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#
- Preview of Intel TDX based confidential VMs.
- Azure Chaos Studio now offically supports Azure Service Bus faults for ‘Change Queue State’, ‘Change Topic State’, and ‘Change Subscription State’.
- Azure Monitor introduces a new feature to easily process Multi-line Logging for Container Insights.
- Preview of new AKS cost views for both standard and premium tier clusters.
- AKS Customers can now migrate their Pod Security Policies to Pod Security Admissions.
Look at the comprehensive list below for more information.
Azure updates#
- General availability: Security Update for Azure Front Door WAF CVE-2023-50164
- Generally available: Azure Site Recovery update rollup 70 - December 2023
- General availability: Security Update for Application Gateway WAF CVE-2023-50164
- On 31 August 2024, both the update management feature of Azure Automation and the Log Analytics agent it uses will be retired
- Change tracking and inventory with Log Analytics agent in Azure Automation will be retired on 31 August 2024
- Generally available: Azure Stream Analytics in seven more regions
- General availability: “As on-premises” sizing in Azure Migrate SQL Discovery and Assessment
- Public Preview: Free SQL Managed Instance
- Generally Available: Azure Red Hat OpenShift v4.13 at install time
- Generally Available: Multi-line Logging Feature in Azure Monitor - Container Insights
- Generally Available: Azure Chaos Studio supports new faults for Service Bus
- Generally Available: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.9 now supported on Azure Virtual Machines
- Generally available: Crash Consistent VM Restore points
- Store and manage medical imaging data with Azure Data Lake Storage (Preview)
- Container insights recommended alerts (custom metrics) (preview) retirement moving up to 31 May 2024
- Public preview: Intel TDX based confidential VMs now available in the Azure portal, Azure CLI and ARM templates
- Delaying Domain Front Block on Azure Front Door and CDN services
- General Availability - Snapshots feature of Azure App Configuration
- Azure Event Grid releases public preview support for events from services like Microsoft Entra ID, Microsoft Outlook, and Microsoft Teams.
- Public Preview: IT Service Management Connector (ITSMC) is now certified with ServiceNow Vancouver version
- Retirement: Azure Container Apps preview API versions 2023-04-01-preview
- Public Preview: New AKS cost views for standard and premium tier clusters
- Public preview: Node autoprovision support in AKS
- Generally Available: AKS support for API breaking change detection
- Generally Available: Azure Functions support on Apple Silicon Macs
- General Availability: Connection audit logs for Enterprise tier caches for Azure Cache for Redis
- Public Preview: Accelerated logs in Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server
- Generally available: PostgreSQL 16 support in Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server
- Public Preview: Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server, enhanced disaster recovery features
- General availability: Encryption with customer-managed keys in Azure Health Data Services
- Generally available: Azure Site Recovery update rollup 69 - November 2023
- Azure Event Grid system topics support for resource management and health resources now in Public Preview
- Migration of Azure Virtual Network injected Azure Data Explorer cluster to Private Endpoints
- Azure support plan offer extended to June 30, 2024
- Standard and High-Performance VPN Gateway SKUs will be retired on 30 September 2025
- Pod Security Policy is being deprecated with AKS 1.25 and 2023-06-01 API version
- Azure Object Anchors Retirement
- Azure Spatial Anchors Retirement
- Application Insights Availability Tests TLS 1.3 Enablement