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General Availability - Snapshots feature of Azure App Configuration
Assure stable production configuration, get efficient rollbacks, and a comprehensive configuration audit trail for enhanced reliability in Azure.
November 2023
General Availability of Azure App Configuration Kubernetes Provider
Azure App Configuration Kubernetes Provider lets you centrally configure the applications running in Kubernetes clusters. The latest version offers workload identity authentication in the provider and dynamic refresh of the configuration data.
August 2023
Azure App Configuration - public preview release of snapshots feature
Key-value pairs from App Config store ensure controlled deployments.
April 2023
General Availability: App Configuration geo-replication
Replicate your application configuration data across supported regions to create redundancy, reduce latency, and distribute request load.
August 2022
Public preview: App Configuration references for App Service and Azure Functions
App Service and Azure Functions now support referencing key-values from Azure App Configuration.
Public preview: Azure Storage Explorer support for Azure App Configuration resources
Work with your App Configuration resources in Storage Explorer on Windows, macOS, and Linux.
Public preview: App Configuration geo replication support
Standard tier subscribers can synchronize any updates from the configuration store to replicas in other Azure regions.
March 2022
Public preview: Azure App Configuration soft delete capability
Soft deletion, recovery, and purge protection capabilities in standard tier.
Public preview: Protect Azure Static Web Apps environments with a password
You can now protect your Static Web Apps with a password.
November 2021
General availability: Version updates for Azure App Configuration libraries
Push refresh and feature management among new capabilities for Java Spring Boot applications.
September 2021
General availability: Azure App Configuration now offers increased hourly request limit
The limit has increased to 30,000 requests per hour in the Standard tier
December 2020
App Configuration is now generally available in China and US Government clouds
Customers can now store configuration in these government clouds, leading to better performance and less latency when making configuration requests.
November 2020
Azure achieves Service Organization Controls compliance for 14 additional services
Azure gives you some of the industry’s broadest certifications for the critical SOC 1, 2, and 3 compliance offering, which is widely used around the world.
September 2020
Improvements to Azure Monitor Metric Alerts
Several new features and improvements in Azure metric alerts are now available.
March 2020
Azure SDKs General Availability - March 2020
Additional libraries for working with Azure services are now generally available.
February 2020
Azure App Configuration is now generally available
Azure App Configuration is a managed service that helps developers centralize their application configuration and feature settings simply and securely.
May 2019
Azure App Configuration is now available in preview
Azure App Configuration provides a service to centrally manage application settings and helps secure their accesses. In addition, it helps developers to ship code faster by being able to easily “flight” their features in production using feature flags.
Application Change Analysis for Azure Monitor is now in public preview
Change Analysis public preview with integration into App Services Diagnose and solve problems tool.
Azure App Configuration is now in preview
App Configuration is a new Azure service that enables fast, scalable parameter storage for all your app configurations.
September 2018
Public preview: Undelete for App Service
The undelete feature in Azure App Service is now in public preview.
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