Compute

Disable Weak TLS Cipher Suites for Your App Service Web Apps (Preview)

App Service has an automatic scaling capability that adjusts the number of running instances of your application based on incoming HTTP requests.

The new NVMe-enabled VM sizes of the Ebsv5 and Ebdsv5 VM offer the highest remote storage IOPS and throughput performance of any Azure VMs to date. 

New capabilities recently released that improve storage, enhance configuration, deliver exceptional endpoint security, and more.

You can now abort long running operations in AKS via the CLI.

You can now restrict inbound traffic by IP without using a custom solution.

You can now enable session affinity without writing code.

You can now expose arbitrary TCP ports from your container apps.

You can now source Container Apps secrets values from Azure Key Vault

Migrate to App Service Environment v3 by 31 August 2024.

You can now use Azure Container Apps in Azure China.

Benefit from Kubernetes 1.26 features in production.

Installing and using Istio on your AKS clusters is now easier.

You now have the option to enable long term support for a specific Kubernetes version.

Use this feature to reduce time you have to spend on post upgrade workload troubleshooting

Simplify your AKS cluster management, routing configurations, and efficiently scale your clusters.

Get greater visibility into current and historic Kubernetes spend and resource allocation..

You can now use AAD workload identity with AKS in production

Create and manage over 100 Azure resources such as databases, storage accounts, VMs, and more from within Kubernetes.

Isovalent Cilium Enterprise is now available to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) customers in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace marking a key milestone in delivering the expansive eBPF-powered Cilium and Isovalent Cilium…

Azure CNI Overlay utilizes an overlay network to reduce IP utilization while providing better performance and scale.  

You can use this feature to stop unintended changes to AKS resources and reduce support issues.

Application Health Extension, Rich Health States allows for more detailed health reporting on your VM applications.

Scaling improvement for Service Bus, Event Hubs, Storage Queue, and Cosmos DB is now available for the Azure Functions Consumption and Premium plans.

You can now run your apps using serverless, consumption-based compute, and optionally run your apps on dedicated workload profiles that offer more CPU and memory if needed.

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

Introducing a more intuitive and idiomatic experience for JavaScript and TypeScript developers writing Azure Functions apps

Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus has updated our AKS metrics add-on to support Prometheus metric collection from the Windows nodes in your AKS clusters.

The Dlsv5 and Dldsv5 VM series provide 2GiBs per vCPU and can offer lower price points within the general-purpose Azure Virtual Machines portfolio.

We'll no longer place apps in disaster recovery mode in the event of a regional disaster.

This release includes quality improvements.

Persist data in Azure Container Apps via mounted volumes.

You can now try out Kubernetes v1.26 features with Azure Kubernetes Service

Enterprises are now able to operate more securely with large SKUs to support more demanding workloads with App Service Environment v3.

Discovery of Java & ASP.NET web apps and assessment of ASP.NET web apps to Azure App Service code (native) on VMware, Hyper-V and Physical servers is now in public preview.

Migrate to containers before May 1, 2023

Transition custom image pools use images from Azure Compute Gallery

Transition your Kubernetes workloads on Windows Server 2019 to Windows Server 2022 by March 1 2026.

Migrate your Batch workloads before 31 March 2026 to other regions where Azure Batch will continue to be available.

ASP. NET web app migration to Azure App Service using PowerShell Scripts is now generally available.

Remove references in your autoscale formula for the service-defined variables

Transition Batch pools to the Simplified compute node communication model

You can now choose different destinations for your Azure Container Apps logs

Azure Kubernetes Service Edge Essentials is a Microsoft supported lightweight Kubernetes distribution that is fine tuned to run on edge devices with constrained resources.

You can now use an identity-based connection to access Azure Storage, instead of embedding secrets in connection strings.

Take advantage of the features in OpenShift version 4.11.

Expanded regional availability and several new features for workload optimization, enhanced security, and performance.

Azure Backup is announcing public preview of Backup for AKS allowing customers to protect their applications by providing ability to backup and restore AKS clusters.

Customers can now take advantage of the unlimited virtualization licensing capability included with the SQL Server Software Assurance with Azure Hybrid Benefit for SQL Server on Azure VMware Solution.

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