Last Updated on August 13, 2025 by Arnav Sharma
November 1, 2023
- TLS 1.2 to become the minimum TLS version for Azure Storage: Target availability Q4 2024.
- GA: gRPC support on Azure App Service – Target availability Q4 2024.
November 2, 2023
- Public Preview: Azure integration with Canonicalโs Snapshot Service for safe deployment.
- Generally available: Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage is now available in more regions.
November 3, 2023
- Game Dev VM Marketplace Application will be retired on February 1st, 2024.
November 6, 2023
- Now Available: Ability to add dynamic values in Alertโs custom fields.
- Public Preview: Application Gateway IPv6 support.
- In Preview: Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus is available in 7 additional Azure regions.
November 6, 2023
- Preview: Azure Container Storage in AKS.
- Now Available: Latency metrics for disks and performance metrics for temporary disks on Azure Virtual Machines.
- In Preview: Azure Elastic SAN updates: Security, and Usability.
- General Availability: Azure Advisor recommendation improves the reliability of Azure Disks with Zone Redundant Storage.
November 7, 2023
- Customer-Managed Keys (preview) integration with Azure Chaos Studio.
- Now Available: Azure NetApp Files datastores for Azure VMware Solution is available in US Government regions.
- Now Available: Azure Red Hat OpenShift November 2023 updates.
- Now Available: Provider for running Karpenter on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
- GA: Kubernetes Event-driven Autoscaling (KEDA) Add-on for AKS.
- GA: Kubernetes 1.28 support in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
- GA: Application routing add-on for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
- GA: Kube-reserved resource optimization in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
- In Preview: Dual-stack networking in Azure CNI Overlay for AKS.
- In Preview: Artifact streaming support in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
- In Preview: Image integrity support in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
November 8, 2023
- General Availability: Introducing NGads V620 Series VMs optimized for gaming scenarios.
- Azure Monitor Logs archive provides up to 12 years of retention.
- General Availability: Using a common port for public and private listeners.
- General Availability: Rate-limit rules for Application Gateway Web Application Firewall.
- Public Preview: Azure SQL updates for early-November 2023.
November 9, 2023
- Public Preview: App Service End-to-end (E2E) Encryption for Linux Multi-tenant Resources.
November 10, 2023
- Azure support for TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 will end by 31 October 2024.
November 13, 2023
- Public Preview: Support for GraphQL APIs in Azure API Management Self-hosted Gateway.
- Public Preview: Azure Monitor Agent JSON log collection.
- Public Preview: Support for gRPC APIs in Azure API Management Self-Hosted Gateway.
- Public Preview: Azure Monitor Alerts integration with Event Grid for Azure Key Vault system events.
- Export cost details using the FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification (FOCUS).
November 14, 2023
- Experiment templates now available in Azure Chaos Studio.
- General Availability: Start and stop load (Azure Load Testing) faults in Azure Chaos Studio.
- GA: Azure Functions supports .NET 8 in the isolated worker model.
- General Availability: Ubuntu Server to Ubuntu Pro in-place upgrade now available.
November 15, 2023 (Ignite Updates)
- Public Preview: Microsoft Copilot for Azure.
- Now Available: MQTT broker feature, PubSub capabilities for Azure Event Grid.
- Introducing New Capabilities in Microsoft Dev Box.
- Public Preview: 3rd party support for Arm solutions in Azure Marketplace.
- Introducing New Capabilities in Azure Deployment Environments.
- Public Preview: VM Hibernation.
- Public Preview: Azure VMSS Zonal Expansion.
- GA: Azure Boost.
- Public Preview: New Generation AMD VMs – Dasv6/Easv6/Fasv6.
- Public Preview: Azure Database for PostgreSQL Networking with private endpoints. Target availability: Q4 2023.
- Public Preview: Enhanced performance and scalability in Azure Database for PostgreSQL. Target availability: Q4 2023.
- General Availability: Free tier on Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore. Target availability: Q4 2023.
- General Availability: Vector search in Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore. Target availability: Q4 2023.
- General Availability: Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore. Target availability: Q4 2023.
- Public Preview: Priority-based execution in Azure Cosmos DB. Target availability: Q4 2023.
- Public Preview: Cross-account container copy for Azure Cosmos DB NoSQL API. Target availability: Q4 2023.
- Public Preview: Azure Open AI โUse your dataโ integration with Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore. Target availability: Q4 2023.
- Public Preview: Dynamic scaling per partition and per region. Target availability: Q4 2023.
- Public Preview: Microsoft Copilot for Azure capability now available in Azure Cosmos DB. Target availability: Q4 2023.
- Public Preview: Bring enhanced manageability to your SQL Server anywhere with Azure Arc. Target availability: Q4 2023.
- General Availability: Azure Virtual Network Manager Security Admin Rule in select regions.
- Public Preview: Enabling Rate Limiting on ExpressRoute Direct Circuits.
- Public Preview: Customer-controlled maintenance.
- General Availability: Lower pricing for Azure SQL Database Hyperscale expected in December 2023. Target availability: Q4 2023.
- Public Preview: Azure Cosmos DB Migration for MongoDB extension – Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore migration capability. Target availability: Q4 2023.
- Public Preview: ExpressRoute Seamless Gateway Migration.
- Public Preview: ExpressRoute Scalable Gateway.
- General Availability: ExpressRoute Direct and Circuit in different subscriptions.
- General Availability: ExpressRoute as a Trusted Service.
- Public Preview: Confidential containers on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
- Public Preview: Confidential temp disk encryption for confidential VMs.
- Public Preview: New Marketplace app for Storage customers and feature enhancements to portal for Azure confidential ledger.
- Preview: Disk Integrity Tool for confidential VMs in Azure.
- Generally Available: Trusted launch as default for VMs deployed through PowerShell and CLI.
- Public Preview: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9.3 support for AMD-based confidential VMs.
- Generally Available: AMD confidential VMs in new regions for November 2023.
- Azure Machine Learning – Public Preview for November: Features include model/dataset selection, Fabric datastore integration, and Model-as-a-Service with inference APIs.
- Azure Machine Learning – General Availability for November: Features include OSS LLMs search, compute management, and AI workflow support.
- General Availability: Azure AI Advantage for Azure Cosmos DB.
- Public Preview: Azure confidential VMs with Intel TDX.
- Public Preview: Online Disaster recovery between SQL Server 2022 and Azure SQL Managed Instance.
- General Availability: November 2022 Feature Wave for Azure SQL Managed Instance.
- General Availability: Azure SQL Database Always Encrypted with virtualization-based security (VBS) enclaves.
- Public Preview: Azure SQL updates for mid-November 2023.
- General Availability: Azure SQL updates for mid-November 2023.
- New user interface experience for Azure SQL migration extension.
- Public Preview: Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra Feature Updates.
- Public Preview: Long Term Retention for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server.
- Public Preview: Azure Database for PostgreSQL extension for Azure AI.
- GA: Stateful entities in Durable Functions on the isolated worker model for .NET.
- Azure Container Storage is now available with Azure Linux container host (In Preview).
- Azure Functions brings new flexibility with scale, VNet and long execution time (In Development).
- Public Preview: Azure IoT Operations.
- Generally available: Partitioned namespaces for Azure Service Bus Premium.
- Public preview: Cost analysis add-on for AKS.
- Public preview: Vector database add-ons for Azure Container Apps.
- Public preview: Azure Container Apps adds native support for CNCF Buildpacks to automatically containerize your code.
- Generally available: Azure Container Apps Landing Zone Accelerator.
- Public preview: Policy-driven resiliency in Azure Container Apps.
- Public preview: Dedicated GPU workload profiles.
- Kubernetes AI toolchain operator (Now Available).
- GA: Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager.
- Preview: New Basic SKU functionality for Azure confidential ledger.
- Azure Chaos Studio is now generally available.
- General availability: Additional Azure ExpressRoute peering locations.
- Generally available: AMD confidential VM option for Azure Databricks.
- Announcing Azure API Management Credential Manager: Azure API Management Authorizations Renamed (Now Available).
- Public Preview: Announcing the preview of Azure Managed Confidential Consortium Framework.
- Preview: Azure confidential VMs with NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs.
- Public Preview: Attach and VMs to and from Existing Virtual Machine Scale Sets.
- General Availability of Azure Logic Apps‘ New Data Mapper for Visual Studio Code.
- Generally Available: Azure Mv3 Medium Memory (MM) Virtual Machines.
- Azure Logic Apps Standard VS Code Extension Installation Enhancements in public preview.
- General Availability of Application Insights Enhancements for Azure Logic Apps (standard).
- Announcing general availability of .NET Framework Custom Code for Azure Logic Apps (standard).
- Announcing Azure Integration Environment in public preview.
- Azure Logic Apps workflow assistant in public preview.
- Public preview: Azure Backup supports long term retention for backup of Azure Database for PostgreSQLโ Flexible Server.
November 16, 2023 (Ignote Updates)
- General availability: Reservations for Microsoft Fabric.
- Generally Available: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.3 now supported on Azure Virtual Machines.
- General availability: Integration of Azure Monitor Agent support with Connection Monitor.
- Public preview: Private subnet.
November 20, 2023
- General availability: Azure Monitor Application Insights Browser SDK Loader for Node.js.
- General Availability: Encryption at host for Premium SSD v2 and Ultra Disks.
- Azure Web PubSub support for Socket.IO now generally available.
- Generally Available: Collect Syslog from AKS nodes using Azure Monitor Container Insights.
- Part numbers from EA invoice are now added to the cost and usage file.
- Generally available: Delete Jobs API to support bulk delete in Azure Digital Twins.
- Generally Available: Azure Red Hat OpenShift in Italy North.
November 21, 2023
- General Availability: Azure App Configuration Kubernetes Provider.
- General Availability: User and group quota management in Azure NetApp Files.
- General Availability: Standard network features support in US Gov regions.
- Generally Available: Azure Static Web Apps now supports .NET 8.
- Public Preview: Encryption using Customer Managed Keys for Backup Vaults.
November 22, 2023
- General Availability: Azure Backup for AKS.
- Public Preview: Kafka Input and Output with Azure Stream Analytics.
- Public Preview: Schema migration for target Azure SQL DB.
- Public Preview: Protocol Buffers (Protobuf) with Azure Stream Analytics.
- General Availability: Azure Portal experience for Azure Database Migration Service.
- General Availability: SKU recommendation in Azure SQL Migration extension – Azure Data Studio.
- General Availability: pgvector 0.5.1 extension.
- Public Preview: Server logs for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server.
- General Availability: Time travel in Azure Synapse Link for Azure Cosmos DB.
- General Availability: Change data capture in Azure Cosmos DB analytical store.
November 24, 2023
- Extended Support for .NET 6 (LTS) ends on 12 November 2024.
- Extended Support for .NET 7 (STS) ends on 14 May 2024.
November 29, 2023
- Public Preview: Azure NetApp Files support for 1 TiB capacity pools.
- General Availability: Azure NetApp Files support for 2 TiB capacity pools.