You can now take advantage of Kubernetes 1.29 version with AKS in production environment.

You can now modify default values for kubelet parameters when using Windows nodepools in AKS.

You can now scale beyond the current 65k Pod IPs and scale up to 1 Million Pods.

You can now use deployment safeguards to implement Kubernetes best practices and get warnings on deployment or deny the deployment of manifest files that are not following best practices.

You can now deploy AKS clusters in dual stack mode which now enables resource connection through IPv4 or IPv6.

You can now opt in automatically renew your reservation at time of purchase, which provides an easy way to continue getting reservation discounts.