 31, 2025
Oct 03
IN PREVIEW
Announcing the preview of the new Azure Virtual Network Manager feature, enhancing your network management capability.
Oct 03
IN PREVIEW
The NVads V710 v5-series virtual machines are powered by AMD Radeon Pro V710 GPUs and AMD EPYC 9V64 (Genoa) CPUs, providing five VM sizes from 1/6 to a full V710 GPU with NVMe support for ephemeral local storage. These VMs are ideal for demanding GPU-accelerated graphics applications, cloud-based virtual desktops, high-quality gaming experiences, and small to medium AI/ML inference workloads
Oct 03
IN PREVIEW
The Azure NMads MA35D-Series virtual machines (VM) are now in public preview in the East US region, offering specialized hardware for optimized video transcoding workloads. This VM series provides higher throughput, lower latency, and access to modern codecs like AV1, making it an ideal choice for video transcoding on the cloud.
Oct 03
NOW AVAILABLE
Azure Backup for SAP HANA Database Delivers More Value at Lower TCO with Reduced Protected Instance Fees starting Sept 1st, 2024
Oct 03
RETIREMENT
Important Notice: Support for SQL Data Sync service will be retired on September 30th,2027.
Oct 03
RETIREMENT
Azure Orbital Ground Station (AOGS) will be retired on December 16th, 2024. This includes 1st party antenna support and 3rd party partner network scheduling capabilities.
Oct 03
RETIREMENT
Support for NCv3-series VM family will be retired for Azure Batch pools on September 30th, 2025.
Oct 03
RETIREMENT
This article contains important information about required actions related to the retirement of Azure Automation State Configuration on September 30, 2027.
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