Azure DevOps & Cloud-Native Updates – January 2025

By Lionel Gurret.

Introduction

Welcome to our Monthly Azure DevOps and Cloud Tech Updates Series!

Welcome to my monthly blog series where we bring you a concise roundup of significant Azure updates pertinent to DevOps, keeping you in the loop with the latest advancements.

Let’s check what’s new!

Updates

Analytics

• Retirement: Upgrade your Azure HDInsight clusters with TLS versions 1 dot 1 and below by March 31, 2025
• Retirement: Microsoft Fabric Runtime 1.1 End of Support

Compute

• [Launched] Generally Available: Changes to instance size flexibility ratios for Azure Reserved Virtual Machine Instances for M-series
• [Launched] Generally Available: App Service session affinity proxy compatibility

Containers

• [Launched] Generally Available: Azure Red Hat OpenShift in Spain Central
• [In preview] Public Preview: JavaScript code interpreter dynamic sessions in Azure Container Apps
• [In preview] Public Preview: Collect Azure Container Storage metrics with Azure Monitor Managed Service for Prometheus (Public Preview)

Databases

• [Launched] Generally Available: Azure SQL updates for late-January 2025
• [Launched] Generally Available: Azure Confidential Ledger Achieves ISO 27001 Certification
• [Launched] Generally Available: Azure SQL updates for mid-January 2025
• [Launched] Generally Available: Accelerated logs now default along with support for customer managed keys (CMKs) in Azure Database for MySQL
• [Launched] Generally Available: User-managed plugin enablement in Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server
• [Launched] Generally Available: Azure Confidential Ledger Achieves SOC 2 Type II Compliance

DevOps

• [Launched] Public Preview: Azure Monitor Integrates Performance Diagnostics for Enhanced VM Troubleshooting

Developer tools

• [In preview] Public Preview: Introducing enhanced support for Generation 2 VMs in Azure DevTest Labs
• [In preview] Public Preview: Reduce costs with Hibernation in Azure DevTest Labs

Integration

• [In preview] Public Preview: Seamless Amazon API Gateway Integration for API Center

Management and governance

• Retirement: Resources interacting with Azure Automation using TLS 1.0/1.1 protocol will be blocked from March 1, 2025
• Retirement: Azure Automation will discontinue execution of PowerShell runbooks using AzureRM modules from February 1, 2025
• Retirement: All Azure Automation jobs running on Agent-based Hybrid Worker will be stopped from 1 April 2025
• [Launched] Generally Available: Azure Automation is revising Service and Subscription limits
• [In preview] Public Preview: Troubleshoot Disk Performance with Copilot in Azure

Migration

• [In preview] Public Preview: Announcing the Next generation Azure Data Box Devices

Networking

• [Launched] Generally Available: WebSocket support in Application Gateway for Containers

Retirements

• Retirement: Azure AI Image Analysis 4.0 Preview APIs retiring on March 31, 2025

Security

• [Launched] Generally Available: FIPS 140 Level 3 HSMs Premium Key Vault in China

Storage

• [Launched] Generally Available: Customer Managed Unplanned Failover for Azure Data Lake Storage and SSH File Transfer Protocol
• [Launched] Generally Available: Azure Files provisioned v2 billing model for HDD (standard)
• [Launched] Generally Available: Azure NetApp Files now supports minimum volume size of 50 GiB

Sources

https://azure.microsoft.com/
Microsoft Dev Blog
Azure Website