Azure File Sync support for managed identities

Nov 07 , 2024 Update

Public Preview: Azure Event Hubs offers new portal capabilities, and 100% Kafka compatibility
IN PREVIEW
New portal experience simplifies testing and debugging. Kafka compatibility enables seamless integration with Apache Kafka workloads.

Retirement: Azure CDN Standard/Premium from Edgio (formerly Verizon) will be retired
RETIREMENT
Retirement notice: Azure CDN Standard/Premium from Edgio (formerly Verizon) will be retired on November 4, 2025

Generally Available: Convert to Azure Premium SSD v2 disks
NOW AVAILABLE
Converting to Azure Premium SSD v2 (Pv2) feature allows you to change your existing Standard SSD, Standard HDD, or Premium SSD v1 disks to Pv2 disks in a few clicks with minimal downtime. This process avoids disk destruction, eliminates the need to use snapshots as a staging resource, and doesn’t require waiting for background data copying.

Public Preview: Azure File Sync support for managed identities
IN PREVIEW
Azure File Sync now supports managed identities, eliminating shared keys for authentication. This feature, in public preview, is available at no extra cost in all Azure Public and Gov regions.

Retirement: Azure Health Data Services will be retired on October 31, 2025 in the Qatar Central region
RETIREMENT
Important: Azure Health Data Services in the Qatar Central region will be retired on October 31, 2025.

Public Preview: Confidential Containers now in preview on Azure Red Hat OpenShift
IN PREVIEW
Enhance cloud security with Confidential Containers on Azure Red Hat OpenShift, protecting sensitive workloads using hardware-level encryption and isolation.

Generally Available: Enhancements on Elastic SAN on resiliency, security, scalability, and integration with Azure VMWare Solution
NOW AVAILABLE
Azure Elastic SAN has released new features around improving data integrity, simplifying the management experience of a SAN, improving cost-effectiveness for AVS, and published a Service Level Agreement (SLA).

Public Preview: PostgreSQL 17 on Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server
IN PREVIEW
Explore new performance enhancements and JSON functions in PostgreSQL 17.

Generally Available: Enhanced error messaging in Azure Cosmos DB Data Explorer
NOW AVAILABLE
Debug queries more efficiently with the improved error messaging in Azure Cosmos DB Data Explorer.

Generally Available: Azure Cosmos DB vector database integration with LangChain.js
NOW AVAILABLE
Power your AI JavaScript apps with Azure Cosmos DB vector database capabilities.

Generally Available: Azure SQL updates for early November 2024
NOW AVAILABLE
General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in early November 2024.

**Generally Available: Azure Resource Manager API for vCore-based Azure
Cosmos DB for MongoDB**
NOW AVAILABLE
Unlock scalable, high-performance MongoDB clusters with new API for Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB.

Public Preview: SDK-style SQL projects in Visual Studio
IN PREVIEW
New database development and deployment toolkit for Microsoft SQL Server, Azure SQL, and Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse.

Public Preview: New vector data type and functions in Azure SQL
IN PREVIEW
Power new AI solutions using native support for vectors in Azure SQL.

Public Preview: Azure SQL Database Hyperscale performance enhancements
IN PREVIEW
Experience Azure SQL Database Hyperscale: Boosted 150 MB/s log rate and new continuous priming for failover performance.

Generally Available: Azure Load Balancer now supports Admin State
NOW AVAILABLE
Override Azure Load Balancer’s health probe behavior on a per backend pool instance basis using Load Balancer Admin State feature to make taking your VM out of rotation for maintenance easy.

Generally Available: Single prefix enhancement to seamless gateway migration
NOW AVAILABLE
ExpressRoute seamless gateway migration now allows migration with a single prefix, eliminating the previous requirement to create a second address prefix in the Gateway.

Generally Available: Azure Virtual Network Manager user-defined route (UDR) management
NOW AVAILABLE
Azure Virtual Network Manager’s new UDR Management feature streamlines routing automation, reducing manual setup and enhancing network scalability with effortless route configuration and deployment.

Generally Available: Azure Load Balancer now supports Health Status
NOW AVAILABLE
Enhance reliability and performance with Azure Load Balancer Health Status, providing detailed insights and seamless monitoring of your backend instances' health.

Generally Available: Azure cross-subscription Load Balancer
NOW AVAILABLE
Connect cross-subscription resources to your Azure Load Balancer.

Retirement: Support for TLS 1.0/1.1 in Application Insights Availability Tests will be retired
RETIREMENT
TLS 1.0/1.1 and Legacy TLS configurations for Application Insights Availability Tests will be retired on March 1, 2025