In today’s fast-paced cloud landscape, it’s crucial to stay informed about the constant advancements in cloud computing, and Azure is at the forefront of innovation. With its robust services and powerful capabilities, Azure empowers businesses to accelerate their digital transformation, achieve scalability, enhance security, and unlock new opportunities.

My mission here at Azure Centric is to provide you with a comprehensive overview of the latest Azure updates, announcements, and features so that you can make the most of your Azure investments. From new service releases and updates to insightful tips, best practices, and success stories, I strive to deliver valuable content that helps you leverage Azure to its fullest potential.

I am thrilled to bring you the latest and most significant weekly updates from the dynamic world of Microsoft Azure.

Public preview: Incremental snapshots for Ultra Disk Storage - To ensure business continuity, incremental snapshots for Ultra Disks are now available in public preview in the Sweden Central and US West 3 Azure region.

Generally available: Indirect enterprise agreement on Azure Cost Management and Billing - Manage your enrollment hierarchy, view account usage, and monitor costs directly from the Azure Cost Management and Billing menu on the Azure portal (for indirect enterprise agreement customers)

General availability: Application security groups support for private endpoints - Application security groups (ASGs) support for private endpoints is now generally available.

General availability: Mount Azure Storage as a local share in App Service Windows Code - Mounting Azure Storage File share as a network share in Windows code (non-container) in App Service is now generally available.

General Availability: 5 GB Put Blob - Maximum Put Blob size is now increasing to 5 GB

Public Preview: Container insights support for AKS hybrid clusters - Container insights now supports AKS hybrid clusters

Classic VM retirement: extending retirement date to September 1st 2023 - Extended migration period for your IaaS VMs from Azure Service Manager to Azure Resource Manager. Please complete the migration by 1 September 2023.

Azure App Health Extension - Rich Health States - Application Health Extension, Rich Health States allows for more detailed health reporting on your VM applications.

Cheers,

Marcos Nogueira
Azure MVP
azurecentric.com
Twitter: @mdnoga