Compute

Azure Deployment Environments has entered public preview and helps dev teams create and manage all types of environments throughout the application lifecycle.

You can now include standard VMs and Spot VMs in the same Azure Virtual Machine Scale Set. New VM-series are now supported with Virtual Machine Scale Sets flexible orchestration mode.

Guest attestation enables verifying the trustworthiness (good state) of the trusted execution environment on which the guest VM is executing.

Get a notification 15 days ahead of planned automatic maintenance and start the maintenance when it is convenient for you.

Using the new Isolated v2 SKUs, you can now run larger and more complex workloads.

Day 0 support for .NET 7.0 on App Service.

Go language (v1.18 and v1.19) natively supported on Azure App Service.

Microsoft is announcing the public preview of stretched clusters for Azure VMware Solution, providing 99.99% uptime for customers mission critical applications.

Microsoft is announcing customer-managed keys for Azure VMware Solution. This new feature will support higher security for customers’ mission critical workloads.

Container Apps now provides support for using Dapr with Managed Identity.

Azure Container Apps now support using Azure Monitor to send your logs to additional destinations.

You can now use Dapr secrets APIs from your Azure Container Apps and leverage Dapr secret store component references when creating other components in the environment.

You can now use the new optional parameter "intent" to specify the VM sizes and zone intended for the proximity placement group.

Retirement Notice: Transition to Azure Key Vault before 29 February 2024.

PowerShell DSC Virtual Machine extension for Linux, and Azure Automation DSC support for Linux, will be retired on 30 September 2023

Retirement notice: Transition to Simplified compute node communication pools without public IP addresses by 31 March 2023

Retirement Notice: Transition to Azure Batch Spot VMs before 30 September 2025.

Retirement notice: Transition to CycleCloud 8 by 30 September 2023.

Retirement Notice: Stop using Batch Job/Pool Lifetime Statistics API by 30 April 2023.

Retirement notice: Transition to Azure Batch TLS 1.2 by 31 March 2023.

Build your Serverless Apps with Azure Functions in isolated worker model with .NET Framework 4.8.

Azure Functions now supports Java 17 in Public Preview

Automatic backup and restore is in preview for App Service Environment V2 and V3.

Utilize automatic backups or make on-demand custom backups in Azure App Service.

The Azure Red Hat OpenShift guide delivers resources that help design, deploy, and maintain well architected Azure Red Hat OpenShift platforms.

Start using Azure Pipelines by 31 March 2023 instead of Azure Portal to create Continuous delivery pipelines for Azure Virtual Machines.

You can now restore deleted artifacts from your Azure Container Registry.

gRPC support is enabled for Linux workloads across App Service. 

New general-purpose and memory-optimized Azure VMs, featuring Ampere Altra Arm-based processors, engineered to efficiently run scale-out, cloud-native workloads, are now available.

Use the Event Grid blob trigger in Azure Functions to handle events raised by a storage account.

App Service and Azure Functions now support referencing key-values from Azure App Configuration.

VMware Cloud Director Service on Azure VMware Solutions allows you to self-service provision and manage multiple virtual datacenters through multi-tenancy in your Azure VMware Solutions private clouds, reducing time and…

Create Ephemeral VMs with customer managed key encryption types for host-based encryption.

Public IP capability on Azure VMware Solution provides internet connectivity for Azure VMware Solution workloads. You can now use NSX-T manager as your security terminating point.

Azure VMware Solution has now expanded to Sweden Central. This is in addition to multiple regions across US, Europe, Australia, Japan, UK, Canada, Singapore, and Hong Kong.

vRealize Log Insights Cloud with Azure VMware Solution support is now generally available.

You can now use Dapr release 1.8 with Azure Container Apps.

Azure Red Hat OpenShift is now available in West Central US, Australia Central, and Sweden Central.

Self-service, high-performance workstations in the cloud that are preconfigured and ready-to-code for developers’ projects and tasks.

Improve performance, reliability, and scalability for Azure Lab Services with the latest update.

General availability: Azure App Service Environment v3 support for custom domain suffix

Announcing the .NET 7 support for Azure functions in isolated process in public preview for Linux Consumption Plan.

Pricing adjustment to bring value to our Azure customers in western US regions.

Azure Functions support for PowerShell 7.2 is now generally available.

Azure functions now support .NET 7 in an isolated process model to build serverless applications with Azure Functions v4.

For customers and Azure partners who are looking to build business continuity and disaster recovery solutions, VM restore points provide a feature rich building blocks available natively on Azure platform.

OVN-Kubernetes Container Network Interface (CNI) for Azure Red Hat OpenShift cluster is now in public preview.

Azure Functions now supports setting a retry policy for Azure Event Hubs and timer triggers.

You can now use jointly developed guidance from Red Hat and Microsoft to get JBoss EAP applications up and running quickly on Azure Red Hat OpenShift.

Create confidential VMs using Ephemeral OS disks for your stateless workloads.