Azure Updates – Number 86 – March 23, 2024

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

Create Codeless Connectors with the Codeless Connector Builder (Preview)

How to Set Up Sentinel Data Connectors for Kubernetes and GitHub

Monitoring Kubernetes Clusters, Image Build Environment and Container Registries with Sentinel

Upcoming Content Hub AMA supported Data Connectors

Create Tasks Repository in Microsoft Sentinel

Azure Updates

Action required: Upgrade your App Service apps to Node 20 LTS by 30 April 2025

Important Notice: Azure Product Retirement: End of Life Announcement of Azure Maps Creator Feature State Service Versions 31 March 2025

Azure Content Moderator will be retired on 15 March 2027

Basic and Standard A-series VMs on HDInsight will retire on 31 August 2024

Support for Connector for AWS in Cost Management is ending on 31 March 2025

Azure Synapse Runtime for Apache Spark 3.2 End of Support

Retirement: Support for .NET 7 ends on 14 May 2024?upgrade your Azure Functions resources to .NET 8

Update to Azure Functions Service Bus extension v5.x by 31 March 2025 for continued support

Azure Maps Native SDK for Android and iOS will be retired on 31 March 2025 ? transition to use Azure Maps Web SDK in a web view

Action recommended: Update to using Grafana version 10 for Azure Managed Grafana

Default Internet outbound access for Simplified node communication Batch pools without public IP addresses will be retired on 30 September 2025

HPC Pack 2016 will be retired on 12 January 2027

Support for Standard_M192idms_v2 will be retired on 31 March 2027

Community support for Standard_M192ids_v2 is ending on 31 March 2027

Community support for Standard_M192ims_v2 is ending on 31 March 2027

Community support for Standard_M192is_v2 is ending on 31 March 2027

Some compliance features in Microsoft Defender for Cloud will be retired on September 30, 2025

Azure HDInsight 4.0 will be retired on 31 March 2025 – migrate your HDInsight clusters to 5.1

Announcing Azure HPC Cache Retirement

Announcing Avere vFXT for Azure Retirement

Private Preview: Force detach zone redundant disks during zone outage

General Availability: Azure NetApp Files support for 1 TiB capacity pools

Public Preview: Next generation of general purpose service tier for Azure SQL Managed Instance

Public preview: Public IP Domain Name Label Scope

Public preview: Database watcher for Azure SQL

Generally available: Application Gateway (v2) IPv6 support

General availability: Listener TLS certificates management in the Azure portal

Generally available: Azure Health Data Services DICOM service with Azure Data Lake Storage

Operator and CRD support with Azure Managed Prometheus

Microsoft open sources Retina: A cloud-native container networking observability platform

Billing for Azure Monitor stateful log search alerts

Public preview: Kubernetes AI Toolchain Operator (KAITO) add-on for AKS

Generally Available: Cost analysis add-on for AKS

Open-Source Fleet Workload Placement Scheduling and Override

Generally Available: Windows Gen 2 VM support in AKS

Public preview: Windows GPU support in AKS

Generally Available: Kubernetes 1.29 support in AKS

Generally Available: Custom kubelet configuration for Windows in AKS

Public preview: Azure CNI static block IP allocation support in AKS

Public preview: Deployment safeguards in AKS

Generally Available: Azure CNI overlay dual stack Support in AKS (Linux only)

Generally Available: VM IP based load balancer in AKS

Generally Available: Host Network Security Group (NSG) control in AKS

Generally Available: HostPort auto assign in AKS

Generally Available: Instance level Public IP tags in AKS

Public preview: Trusted launch support in AKS

Generally Available: Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) support for 5K Node limit by default for standard tier clusters

Public preview: Azure Modeling and Simulation Workbench

Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus is available in 13 additional Azure regions

You can now opt in automatically renew your reservation at time of purchase.

Azure Classic Administrator roles are retiring on 31 August 2024

Visual Studio App Center retirement

Retirement: Support for Application Gateway Web Application Firewall v2 Configuration is ending

Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus now supports TLS & mTLS based scraping

Azure IoT Edge supports Ubuntu Core Snaps

Now available: Free data transfer out to internet when leaving Azure

Public Preview: JVM memory fit in Azure Container Apps

Public Preview: Managed Java components in Azure Container Apps

Public Preview: Tomcat support in Azure Container Apps

Public Preview: Modernizing Azure Resource Manager Throttling

Public Preview: Azure SQL updates for mid-March 2024

General Availability: Azure Defender for Microsoft Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server

General Availability: Private Link in Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore

General Availability: Major version upgrade logs for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server

General availability: Additional cache size for Azure Cache for Redis Enterprise

General availability: Microsoft Entra ID integration with Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL

Announcing Try Azure Cosmos DB support in Vercel Integration

WhatsApp Business Platform now available for applications built on Azure

Generally Available: Azure Chaos Studio supports new fault for Azure Event Hubs

Azure API Center Updates

Generally available: Azure Blob Storage Cold Tier in Poland Central, Qatar Central and Azure China

Microsoft Security Copilot Blog

Announcing API Management and API Center Community Live Stream on Wednesday, March 27th

Test Base for Microsoft 365: End-of-life Announcement

Crafting A Document In Another Language – HLS Copilot Snacks

HLS Copilot Snacks

App Service *.azurewebsites.net TLS Cert Renewal for Web Apps, Functions, and Logic Apps (Standard)