Generally Available: Azure App Service - New Premium v4 Offering

Generally Available: Azure App Service - New Premium v4 Offering
The new Premium v4 offering provides faster processors, NVMe local storage, and memory-optimized options, running on the latest Azure hardware. Premium v4 is available for both Windows and Linux customers, and includes sizes starting from 1 vCPU and 4GB of memory all the way up to 32 vCPU and 256GB memory. Premium v4 delivers at least 25% better price-to-performance compared to the prior Premium v3 offering. With updated Windows pricing, customers using pay-as-you-go can save up to 24%, with even higher discounts available in some regions through reserved instances or savings plans.

Generally Available: Azure Front Door Standard and Premium are now available in Azure China
Azure Front Door Standard and Premium are now generally available in the Azure China regions (China North 3 and China East 3), operated by 21Vianet. With this release, customers in China can deliver secure, reliable, and high-performance applications using the same modern capabilities available worldwide, tailored for local compliance requirements such as ICP filing for custom domains.

Azure Front Door provides global load balancing with instant failover, application acceleration through edge caching and protocol optimizations, and enterprise-grade security features including Web Application Firewall (WAF), DDoS protection, and TLS/SSL offload. Customers in China can also take advantage of end-to-end observability with Azure Monitor metrics, logging, and analytics.

This launch enables organizations operating in China to reduce latency for end users, improve application resilience, and simplify operations with a consistent platform experience across global and China regions.