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Public Preview: Azure Monitor introduces Prometheus community recommended alerts

Target availability: Q1 2024

Enable Prometheus community recommended alerts to monitor key signals to be promptly notified on potential critical issues within your clusters.

• Azure Monitor
• Managed Prometheus
• Alerts (Classic)
• Features

Generally Available: AKS cost views

The Kubernetes clusters and Kubernetes namespaces cost views are now generally available in Cost analysis within Azure portal. You can view the aggregated costs for all your AKS clusters and namespaces across a subscription and drill down into infrastructure and namespaces costs of a cluster.

• Microsoft Cost Management
• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Management

Announcing General Availability of Azure API Management Basic v2 and Standard v2 Tiers

Target availability: Q2 2024

We're thrilled to announce the General Availability of Azure API Management's newest pricing tiers – Basic v2 and Standard v2. The Azure API Management v2 pricing tiers represent a significant leap forward, offering a comprehensive range of capabilities tailored to projects of all sizes, from small-scale endeavors to large-scale enterprise applications. Importantly, these new v2 pricing tiers are available alongside our existing Azure API Management classic pricing tiers, ensuring continuity for users. It's worth noting that the Azure API Management classic pricing tiers remain actively supported and invested in.  

• API Management
• Pricing & Offerings

GA: Azure API Management Developer Portal Unveils Enhanced Features for Increased Developer Productivity

Target availability: Q1 2024

The API Management developer portal is an automatically generated, fully customizable website with the documentation of your APIs. It's where API consumers can discover your APIs, learn how to use them, request access, and try them out. We recently improved the portal editor interface to boost your productivity and enhance the interactions with your favorite features and tools.  

• Features

Public preview: ExpressRoute Metro for High Resiliency

ExpressRoute lets you extend your on-premises networks into the Microsoft cloud over a private connection with the help of a connectivity provider. With ExpressRoute, you can establish connections to Microsoft cloud services, such as Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365.

• Azure ExpressRoute
• ExpressRoute Circuits
• Services
• Features

Public preview: Azure Backup supports long term retention for backup of Azure Database for MySQL– Flexible Server

Target availability: Q1 2024

Now you can retain backups for up to 10 years by defining your own backup and retention policy for MySQL- Flexible server.

• Azure Backup
• Azure Database for MySQL flexible servers
• Compliance
• Security
• Features

Public Preview: Azure Backup enables vaulted backups for Azure Files for comprehensive data protection.

Target availability: Q1 2024

Azure Backup now supports transferring Azure Files backups to the vault for comprehensive protection against severe data loss scenarios like ransomware attack.

• Security
• Features