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Azure – Retirement: HTTP application routing add-on (preview) for AKS will retire 03/03/2025
Transition your ingresses to Web Application routing add-on before 3/3/2025 to avoid service disruptions. Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure Maps Data V1 / V2 APIs will be retired on 16 September 2024 – transition to Azure Maps Data Registry APIs
Azure Maps Data V1 / V2 APIs will be retired on 16 September 2024 Read More for the details.

Azure – Transition to using standard tests for single-step availability testing in Azure Monitor application insights by 30 September 2026
URL ping tests in the application insights feature will be retired on 30 September 2026. Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure Monitor Data Collection API Retirement
Support for Data Collector API feature is being discontinued. This feature allowed users to ingest custom logs into Log Analytics workspaces. DCR-based Log Ingestion API now provides similar capabilities with added flexibility of data transformation and support of secure authentication methods. Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure Database for MariaDB will be retired on 19 September 2025 – Migrate to Azure Database for MySQL Flexible Server
Azure Database for MariaDB will be retired on 19 September 2025 Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure Monitor for AKS-Engine will not be supported on 14 September 2026
Azure Monitor for AKS-Engine will not be supported after 14 September 2026 – enable Azure Monitor to monitor AKS clusters migrated from AKS-Engine Read More for the details.

AWS – IAM Roles Anywhere is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Roles Anywhere is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions. IAM Roles Anywhere enables workloads that run outside of AWS to access AWS resources using IAM roles and policies in the same way you do from your AWS workloads. IAM Roles Anywhere allows your workloads […]

AWS – Amazon Connect launches CloudFormation support for security profiles
Amazon Connect now supports AWS CloudFormation for security profiles. You can now use AWS CloudFormation templates to deploy Amazon Connect security profiles —along with the rest of your AWS infrastructure— in a secure, efficient, and repeatable way, allowing you to apply consistent security policies across instances. CloudFormation allows you to track changes over time, apply […]

AWS – AWS HealthImaging supports CloudFormation
AWS HealthImaging now supports AWS CloudFormation. With CloudFormation support, you can now use CloudFormation templates to create and delete your AWS HealthImaging resources. This helps you automate and standardize DevOps processes across your AWS accounts and AWS Regions for AWS HealthImaging. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) supports in-place major version upgrade
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now supports an in-place major version upgrade (MVU) from Amazon DocumentDB versions 3.6 and 4.0 to version 5.0. Instead of backing up and restoring the database to the new version or relying on database migration tools, you can perform an in-place major version upgrade with a few clicks using the […]