General availability: Azure HX Virtual Machines for HPC
HX-series VMs for HPC are now generally available in the Azure East US region.
General availability: Azure HBv4 Virtual Machines for HPC
HBv4-series VMs for HPC are now generally available in the Azure East US region.
Azure VMware Solution now available in North Switzerland
We are excited to announce that Azure VMware Solution has gone live in North Switzerland and is now available to customers.
Azure Virtual Desktop Insights Powered by the Azure Monitor Agent
Public preview of Azure Virtual Desktop Insights Powered by Azure Monitor Agent feature in Azure Virtual Desktop
Public preview: Introducing NGads V620 Series VMs optimized for cloud gaming
VGads V620 series virtual machines (VMs), now in public preview in the East US2, Europe west, and West US3 regions, enable service providers to build differentiated cloud gaming experiences.
Public preview: Confidential Virtual Machines (VM) support in Azure Virtual Desktop
Users can now specify an AMD SEV-SNP based confidential VM for their Windows 11 Azure Virtual Desktop, allowing the execution of sensitive desktop workloads by protecting data in use.
Public Preview: App Service support for .NET 8
Early access feature of App Service enables support for .NET 8.
Public preview: Add-on and node image in AKS release tracker
More accurate information about specific add-ons and node images
Public preview: Custom Image Templates for Azure Virtual Desktop
New Azure Virtual Desktop feature for creating custom VM images now in public preview!
Public Preview: Azure Data Explorer bindings for Azure Functions
You can now interact with Azure Data Explorer in a low-code declarative fashion.
Generally Available: Azure VMware Solution Stretched Clusters with Customer-Managed Keys
Stretched clusters for Azure VMware Solution (AVS) is now Generally Available, providing 99.99% uptime for mission critical applications that require the highest availability.
GA: Application Insights Distributed tracing support for Java Function Apps
Use the application map for a more complete view of end-to-end transactions to better diagnose issues and interactions
Public Preview: Redis extension for Azure Functions
You can now leverage Redis data types as triggers for serverless app development.
New Instance Types for Azure Red Hat OpenShift are now available
You now have more virtual machine sizes to choose from in Azure Red Hat OpenShift.
Public preview: Azure Container Instances(ACI) Spot containers
You can now take advantage of unused Azure computing with Azure Container Instances (ACI)
Public preview: Introducing NGads V620-series VMs optimized for cloud gaming
VGads V620-series virtual machines (VMs), now in public preview in the East US2, Europe west, and West US3 regions, enable service providers to build differentiated cloud gaming experiences.
General Availability: Isovalent Cilium Enterprise through Azure Marketplace
Isovalent Cilium Enterprise is now generally available through Azure Marketplace.
Public Preview: Azure Data Explorer bindings for Azure Functions
Azure Data Explorer Bindings for Azure Functions (Public Preview)
General availability: Azure CNI powered by Cilium
Leverage next generation eBPF dataplane for pod networking, Kubernetes network policies and service load balancing.
General Availability: Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus
Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus is now Generally Available.
Public Preview: App Service automatic scaling support in portal UX
Now you can use the Azure Portal to configure App Service auto-scaling rules.
Public Preview: Azure Monitor announces Network Observability AKS add-on
The new Network Observability AKS add-on provides complete observability into the network health and connectivity of your AKS cluster.
Preview: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9.2 support for AMD confidential VMs
User of AMD-based confidential VMs can now select the RHEL 9.2 technical preview as their guest OS.
Build 2023: New Azure App Service plans fuel greater choice and savings
New plans for Microsoft Azure App Service customers with two new offerings in the Premium v3 (Pv3) service tier, and expansion in the Isolated v2 tier.
Generally Available: V2 programming model for Azure Functions using Python
A simplified programming model for Python developers.
General availability: Confidential containers on Azure Container Instances (ACI)
ACI now lets you run containers in a trusted execution environment (TEE)
Public preview: Automated deployments in AKS now supports Draft
Configure automated deployments to create a Dockerfile, build a container image and create Kubernetes deployment files directly from your source code.
Public preview: Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus for Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes
Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus is now extending monitoring support for Kubernetes clusters hosted on Azure Arc.
Public Preview: Azure Monitor Container insights introduces “Cluster Optimization” workbook
Customers can now use Azure Monitor Container insights “Cluster Optimization” workbook to optimize container limits and request, identify event anomalies and detect liveness probe failures.
Generally Available: Azure Monitor announces managed services for Prometheus
Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus delivers the best of the open-source ecosystem while automating complex tasks such as scaling, high-availability, and long-term data retention.
Public preview: Azure Functions for cloud-native microservices
Quickly build event driven, cloud native apps, with the flexibility to run functions along with other microservices, APIs, websites, workflows or any container hosted programs.
Generally Available: SQL Bindings for Azure Functions
With input and output bindings for SQL, you can now can quickly write Azure Functions that read and write from your databases.
Public preview: ASP.NET Core integration in Azure Functions .NET isolated model
Use familiar ASP.NET Core types to construct HTTP-triggered functions in the isolated worker model.
Public preview: Secrets volume mounts for Azure Container Apps
You can now mount secrets as volumes in Azure Container Apps.
Public preview: Free managed TLS certificates for Azure Container Apps
You can now use managed certificates with Azure Container Apps
Public preview: Serverlessly run on-demand, scheduled, and event-driven jobs on Azure Container Apps
Run workloads that perform a task for a finite duration and exit, and schedule these workloads or run them in response to events.
AKS DevX Extension Updates for Visual Studio Code
Easily create and deploy GitHub Actions to automate your deployments.
Public preview: Custom node config for Windows
You can now modify the node configuration on Windows nodes, as you do with Linux.
Generally Available: Kubernetes marketplace
Access to a vibrant ecosystem of first-party and third-party solutions for building robust enterprise solutions.
Generally Available: Generation 2 VM for Windows
You can now run Windows workloads on Generation 2 VMs.
Generally Available: Azure Linux support in AKS
Deploy Azure Linux as the node pool host OS in the AKS cluster and build apps on top of the preferred container.
Public preview: New features in Azure Container Storage
Azure Container Storage, a unique storage provisioning and management service built natively for containers, is introducing several new features in preview.
Public preview: Azure Container Storage
Azure Container Storage is a new Azure service built natively for containers that enables customers to create and manage volumes for running production scale stateful container applications.
Azure VMware Solution now available in Qatar with AV36P
We are excited to announce that the Azure VMware Solution has gone live in Qatar Central and is now available to customers.
Public preview: Init containers in Azure Container Apps
You can now have separate containers that run before application containers are started in a replica and can perform all of the initialization logic.
Public Preview: Cross Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) in Azure Container Apps
You can now enable CORS for your Azure Container App through the portal or CLI.
GA: Azure Pipelines task to build and deploy to Azure Container Apps
Use an Azure Pipelines task to build and deploy to Azure Container Apps.
GA: GitHub action to build and deploy to Azure Container Apps
Use a GitHub action to build and deploy to Azure Container Apps.
Public Preview: Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Distro for ASP.NET Core, JavaScript (Node.js), Python
Onboard to Azure Monitor Application Insights using standard, cloud-native APIs and SDKs with rich data collection capabilities and a first-class Azure experience.
Azure VMware Solution on Azure Government
We are excited to share details for the General Availability of Azure VMware Solution on Microsoft Azure Government