The maximum vCore limit for Azure SQL Database serverless has increased over twofold to 40 vCores. The higher limits provide greater compute auto-scaling headroom for serverless databases with more demanding workloads.
Azure Application Gateway ingress controller (AGIC), a managed, scalable, and highly available application delivery controller, is now available to use as the ingress (inbound) traffic load-balancer for Kubernetes pods within an AKS cluster.
Two new AKS upgrade capabilities that will improve the granularity and efficiency of regular Kubernetes upgrade operations are now in preview.
Windows Server containers in AKS is now available in Azure Government.
New features in Spring Cloud that boost developer productivity, enable more DevOps scenarios, and make the platform production ready, are now available.
Support for up to 16 TB of storage and up to 20,000 IOPS in Azure Database for MariaDB is now available in preview. This functionality not only provides five times more storage for database servers, but also more than triples the available IOPS.