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Azure Spring Apps Feature Update Q1 2024: Save up to 47% with Azure savings plan
Announcing the exciting feature updates for Azure Spring Apps in Q1 2024. Save up to 47% with Azure Savings plan.
March 2024
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.
January 2024
Azure Spring Apps Feature Update Q4 2024: Spring Cloud Gateway supports a response cache and more
Recent updates to the Enterprise plan include improved response caching in Spring Cloud Gateway, a more secure try-out option in API Portal, and enhanced application-level settings in Service Connector. Additionally, there's richer build history information to help with troubleshooting. For both Enterprise and Basic/Standard plans, Azure Spring Apps now offer scheduled maintenance for updates and an auto-sync feature for certificates, making application management more efficient and secure.
Azure Spring Apps Enterprise is now eligible for Azure savings plan for compute
Target availability: Q1 2023
Enjoy up to 47% savings when you commit to Azure savings plan for Azure Spring Apps Enterprise.
July 2022
Public preview: Azure Spring Apps feature updates
New Azure Spring Apps updates and features for basic/standard and enterprise tiers are in preview.
February 2022
Public preview: Azure Spring Cloud Enterprise
Azure Spring Cloud Enterprise includes fully managed VMware Tanzu components to help you ship faster as well as long term support for Spring projects to unlock Spring’s full potential.
Public preview: Elastic and Azure Spring Cloud integration
Monitor every step of your cloud journey with the integration of Azure Spring Cloud logs and metrics into Elastic and instrument Spring Boot applications.
November 2021
Public preview: Monitor Spring Boot apps in Azure Spring Cloud with AppDynamics
With the integration of AppDynamics in Azure Spring Cloud, developers can keep using a popular and familiar application performance monitoring (APM) tool to monitor Spring Boot applications.
Public preview: Azure Spring Cloud start and stop, bring your own persistent storage, and Service Connector
Azure Spring Cloud now lets you start and stop your applications to reduce costs, bring your own persistent storage for logs and dumps, and connect your apps with Azure services more easily using Service Connector.
General availability: Version updates for Azure App Configuration libraries
Push refresh and feature management among new capabilities for Java Spring Boot applications.
October 2021
Public preview: Azure Spring Cloud RBAC config server and registry access and Nginx logs and metrics
Spring Cloud Config Server and Service Registry access using Azure Active Directory and Nginx ingress logs and metrics are now available in preview in Azure Spring Cloud.
General availability: Azure Spring Cloud application health monitoring and end-to-end TLS/SSL
Application lifecycle and health monitoring with Azure Activity log and Azure Service Health, and end-to-end TLS/SSL are now generally available in Azure Spring Cloud.
General availability: Azure Monitor application insights in Azure Spring Cloud
Azure is making it easier to observe Java Spring Boot workloads running on Azure Spring Cloud with application insights.
September 2021
Private preview: Azure Spring Cloud Enterprise
Azure Spring Cloud Enterprise (preview) is a new managed service for Spring Boot that is optimized for the needs of enterprise developers running applications at scale.
Public preview: Monitor Spring Boot applications end-to-end using Dynatrace
Dynatrace OneAgent performance monitoring is now integrated in Azure Spring Cloud in collaboration with Dynatrace for end-to-end observability of Spring Boot applications.
July 2021
General availability: Azure Spring Cloud Pricing Model Change
Upcoming changes to base units in Azure Spring Cloud Basic and Standard will result in lower costs for many customers.
Public preview: Azure Spring Cloud New Relic One integration and additional feature updates
Azure Spring Cloud now supports New Relic One for performance monitoring (in preview), reduced minimum app instance sizes, automated app deployments with Terraform and Azure Pipelines, and Azure Virtual Network in Azure China.
March 2021
Azure Spring Cloud: General availability of Managed Virtual Network and Autoscale
Two related features: Managed Virtual Network and Autoscale for Azure Spring Cloud are now generally available.
February 2021
General availability support for Java Message Service (JMS) 2.0 API on Azure Service Bus Premium
Use existing applications that leverage JMS 2.0 API to talk to Service Bus without any code changes. Only configuration changes are required.
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.
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