Azure Weekly Update - 20th June 2025

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Announcements Summary

• Linux VM continuous diagnostics (01:38) - Capture metrics at 5-second intervals to storage.
• Azure Red Hat OpenShift 4.17 (02:26) - Support for 4.17 in OpenShift
• DCsv2 retirement (02:59) - Move to newer SKUs before the 6/30/2026 retirement
• App Service .NET 9 support end (03:51) - Retires 5/12/2026
• Azure Functions OpenTelemetry support (04:00) - Can now emit in the OpenTelemetry format enabling use by any OpenTelemetry capable endpoint
• AKS Ubuntu 24.04 support (04:34)
• AKS Azure Linux LTS support (04:51) - Long Term Support is now available when using Azure Linux for node pools
• AKS K8S 1.31 and 1.32 LTS (06:00) - Kubernetes 1.31 and 1.32 now available for Long Term Support
• VNET default outbound Internet retirement (06:19) - You must enable explicit Internet egress for your vnets where required such as with NAT Gateway
• Azure SQL MI faster management ops (07:19) - Management operations for creation and scale are much faster than previously
• Azure SQL MI AZ redundancy (07:56) - Availability Zones can be used for replicas increasing the resilience of regional deployments
• Azure SQL MI flexible memory (09:02) - The memory to vCore ration can now be customized on the premium series hardware SKUs
• Azure SQL DB data virtualization (09:52) - CSV, parquet and delta lake files in ADLSGen2 or blob can now be virtualized and used by Azure SQL DB without import
• PostgreSQL 17 migration support (10:48) - Support for PostgreSQL 17 as part of the migration solution
• New Chile Azure region (11:11) - Centra Chile now GA with AZ support
• Azure Backup large disk VM support (11:21) - Support for individual disks up to 64 TB and 512 TB per VM
• ASR Ultra disk support (11:34) - ASR can now replicate Ultra disks