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.

This month seems all about updates and features going Generally Available. Retirement has been announced for Azure Spring Apps, which can be important for Enterprise customers. No AKS and Security updates this month, but still enough to talk about.

Top 5 you don’t want to miss
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It’s time to replace your Azure Diagnostic Extension for Windows and Linux (WAD/LAD) by making use of the Azure Monitoring Agent (AMA). Read the following page how to migrate the functionality to Azure Monitor.
Starting with FinOps, but still looking for some guiding documentation that includes best practices? Don’t look further and dive into the FinOps Toolkit. Freely available to accelerate your FinOps journey here FinOps Toolkit.
Having performance issues with PostgreSQL Azure Databases? Things get easier to troubleshoot and diagnose by setting performance management server parameters. Think about parallel workers, temp file limit, enabling incremental sort and more.
The Azure Storage Account default egress limit has been increased from 120 Gbps to 200 Gbps for both existing and new storage accounts.
In large environments it’s crucial to do efficient IP Address Management (IPAM). To simplify this a new feature is under Public Preview called Azure Virtual Network IP address management. It helps to plan and allocate both cloud, on-premise IPs and ensures there are no overlaps or misconfigurations and provides a clear overview of the Azure Virtual Network Manager managed resources.