Azure service updates

Migrate your data from Azure unmanaged disk storage to managed disks before September 30, 2025.

Azure Database for PostgreSQL Single Server will extend the support for PostgreSQL version 11 and will now retire on 9 November 2024. Migrate to Flexible Server PostgreSQL version 13 or higher.

Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server will extend the support for PostgreSQL version 11 and will retire on 9 November 2024.

Start using Azure Pipelines by 31 March 2023 instead of Azure Portal to create Continuous delivery pipelines for Azure Virtual Machines.

Retirement notice: Deployment center setting of Azure Kubernetes Service will be retired 31 March 2023.

Regional coverage has expanded for Azure NetApp Files backup.

You can now initiate storage account conversions from non-zonal redundancy to zonal redundancy via Azure Portal

You can now use separate encryption keys for each customer in a single hierarchical namespace enabled storage account.

Azure regional Web Application Firewall (WAF) supports operators “Any” and “GreaterThanOrEqual”, improving WAF tuning capabilities. Azure's global WAF now supports geo-match filtering using the socket address in addition to remote address.

Immutable storage for Azure Data Lake Storage is now generally available. Immutable storage provides the capability to store data in a write once, read many (WORM) state.