Monthly recap of Azure updates#
An easy-to-scan roundup of our newest, most important highlights. First month of the year has passed, but we already see a lot of Azure Public Preview and General Availability features announced.
Top 5 you don’t want to miss#
- New Istio add-on upgrade an BYOK/CMK enhancements for AKS that improve Security.
- Preview of intoducing Prometheus recommended alert in Azure Monitor.
- Preview of hardening your AKS Clusters even more by disabling SSH support.
- Preview of distributed tracing v2 for durable Functions.
- Extension update for the VSCode AKS extension.
Look at the comprehensive list below for more information.
Azure updates#
- Public Preview: Azure Monitor introduces Prometheus community recommended alerts
- Announcing General Availability of Azure Monitor Metrics Data Plane API
- Public Preview: Azure API Center – January Updates
- Public preview: Istio add-on for AKS now supports plug-in certificate authority (CA)
- Generally Available: Support for Cross Region Restore for PostgreSQL backups
- Public preview: Upgrade support in Istio add-on for AKS
- Public Preview: New major version of durable Functions extension
- Public Preview: Azure Functions Support for Java 21 on Linux
- Generally Available: Azure Container Apps supports additional TCP ports
- Public Preview: Distributed tracing v2 for durable Functions
- Visual Studio Code extension update for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
- Public preview: Node OS API options feature for AKS
- Public preview: Disable Secure Shell (SSH) support in AKS
- Generally Available: Outbound type migration in AKS
- Generally Available: Kube-reserved resource optimization in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
- General availability: PgAudit in Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL
- General Availability: Read replica in special regions with Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server
- General availability: Azure SQL updates for late-January 2024
- General Availability: Server logs for Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server
- Public preview: Azure SQL updates for late-January 2024
- General availability: Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL Customer-managed keys (CMK)
- General availability: Israel Central region added to Azure HDInsight
- General availability: Italy North region added to Azure HDInsight
- Public preview: ExpressRoute guided portal experience for multi-site resiliency
- Public Preview: Azure Business Continuity Center is now available in all regions
- Use Streaming Ingestion to Azure Data Explorer with Azure Stream Analytics
- Improved exports experience
- Generally available: Up to 50 test fail criteria in Azure Load Testing
- Azure Red Hat OpenShift January 2024 updates
- Preview: Selectable search parameter capability for the FHIR service in Azure Health Data Services
- Cloud Services (classic) deployment model is retiring on 31 August 2024
- Dedicated clusters in Azure Monitor logs now support any commitment tier
- New Features for graph-match KQL Operator: Enhanced Pattern Matching and Cycle Control
- Public Preview: Azure Automation Runtime environment & support for Azure CLI commands in runbooks
- Automatic Image Creation using Azure VM Image Builder is now generally available
- General availability: Azure Data Explorer adds new geospatial capabilities
- Generally Available: Azure Monitor VM Insights Dependency Agent support for RHEL 8.6 Linux VMs
- Generally available: FHIR service integration with Azure Active Directory B2C
- Azure Advisor integration with Azure Monitor Log Analytics Workspace
- Public Preview: Circuit Breaker in Azure API Management
- Public Preview: Load Balancer in Azure API Management
- Azure Spring Apps Feature Update Q4 2024: Spring Cloud Gateway supports a response cache and more
- Private Preview: Support for Azure VMs using Premium SSD v2 in Azure Site Recovery
- Private Preview: Upgrade existing Azure Gen1 VMs to Gen2-Trusted launch
- General Availability: Azure Database for MySQL Import feature for Azure Database for MySQL Single to Flexible Server migrations
- Public preview: Partition merge now supports shared throughput databases
- General Availability: Azure Virtual Network encryption