{"id":2587,"date":"2024-05-13T11:46:48","date_gmt":"2024-05-13T10:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ituziast.com\/?p=2587"},"modified":"2024-11-27T12:35:13","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T11:35:13","slug":"azure-announcements-spring-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ituziast.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/13\/azure-announcements-spring-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Azure Announcements (Spring 2024)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Microsoft Azure<\/a> is constantly evolving, updating and changing environment. Sometimes this makes it difficult to follow all that happens around it. I will try to condense some of the announcements based on status – generally available, preview or update features.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Be aware that generally available features\/updates might incur costs. Services part of a public preview<\/a>, don’t incur any costs, but also does not have Service-Level Agreement (SLA<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Previous articles:<\/p>\nCloud Section (Ituziast)<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n


General Availability Announcements<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Announcing the General Availability of GPT-4 Turbo with Vision on Azure OpenAI Service<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The general availability of GPT-4 Turbo with Vision on the Azure OpenAI Service<\/a>, which processes both text and image inputs and replaces several preview models. This multimodal model has already been used by customers in various industries to enhance efficiencies and innovate, with case studies to be featured at the upcoming Build conference. For deployment details and future enhancements, including JSON mode and function calling for image inputs, please refer to our Azure OpenAI Service resources and updates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Additional information:<\/p>\nLearn more about GPT-4 Turbo with Vision on Azure OpenAI Service<\/a>
Azure OpenAI Quickstart for GPT-4 Turbo with Vision<\/a>
Azure OpenAI How-To Guide<\/a>
Responsible AI<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Support for disabling Windows outboundNAT in AKS<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Windows OutboundNAT can cause certain connection and communication issues with your AKS pods. An example issue is node port reuse. In this example, Windows OutboundNAT uses ports to translate your pod IP to your Windows node host IP, which can cause an unstable connection to the external service due to a port exhaustion issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Windows enables OutboundNAT by default. You can now manually disable OutboundNAT when creating new Windows agent pools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Additional information:<\/p>\nCreate a managed or user-assigned NAT gateway for your Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

New version of AKS extension in Visual Studio Code now available<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

he AKS extension in Visual Studio Code<\/a> has been updated to version 1.4.3. This new release includes general enhancements as well as a new command \u201cRetina capture\u201d. Retina capture uses Retina, a cloud-agnostic, open-source eBPF network observability tool to help capture logs such as iptables-rules.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Additional information:<\/p>\nVisual Studio Code, please visit the GitHub repository<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Customer-managed keys on existing accounts in Azure Cosmos DB<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

You can now enable Customer Managed Keys (CMK) on existing Azure Cosmos DB accounts. This eliminates the need to migrate data to a new account to enable CMK.   

This release follows the existing ability to enable a second layer of encryption for data at rest using CMK while creating a new Azure Cosmos DB account.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Additional information:<\/p>\nAzure Cosmos DB documentation<\/a>
Configure customer-managed keys for your existing Azure Cosmos DB accounts!<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Azure API Center<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Azure API Center is now generally available, providing a centralized solution to manage the challenges of API sprawl, which is exacerbated by the rapid proliferation of APIs and AI solutions. Azure API Center<\/a> offers a unified inventory for seamless discovery, consumption, and governance of APIs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Additional information:<\/p>\nAPI Inventory Management<\/a>
API Cataloging for Azure API Management<\/a>
API Design Governance<\/a>
API Reusability<\/a>
API Development Enhancement<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Azure Front Door log scrubbing of sensitive data is general available<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Azure Front Door<\/a> log scrubbing tool helps you remove sensitive data (e.g. personal identifiable information) from your Azure Front Door access logs. It works by enabling log scrubbing at Azure Front Door profile level and selecting the log fields to be scrubbed. Once enabled, the tool scrubs that information from your logs generated under this profile and replaces it with \u201c****\u201d<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Normally, when a request is served by Azure Front Door, in the\u00a0logs\u00a0the details of the request is in clear text. Sensitive data might be included in the request URL (such as customer passwords, client IP etc.). These data are viewable by anyone with access to the Azure Front Door access logs. To protect customer data, you can set up log scrubbing rules targeting this sensitive data for protection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Additional information:<\/p>\nAzure Front Door sensitive data protection<\/a>
Monitor metrics and logs in Azure Front Door<\/a>
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Azure Governance Update – Management Groups<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Beginning May 3, 2024, Azure will start enabling the\u00a0root management group<\/a>\u00a0for tenants that have not enabled it yet. Using Azure management groups leverages best practices when applying Azure Policy.Having it pre-enabled reduces the initial set up work to follow the best practices.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Additional information:<\/p>\nWhat are Azure management groups?<\/a>
<\/a>Root management group for each directory<\/a>
Initial setup of management groups<\/a>

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Azure Spring Apps Feature Update Q1 2024: Save up to 47% with Azure savings plan<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Announcing the exciting feature updates for Azure Spring Apps in Q1 2024. Save up to 47% with Azure Savings plan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Additional information:<\/p>\nAzure Spring Apps Enterprise is now eligible for Azure savings plan<\/a>
Azure CLI supports log streaming for Spring Cloud Gateway<\/a>
Azure CLI supports log streaming for Application Configuration Service<\/a>
Enhanced troubleshooting of Application Configuration Service<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Azure Bastion Developer SKU<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The Bastion Developer SKU represents a novel, cost-effective, and streamlined version of the Bastion service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Additional information<\/p>\nWhat is Azure Bastion?<\/a>
Quickstart: Deploy Azure Bastion – Developer SKU<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Azure Chaos Studio supports Resource tags<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

This is a managed service that uses chaos engineering to help measure, understand, and improve cloud application and service resilience. Chaos Studio now supports\u00a0Resource tags<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Additional information:<\/p>\nAzure Chaos Studio<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Infrastructure and quality enhancements for Azure Container Registry<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

We are excited to share the following significant enhancements to the Azure Container Registry (ACR) infrastructure:<\/p>\n\n\n\n