General availability: Ephemeral OS disks supports encryption at host using customer managed keys
Create Ephemeral VMs with customer managed key encryption types for encryption at host.
GA: Spot Priority Mix
Deploy a Virtual Machine Scale Set with both Spot and standard virtual machines using flexible orchestration mode.
Disclosure: In-tree disk and file drivers will no longer be supported starting in Kubernetes v1.26
Migrate your existing in-tree disk and file volumes to CSI drivers using provided guidance.
Public preview: Confidential containers on ACI
ACI now lets you run containers in a trusted execution environment (TEE)
GA: Online live resize of persistent volumes
Scale up persistent volumes without taking the application offline.
Public preview: Pod sandboxing in AKS
AKS now allows you to isolate workloads at the kernel level.
Public preview: Caching in ACR
You can now use caching in ACR to achieve faster and more reliable pull operations.
Public preview: AKS NodeOSUpgrade channel
You now have more flexible options for managing your upgrades.
Generally Available: Azure Red Hat OpenShift in Qatar Central
Azure Red Hat OpenShift is now available in Qatar Central region.
Generally Available: Larger SKUs for App Service Environment v3
Using the new larger Isolated v2 SKUs, you can now run larger and more complex workloads.
Public preview: Azure Managed Lustre
Accelerate HPC and AI workloads with a managed parallel file system
Public preview: New General-Purpose VMs – Dlsv5 and Dldsv5
The Dlsv5 and Dldsv5 VM series provide 2GiBs per vCPU and can offer lower price points within the general-purpose Azure Virtual Machines portfolio.
Generally Available: Azure Functions Linux Elastic Premium plan increased maximum scale-out limits
Maximum scale-out limits for Functions Linux Premium plans have been increased in several regions.
Generally Available: Availability zones support for Azure Functions in new regions
You can now use Availability Zones with Azure Functions in Norway East, South Africa North, Switzerland North, and UAE North.
Generally Available: Durable Functions support for .NET isolated model
Durable Functions support for .NET 7.0 running in the isolated worker process is now generally available.
Public Preview: SDK type bindings
Azure Functions .NET isolated worker now supports blob triggers and input bindings.
Generally available: Azure Functions support for Python 3.10
You can now develop Python 3.10 apps locally and deploy them to all Azure Functions plans.
General availability: Automatic Backup for App Service Environment and Azure Functions Dedicated Hosting
General availability: Automatic Backup for App Service Environment and Azure Functions Dedicated Hosting
Generally available: New storage backend for Durable Functions — Microsoft Netherite & MSSQL
You can now use storage providers other than Azure Storage for Durable Functions.
General availability: Trusted launch for Azure VMs in Azure for US Government regions
Allows you to enable secure boot, vTPM, virtualization-based security, and Microsoft Defender for Cloud integration, providing additional layers of defense against sophisticated threats.
General availability: Mount Azure Storage as a local share in App Service Windows Code
Mounting Azure Storage File share as a network share in Windows code (non-container) in App Service is now generally available.
Public Preview: Azure App Health Extension – Rich Health States
Application Health Extension, Rich Health States allows for more detailed health reporting on your VM applications.
Generally Available: Azure Red Hat OpenShift in Brazil Southeast
Azure Red Hat OpenShift is now available in Brazil Southeast region.
Generally Available: Azure Functions support for Java 17
You can now use the latest LTS version of Java with Azure Functions.
Community support for Azure Functions Proxies will end on 30 September 2025
Transition to Azure API Management as soon as possible to avoid disruption to your Function applications using Proxies.
General availability: 12 months free services for new Azure PAYG customers
With an Azure free account, you can explore with free amounts of 55+ always free services.
Public preview: Azure SQL Trigger for Azure Functions
You can now build application logic in azure function apps which can be driven by the data from Azure SQL database.
Public preview: Durable Functions support for .NET 7.0 isolated model
You can use .NET 7.0 to write Durable Functions in the isolated worker model.
Public preview: Inbound IP restrictions support in Azure Container Apps
You can now restrict inbound traffic to your Azure Container Apps by IP without using a custom solution.
Public preview: GitHub action to build and deploy to Azure Container Apps
Azure Container Apps now supports, in public preview, a new GitHub action that builds and deploys container apps from GitHub Actions workflows.
Public preview: Azure Pipelines task to build and deploy to Azure Container Apps
You can now use a new Azure Pipelines task to build and deploy container apps from Azure DevOps.
Public preview: Build and deploy to Azure Container Apps without a Dockerfile from the Azure CLI
Azure Container Apps now supports building container images from source code without a Dockerfile.
Public preview: Azure HX series and HBv4 series virtual machines
Perfect for a range of HPC workloads, these new virtual machines series can give you a significant performance boost over our previous HB generation series.
Public preview: Go language support on Azure App Service
Go language support is available as an experimental language release on Linux App Service.
Generally Available: New versions supported for languages and frameworks in Azure App Service
We added support for Python 3.10, PHP 8.1 and Node 18.
Generally available Day 0 support for .NET 7.0 on App Service
Day 0 support for .NET 7.0 on App Service.
Public preview: Azure SQL trigger for Azure Functions
You can invoke an Azure Function when a row in a SQL database is created, updated, or deleted through the Azure SQL trigger for Azure Functions, now available in public preview.
General availability: Arm-based VMs now available in four additional Azure regions
The Azure Arm-based VMs are now available in four more regions.
Generally available: Azure NetApp Files datastores for Azure VMware Solution
Azure NetApp Files for datastores is now generally available in Azure VMware Solution.
Generally available: Functions now supports .NET 7 in an isolated worker process
Create applications with .NET 7 runtime to take advantage of serverless functions in Azure.
Generally available: New node sizing for Azure VMware Solution
Optimize workloads with new node sizes, AV52, and AV36P, now generally available in Azure VMware Solution.
General availability: Ephemeral OS disk support for confidential virtual machines
Create confidential VMs using Ephemeral OS disks for your stateless workloads.
Public preview: TCP support
Azure Container Apps now supports exposing container apps that use a TCP-based protocol other than HTTP or HTTPS.
Public preview: V2 programming model for Azure Functions using Python
Azure Functions V2 programming model for development in Python offers several enhancements.
Community support for Node 16 LTS is ending on 11 September 2023
Community support for Node 16 LTS is ending on 11 September 2023 – transition to Node 18 LTS by that date.
App Service Environment version 1 and version 2 will be retired on 31 August 2024
Migrate to App Service Environment version 3 by 31 August 2024.
Community support for PHP 8.0 is ending on 26 November 2023
Community support for PHP 8.0 is ending on 26 November 2023 – transition to PHP 8.1 by that date.
Continuous delivery setting of Azure VMSS will be retired on 31 March 2023 – Use Azure DevOps to create pipelines
Start using Azure Pipelines by 31 March 2023 instead of Azure Portal to create Continuous delivery pipelines for Azure Virtual Machine Scale Set
Cloud Services (classic) deployment model is retiring on 31 August 2024
Migrate your cloud services to a new deployment model before 31 August 2024.
General availability: Azure savings plan for compute
Today, we’re officially announcing the general availability for Azure savings plan for compute.