Updates Archives
Monthly updates for August 2023
Generally Available: Azure Monitor VM Insights using Azure Monitor Agent
VM Insights using Azure Monitor Agent provides various benefits like cost savings, simplified management experience and enhanced security & performance.
Azure Firewall Single-Click Upgrade and Downgrade is now in general availability
This feature allows you to upgrade your firewall without service downtime, with a single click of a button.
Azure Firewall: Poland Central Region is now in general availability
Azure Firewall is now generally available in the Poland Central region.
Azure Firewall: Explicit Proxy is now in public preview
This configuration allows traffic from the sending application to be directed to the private IP address of the firewall, facilitating direct egress from the firewall without the need for a UDR.
Azure Firewall: Auto-Learn SNAT routes feature is now in public preview
Azure Firewall can now learn address ranges and automatically configure them to be excluded from SNAT, to reduce time and complexity spent manually defining SNAT private ranges.
Generally Available: Trusted launch as default for VMs deployed through the Azure portal
Trusted launch is now enabled by default for VMS deployed through the Azure portal, enhancing the foundational security of these VMs.
Public preview: Azure Functions .NET 8 support in Linux plans
Target availability: Q3 2023
Azure Functions now supports .NET 8 preview 7, using the isolated worker model.
Public Preview: Azure Container Apps supports environment level mTLS encryption
Target availability: Q3 2023
You can now encrypt traffic transmitted between applications within an environment using mTLS.
Generally available: Azure Container Apps jobs
Target availability: Q3 2023
You can now run production workloads that perform a task for a finite duration and exit, and schedule these workloads or run them in response to events.
Public preview: Azure Container Apps supports additional TCP ports
Target availability: Q3 2023
You can now run applications that accept TCP connections on multiple ports.
Generally Available: Azure Container Apps support for UDR, NAT Gateway, and smaller subnets
Target availability: Q3 2023
You can now define UDRs to manage how outbound traffic is routed for your container app environment’s subnet.
Public preview: Azure Functions .NET worker cold start improvements
Target availability: Q3 2023
Major cold start improvements are available to .NET apps on the Azure Functions isolated worker model through a preview configuration.
Generally available: Azure Container Apps dedicated plan
Target availability: Q3 2023
You can now run your apps on dedicated workload profiles that offer more CPU and memory if needed.
Generally Available: ASP.NET Core integration in Azure Functions
Target availability: Q3 2023
Azure Functions now supports using ASP.NET types such as HttpRequest, HttpResponse, and IActionResult from .NET isolated function projects.
Generally Available: Auto-upgrade scheduled maintenance for AKS
Target availability: Q3 2023
You can now have dedicated maintenance for weekly AKS releases, auto upgrades and Node OS patching.
General availability: Azure SQL updates for late-August 2023
Target availability: Q3 2023
General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in late-August 2023.
Generally available: Latest PostgreSQL minor versions supported by Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server
Target availability: Q3 2023
Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server now supports minor versions 15.3, 14.8, 13.11, 12.15, 11.20.
Public Preview: Universal geo restore on Azure Database for MySQL- Flexible Server
Target availability: Q3 2023
Restore Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server to any Azure supported region.
Public Preview – Azure Portal experience for Azure Database Migration Service
Target availability: Q3 2023
The new Azure Portal experience for Azure Database Migration Service (DMS) allows you to perform seamless migrations from SQL Server on-premises to Azure SQL targets using DMS.
Generally available: Azure Site Recovery Higher Churn Support
Azure Site Recovery High Churn Support
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