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General Availability: Automatic Scaling for App Service Web Apps
Azure App Service is pleased to announce general availability of the "Automatic Scaling" feature.
Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus now supports TLS & mTLS based scraping
Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus now supports TLS & mTLS based scraping for Prometheus instance served with TLS. To enable TLS and mTLS based scraping, you can configure the TLS settings in the ConfigMap.
November 2023
Generally Available: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.3 now supported on Azure Virtual Machines
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9.3, the latest version of RHEL 9 from Red Hat is now generally available on Azure Virtual Machines (VMs). Availability of RHEL 9.3 for VMs on Azure is a step forward towards offering a more scalable, flexible Linux platform that pairs container innovation with a strong security posture.
August 2023
Generally available: Azure Container Apps dedicated plan
Target availability: Q3 2023
You can now run your apps on dedicated workload profiles that offer more CPU and memory if needed.
July 2023
Public Preview: Azure Monitor Pod Sandboxing support in Container insights
Container Insights supports monitoring pod sandboxed containers. Pod Sandboxing safeguards against “Container Breakout” scenarios such as a malicious or legitimate user escaping container isolation to access host machine resources.
June 2023
Public preview: Azure Container Instances(ACI) Spot containers
You can now take advantage of unused Azure computing with Azure Container Instances (ACI)
May 2023
Generally available: Azure Files scalability improvement for Azure Virtual Desktop and other workloads that open root directory handles
Target availability: Q2 2023
Azure Files has increased the root directory handle limit per share from 2,000 to 10,000 for standard and premium file shares.
Public Preview – Support for WebSocket APIs in Azure API Management Self-hosted Gateway
We are announcing the native support for WebSocket APIs in the self-hosted gateway feature inside Azure API Management.
General availability: Confidential containers on Azure Container Instances (ACI)
ACI now lets you run containers in a trusted execution environment (TEE)
Azure Machine Learning - General Availability for Build
New features now available in GA include the ability to enable MLOPs across dev, test, and prod environments to promote assets across multiple workspaces.
Announcing the public preview of custom Text Analytics for health
Target availability: Q2 2023
Custom Text Analytics for health is the newest healthcare NLP offering from Cognitive Services for Language. It allows you to add a layer of customization on top of Text Analytics for health using state-of-the-art machine learning models to build your own healthcare entity extraction model with your specific domain data. The model's authoring experience can be performed either using the graphical user interface on the Language Studio or programmatically using the REST APIs. The feature is now in public preview allowing you to make 5,000 text records of predictions per language resource for free using the Standard (S) pricing tier.
April 2023
New Azure Virtual Desktop features to answer our customers’ top needs
New capabilities recently released that improve storage, enhance configuration, deliver exceptional endpoint security, and more.
March 2023
Docker container runtime retirement for Windows node pools effective May 1, 2023
Migrate to containers before May 1, 2023
Azure Red Hat OpenShift March Updates
Expanded regional availability and several new features for workload optimization, enhanced security, and performance.
September 2022
Public preview: Monitoring for Ampere Altra Arm–based VMs and AKS clusters
Azure Monitor now supports monitoring for Arm–based Azure Virtual Machines and Azure Kubernetes Service with Arm nodes.
May 2022
Public preview: Azure Virtual Machines DCsv3 in Australia, Japan, US, and Asia
Confidential computing DCsv3 and DCdsv3-series virtual machines (VMs) are in public preview in Australia East, Japan East, South Central US, and Southeast Asia.
April 2022
Public preview: Azure Virtual Machines DCsv3 available in Switzerland and West US
Confidential computing DCsv3 and DCdsv3-series virtual machines (VMs) are in preview in Switzerland North and West US.
March 2022
Premium Container SKU (public preview) will be retired on 30 June 2022
Target retirement date: June 30, 2022
Transition to Premium V3 by 30 June 2022.
February 2022
General availability: Automated backup enhancements for SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines
The Automated backup feature on SQL Server for Azure Virtual Machines blade comes with the ability for increased retention and better manageability with your choice of storage container per instance.
Public preview: Custom virtual network support in Azure Container Apps
Start deploying Azure Container Apps into your own Azure virtual netowrks.
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