Azure-updates

Azure Machine Learning - General Availability for April 2024

Three features now available in GA enable you to seamlessly log inference data to a central location, set up event-driven applications, processes, or workflows based on Azure Machine Learning events, and utilize lifecycle management of features from creation through archival.

• Azure Machine Learning
• Features

General availability: Extensible key management using Azure Key Vault for SQL Server on Linux

Doelbeschikbaarheid: Q2 2024

Extensible key management (EKM) using Azure Key Vault in SQL Server on Linux is now generally available from SQL Server 2022 CU12 onwards.

• SQL Server op Azure Virtual Machines
• Features

Public Preview: Azure Backup enables vaulted backups for Azure Files for comprehensive data protection.

Doelbeschikbaarheid: Q1 2024

Azure Backup now supports transferring Azure Files backups to the vault for comprehensive protection against severe data loss scenarios like ransomware attack.

• Security
• Features

Support for Basic and Standard A-series VM families support will be retired on 31 August 2024 for Batch pools

Streefdatum afschaffing: september 01, 2024

End of life for Basic and Standard A-series VM families support in Batch pools on 31 August 2024

• Batch
• Retirements

General Availability: Azure Files geo-redundancy for standard large file shares

Doelbeschikbaarheid: Q1 2024

Azure Files geo-redundancy for 100TiB standard SMB file shares is now generally available.

• Azure Files
• Opslagaccounts
• Features

Preview: New Features in Azure Container Storage

Azure Container Storage is a fully managed volume orchestration service built natively for containers. New capabilities include support for Temp SSD, simplified installation via AKS CLI, and scalable storage for cost-efficient workload management.

• Azure Container Storage
• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Features

Basic and Standard A-series VMs on HDInsight will retire on 31 August 2024

Streefdatum afschaffing: augustus 31, 2024

On 31 August 2024, Azure will retire Basic and Standard A-series VMs as announced earlier on 24 August 2021. Before 31 August 2024, you need to migrate your HDInsight A series VMs to Av2-series VMs, which provide more memory per vCPU and faster storage on solid-state drives (SSDs). To avoid service disruptions, migrate your workloads from Basic and Standard A-series VMs to Av2-series VMs before 31 August 2024.

• HDInsight
• Retirements

Private Preview: Force detach zone redundant disks during zone outage

Force detach zone redundant disks during zone outage and take advantage of ZRS ability to achieve an RPO of 0.

• Managed Disks
• Azure Disk Storage
• Virtuele machines
• Windows Virtual Machines
• Linux Virtual Machines
• Features

Public Preview: Next generation of general purpose service tier for Azure SQL Managed Instance

Doelbeschikbaarheid: Q1 2024

The next generation of general purpose service tier brings improved performance, 32 TB storage and higher database density.

• Azure SQL Managed Instance
• Azure SQL
• Features

Generally available: Azure Health Data Services DICOM service with Azure Data Lake Storage

With the integration of Azure Data Lake Storage and the DICOM service, organizations can now enjoy full control over their imaging data and increased flexibility for accessing and working with that data through the Azure storage ecosystem and APIs.

• Azure Health Data Services
• Services

Public preview: Azure Modeling and Simulation Workbench

Azure Modeling and Simulation Workbench is a new service that provides a fully managed work environment for engineering development, accelerating project startup, and enabling secure collaboration between development teams.

• Virtuele machines
• Premium Blob Storage
• Azure Modeling en simulatie Workbench
• Azure NetApp Files
• Services
• Pricing & Offerings

Generally available: Azure Blob Storage Cold Tier in Poland Central, Qatar Central and Azure China

Azure Blob Storage Cold Tier in generally available in Poland Central, Qatar Central and Azure China.

• Opslagaccounts
• Azure Blob Storage
• Dynamische/statische/koude Blob Storage-lagen
• Features

General Availability: App Service Backup and Restore over Azure Virtual Network

Customers can now use custom backups, to back up their web app's files and configuration data to a firewall-protected storage account.

• Features

Generally available: Service Level Agreements on Azure Blob Storage Cold Tier

Azure Blob Storage Cold Tier has published Service Level Agreements.

• Opslagaccounts
• Dynamische/statische/koude Blob Storage-lagen
• Azure Blob Storage
• Features

Public preview: New Generation AMD VMs - Dasv6/Easv6/Fasv6

Doelbeschikbaarheid: Q1 2024

Azure introduces the latest AMD-based VMs in public preview for the D, E, and F series VMs, built on the 4th Generation AMD EPYC™ (Genoa) CPU.

• Pricing & Offerings

General availability: Azure SDKs support for Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL

Doelbeschikbaarheid: Q1 2024

Now you can use Azure SDKs including .NET SDK, Go SDK, Java SDK, JavaScript SDK, and Python SDK to manage the lifecycle of Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL clusters.

• Azure Cosmos DB
• Features

General availability: Azure CLI support for Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL

Doelbeschikbaarheid: Q1 2024

You can now use Azure CLI to manage the whole lifecycle of Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL clusters from provisioning to scaling to configuration changes and starting/stopping cluster compute.

• Azure Cosmos DB
• Features