Azure-updates

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: Azure NetApp Files support for 1 TiB capacity pools

Azure NetApp Files now supports smaller 1 TiB capacity pool sizes, lowered from 2 TiB, when used with volumes using standard network features.

• Azure NetApp Files
• Regions & Datacenters
• Pricing & Offerings
• 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

Public preview: Windows GPU support in AKS

You can now run GPU workloads, such as machine learning, video encoding, large simulations, and gaming, on Windows nodepools in AKS.

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• 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

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

Public preview: Change Actor

Change Actor allows you to see who initiated the change and with which client that change was made, for changes across all your tenants and subscriptions. 

• Azure Resource Graph
• Management
• Features

Sending a log search alert with cross tenant target resource will no longer be supported

As of March 15, 2024, this behavior will change and sending a log search alert with a cross tenant target resource (except for the lighthouse case) will no longer be supported. Alerts will not be sent to unauthorized target resources, and log search alert rules with an unauthorized target will be ignored. This will ensure that only authorized users can receive and investigate log search alerts.

• Waarschuwingen
• Features
• Compliance

General Availability: Trusted launch for Azure VMs in China regions

Azure China cloud regions now support Trusted Launch Virtual Machines to improve security posture of an Azure Virtual Machine.

• Security
• Regions & Datacenters
• Compliance
• Operating System

Announcing General Availability to migrate Virtual Network injected Azure Data Explorer Cluster to Private Endpoints

The migration of Azure Virtual Network injected Azure Data Explorer cluster to Private Endpoints in generally available now. The process is simple and can be done using the Azure portal, the ARM template, or any code which uses the ADX SDK.

• Azure Data Explorer
• Security
• 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 topology view now generally available

Visualize Azure Virtual Network Manager connectivity configurations with topology view.

• Azure Virtual Network Manager
• Services
• Management
• Features

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

Public preview: Azure SQL updates for late-January 2024

Doelbeschikbaarheid: Q1 2024

Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in late-January 2024.

• Azure SQL Database
• Features

Public preview: ExpressRoute guided portal experience for multi-site resiliency

With multi-site resiliency, you can configure your ExpressRoute circuits through more than a single peering location. This helps ensure that your’ private connection to Microsoft remains available even if one of the locations experiences an outage. The experience is targeted at helping you design a highly resilient ExpressRoute solution to connect their on-premises with Microsoft backbone and Azure Virtual Networks.

• ExpressRoute van Azure
• ExpressRoute-circuits
• ExpressRoute-gateways
• Services