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Monthly updates for February 2023

Feb 28

General Availability: Customer Initiated Storage Account Conversion

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q4 2022

Increase your data resiliency with our self-service option to convert your storage accounts from non-zonal to zonal redundancy via Azure Portal

  • Compliance
  • Features
Feb 27

General availability: Scale improvements and metrics enhancements on Azure’s regional WAF

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure’s regional Web Application Firewall (WAF) running on Application Gateway now supports improved scale limits, including HTTP listener count, as well as additional metrics dimensions.

  • Web Application Firewall
  • Application Gateway
  • Security
  • Features
Feb 23

Public Preview: Azure NetApp Files volume user and group quotas

IN PREVIEW

Azure NetApp Files now supports volume user and group quotas to manage storage utilization on a per user or group basis

  • Azure NetApp Files
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Features
Feb 23

Public Preview: Azure NetApp Files now support large volumes up to 500TiB in size

IN PREVIEW

You can now create Azure NetApp Files large volumes between 100TiB to 500TiB in size.

  • Azure NetApp Files
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Features
Feb 23

Public preview: Incremental snapshots for Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage

IN PREVIEW

To ensure business continuity, incremental snapshots for Premium SSD V2 Disk Storage are now available in public preview in the US East and West Europe Azure region

  • Features
  • Pricing & Offerings
Feb 23

Generally Available: Azure Red Hat OpenShift in Qatar Central

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Red Hat OpenShift is now available in Qatar Central region.

  • Azure Red Hat OpenShift
  • Open Source
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Services
  • Features
Feb 23

Generally Available: Larger SKUs for App Service Environment v3

NOW AVAILABLE

Using the new larger Isolated v2 SKUs, you can now run larger and more complex workloads.

  • App Service
  • Services
  • Pricing & Offerings
Feb 23

General availability: Stream Analytics no-code editor updates in Feb 2023

NOW AVAILABLE

New features are now available in Stream Analytics no-code editor GA including Power BI output support, and data preview optimization. Power BI output feature enables you to build real-time dashboard in minutes and low-cost.

  • Azure Stream Analytics
  • Event Hubs
  • Features
Feb 22

Public Preview: Azure NetApp Files support for 2TiB capacity pools 

IN PREVIEW

Azure NetApp Files now supports smaller 2TiB capacity pool sizes, lowered from 4TiB, when used with volumes using standard network features. 

  • Azure NetApp Files
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Features
  • Pricing & Offerings
Feb 22

GA: Create disks from CMK-encrypted snapshots across subscriptions and in the same tenant

NOW AVAILABLE

To ease manageability, we are making disks encrypted with customer-managed keys (CMK) more flexible by allowing creation of disks and snapshots from CMK-encrypted source across subscriptions. 

  • Security
  • Features
Feb 22

Public preview: Azure Managed Lustre

IN PREVIEW

Accelerate HPC and AI workloads with a managed parallel file system

  • Azure HPC Cache
  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Azure Machine Learning
  • Azure Blob Storage
  • Pricing & Offerings
Feb 22

General availability: Azure Sphere OS version 23.02

NOW AVAILABLE

This quality release includes bug fixes in the Azure Sphere OS.

  • Azure Sphere
  • Operating System
Feb 22

Azure Percept DK Retirement Announcement

Target retirement date: March 30, 2023

Azure Percept DK and support from associated Azure services will be retired on March 30th, 2023.

  • Retirements
Feb 21

General availability: Azure IoT Edge supports Ubuntu 22.04

NOW AVAILABLE

The latest Azure IoT Edge releases provide official packages for Ubuntu 22.04 on AMD64 and ARM64 devices.

  • Azure IoT Edge
  • Features
  • Operating System
Feb 21

Now Available: Azure Monitor Query client module for Go

NOW AVAILABLE

The initial stable release of the Azure Monitor Query module for Go is now available. Build apps that perform read-only queries in Azure Monitor's Logs and Metrics platforms.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Log Analytics
  • Metrics
  • SDK and Tools
Feb 21

General availability: Azure Data Explorer Dashboards

NOW AVAILABLE

We are thrilled to announce the much-anticipated General Availability of ADX Dashboards!

  • Azure Data Explorer
  • Features
Feb 21

Public Preview: Customer-managed keys for Azure NetApp Files volume encryption

IN PREVIEW

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.

  • Azure NetApp Files
  • Security
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Features
Feb 20

Public preview: New General-Purpose VMs - Dlsv5 and Dldsv5

IN PREVIEW

The Dlsv5 and Dldsv5 VM series provide 2GiBs per vCPU and can offer lower price points within the general-purpose Azure Virtual Machines portfolio.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Services
Feb 20

Read-write premium caching now in public preview

IN PREVIEW

Now you can do more with Azure HPC Cache at the same cost you’ve come to expect.

  • Azure HPC Cache
  • Pricing & Offerings
Feb 16

Azure Backup: Enhanced experience for creating and managing private endpoints for Recovery Services vaults is now available

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Backup now provides an improved experience for creating and using private endpoints for your Recovery Services vaults.

  • Azure Backup
  • Security
  • Management
  • Features

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