Azure Weekly Updates - March 12th, 2024

Well-Architected Framework assessment on Azure Advisor

The Well-Architected Framework (WAF) assessment provides a holistic view of a workload's architecture. Take the WAF assessment and manage recommendations on Azure Advisor to improve resiliency, security, cost, operational excellence and performance efficiency.

AVAILABILITY: IN PREVIEW

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Azure Sphere OS version 24.03 is now available for evaluation

Azure Sphere OS version 24.03 is now available for evaluation in the Retail Eval feed. The retail evaluation period for this release provides 28 days (about 4 weeks) of testing. During this time, please verify that your applications and devices operate properly with this release before it is deployed broadly to devices in the Retail feed.

The 24.03 OS Retail Eval release includes bug fixes and security updates including additional security updates to the cancelled 23.10 release, and a bugfix to a sporadic issue with OS update that caused the cancellation of that release.

AVAILABILITY: NOW AVAILABLE

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New Generation AMD VMs - Dasv6/Easv6/Fasv6

On March 4th, 2024, Azure introduces the latest AMD-based VMs in public preview for the D, E, and F family VMs, built on the 4th Generation AMD EPYC? 9004 (Genoa) CPU. These new VMs introduce even greater performance and reliability than the previous AMD v5 VMs based on the 3rd Generation AMD EPYC? (Milan) CPU. These new Genoa-based VMs will come in the form various series of different memory to core ratios spread across of the three VM families – the general purpose Dasv6 and Dalsv6 series, the memory optimized Easv6 series, and the compute optimized Fasv6, Falsv6, and Famsv6 series.

AVAILABILITY: IN PREVIEW

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Azure NetApp Files volume enhancement – allow the same file path for volumes in different availability zones

With this enhancement, Azure NetApp Files now allows the use of the same volume mount path for two or more volumes in the same region if they are each in a different availability zone. This is great for highly available architectures using cross-zone replication that would benefit from using the same mount path for both the source and target volumes. Having a common mount path for the source and target volumes eases automation and reduces manual effort during the failover of disaster recovery events which could lead to reduced recovery time objectives and improved application and data availability. This enhancement can also be used with regular volumes not participating in cross-zone replication.

AVAILABILITY: IN PREVIEW

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Azure Functions Support for Node.js 20

Azure Functions support for Node.js 20 is now Generally Available.

You can now develop functions using Node.js 20 locally and deploy them to all Azure Functions plans on Linux and Windows.

AVAILABILITY: NOW AVAILABLE

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Change Actor

With Change Analysis you can now see who initiated the change and with which client that change was made, for changes across all your tenants and subscriptions.?

Audit, troubleshoot, and govern at scale??

By using Azure Resource Graph to query your resource changes, you can craft charts and pin results to Azure dashboards based on specific change queries.??

What's new: Actor Functionality?

Who made the change??

With which client the change was made?

What operation was called

AVAILABILITY: IN PREVIEW

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Azure Virtual Network encryption now in additional regions

With Virtual Network encryption, customers can enable encryption of traffic between Virtual Machines and Virtual Machines Scale Sets within the same virtual network and between regionally and globally peered virtual networks. This new feature enhances the existing encryption in transit capabilities in Azure.

AVAILABILITY: NOW AVAILABLE

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Service Level Agreements on Azure Blob Storage Cold Tier

Azure Blob Storage Cold Tier was generally available since Aug 10th, 2023. It is a new online access tier that is the most cost-effective Azure Blob offering for storing infrequently accessed data with long-term retention requirements, while providing instant access.

enhances the existing encryption in transit capabilities in Azure.

AVAILABILITY: NOW AVAILABLE

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App Service Backup and Restore over Azure Virtual Network

Customers can now use custom backups, to back up their web app's files and configuration data to a firewall-protected storage account if the following requirements are fulfilled:

The app is integrated with a virtual network, or the app is in a v3 App Service environment.

The storage account has granted access from the virtual network that the app is integrated with, or that the v3 App Service environment is created with.

AVAILABILITY: NOW AVAILABLE

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