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Preview: Introducing DCesv5 and ECesv5-series Confidential VMs with Intel TDX
Today, we’re excited to announce the expansion of our Confidential VM family with the launch of the DCesv5-series and ECesv5-series in preview. Featuring 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, these VMs are backed by an all-new hardware-based Trusted Execution Environment called Intel® Trust Domain Extensions (TDX). Organizations can use these VMs to seamlessly bring confidential workloads to the cloud without any code changes to their applications.
Public preview: Azure Container Apps available in Azure China
You can now use Azure Container Apps in Azure China.
Regional expansion: Azure Elastic SAN Public Preview is now available in more regions.
Azure Elastic SAN (preview) is now available in Australia East, North Europe, Sweden Central, UK South, West Europe, East US, East US 2, South Central US, and West US 3.
Public Preview: Azure Chaos Studio is now available in Sweden Central region
Azure Chaos Studio is now available in Sweden Central region.
March 2023
Generally available: Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage in East US 2, North Europe and West US 2
Now available in East US 2, North Europe and West US 2region, Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage offers the most advanced general-purpose block storage solution with the best price-performance.
Public Preview: Azure Chaos Studio is now available in Brazil South region
Azure Chaos Studio is now available in Brazil South region.
Generally available: Azure Ultra Disk Storage in Brazil Southeast, South Africa North and UAE North
Now available in Brazil Southeast, South Africa North and UAE North region, Azure Ultra Disk Storage provides high performance along with sub-millisecond latency for your most demanding workloads
Azure Red Hat OpenShift March Updates
Expanded regional availability and several new features for workload optimization, enhanced security, and performance.
Azure Machine Learning – March 2023 Region Expansion Announcement
Azure Machine Learning is now Generally Available in the UK West region.
Public Preview: Azure Chaos Studio now available in
Azure Chaos Studio is now available in East Asia region.
Generally available: Azure Ultra Disk Storage in the China North 3 Azure region
Now available in the China North 3 Azure region, Azure Ultra Disk Storage provides high performance along with sub-millisecond latency for your most demanding workloads.
Generally Available: Azure Monitor Logs now supports Availability Zones in Canada Central, France Central and Japan East
Azure Monitor Logs continues to extend its Availability Zone support by adding three regions – Canada Central, France Central and Japan East – to the East US 2 and West US 2 regions, which are already supported.
February 2023
Public Preview: Azure NetApp Files volume user and group quotas
Azure NetApp Files now supports volume user and group quotas to manage storage utilization on a per user or group basis
Public Preview: Azure NetApp Files now support large volumes up to 500TiB in size
You can now create Azure NetApp Files large volumes between 100TiB to 500TiB in size.
Generally Available: Azure Red Hat OpenShift in Qatar Central
Azure Red Hat OpenShift is now available in Qatar Central region.
Public Preview: Azure NetApp Files support for 2TiB capacity pools
Azure NetApp Files now supports smaller 2TiB capacity pool sizes, lowered from 4TiB, when used with volumes using standard network features.
Public Preview: Customer-managed keys for Azure NetApp Files volume encryption
Azure NetApp Files volumes now support encryption with customer-managed keys (CMK), using Azure Key Vault for key storage, to enable an extra layer of security for data at rest.
Generally Available: Availability zones support for Azure Functions in new regions
You can now use Availability Zones with Azure Functions in Norway East, South Africa North, Switzerland North, and UAE North.
General availability: Encryption using CMK for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server
Use infrastructure encryption to add an additional layer of encryption for data at rest using customer-managed keys.
In development: New planned datacenter region in Saudi Arabia (Saudi Arabia Central)
The new datacenter region will also include Availability Zones, providing customers with high availability and additional tolerance to datacenter failures.
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