Monthly recap of Azure updates#
An easy-to-scan roundup of our newest, most important highlights. Let’s have a look what interested Azure updates are share. Read carefully through the updates, especially the products and support that are announced as becoming retired.
This month two important updates. Both Kubernetes 1.29 support in AKS and Azure Virtual Network Encryption are now entered Generally Available.
Top 5 you don’t want to miss#
- Classic deployment model for Cloud Services is finally retiring this year at the
end of August 2024. - Microsoft just opensourced their cloud-native container networking observability platform, called Retina. This was announced at KubeCon EU Paris. Blog is coming soon !!!
- Improved throughput performance on Azure Disks’ Standard SSD is now
Generally Available. - Great new features are added to Azure Container Storage, such as ephemeral Temp-SSD, reduced TCO due improved
AKS CLIInstallation process and scale in cost-efficient matter without downtime. - Azure CNI overlay dual stack Support in AKS is now
Generally Available. Only available for Linux based clusters.
Look at the comprehensive list below for more information.
Azure updates#
- Begin using Azure Monitor–based dashboards in Azure API Management before the built-in analytics dashboards are retired on 15 March 2027
- Migrate your Git Repository to automated deployments with APIOps by 15 March 2025
- Long Audio API will be retired on 31 March 2027 – Migrate to the new batch synthesis API
- Azure CycleCloud support for Chef run_lists and cookbooks in cluster-init projects is ending on 31 March 2025
- Migrate to Azure AI Document Intelligence v3.1 GA version
- Custom .Net deserializer for Azure Stream Analytics will be retired on 30 September 2024.
- We’re retiring Memory Optimized Data Flows in Azure Data Factory - use General Purpose for better performance at a lower price.
- Custom .net deserializer for Azure Stream Analytics will be retired on 30 September 2024
- Azure HDInsight 5.0 will be retired on 31 March 2025
- Retirement notice: Windows Server 2022 will retire with k8s 1.34 in March 2027
- Retirement notice: The legacy Azure Storage C++ client libraries will be retired on 29 March 2025
- Azure Maps Web SDK Map Control version 2.0.x and Azure Maps Service Module will be retired on 30 September 2026
- Retirement: Support for .NET 6 ends on 12 November 2024—upgrade your Azure Functions apps to .NET 8
- Retirement: Support for the in-process model for .NET apps in Azure Functions ends 10 November 2026.
- Standard_NC6s_v3 Standard_NC12s_v3 and Standard_NC24s_v3 Azure virtual machines will be retired on September 30 2025
- Standard_NC24rs_v3 virtual machines will be retired on March 31st 2025
- Support for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS for Batch pools will be retired on 23 April 2025
- Support for Basic and Standard A-series VM families support will be retired on 31 August 2024 for Batch pools
- Every-write AOF persistence on Azure Cache for Redis Enterprise and Enterprise Flash will be retired on 1 April 2025
- General availability: Availability zone volume placement for Azure NetApp Files
- Azure Sphere version 24.03 and Azure Sphere (Integrated) are now generally available
- GA: Improved throughput performance on Azure Disks’ Standard SSD
- GA: Azure Logic Apps Designer for Consumption
- Public Preview: Safety evaluations for generative AI applications in Azure AI Studio
- Generally available: Microsoft Dev Box in Southeast Asia Brazil South South Africa North and Switzerland North
- GA: Azure SQL Trigger support for Azure Functions
- General Availability: Azure Files geo-redundancy for standard large file shares
- Generally Available: Free managed certificates on Azure Container Apps
- Public preview: Support for Key Vault Certificates in Azure Container Apps
- Public preview: PowerShell 7.4 support for Azure Functions
- Public Preview: Azure Container Apps OpenTelemetry Agent support
- Azure Front Door (classic) will be retired on 31 March 2027
- General availability: Azure SQL updates for late-March 2024
- Public Preview: Azure SQL updates for late-March 2024
- Public Preview: Real-time text translation using the azure_ai extension in Azure Database for PostgreSQL
- Public Preview: Invoke Azure Machine Learning models using the azure_ai extension
- General availability: Migration service in Azure Database for PostgreSQL
- General availability: Rate Limiting on ExpressRoute Direct Circuits
- Public Preview: On-demand capacity reservations for Specialty SKUs
- Public preview: Change partition key of a container in Azure Cosmos DB (NoSQL API)
- Public Preview: Azure SQL Database Mirroring in Microsoft Fabric
- Azure Static Web Apps distributed functions capability now in Public Preview
- Breaking Changes to Azure API Management Workspaces
- General Availability: Automatic Scaling for App Service Web Apps
- Preview: New Features in Azure Container Storage
- Public Preview: Agentless multi-disk crash consistent backup by Azure Backup for VM
- Action required: Upgrade your App Service apps to Node 20 LTS by 30 April 2025
- Important Notice: Azure Product Retirement: End of Life Announcement of Azure Maps Creator Feature State Service Versions 31 March 2025
- Azure Content Moderator will be retired on 15 March 2027
- Basic and Standard A-series VMs on HDInsight will retire on 31 August 2024
- Azure Synapse Runtime for Apache Spark 3.2 End of Support
- Support for Connector for AWS in Cost Management is ending on 31 March 2025
- Retirement: Support for .NET 7 ends on 14 May 2024—upgrade your Azure Functions resources to .NET 8
- Update to Azure Functions Service Bus extension v5.x by 31 March 2025 for continued support
- Azure Maps Native SDK for Android and iOS will be retired on 31 March 2025 – transition to use Azure Maps Web SDK in a web view
- Action recommended: Update to using Grafana version 10 for Azure Managed Grafana
- Default Internet outbound access for Simplified node communication Batch pools without public IP addresses will be retired on 30 September 2025
- HPC Pack 2016 will be retired on 12 January 2027
- Support for Standard_M192idms_v2 will be retired on 31 March 2027
- Community support for Standard_M192ids_v2 is ending on 31 March 2027
- Community support for Standard_M192ims_v2 is ending on 31 March 2027
- Community support for Standard_M192is_v2 is ending on 31 March 2027
- Some compliance features in Microsoft Defender for Cloud will be retired on September 30 2025
- Azure HDInsight 4.0 will be retired on 31 March 2025 - migrate your HDInsight clusters to 5.1
- Announcing Azure HPC Cache Retirement
- Announcing Avere vFXT for Azure Retirement
- Private Preview: Force detach zone redundant disks during zone outage
- General Availability: Azure NetApp Files support for 1 TiB capacity pools
- Public Preview: Next generation of general purpose service tier for Azure SQL Managed Instance
- Public preview: Public IP Domain Name Label Scope
- Public preview: Database watcher for Azure SQL
- Generally available: Application Gateway (v2) IPv6 support
- General availability: Listener TLS certificates management in the Azure portal
- Generally available: Azure Health Data Services DICOM service with Azure Data Lake Storage
- Operator and CRD support with Azure Managed Prometheus
- Microsoft open sources Retina: A cloud-native container networking observability platform
- Billing for Azure Monitor stateful log search alerts
- Public preview: Kubernetes AI Toolchain Operator (KAITO) add-on for AKS
- Generally Available: Cost analysis add-on for AKS
- Open-Source Fleet Workload Placement Scheduling and Override
- Generally Available: Windows Gen 2 VM support in AKS
- Public preview: Windows GPU support in AKS
- Generally Available: Kubernetes 1.29 support in AKS
- Generally Available: Custom kubelet configuration for Windows in AKS
- Public preview: Azure CNI static block IP allocation support in AKS
- Public preview: Deployment safeguards in AKS
- Generally Available: Azure CNI overlay dual stack Support in AKS (Linux only)
- Generally Available: VM IP based load balancer in AKS
- Generally Available: Host Network Security Group (NSG) control in AKS
- Generally Available: HostPort auto assign in AKS
- Generally Available: Instance level Public IP tags in AKS
- Public preview: Trusted launch support in AKS
- Generally Available: Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) support for 5K Node limit by default for standard tier clusters
- Public preview: Azure Modeling and Simulation Workbench
- Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus is available in 13 additional Azure regions
- You can now opt in automatically renew your reservation at time of purchase.
- Azure Classic Administrator roles are retiring on 31 August 2024
- Visual Studio App Center retirement
- Retirement: Support for Application Gateway Web Application Firewall v2 Configuration is ending
- Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus now supports TLS & mTLS based scraping
- Azure IoT Edge supports Ubuntu Core Snaps
- Now available: Free data transfer out to internet when leaving Azure
- Public Preview: JVM memory fit in Azure Container Apps
- Public Preview: Managed Java components in Azure Container Apps
- Public Preview: Tomcat support in Azure Container Apps
- Public Preview: Modernizing Azure Resource Manager Throttling
- Public Preview: Azure SQL updates for mid-March 2024
- General Availability: Azure Defender for Microsoft Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server
- General Availability: Private Link in Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore
- General Availability: Major version upgrade logs for Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server
- General availability: Additional cache size for Azure Cache for Redis Enterprise
- General availability: Microsoft Entra ID integration with Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL
- Announcing Try Azure Cosmos DB support in Vercel Integration
- WhatsApp Business Platform now available for applications built on Azure
- Generally Available: Azure Chaos Studio supports new fault for Azure Event Hubs
- Azure API Center Updates
- Generally available: Azure Blob Storage Cold Tier in Poland Central Qatar Central and Azure China
- General Availability: App Service Backup and Restore over Azure Virtual Network
- Generally available: Service Level Agreements on Azure Blob Storage Cold Tier
- General availability: Azure Virtual Network encryption now in additional regions
- Public preview: Change Actor
- Generally available: Azure Functions Support for Node.js 20
- Public preview: Azure NetApp Files volume enhancement – allow the same file path for volumes in different availability zones
- Public preview: New Generation AMD VMs - Dasv6/Easv6/Fasv6
- Azure Sphere OS version 24.03 is now available for evaluation
- Public Preview: Well-Architected Framework assessment on Azure Advisor
- Cloud Services (classic) deployment model is retiring on 31 August 2024