Azure-updates

Support for Connector for AWS in Cost Management is ending on 31 March 2025

Streefdatum afschaffing: april 01, 2025

The Connector for AWS in the Cost Management service will be retired on 31 March 2025. By that date, please consider alternative cost management reporting for AWS available in the market.

• Microsoft Cost Management
• Retirements

Public preview: Database watcher for Azure SQL

Doelbeschikbaarheid: Q1 2024

Enable in-depth, managed monitoring of Azure SQL databases, elastic pools, and managed instances.

• Azure Data Explorer
• Azure SQL
• Features

Operator and CRD support with Azure Managed Prometheus

Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus will support CRD-based configs for scrape jobs to collect metrics from workloads running in your AKS cluster. With this new update, customers can use custom resources (service monitor and pod monitor) to configure metric collection with Managed Prometheus.

• Azure Monitor
• Beheerd Prometheus
• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Features

Billing for Azure Monitor stateful log search alerts

Starting from May 1, 2024, you will be charged for stateful log alerts in Azure Monitor.

• Services
• Features
• Compliance

Generally Available: Cost analysis add-on for AKS

You can now better understand the infra costs associated with running applications at the namespace and cluster levels and identify opportunities to optimize resource utilization through an Azure native experience.

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Features

Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus is available in 13 additional Azure regions

Azure Managed Prometheus was announced GA in May 2023 and was available in 26 regions, with this new update Azure Managed Prometheus will be available in 13 additional regions.

• Beheerd Prometheus
• Azure Monitor
• Regions & Datacenters

You can now opt in automatically renew your reservation at time of purchase.

You can now opt in automatically renew your reservation at time of purchase, which provides an easy way to continue getting reservation discounts.

• Features

Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus now supports TLS & mTLS based scraping

Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus now supports TLS & mTLS based scraping for Prometheus instance served with TLS. To enable TLS and mTLS based scraping, you can configure the TLS settings in the ConfigMap.

• Beheerd Prometheus
• Azure Monitor
• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Features

Public Preview: Azure Storage Actions — Serverless storage data management

Azure Storage Actions is a fully managed platform that helps you automate data management tasks for Azure Blob Storage and Azure Data Lake Storage.

• Opslagaccounts
• Dynamische/statische/koude Blob Storage-lagen
• Azure Data Lake Storage
• Premium Blob Storage
• Management
• Features

Execute Azure Monitor Logs connector on exact time range provided dynamically (preview)

Azure Monitor Logs connector lets you query data in your Log Analytics workspace or Application Insights components per Logic App trigger or schedule, and list or visualize results. The Time range…

• Log Analytics
• Application Insights
• Azure Monitor
• Features

Azure Elastic SAN is now generally available

Azure Elastic SAN is now generally available, the industry’s first fully managed and cloud-native SAN offering that simplifies deploying, scaling, managing, and configuring a SAN in the cloud.

• Azure Elastic SAN
• Opslagaccounts
• Azure Disk Storage
• Regions & Datacenters
• Services
• Features

Public preview: AKS cluster control plane metrics in managed Prometheus

You can now monitor the health, load and performance of the API server and etcd in the control plane of your AKS clusters

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Azure Monitor
• Features

Support for log alert rules that use cross-workspace queries with resource names or qualified name identifiers will be retired on 31 May 2024

Streefdatum afschaffing: mei 31, 2024

As of May 31, 2024, log alert rules will no longer support cross-workspace queries that use resource names or qualified name identifiers.

• Waarschuwingen
• Services
• Features
• Compliance
• Retirements

Azure Virtual Network Manager security admin rule generally available in 30 regions

Azure Virtual Network Manager's security admin rule configuration is now generally available in 30 regions, empowering users to enforce security rules across their virtual networks globally.

• Azure Virtual Network Manager
• Security
• Regions & Datacenters
• Services
• Features

Generally Available: Azure Stack HCI latest feature release

Doelbeschikbaarheid: Q1 2024

Azure Stack HCI is the Microsoft Azure Arc-enabled infrastructure. Now, customers who have an Azure Stack HCI subscription can download the latest feature release for their infrastructure. This new Azure Stack HCI release is the version of the product required to run Azure Virtual Desktop on- prem which is also now in GA and called Azure Virtual Desktop for Azure Stack HCI. This is an exciting development as the public preview of this product is in high demand specifically in Healthcare and Financial Services. 

• Azure Virtual Desktop
• Services
• Features
• Operating System

Generally Available: Continuous model monitoring in Azure Machine Learning

Doelbeschikbaarheid: Q1 2024

Azure Machine Learning model monitoring is now generally available.

• Azure Machine Learning
• Features

General availability: PgAudit in Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL

Doelbeschikbaarheid: Q1 2024

Database session and object audit logging of database activities in Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL.

• Azure Cosmos DB
• Features