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Monthly updates for August 2024

Aug 29

IN PREVIEW

We are excited to announce the public preview of managed linting support for API Analysis in Azure API Center. This feature offers robust linting capabilities to ensure your API definitions comply with organizational style rules, providing detailed reports and seamless integration for enhanced API quality.

Aug 29

NOW AVAILABLE

Unlock unprecedented scalability for your Kubernetes deployments. Azure Red Hat OpenShift now supports clusters with up to 250 nodes, empowering enterprises to run larger workloads with enhanced performance.

Aug 29

RETIREMENT

This article contains important information about required actions and post-retirement activities related to the retirement of Azure API Management stv1 on August 31, 2024.

Aug 29

RETIREMENT

This article contains important information about required actions and post-retirement activities related to the retirement of Azure Logic Apps Integration Service Environment (ISE) on August 31, 2024.

Aug 29

RETIREMENT

Azure HDInsight on AKS is nearing retirement.

Aug 29

NOW AVAILABLE

Take advantage of larger and more powerful options for your Redis workloads.

Aug 29

RETIREMENT

Remove any outstanding dependencies on TLS 1.0 and 1.1 before October 31, 2024

Aug 29

RETIREMENT

Migrate from Azure Monitor experience (preview) in Azure HDInsight to Azure Monitor Agent (AMA) before January 31, 2025

Aug 22

IN PREVIEW

Increase your security posture and generate a non-intrusive mitigation when a request matches a WAF bot rule or custom rule using Azure WAF JS challenge.

Aug 22

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure NetApp Files storage with cool access is now generally available with support for all service levels.

Aug 22

NOW AVAILABLE

Workspaces in Azure API Management, now generally available, enable organizations to manage APIs more productively, securely, and reliably by isolating API runtime and administrative access for teams.

Aug 22

IN PREVIEW

You can now specify multiple different VM sizes and an allocation strategy in Virtual Machine Scale Sets with flexible orchestration mode.

Aug 22

NOW AVAILABLE

The ability to attach and detach of Virtual Machines on Virtual Machine Scale Sets with a fault domain count of 1 is now generally available.

Aug 22

NOW AVAILABLE

Easily find the Azure Sphere catalog that a given device has been claimed to, and the device group to which it is currently assigned.

Aug 22

RETIREMENT

This article contains important information about required actions and post-retirement activities related to the retirement of Azure API Management stv1 on August 31, 2024.

Aug 22

RETIREMENT

This article contains important information about required actions and post-retirement activities related to the retirement of Azure Logic Apps Integration Service Environment (ISE) on August 31, 2024.

Aug 22

IN PREVIEW

Azure Storage is excited to announce customer managed planned failover is now available in public preview.

Aug 16

RETIREMENT

This article contains important information about required actions and post-retirement activities related to the retirement of Azure App Service Environment v1/v2 on 31 August 2024.

Aug 16

IN PREVIEW

Use private Azure Container Registry (ACR) with the extensibility model in Azure Deployment Environments for more secure, customizable deployments.

Aug 16

IN PREVIEW

Volume enhancement: Azure NetApp Files now supports 50 GiB minimum volume sizes.

Aug 16

NOW AVAILABLE

Resource specific tables provide a dedicated and optimized way to store and query logs for Application Gateway. The resource specific tables allow for better data manipulation and enhanced performance in terms of ingestion latency and query times.

Aug 16

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Backup now supports performing Cross-Region Restore of SQL and HANA backups from a vault which has Private Endpoints enabled.

Aug 16

RETIREMENT

Ensure that your client applications can support TLS 1.2 or TLS 1.3.

Aug 16

NOW AVAILABLE

Multiple encryption layers for increased data security.

Aug 16

IN PREVIEW

You can now enable or disable FIPS on an existing node pool in AKS.

Aug 16

IN PREVIEW

You now have greater control over your network traffic within your Kubernetes environment in AKS.

Aug 16

IN PREVIEW

You can now implement and manage dual-stack IPv4 and IPv6 network configurations on your Windows nodepools in AKS clusters.

Aug 16

NOW AVAILABLE

This AKS extension update for the Visual Studio Code includes several new features including deployment file generation, GitHub Actions, and more.

Aug 15

NOW AVAILABLE

Enable multifactor authentication to maintain access to admin portals.

Aug 16

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Chaos Studio now supports a new Network Isolation fault for virtual machines

Aug 16

RETIREMENT

Effective September 12th, 2024, disablement of jobs running on Azure Synapse Runtime for Apache Spark 3.2 will be executed.

Aug 16

IN PREVIEW

Using the new High Scale mode in Container Insights, customers can send up to 50K logs per second per node from their AKS clusters.

Aug 16

NOW AVAILABLE

Use Terraform to perform geo-restore for Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server.

Aug 16

NOW AVAILABLE

Disable access keys for Azure Cache for Redis authentication when using Microsoft Entra ID.

Aug 16

NOW AVAILABLE

Help ensure compliance and security with Azure Policy support for Azure PostgreSQL - Flexible Server.

Aug 16

NOW AVAILABLE

Discover enhanced navigation and data management with the latest Azure Cosmos DB Data Explorer update.

Aug 16

NOW AVAILABLE

General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in mid-August 2024.

Aug 16

NOW AVAILABLE

Use HSM-backed encryption keys to protect data at rest in Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server.

Aug 16

NOW AVAILABLE

Simplify your development process with Dev Container templates for Azure SQL Database.

Aug 08

IN PREVIEW

Customers now have the capability to operate latency-sensitive workloads in close proximity to end-users, all within a framework that supports data residency needs.

Aug 08

NOW AVAILABLE

Replicate Azure NetApp Files volumes from one availability zone to another in a fast and cost-effective way, protecting your data from unforeseeable zone failures

Aug 08

NOW AVAILABLE

Populate previously deployed, existing volumes with the logical availability zone information to enable failure domain protection for workloads in specific availability zones.

Aug 08

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus now supports Prometheus Operator model and Custom Resource Definitions for Service and Pod Monitors.

Aug 08

RETIREMENT

Effective August 29th, 2024, disablement of jobs running on Azure Synapse Runtime for Apache Spark 3.1 will be executed.

Aug 08

IN PREVIEW

Azure API Center Visual Studio Code extension is now adding a pre-release version allowing developers to get an early look at some of the upcoming features.

Aug 01

NOW AVAILABLE

Fine-tuning and inferencing with adapters is now supported on open-source Kubernetes AI Toolchain Operator (KAITO).

Aug 01

NOW AVAILABLE

You can now trigger a node image upgrade between one Linux SKU to another on an existing nodepool in AKS.

Aug 01

IN PREVIEW

Get the latest release in Windows Server and portability between container hosts and container images.

Aug 01

NOW AVAILABLE

App Configuration references are now available on App Service

Aug 01

IN PREVIEW

Customers can now transition existing volumes from platform-managed keys (PMK) to customer-managed keys (CMK) without data migration

Aug 01

IN PREVIEW

Empowering Azure developers and IT professionals to optimize the carbon footprint from cloud usage.

Aug 01

NOW AVAILABLE

Lifecycle management rules in Azure Blob Storage and Azure Data Lake Storage now provide more control over returning rehydrated objects back to archive tier with support for daysAfterLastTierChangeGreaterThan.

Aug 01

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Container Storage, industry’s first platform-managed container-native storage solution in the public cloud, is now generally available with full support for Ephemeral Disks (Local NVMe/Temp SSD) and Azure Disks.

Aug 01

NOW AVAILABLE

We are certifying IT Service Management Connector (ITSMC) on Washington version of ServiceNow.

Aug 01

RETIREMENT

Effective August 15th, 2024, disablement of jobs running on Azure Synapse Runtime for Apache Spark 2.4 will be executed.

Aug 01

NOW AVAILABLE

Support for .NET integration with Semantic Kernel in vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB.

Aug 01

IN PREVIEW

Configure long-term retention for CMK-enabled Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Servers.

Aug 01

NOW AVAILABLE

Enable storage autogrow for read replicas in Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server.

Aug 01

NOW AVAILABLE

Vaulted backup for Azure Blob Storage, now generally available, can help you comprehensively protect your data in Azure Blob Storage against data loss.

Aug 01

RETIREMENT

As we near the August 31, 2024, deadline, it has become imperative for you to complete your upgrade from Integration Service Environments (ISE) to Logic Apps Standard.

Aug 01

RETIREMENT

The August 31st deadline to upgrade from Azure API Management stv1 to stv2 is rapidly approaching. After this date, your stv1 platform will no longer receive the latest updates and additional features available in stv2.

Aug 01

IN PREVIEW

Azure API Management is announcing a new WordPress plugin to enable our customers to easily deploy a highly customizable developer portal on WordPress hosted on Azure App Service. Customers can now take advantage of site capabilities in WordPress to customize and add features to API Management developer portal including localization, collapsible and expandable menus, custom stylesheets, file downloads, and more.

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