Latest Azure Updates

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27 Sep 2024 Notice Announcing the Availability of Phi-3.5-MoE in Azure AI Studio and GitHub
27 Sep 2024 Preview Mirroring Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server in Microsoft Fabric - Private Preview
27 Sep 2024 Notice Azure Boards, September Update
26 Sep 2024 Preview Announcing the public preview of the new Azure FXv2-series Virtual Machines
26 Sep 2024 Retirement Retirement: Open Service Mesh extension for Arc-enabled Kubernetes will be retired on September 30, 2027
26 Sep 2024 Retirement Retirement: Azure Maps Spatial APIs V1 & 2022-08-01 will be retired on September 30th, 2025.
26 Sep 2024 Preview Public Preview: Azure Functions .NET 9 support in Linux plans
26 Sep 2024 Retirement Retirement: Deprecation of Virtual Network Injection for Azure Data Explorer
26 Sep 2024 Preview Public Preview: Introducing Reporting and Microsoft Entra ID Authentication for Microsoft Playwright Testing
26 Sep 2024 Preview Public Preview: Virtual machines node pools support in AKS
26 Sep 2024 Retirement Retirement: Open Service Mesh add-on for AKS will be retired on September 30, 2027
26 Sep 2024 GA Generally Available: Long-term support for version 1.27 and 1.30 in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
26 Sep 2024 Preview Retirement: AKS GPU image (preview) will retire on Jan 10, 2025
26 Sep 2024 GA Generally Available: FIPS mutability support in AKS
26 Sep 2024 GA Generally Available: Extended support: PHP 8.1 on App Service
26 Sep 2024 Retirement Retirement: Extended support for Python 3.9 ends October 2025 – upgrade your apps to Python 3.10
26 Sep 2024 Retirement Retirement: Extended support for PHP 8.2 ends December 31st, 2026 – upgrade apps to PHP 8.3
26 Sep 2024 Retirement Retirement: Azure Machine Learning data drift detection will retire on September 1st, 2025
26 Sep 2024 GA Generally Available: Azure Cosmos DB dynamic scaling—per region and per partition autoscale
26 Sep 2024 GA Generally Available: Azure confidential VMs with NVIDIA Tensor Core GPUs
26 Sep 2024 Preview Public Preview: New FX series VMs - FXmsv2 and FXmdsv2
26 Sep 2024 Retirement Retirement: Azure Load Balancer Inbound NAT rule V1 for Azure VMs and Azure VMSS will be retired
26 Sep 2024 Retirement Retirement: Azure Front Door support for TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 will end by 1 Dec 2024
26 Sep 2024 Retirement Retirement: Azure CDN Standard from Microsoft (classic) will be retired on 30 September 2027
26 Sep 2024 Retirement Retirement: Azure Application Gateway support for TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 will end by 31 August 2025
26 Sep 2024 GA Generally Available: gRPC and frontend mTLS now available for Application Gateway for Containers
26 Sep 2024 Retirement Retirement: Intent Recognition an Azure AI Speech feature will be retired on September 30th, 2025
26 Sep 2024 Retirement Retirement: Network security group flow logs in Azure Network Watcher will be retired
26 Sep 2024 Retirement Retirement: Azure AI Speaker Recognition
26 Sep 2024 Retirement Retirement: Retirement of Classic Alerts for Azure Site Recovery
26 Sep 2024 Retirement Retirement: Conversation Transcription Multi Channel Diarization
26 Sep 2024 Retirement Retirement: VpnGw1-5 (Non-AZ SKUs) will be retired on Sep 30, 2026 – gateways will be automatically migrated to AZ SKUs
26 Sep 2024 Retirement Retirement: Transition from Helm Repositories to OCI Artifacts for Storing Helm Charts
26 Sep 2024 Retirement Retirement: Azure Automanage Best Practices Retirement. Migrate to Azure Policy
26 Sep 2024 GA Generally Available: V5 reservations for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server
26 Sep 2024 GA Generally Available: Smaller Enterprise tier cache instance for Azure Cache for Redis
26 Sep 2024 GA Generally Available: Online migration from Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Single Server to Flexible Server
26 Sep 2024 GA Generally Available: Latest PostgreSQL minor versions supported by Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server
25 Sep 2024 GA Announcing the General Availability of Azure CycleCloud Workspace for Slurm
25 Sep 2024 Preview Announcing Public Preview of Windows Server Hotpatch enabled by Azure Arc
25 Sep 2024 GA Announcing the GA of Dynamic Scaling (Per Region and Per Partition Autoscale)
25 Sep 2024 Notice Announcing Cost and Performance Improvements with Azure Cosmos DB’s Binary Encoding
24 Sep 2024 Notice Build and secure your apps with Azure App Service and Defender for Cloud
24 Sep 2024 Notice Correction capability helps revise ungrounded content and hallucinations
24 Sep 2024 Preview Multimodal Public Preview Blog
24 Sep 2024 Preview Watermarks in preview in Azure OpenAI Service
24 Sep 2024 Notice Enhance the reliability of your generative AI with new hallucination correction capability
24 Sep 2024 Preview Protected Material Detection for Code now in Preview in Azure AI Content Safety
24 Sep 2024 Preview Announcing the public preview of Hybrid Azure AI Content Safety (AACS)
24 Sep 2024 Preview Azure AI Confidential Inferencing Preview
23 Sep 2024 Notice Secure & scalable quick starts for Azure Functions using Azure Developer CLI
20 Sep 2024 Notice Boost Your Development with Azure Tools for Visual Studio Code
20 Sep 2024 Notice Document Ingestion for Gen AI Applications using Logic Apps from 1000+ data sources!
19 Sep 2024 Preview Announcing the Public Preview of Azure Monitor Metrics Export
19 Sep 2024 Notice Azure API Management Turns 10: Celebrating a Decade of Customer-Driven Innovation and Success
19 Sep 2024 Notice Unlock the Future of API Compliance with AI and Azure API Center
19 Sep 2024 Notice Azure Backup-SAP HANA DB Backup Delivers More Value at Lower TCO with Reduced Protected Instance Fee
19 Sep 2024 Preview Retirement: Microsoft Purview Data Sharing (in Public Preview) is retiring on September 26th, 2025
19 Sep 2024 GA Generally Available: Access-based enumeration and non-browsable shares for SMB and dual-protocol Azure NetApp Files volumes
19 Sep 2024 GA Generally Available: Azure NetApp Files Reserved Capacity
19 Sep 2024 Preview Retirement: Azure Maps Creator Service APIs V2 & 2023-03-01-preview will be retired on September 30, 2025
19 Sep 2024 GA Generally Available: Force detach zone redundant data disks during zone outage
19 Sep 2024 Preview Public Preview: Advanced Container Networking Services: Enhancing security and observability in AKS
19 Sep 2024 Retirement Retirement: Azure Remote Rendering will be retired on September 30th, 2025
19 Sep 2024 Preview Public Preview: Announcing Azure Monitor Metrics Export in public preview
19 Sep 2024 GA Generally Available: Automated Patching retirement and replacement with Azure Update Manager
19 Sep 2024 Retirement Retirement: Support for PowerShell 7.2 on Azure Functions is ending on November 8, 2024
19 Sep 2024 GA Generally Available: Azure Data Box 80 TB is now Generally available at Azure China
19 Sep 2024 Retirement Retirement: Azure SQL Edge will be retired on September 30th, 2025
19 Sep 2024 Retirement Retirement: Microsoft Genomics Service
19 Sep 2024 GA Generally Available: Azure Site Recovery update rollup 75 – August 2024
19 Sep 2024 Retirement Retirement: Azure AI Vision APIs to be retired
19 Sep 2024 Retirement Retirement: Azure Managed Confidential Consortium Framework (CCF) Service Support Ending on November 22nd, 2024
18 Sep 2024 Notice Announcing Global Provisioned Managed Deployments for Scaling Azure OpenAI Service Workloads
18 Sep 2024 GA Microsoft Entra Internet Access now generally available
17 Sep 2024 Notice Azure Database for MySQL - August 2024 updates and latest feature roadmap
17 Sep 2024 GA Announcing the General Availability (GA) of Microsoft Entra External ID extension for Visual Studio Code
17 Sep 2024 Notice .NET on Azure Functions – September 2024 roadmap update
17 Sep 2024 Notice Announcing API Management and API Center Community Live Stream on Thursday, September 26
16 Sep 2024 Notice Introducing Reporting and Entra ID Authentication for Microsoft Playwright Testing
16 Sep 2024 Notice Switch to Azure Business Continuity Center for your at scale BCDR management needs
15 Sep 2024 Notice The Azure Storage product group is heading to the SNIA Developer Conference 2024
12 Sep 2024 Notice Increasing business value by integrating SOAP legacy assets with Azure logic Apps and Azure APIM
12 Sep 2024 Preview DiskANN for Azure Cosmos DB Now in Open Public Preview!
12 Sep 2024 GA Elastic pools for Azure SQL Database Hyperscale now Generally Available!
12 Sep 2024 Notice Troubleshooting Connectivity Issues between a Virtual Machine (VM) and an Azure Container App
12 Sep 2024 Notice Manage NSG association on Subnets via Azure Policy
12 Sep 2024 Retirement Retirement: Azure PostgreSQL migration extension in Azure Data Studio (ADS)
12 Sep 2024 GA Generally Available: Java on Azure Container Apps
12 Sep 2024 Preview Public Preview: Low-Code RAG ingestion with built-in document parsing and chunking in Logic Apps Standard
12 Sep 2024 Preview Private Preview: Azure Site Recovery support for Azure Trusted Launch VMs (Linux OS)
12 Sep 2024 Preview Public Preview: DNAT on Azure Firewall Private IP address
12 Sep 2024 Retirement Retirement: Azure AI Document Intelligence GA API v2.1 is retiring on 15 September 2027