Azure-updates

Public preview: Change partition key of a container in Azure Cosmos DB (NoSQL API)

Doelbeschikbaarheid: Q1 2024

The ability to change the partition key of a container in Azure Cosmos is now available in preview for NoSQL API.

• Azure Cosmos DB
• Features

Public Preview: Azure SQL Database Mirroring in Microsoft Fabric

Doelbeschikbaarheid: Q1 2024

Mirroring Azure SQL Database provides an easy experience to continuously replicate SQL DB data directly into Microsoft Fabric.

• Azure SQL Database
• Features

Azure Static Web Apps distributed functions capability now in Public Preview

Reduced latency by distributing managed functions to regions of high demand.

• Statische web-apps
• 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

Public Preview: Agentless multi-disk crash consistent backup by Azure Backup for VM

Azure VM backup now supports agentless multi-disk crash consistent backups in public preview.

• Azure Backup
• Compliance

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

Public preview: Public IP Domain Name Label Scope

Announcing the public preview for a new capability in Azure public IP address that can prevent DNS subdomain takeover while still allowing for re-use of DNS names.

• Azure DNS
• Features

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
• Compliance
• Features

Public preview: Kubernetes AI Toolchain Operator (KAITO) add-on for AKS

You can now choose from preset LLMs with images hosted by AKS and split inferencing across multiple lower-GPU count VMs

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Features

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

Public preview: Azure CNI static block IP allocation support in AKS

You can now scale beyond the current 65k Pod IPs and scale up to 1 Million Pods.

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Features

Generally Available: Instance level Public IP tags in AKS

You can now utilize Azure routing preference for your cluster, public node IPs in AKS

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Security
• 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

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

Public Preview: JVM memory fit in Azure Container Apps

Java apps are now attuned to the container environment and primed for better performance and reliability by default.

• Azure Container Apps
• Features

Public Preview: Managed Java components in Azure Container Apps

You can now leverage managed Java components in Azure Container apps for service registry and externalized application properties.

• Azure Container Apps
• Features

Public Preview: Tomcat support in Azure Container Apps

You can now deploy a Java application using a WAR file to Azure Container Apps.

• Azure Container Apps
• Features