Azure-updates

Support of Azure Notification Hubs’ Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) legacy API will be deprecated by July 2024.

Streefdatum afschaffing: maart 31, 2027

Azure Notification Hubs support for GCM/FCM legacy will be retired on 1 July 2024.

• Retirements

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

App Service Environment version 1 and version 2 will be retired on 31 August 2024

Streefdatum afschaffing: augustus 31, 2024

Migrate to App Service Environment v3 by 31 August 2024.

• App Service
• Retirements

Cloud Services (classic) deployment model is retiring on 31 August 2024

Streefdatum afschaffing: augustus 31, 2024

Cloud Services (classic) retiring in August 2024.

• Cloud Services
• Retirements

Five Azure classic networking services will be retired on 31 August 2024

Streefdatum afschaffing: augustus 31, 2024

Classic Networking Services retiring in August 2024.

• Virtual Network
• Retirements

Generally available: Bulk delete operation for the FHIR service in Azure Health Data Services

The bulk delete operation allows deletion of FHIR resources across different levels, enabling healthcare organizations to comply with data retention policies while providing asynchronous processing capabilities.

• Services

Public Preview – DR for Shared Disks – Azure Site Recovery

Doelbeschikbaarheid: Q2 2024

Now you can use the benefits of Shared Disk for your mission-critical applications such as SQL FCI, SAP ASCS, Scale-out File Servers, etc., while ensuring business continuity and disaster recovery with Azure Site Recovery.

• Services
• Compliance
• Management
• Features

Azure Data Box Disk is now available with hardware encryption

Doelbeschikbaarheid: Q2 2024

Azure Data Box Disk is now Generally Available with hardware encryption.

• Opslagverkenner
• Data Box
• Data Box Disk
• Azure Data Box
• Features

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
• Services
• Regions & Datacenters

Azure Machine Learning data collector is now generally available

Doelbeschikbaarheid: Q2 2024

Azure Machine Learning data collector provides real-time logging of input and output data from models that are deployed to managed online endpoints or Kubernetes online endpoints. This data can be seamlessly used for model monitoring, debugging, or auditing, thereby providing observability into the performance of your deployed models.

• Azure Machine Learning
• Machine Learning
• Services

GA: Azure Monitor log search alerts support managed identities

A common challenge for developers is the management of credentials for applications to use when connecting to resources. Managed identities provide an automatically managed identity in Microsoft Entra ID. Applications can use managed identities to obtain Microsoft Entra tokens without having to manage any credentials.

• Waarschuwingen
• Features

Using Azure Virtual Network Manager network groups in security admin rules is now in public preview

Using your Azure Virtual Network Manager network groups in the source and/or destination of security admin rules is now in public preview, enabling users to achieve network isolation across different environments and manage network segments more easily at scale.

• Azure Virtual Network Manager
• Services
• Security
• Management
• Features

Action recommended: Prepare for model version retirement in Azure OpenAI

Action recommended: Prepare for model version retirement in Azure OpenAI

• Services
• Retirements

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: 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
• Services
• Regions & Datacenters
• Features

Announcing Public Preview of Query editor in Azure Monitor Metrics

Public Preview of Query editor in Azure Monitor Metrics is now Available! Get started with Query editor to access advanced querying capabilities within Azure Monitor Metrics. With the Query Editor's seamless integration of the widely adopted Prometheus Query Language (PromQL), customers can unlock advanced querying capabilities within their Azure Monitor Workspace. With PromQL, you can now efficiently analyze Prometheus metrics, identify trends, troubleshoot issues, and optimize resource utilization for better performance and reliability.

• Azure Monitor
• Metrische gegevens
• Beheerd Prometheus
• Features

Generally available: Azure Site Recovery update rollup 73 - April 2024

This article describes the improvements for the latest version of Azure Site Recovery components. 

• Features

Azure Event Grid support for last will & testament (LWT) capabilities now in Public Preview

Ensures predictable and reliable flow of communication among MQTT clients during unexpected disconnections.

• Event Grid
• 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