Azure Monthly Summary - May 2024

A summary of May’s (and the start of June’s) weekly Azure snippets, highlighting some of the developments and new features that particularly caught my eye.

This post draws from the following weekly snippets - visit the posts for more details:

• Azure Snippets w/c 06/05/2024
• Azure Snippets w/c 13/05/2024
• Azure Snippets w/c 20/05/2024 - Microsoft Build summary post
• Azure Snippets w/c 27/05/2024
• Azure Snippets w/c 03/06/2024

API Center

• API Center (GA) (Azure Snippets w/c 06/05/2024)

API Management

• Backend Load Balancer (GA) (Azure Snippets w/c 20/05/2024)
• Backend Circuit Breaker (GA) (Azure Snippets w/c 20/05/2024)
• Audit logging in Developer portal (GA) (Azure Snippets w/c 03/06/2024)

Application Gateway

• Application Gateway v2 Basic SKU (Public Preview) (Azure Snippets w/c 13/05/2024)

Availability Zones

• Inter-zone data transfer will no longer be charged for (Azure Snippets w/c 20/05/2024)

Azure Container Storage

• Azure Container Storage (GA) (Azure Snippets w/c 20/05/2024)

Azure DB for PostgreSQL

• Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server enhanced disaster recovery features (GA) (Azure Snippets w/c 06/05/2024)
• Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server networking with Azure Private Link (GA) (Azure Snippets w/c 06/05/2024)

Azure Load Balancer

• Health Event Logs (Public Preview) (Azure Snippets w/c 03/06/2024)
• Admin State (Public Preview) (Azure Snippets w/c 03/06/2024)

Azure Monitor

• Log Analytics Simple Mode (Public Preview) (Azure Snippets w/c 03/06/2024)

Azure Kubernetes Service

• Initialization taints (Public Preview) (Azure Snippets w/c 06/05/2024)
• Kubernetes 1.30 support (Public Preview) (Azure Snippets w/c 20/05/2024)
• AKS Automatic (Public Preview) (Azure Snippets w/c 20/05/2024)
• In context observability for AKS object overviews in Azure Portal (GA) (Azure Snippets w/c 20/05/2024)
• Advanced Container Networking Services for AKS (Public Preview) (Azure Snippets w/c 27/05/2024)
• Open Service Mesh deprecation (Azure Snippets w/c 27/05/2024)

Azure Resource Graph

• Azure Change Analysis - New Portal experience (Public Preview) (Azure Snippets w/c 06/05/2024)

Azure Resource Manager

• Deployment Stacks (GA) (Azure Snippets w/c 27/05/2024)

Azure SQL

• Licence-free standby replica (GA) (Azure Snippets w/c 20/05/2024)
• Availability portal metric (Public Preview) (Azure Snippets w/c 27/05/2024)
• Update policy for Managed Instances (GA) (Azure Snippets w/c 27/05/2024)

Defender for Cloud

• Azure Defender for Microsoft Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server (GA) (Azure Snippets w/c 06/05/2024)

Virtual Networks

• Virtual network flow logs (GA) (Azure Snippets w/c 06/05/2024)
• Virtual Network encryption in all regions (GA) (Azure Snippets w/c 06/05/2024)