Azure-updates

Azure Advisor will no longer display aggregated potential yearly savings beginning 30 September 2024

Streefdatum afschaffing: april 19, 2024

Learn how to continue calculating aggregated potential yearly savings.

• Azure Advisor
• Retirements

General availability: HBv4-series & HX-series VMs are now available in Sweden Central.

HBv4 virtual machines (VMs) are optimized for various HPC workloads such as computational fluid dynamics, finite element analysis, frontend and backend EDA, rendering, molecular dynamics, computational geoscience, weather simulation, and financial risk analysis. HX-series Virtual Machines (VMs) are optimized for large memory HPC workloads such as backend EDA, finite element analysis, computational geoscience, and big data analytics.

• Virtuele machines
• Regions & Datacenters
• Services

General availability: Azure Virtual Network encryption availability in all regions

Azure Virtual Network encryption is a feature of Azure Virtual Networks. Virtual network encryption allows you to seamlessly encrypt and decrypt traffic between Azure Virtual Machines.

• Virtual Network
• Regions & Datacenters
• Services
• Features

GA: New Property for Disks-LastOwnershipUpdateTime

Introducing LastOwnershipUpdateTime for Disks in Azure Portal, PowerShell, and CLI. It indicates the last state change time for the Disk, useful for tracking its current state and when it was last updated.

• Managed Disks
• Azure Disk Storage
• Features

Public preview: Backup and restore of virtual machines with private endpoint enabled disks

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.

• Azure Backup
• Security
• Management
• Features

Standard_NC6s_v3, Standard_NC12s_v3 and Standard_NC24s_v3 Azure virtual machines will be retired on September 30, 2025

Standard_NC6s_v3, Standard_NC12s_v3 and Standard_NC24s_v3 Azure virtual machines will be retired on September 30, 2025

• Retirements

GA: Improved throughput performance on Azure Disks’ Standard SSD

Azure Disks Standard SSD throughput limits are now 100 MB/s on disks sized 8191 GBs and lower.

• Azure Disk Storage
• Managed Disks
• Services
• Features

Public Preview: On-demand capacity reservations for Specialty SKUs

Doelbeschikbaarheid: Q2 2024

You can now reserve capacity with SLA for following Specialty VM sizes, Mv3 series, NC-series (v3 and newer), NV-series (v2 and newer), and Lsv2 series

• Pricing & Offerings

General Availability: Automatic Scaling for App Service Web Apps

Azure App Service is pleased to announce general availability of the "Automatic Scaling" feature.

• App Service
• App Service (Linux)
• Features

Support for Standard_M192idms_v2 will be retired on 31 March 2027

Streefdatum afschaffing: maart 14, 2027

Community support for Standard_M192idms_v2 is ending on 31 March 2027

• Features
• Retirements

Community support for Standard_M192ids_v2 is ending on 31 March 2027

Streefdatum afschaffing: maart 18, 2027

Support for Standard_M192ids_v2 will be retired on 31 March 2027

• Features
• Retirements

Community support for Standard_M192is_v2 is ending on 31 March 2027

Support for Standard_M192is_v2 will be retired on 31 March 2027.

• SDK and Tools
• Features
• Retirements

Community support for Standard_M192ims_v2 is ending on 31 March 2027

Streefdatum afschaffing: maart 19, 2027

Support for Standard_M192ims_v2 will be retired on 31 March 2027.

• SDK and Tools
• Features
• Retirements

Generally Available: Windows Gen 2 VM support in AKS

YOu can now use Gen 2 VM SKUs for Windows nodepools in AKS.

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Features

Public preview: Trusted launch support in AKS

Administrators can now deploy AKS nodes with verified and signed bootloaders, OS kernels, and drivers.

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Security
• Features

General availability: Azure Virtual Network encryption now in additional regions

Azure Virtual Network encryption is a feature of Azure Virtual Networks. Virtual network encryption allows you to seamlessly encrypt and decrypt traffic between Azure Virtual Machines. Now available in additional regions.

• Virtual Network
• Regions & Datacenters
• Services
• Features

Generally available: Support for Azure VMs using Ultra disks in Azure Backup

General availability for the support for Azure VMs using Ultra disks in Azure Backup.

• Azure Backup
• Management
• Features
• Compliance