Azure Updates – Number 111 – April 5, 2025
A summary update on Azure News that includes updates released from Microsoft Azure related to Azure, Architecture, Compute, and Sentinel topics. Every update is linked to it’s original Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Sentinel or other blog source. Hopefully this will save you some time digging around to find recent releases and changes.
Updates include preview and general availability announcements, news, and technical articles published in the listed topic areas for the previous 2 week snapshot. Presented is a subset of news that is highlighted here, visit Azure Blog, Sentinel Blog, or the Microsoft Security Copilot Blog to see all the updates.
Microsoft Sentinel Blog
Azure Updates
[In preview] Public Preview: Increased VNet limits for Private Endpoints [In preview] Public Preview: Multi-cluster Eviction and Disruption Budgets with Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager [Launched] Generally Available: AKS Cost Recommendations in Azure Advisor [Launched] Generally Available: Network isolated cluster in AKS [In preview] Public Preview: Multiple Load Balancers for AKS [In preview] Public Preview: Service Allowed IP Ranges in AKS [Launched] Generally Available: Cilium Endpoint Slices in AKS [In preview] Public Preview: Advanced Container Networking Services Cilium L7 Policies Support in AKS [Launched] Generally Available: Azure CNI Node Subnet + Cilium Support [In preview] Public Preview: maxUnavailable Setting for Upgrades in AKS [In preview] Public Preview: Standard Load Balancer (SLB) Health Probe Redesign in AKS [In preview] Public Preview: AKS Support for Persistent Network Flow Logging for Advanced Container Networking Services [In preview] Public Preview: Cilium WireGuard Encryption Support in AKS [In preview] Public preview: Multi-cluster Workload Rollout Strategies and Runs with Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager [Launched] Generally Available: Skip Automatic GPU Driver Installation [Launched] Generally Available: Multi-cluster Auto-upgrade in Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager [In preview] Public Preview: Default Inference with vLLM with AI Toolchain Operator Add-on [In preview] Public Preview: Application Insights auto-instrumentation for AKS [Launched] Generally Available: Azure CNI Overlay Dual-stack with Cilium Dataplane Support [Launched] Generally Available: AKS Communication Manager [Launched] Generally Available: Azure Linux 3.0 Support in AKS [Launched] ??Generally Available: New Microsoft Dev Box Regional Availability? [In preview] Public Preview: CNI Overlay for Application Gateway for Containers and AGIC [In preview] Public Preview: Azure Front Door Custom Cipher Suite [Launched] Public Preview: Azure Monitor Application Insights Auto-Instrumentation for Java and Node Microservices on AKS Retirement: Log Analytics Beta API to Be Retired on March 31, 2026 Retirement: Log Analytics Batch API to Be Retired on March 31, 2028 [In preview] Public Preview: ExpressRoute Resiliency Enhancements Retirement: Azure Machine Learning SDK v1 Will Be Retired on March 31, 2025 ? Transition to Machine Learning SDK v2 Retirement: Cloud Services (Extended Support) to Be Retired on March 31, 2027 Retirement: Azure App Service Will No Longer Support Linked Databases as a Part of Custom Backups After March 31, 2028 Retirement: Add-ons Feature in Azure Container Apps Retirement: Upgrade Your Entra Domain Services to TLS 1.2 by August 31, 2025 Retirement: Azure Synapse Data Explorer (Preview) to Be Retired on October 7, 2025 Retirement: D, Ds, Dv2, Dsv2, and Ls Series Virtual Machines to Be Retired on May 1, 2028 Retirement: Prepare for the Retirement of Manually Registered Azure VPN Clients on March 31, 2028 Retirement: Announcing the 3-Year Retirement of Current Architecture for AKS on Windows Server 2019 and Windows Server 2022 Retirement: Azure Intelligent Recommendation Service to Be Retired [Launched] Generally Availability: AzAcSnap 11 ? Azure Application Consistent Snapshot Tool Updates Retirement: Azure Maps Traffic APIs Version 1.0 to Be Retired on March 31, 2028 Retirement: Ubuntu 20.04 Node Pools in AKS Retirement: Azure SQL Database FSV2-Series Offer [Launched] Generally Available: Reminder – End of Limited Time Promotional Discounts on Azure Databricks Serverless Compute Services [In preview] Public Preview: Azure NetApp Files Flexible service level [Launched] Generally Available: Azure Chaos Studio Auto-Tagging of Experiment Resources for Private Networking Now Available [Launched] Generally Available: Log Analytics Delete Data API Retirement: Support for Desired State Configuration Extension for Azure Virtual Machines to Be Retired on March 31, 2028 [In preview] Public Preview: Enhance Performance and Security with Standard Load Balancer and Standard SKU Public IP Addresses in Azure DevTest Labs [Launched] Generally Available: Anthropic Gen AI Models in Azure Databricks [Launched] Generally Available: On-Demand Backups for Azure Database for PostgreSQL ? Flexible Server [In preview] Public Preview: Point-in-Time Restore Capability for Multiregion Write Accounts in Azure Cosmos DB [In preview] Public Preview: Azure Database for MySQL Triggers for Azure Functions Retirement: Azure Maps Route APIs Version 1.0 to Be Retired on March 31, 2028 Retirement: Docker Content Trust on March 31, 2028 ? Replaced by the Notary Project and Azure Key Vault Retirement: Docker Compose Feature for Azure App Service to Be Retired on March 31, 2027 ? Replaced by Sidecars in Azure App Service Retirement: Ubuntu 18.04 Node Pools in AKS Retirement: Azure Storage Data Movement Library (v2) Announcement [Launched] Generally Available: Azure Firewall Updates – Parallel IP Group Updates [Launched] Generally Available: New Regions for Azure Front Door Premium with Private Link Enabled Origins [Launched] Generally Available: Azure Load Testing Now Supports Locust
Microsoft Security Copilot Blog
