Azure updates

Public Preview: Azure Storage Actions is now available in 14 more regions

Azure Storage Actions is a fully managed platform that helps you automate data management operations for object storage and data lakes. The preview is now available in 14 more regions.

• Azure Storage Actions
• Azure Blob Storage
• Azure Database for MariaDB
• Regions & Datacenters
• Features

General Availability: Microsoft Azure now available from new cloud region in Mexico

Microsoft has announced the opening of its first hyper-scale cloud region in Mexico.

• Security
• Regions & Datacenters
• Services

Azure Front Door log scrubbing of sensitive data is general available

Azure Front Door supports removing sensitive data from Azure Front Door access log.

• Azure Front Door
• Security
• Features

General Availability - Azure API Center

Target availability: Q2 2024

Azure API Center is now generally available, providing a centralized solution to manage the challenges of API sprawl, which is exacerbated by the rapid proliferation of APIs and AI solutions. Azure API Center offers a unified inventory for seamless discovery, consumption, and governance of APIs, regardless of their type, lifecycle stage, or deployment location.

• API Management
• Features

Action needed: Update Azure Autoscale Notifications to using additional email addresses for notifications

Azure Classic roles will be retired by 31st August, 2024 – transition to using only additional email addresses for Azure Autoscale Notifications as Azure Autoscale is dependent on the Azure Classic Roles.

• Azure Monitor
• Retirements

Azure Governance Update - Management Groups

Beginning May 3, 2024, Azure will start enabling the root management group for tenants that have not enabled it yet. Using Azure management groups leverages best practices when applying Azure Policy and having it pre-enabled reduces the initial set up work to follow the best practices. 

• Azure Management Groups
• Azure Policy
• Azure Resource Manager
• Management

Azure Virtual Network Manager user-defined route (UDR) management now in public preview

UDR management in Azure Virtual Network Manager is now in public preview, enabling users to describe their desired routing behavior via configuration, simplifying the management of routing behaviors at scale.

• Azure Virtual Network Manager
• Services
• Features

Generally available: Azure IoT Edge v1.5.0 (LTS) release

The Azure IoT Edge release of v1.5 is the latest LTS version of Azure IoT Edge.

• Azure IoT Edge
• Open Source
• Services

General availability: Mexico Central region added to Azure HDInsight

Target availability: Q2 2025

HDInsight is now generally available in Mexico Central.  Azure HDInsight is a managed, full-spectrum, open-source analytics service in the cloud for enterprises. You can use open-source frameworks such as Hadoop, Apache Spark, Apache Hive, LLAP, Apache Kafka, and more. For more information about HDInsight, see the Azure HDInsight documentation.

• HDInsight
• Regions & Datacenters
• Features

Public Preview: Azure HDInsight on AKS is now available for preview in 7 new regions

Target availability: Q2 2024

Azure HDInsight on AKS is now available for preview in seven new regions - East US 2 EUAP, West US, Japan East, Australia East, Canada Central, North Europe, Brazil South. Azure HDInsight on AKS is a modern, reliable, secure, and fully managed Platform as a Service (PaaS) that runs on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). HDInsight on AKS allows you to deploy popular Open-Source Analytics workloads like Apache Spark™, Apache Flink®️, and Trino without the overhead of managing and monitoring containers. For more information about Azure HDInsight on AKS, see the documentation.

• HDInsight on AKS
• Open Source
• Regions & Datacenters
• Features

Generally Available: Azure Chaos Studio supports Resource tags

Azure Chaos Studio is now supporting resource tags.

• Services
• Features

Public preview: Azure Monitor pipeline (at edge)

We are announcing public preview Azure Monitor pipeline (for edge). With this, we are now extending our Azure Monitor pipeline capabilities from the cloud to the edge, enabling seamless and high-scale data ingestion with centralized configuration management.

• Features

Infrastructure and quality enhancements for Azure Container Registry

ACR now supports expanded registry capacity of up to 40TiB and optimized geo-replication performance.

• Azure Container Registry
• Features

Public Preview: Azure Dedicated Host - Redeploy

Target availability: Q2 2024

Introducing redeploying capability for Azure dedicated hosts

• Azure Dedicated Host
• Features

General availability: Improved network topology experience in Network Watcher and Azure Monitor Network Insights

Enhancing network and resource health visualization with unified and dynamic topology across subscriptions, regions, and resource groups integrated with actionable connectivity and traffic insights

• Network Watcher
• Security
• Management
• Features

Updated Retirement Notice: Azure Data Catalog will now be retired on 15 May 2024

Target retirement date: May 15, 2024

Azure Data Catalog will now be retired on 15 May 2024 – migrate to Microsoft Purview

• Retirements

Public preview: Extensibility model in Azure Deployment Environments

Azure Deployment Environments is adding a new extensibility model that empowers customers to customize deployment workflows using Bicep, Terraform, Pulumi, or any other infrastructure-as-code (IaC) framework of their choice.

• Azure Deployment Environments
• Features

Public preview: Azure Change Analysis New Portal Experience

Viewing changes to your Azure resources just became easier! With Azure Resource Graph’s Change Analysis, you can now view all your resource changes across all your tenants and subscriptions in the Azure Portal.

• Features