Compute

You can now use PostgreSQL 17 on Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server. With this release, you gain access to the latest PostgreSQL features along with the ability to perform…

Beginning on September 30, 2025, Azure AI Speaker Recognition will be retired, and your applications will no longer be able to access its APIs.To continue providing speaker verification and/or speaker…

In September 2022, we announced the upcoming retirement of SAP HANA Large Instance (Gen4 and Gen4.5) products on Azure, initially scheduled for 30 June 2025. Based on your valuable feedback…

After September 30, 2025, new virtual networks will default to requiring explicit outbound connectivity methods instead of having a fallback to default outbound access connectivity.  All virtual machines that require public endpoint…

Community support for Azure CycleCloud BeeGFS filesystem cluster type is ending on 30 September 2024

Community support for Automatic configuration of LVM for Azure CycleCloud volume mounts is ending on 30 September 2024

Migrate to App Service Environment v3 by 31 August 2024.

Use Vertical Pod Autoscaling add-on for AKS to improve cost-efficiency, and cluster utilization for your workloads

You can now automate the removal of all the unused, vulnerable images from your AKS nodes.

It is now easier and faster to query your logs.

Take advantage of the latest features in Kubernetes version 1.28 with AKS.

You can have a flexible and customized strategy for node-level OS security updates.

Transition your ingresses to Web Application routing add-on before 3/3/2025 to avoid service disruptions.

We are adding the “Selective Disk Backup and Restore” capability in Enhanced Policy of Azure VM Backup.

Starting with version 6.0.0 of the Azure Functions Event Hubs extension, a higher default value of 100 will be used for max batch size

You can now use Azure Key Vault to securely store and retrieve Azure Storage account access key when mounting it as a local share in App Service. Azure Key Vault has the…

This release includes quality improvements.

Azure Container Storage (in preview) offers volume management built natively for containers. With the latest updates you can now deploy in 26 regions, use volume resize & cloning and choose…

VM Insights using Azure Monitor Agent provides various benefits like cost savings, simplified management experience and enhanced security & performance.

Trusted launch is now enabled by default for VMS deployed through the Azure portal, enhancing the foundational security of these VMs.

Azure Functions now supports .NET 8 preview 7, using the isolated worker model.

You can now define UDRs to manage how outbound traffic is routed for your container app environment’s subnet.

Major cold start improvements are available to .NET apps on the Azure Functions isolated worker model through a preview configuration.

You can now run your apps on dedicated workload profiles that offer more CPU and memory if needed.

Azure Functions now supports using ASP.NET types such as HttpRequest, HttpResponse, and IActionResult from .NET isolated function projects.

You can now have dedicated maintenance for weekly AKS releases, auto upgrades and Node OS patching.

Migrate to Kubernetes 1.25 or higher in AKS.

If you're using Azure Resource Manager API version 2022-06-01-preview or 2022-11-01-preview to manage Azure Container Apps, please update your API requests to use version 2023-04-01-preview or later.

Azure Functions now supports binding to types from the Azure SDK, providing a richer development experience.

.NET function apps using the isolated worker model can now better control how telemetry is emitted to Application Insights.

You can now take advantage of Kubernetes release 1.27 enhancements in production.

You can now develop durable functions in Azure Functions using the Python v2 programming model

You can now use Azure Key Vault references to access your secrets in Azure Container Apps.

You can now directly create a Private Link Service (PLS) for Kubernetes services via annotations in the service manifest file.

Azure Container Apps now supports sticky sessions.

You can now mount secrets as volumes in Azure Container Apps.

You can now use init containers with Azure Container Apps in production.

Get improved performance and higher reliability for your memory-optimized workloads with the public preview of the new generation Mv3 Medium Memory (MM) Virtual Machines.

Azure NetApp Files datastores now supports Cloud Backup for Virtual Machines in preview

Facilitates communication and drives engagement without requiring 3rd party plugins

Azure Red Hat OpenShift is now DoD IL4 certified, allows you to deploy infrastructure nodes without an OpenShift subscription fee, and provides increased security by allowing private clusters without public…

You can now use your own keys to encrypt your ephemeral OS disks.

You can now get complete observability into the network health and connectivity of your AKS cluster.

Take advantage of Python 3.11 features with Azure Functions

You can now receive and programmatically handle AKS generated upgrade events in Event Grid

For Azure partners and customers seeking to develop business continuity and disaster recovery solutions, crash-consistent VM restore points serve as feature-rich building blocks, offering an agentless solution available natively on…

Microsoft Dev Box is generally available now. Dev Box is a virtualized solution that empowers developers to quickly spin up self-service workstations preconfigured for their tasks while maintaining centralized management…

This release includes bug fixes and quality improvements.

This release includes bug fixes and quality improvements.

Enable network observability add-on on AKS clusters to gain insights into how your cluster operate and to identify potential problems before they cause outages or performance degradation.