New Azure features and functionality for March 2023
It’s been a busy month as far as new Azure features and functionality go! Just in case you’ve missed something, we’ve collected all of the announcements from March 2023 in one place. Be sure to give this list a read through, as there’s a wealth of exciting new functions and updates to check out!
General Availability
- Azure Image Builder Portal Functionality now available
- Mount Azure Files and ephemeral storage in Azure Container Apps
- Larger SKUs for App Service Environment v3
- Azure Monitor Alerts now support duplicating alert rules
- Multi-Column Distribution for Dedicated SQL pools
- Microsoft Purview DevOps policies for Azure SQL Database
- New Azure Monitor audit logging policy released
- Migration feature with Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server
- Nconnect support for Azure Files NFS v4.1 shares
- Azure Site Recovery – Migrate Azure Automation account’s authentication from Run As accounts to Managed Identity
- Resource governance for client applications in Azure Event Hubs
- Simpler way to renaming Network Interface (NIC) and Disks for protected VMs in Azure Site Recovery
- Azure Private Link support for Inbound traffic in Azure API Management
- Azure Virtual Network Manager
- Reserved namespaces for subdomains
- Azure Active Directory backed authentication for JMS 2.0 API on Azure Service Bus
- ASP. NET web app migration to Azure App Service using PowerShell Scripts
- Encryption scopes on hierarchical namespace enabled storage accounts
- Serilog Sink for Azure Data Explorer
- Performance workbooks for Azure PostgreSQL – Flexible Server
- Azure Load Testing support for JMeter 5.5
- Azure Kubernetes Service Edge Essentials
- Azure Monitor integration with Azure Container Apps
- Azure SQL Database offline migrations in Azure SQL Migration extension
- Durable Functions support of managed identity for Azure Storage
- ContainerLogV2 Schema in Azure Monitor container insights
- Metric charts support for split-by operations on multiple dimensions
- Azure Firewall Basic
- Support for pg_hint_plan and semver extensions in Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server
- Azure Hybrid Benefit for SQL Server on Azure VMware Solution
- Azure Digital Twins Data history supports Graph updates
- Immutable vaults for Azure Backup
- Ephemeral OS disks supports encryption at host using customer managed keys
- Spot Priority Mix
- Yocto Kirkstone recipes for IoT Edge 1.4 LTS
- App Insights Extension for Azure Virtual Machines and VM Scale Sets
- Model Serving on Azure Databricks
- Power BI with Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server
- Burstable compute for single node configurations for Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL
- Azure Monitor Ingestion client libraries
- New enhanced connection troubleshoot
- 4 TiB, 8 TiB, and 16 TiB storage per node for Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL
- Online live resize of persistent volumes
Updates
- Azure Service Fabric 9.1 Second Refresh Release
- Azure Maps is now HIPAA compliant
- Azure HDInsight for Apache Kafka 3.2.0 is now available
- Azure SQL updates for early March 2023
- Azure SQL updates for mid-March 2023
- Azure SQL updates for late-March 2023
- Azure HDInsight for Apache HBase 2.4.11 is now available
- Azure Machine Learning updates for March 2023
- Azure Red Hat OpenShift version 4.11 now available
- Azure Red Hat OpenShift March Updates
Misc
- Azure Database for PostgreSQL Single Server will be retired—migrate to Flexible Server by 28 March 2025
- Docker container runtime retirement for Windows node pools effective May 1, 2023
- Container insights recommended alerts (custom metrics) (preview) will be retired on 14 March 2026
- More transactions at no additional cost for Azure Standard SSD
