Ashish Sharma

Azure service updates New Azure Virtual Desktop features to answer our customers’ top needs New capabilities recently released that improve storage, enhance configuration, deliver exceptional endpoint security, and more. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Public preview: Azure VNet flow logs Gain visibility of IP traffic flowing through your Virtual Networks Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Generally available: Synthetic GraphQL With Synthetic GraphQL, customers can create GraphQL APIs using their existing REST and SOAP APIs, allowing them to modernize their application API stack with minimal effort. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Generally available: API Management Authorizations API Management Authorizations are now generally available, providing a simple and reliable way to unbundle and abstract authorizations from web APIs. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Public Preview: Support for Azure VMs using Premium SSD v2 in Azure Backup Public preview for the support for Azure VMs using Premium SSD v2 in Azure Backup. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Generally available: Cross-region service endpoints for Azure Storage You can now connect Storage Accounts to Virtual Networks in all regions using global service endpoints (cross-region service endpoints). Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Preview: Introducing DCesv5 and ECesv5-series Confidential VMs with Intel TDX Today, we’re excited to announce the expansion of our Confidential VM family with the launch of the DCesv5-series and ECesv5-series in preview. Featuring 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, these VMs are backed by an all-new hardware-based Trusted Execution Environment called Intel® Trust Domain Extensions (TDX). Organizations can use these VMs to seamlessly bring confidential workloads to the cloud without any code changes to their applications. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates App Service Environment version 1 and version 2 will be retired on 31 August 2024 Migrate to App Service Environment v3 by 31 August 2024. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates General Availability: Support for Linux clients to use identity-based access to Azure file shares over SMB Linux SMB clients can now use Azure Files identity based authentication and authorization. This capability is available to devices that are domain joined to either customer-managed Microsoft AD DS or Azure AD DS. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Azure Storage Mover is now Generally Available We are excited to announce that Azure Storage Mover is now generally available. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Public preview: Azure Container Apps available in Azure China You can now use Azure Container Apps in Azure China. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Azure Service Operator stable release version 2.0 now available Create and manage over 100 Azure resources such as databases, storage accounts, VMs, and more from within Kubernetes. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Hotpatch is now available on preview images of Windows Server VMs on Azure with the Desktop Experience installation mode Hotpatch is available for preview images of Windows Server Azure Edition VMs running the Desktop Experience installation mode. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Generally Available: Azure App Service - New Premium v3 Offerings Introducing two new offerings in the Premium v3 (Pv3) service tier on Azure App Service   Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Public Preview: Isovalent Cilium Enterprise through Azure Marketplace Isovalent Cilium Enterprise is now available to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) customers in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace marking a key milestone in delivering the expansive eBPF-powered Cilium and Isovalent Cilium Enterprise to Azure Kubernetes Service and Azure. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Regional expansion: Azure Elastic SAN Public Preview is now available in more regions. Azure Elastic SAN (preview) is now available in Australia East, North Europe, Sweden Central, UK South, West Europe, East US, East US 2, South Central US, and West US 3. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates General Availability: Azure CNI Overlay Azure CNI Overlay utilizes an overlay network to reduce IP utilization while providing better performance and scale.   Click here for more information.

Azure service updates General Availability: Azure CNI Overlay Azure CNI Overlay utilizes an overlay network to reduce IP utilization while providing better performance and scale.   Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Retirement notice: transition to the Authentication methods policy for Azure Active Directory The ability to manage authentication methods in the legacy MFA and SSPR policies will be retired on 30 September 2024. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Use Stream Analytics to process exported data from Application Insights Use Stream Analytics to process exported data from Application Insights Click here for more information.

Azure service updates General Availability: Azure App Health Extension - Rich Health States Application Health Extension, Rich Health States allows for more detailed health reporting on your VM applications. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Public Preview: Database-is-alive metrics for monitoring Azure Postgres Flexible Server database availability. Monitor the database availability for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server via Database-is-alive metric. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Azure VMware Solution now available in Qatar with AV36P We are excited to announce that the Azure VMware Solution has gone live in Qatar Central and is now available to customers. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Private Preview: Enable Trusted launch on your existing Azure Gen2 VMs Use this preview to enable Trusted launch on your existing Gen2 VMs to improve foundational security of your Gen2 VMs. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates General Availability: NGINXaaS - Azure Native ISV Service Natively integrated software as a service (SaaS) solution for advanced traffic management and monitoring on Azure. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Public Preview: Azure Chaos Studio is now available in Sweden Central region Azure Chaos Studio is now available in Sweden Central region. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus has updated our AKS add-on to support Windows nodes Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus has updated our AKS metrics add-on to support Prometheus metric collection from the Windows nodes in your AKS clusters. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates General availability: Read replicas for Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server The Dlsv5 and Dldsv5 VM series provide 2GiBs per vCPU and can offer lower price points within the general-purpose Azure Virtual Machines portfolio. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Generally available: Large disk support for disaster recovery of Hyper-V VMs using Site Recovery You can now enable disaster recovery for Hyper-VMs with data disks up to 32 TB in size. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Public Preview: Support for Azure VMs using Ultra disks in Azure Backup Public preview for the support for Azure VMs using Ultra disks in Azure Backup. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates General availability: IP Protection SKU for Azure DDoS Protection IP Protection provides cost-effective, enterprise-grade DDoS protection designed to meet the needs of SMB. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Public preview: Private Application Gateway v2 Application Gateway v2 is introducing support for private IP only frontend configurations, enhanced control over NSG rules, and support for forced tunneling/route table rules to virtual appliances. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Transition to built-in Azure Monitor alerts for Recovery Services vaults in Azure Backup by 31 March 2026 Classic alerts for Azure Backup will be retired on 31 March, 2026 Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Public preview update: Azure Automation supports PowerShell 7.2 and Python 3.10 runbooks Azure Automation has expanded Public preview support for PowerShell 7.2 and Python 3.10 runbooks. Click here for more information.