Monthly recap of Azure updates
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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.

Again a month of retired services like around Azure Logic Apps and deprecation of outdated security protocols, like TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1.

Most important is about requiring multifactor based authentication for tenant. Users must use multifactor authentication (MFA) to sign into the Azure portal, Microsoft Entra admin center, and Intune admin center. To ensure your users can maintain access, you’ll need to enable MFA by 15 October 2024.

Top 5 you don’t want to miss
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Personally waiting for this moment. Azure CNI Overlay dual-stack with Azure CNI powered by Cilium is now in Public Preview for Linux based AKS clusters.
FedRAMP requires to be compliant with the FIPS 140-2 standard. AKS Node Pools now support FIPS mutability to provide enhanced security. To testdrive this new feature, ensure you use the correct OS SKU.
Another Security Improvement went GA. Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server can now leverage HSM-backed encryption keys to protect data at rest. Great when requiring enhanced encryption using Customer Managed Keys.
Always waiting for queries complete when troubleshooting Application Gateway?. Not anymore, since dedicated and optimized tables are provided to store and query tge logs. The resource specific tables allow for better data manipulation and enhanced performance. This feature is now in Generally Available.
Public Preview now makes it possible to specify multiple different VM sizes and an allocation strategy in Virtual Machine Scale Sets with flexible orchestration mode. Awesome longwaiting feature.