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Monthly updates for March 2023

29 Mar

Generally Available: Larger SKUs for App Service Environment v3

NOW AVAILABLE

Enterprises are now able to operate more securely with large SKUs to support more demanding workloads with App Service Environment v3.

  • App Service
  • Features
29 Mar

Preview: customer managed key encryption for Enterprise tier caches

IN PREVIEW

Encrypt Redis persistence files using customer managed keys

  • Azure Cache for Redis
  • Features
29 Mar

Azure SQL—General availability updates for late-March 2023

NOW AVAILABLE

General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in late-March 2023

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Features
29 Mar

Generally available: Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage in East US 2, North Europe and West US 2

NOW AVAILABLE

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.

  • Azure Disk Storage
  • Storage Accounts
  • Regions & Datacenters
29 Mar

Generally available: Azure Monitor Alerts now support duplicating alert rules

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Monitor alert rule can now be duplicated via the Azure portal.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Features
29 Mar

Multi-Column Distribution for Dedicated SQL pools is now available!

NOW AVAILABLE

Multi-Column Distribution (MCD) is highly desirable for easing migrations, promotes faster query performance and reduces data skew.

  • Azure Synapse Analytics
  • Features
29 Mar

Public Preview: Azure Migrate - Discover ASP.NET & Java web apps and assess ASP.NET in all environments

IN PREVIEW

Discovery of Java & ASP.NET web apps and assessment of ASP.NET web apps to Azure App Service code (native) on VMware, Hyper-V and Physical servers is now in public preview.

  • App Service
  • Azure Migrate
  • SDK and Tools
  • Features
29 Mar

General availability: Microsoft Purview DevOps policies for Azure SQL Database

NOW AVAILABLE

Purview DevOps policies can be used to assign permissions needed for performance monitoring and security auditing at scale and without direct connection to the database.

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Features
29 Mar

Generally available: New Azure Monitor audit logging policy released

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Monitor is announcing the release of new Azure Policy built-in policies and initiatives for enabling platform logging of audit events for Azure services.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Azure Policy
  • Compliance
  • Features
29 Mar

General availability: Migration feature with Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server

NOW AVAILABLE

Use the new migration tool to migrate workloads from Single Server to Flexible Server on Azure Database for PostgreSQL, a managed service running the open-source Postgres database on Azure.

  • Azure Database for PostgreSQL
  • Features
29 Mar

Azure HDInsight for Apache HBase 2.4.11 is now available for public preview.

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure HDInsight for Apache HBase 2.4.11 now available for public preview and ready for production workloads.

  • HDInsight
  • Services
28 Mar

Public Preview: Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore

IN PREVIEW

Unlock the full potential of the Azure ecosystem with a MongoDB compatible database that simply works. A new architecture designed to provide seamless integration and unbeatable performance.

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Features
27 Mar

Generally available: nconnect support for Azure Files NFS v4.1 shares

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q1 2023

Azure Files NFS v4.1 share now support nconnect option.

  • Azure Files
  • Storage Accounts
  • Features
27 Mar

Generally available: Azure Site Recovery - Migrate Azure Automation account's authentication from Run As accounts to Managed Identity

NOW AVAILABLE

This article describes a new feature update for Azure Site Recovery. 

  • Management
  • Features
27 Mar

Generally available: Resource governance for client applications in Azure Event Hubs

NOW AVAILABLE

Independently throttle your event streaming workloads using application groups and client applications information at namespace or event hub/Kafka topic level.

  • Event Hubs
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
27 Mar

Generally available: Simpler way to renaming Network Interface (NIC) and Disks for protected VMs in Azure Site Recovery

NOW AVAILABLE

This article describes a new feature update for Azure Site Recovery. 

  • Management
  • Features
27 Mar

Public Preview: Azure Chaos Studio is now available in Brazil South region

Azure Chaos Studio is now available in Brazil South region.

  • Regions & Datacenters
24 Mar

Batch custom image pools using VHD or managed images will be retired on 31 March 2026

Target retirement date: April 01, 2026

Transition custom image pools use images from Azure Compute Gallery

  • Batch
  • Retirements
  • Features
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
24 Mar

AKS will stop support for Windows Server 2019 on March 1 2026

IN DEVELOPMENT

Transition your Kubernetes workloads on Windows Server 2019 to Windows Server 2022 by March 1 2026.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Retirements

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