What's new in Azure Spring Apps?

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Note

The Basic, Standard, and Enterprise plans will be deprecated starting from mid-March, 2025, with a 3 year retirement period. We recommend transitioning to Azure Container Apps. For more information, see the Azure Spring Apps retirement announcement.

The Standard consumption and dedicated plan will be deprecated starting September 30, 2024, with a complete shutdown after six months. We recommend transitioning to Azure Container Apps.

Azure Spring Apps is improved on an ongoing basis. To help you stay up to date with the most recent developments, this article provides you with information about the latest releases.

This article is updated quarterly, so revisit it regularly. You can also visit Azure updates, where you can search for updates or browse by category.

The following update is now available in all plans:

The following update is now available in the Basic/Standard plans:

  • Azure Developer CLI (azd) for Azure Spring Apps: Azure Developer CLI (azd) is an open-source tool that accelerates the time it takes for you to get your application from local development environment to Azure. You can now initialize, package, provision, and deploy a Spring application to Azure Spring Apps with only a few commands.

Q1 2023

The following updates are now available in the Basic/Standard plans:

  • Source code assessment for migration: Assess your existing on-premises Spring applications for their readiness to migrate to Azure Spring Apps with Cloud Suitability Analyzer. This tool provides information on what types of changes are needed for migration, and how much effort is involved. For more information, see Assess Spring applications with Cloud Suitability Analyzer.

Q4 2022

The following updates are now available in Basic/Standard plan:

  • Ingress Settings: With ingress settings, you can manage Azure Spring Apps traffic on the application level. This capability includes protocol support for gRPC, WebSocket and RSocket-on-WebSocket, session affinity, and send/read timeout. For more information, see Customize the ingress configuration in Azure Spring Apps.

  • Remote debugging: Now, you can remotely debug your apps in Azure Spring Apps using IntelliJ or VS Code. For security reasons, by default, Azure Spring Apps disables remote debugging. You can enable remote debugging for your apps using Azure portal or Azure CLI and start debugging. For more information, see Debug your apps remotely in Azure Spring Apps.

  • Connect to app instance shell environment for troubleshooting: Azure Spring Apps offers many ways to troubleshoot your applications. For developers who like to inspect an app instance running environment, you can connect to the app instance's shell environment and troubleshoot it. For more information, see Connect to an app instance for troubleshooting.

See also

For older updates, see Azure updates.