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March 2024

25 Mar

General Availability: Automatic Scaling for App Service Web Apps

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure App Service is pleased to announce general availability of the "Automatic Scaling" feature.

  • App Service
  • App Service (Linux)
  • Features
14 Mar

Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus now supports TLS & mTLS based scraping

NOW AVAILABLE

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.

  • Managed Prometheus
  • Azure Monitor
  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Features

November 2023

16 Nov

Generally Available: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.3 now supported on Azure Virtual Machines

NOW AVAILABLE

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.

  • Linux Virtual Machines
  • Red Hat Linux
  • Operating System
  • Open Source

August 2023

30 Aug

Generally available: Azure Container Apps dedicated plan

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q3 2023

You can now run your apps on dedicated workload profiles that offer more CPU and memory if needed.

  • Azure Container Apps
  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Features

July 2023

5 Jul

Public Preview: Azure Monitor Pod Sandboxing support in Container insights

IN PREVIEW

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.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Features

June 2023

7 Jun

Public preview: Azure Container Instances(ACI) Spot containers

IN PREVIEW

You can now take advantage of unused Azure computing with Azure Container Instances (ACI)

  • Azure Container Instances
  • Features

May 2023

31 May

Generally available: Azure Files scalability improvement for Azure Virtual Desktop and other workloads that open root directory handles

NOW AVAILABLE

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.

  • Azure Files
  • Storage Accounts
  • Features
25 May

Public Preview – Support for WebSocket APIs in Azure API Management Self-hosted Gateway 

IN PREVIEW

We are announcing the native support for WebSocket APIs in the self-hosted gateway feature inside Azure API Management.

  • API Management
  • Features
23 May

General availability: Confidential containers on Azure Container Instances (ACI)

ACI now lets you run containers in a trusted execution environment (TEE)

  • Azure Container Instances
  • Microsoft Build
  • Features
23 May

Azure Machine Learning - General Availability for Build

NOW AVAILABLE

New features now available in GA include the ability to enable MLOPs across dev, test, and prod environments to promote assets across multiple workspaces.

  • Azure Machine Learning
  • Microsoft Build
  • Features
23 May

Announcing the public preview of custom Text Analytics for health

IN PREVIEW

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.

  • Features

April 2023

27 Apr

New Azure Virtual Desktop features to answer our customers’ top needs

NOW AVAILABLE

New capabilities recently released that improve storage, enhance configuration, deliver exceptional endpoint security, and more.

  • Azure Virtual Desktop
  • Features

March 2023

24 Mar

Docker container runtime retirement for Windows node pools effective May 1, 2023

NOW AVAILABLE

Migrate to containers before May 1, 2023

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Retirements
15 Mar

Azure Red Hat OpenShift March Updates

NOW AVAILABLE

Expanded regional availability and several new features for workload optimization, enhanced security, and performance.

  • Azure Red Hat OpenShift
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Features

September 2022

14 Sep

Public preview: Monitoring for Ampere Altra Arm–based VMs and AKS clusters

IN PREVIEW

Azure Monitor now supports monitoring for Arm–based Azure Virtual Machines and Azure Kubernetes Service with Arm nodes.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Features

May 2022

9 May

Public preview: Azure Virtual Machines DCsv3 in Australia, Japan, US, and Asia

IN PREVIEW

Confidential computing DCsv3 and DCdsv3-series virtual machines (VMs) are in public preview in Australia East, Japan East, South Central US, and Southeast Asia.

  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Security

April 2022

5 Apr

Public preview: Azure Virtual Machines DCsv3 available in Switzerland and West US

IN PREVIEW

Confidential computing DCsv3 and DCdsv3-series virtual machines (VMs) are in preview in Switzerland North and West US.

  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Security

March 2022

16 Mar

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.

  • App Service
  • Retirements

February 2022

2 Feb

General availability: Automated backup enhancements for SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines

NOW AVAILABLE

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.

  • SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines
  • Management
  • Features
2 Feb

Public preview: Custom virtual network support in Azure Container Apps

IN PREVIEW

Start deploying Azure Container Apps into your own Azure virtual netowrks.

  • Azure Container Apps
  • Features

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