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General Availability: Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server networking with Azure Private Link
Target availability: Q2 2024
Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server now supports Private Endpoints in General Availability.
March 2024
General Availability: Private Link in Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore
Target availability: Q1 2024
Private endpoint for Azure Cosmos DB via Azure Private Link is now available, enhancing security.
January 2024
Public preview: ExpressRoute guided portal experience for multi-site resiliency
With multi-site resiliency, you can configure your ExpressRoute circuits through more than a single peering location. This helps ensure that your’ private connection to Microsoft remains available even if one of the locations experiences an outage. The experience is targeted at helping you design a highly resilient ExpressRoute solution to connect their on-premises with Microsoft backbone and Azure Virtual Networks.
November 2023
General Availability: Standard network features support in US Gov regions
Standard network features for azure NetApp files are now available in the US Gov regions
Announcing the public preview of Azure confidential VMs with Intel TDX
Microsoft is excited to announce the public preview of DCesv5 and ECesv5-series confidential VMs. These VMs are powered by 4th Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors with Intel® Trust Domain Extensions (TDX). They enable organizations to bring confidential workloads to the cloud without code changes to applications and will be available starting December 1st.
Public Preview: Azure Database for PostgreSQL Networking with private endpoints
Target availability: Q4 2023
We are announcing public preview of networking with private endpoints for Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server.
Public Preview: Azure SQL updates for early-November 2023
Target availability: Q4 2023
Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in early-November 2023.
October 2023
General Availability: Azure Private Link for MySQL – Flexible Server
Target availability: Q4 2023
Use Azure Private Link for private connectivity with MySQL – Flexible Server.
Announcing Public Preview of Azure API Management Pricing Tiers: Basic v2 and Standard v2
Target availability: Q4 2023
We're thrilled to announce the public preview launch of our latest Azure API Management pricing tiers: Basic v2 and Standard v2. These new tiers address highly sought-after customer requests, bring quality-of-service enhancements, and offer a flexible starting point for API Management, allowing organizations of any size to embark on their API journey.
September 2023
Public preview: Standard network features support in US Government region
Standard network features for azure NetApp files are now available in the US Government (VA) region.
August 2023
Quick create Azure Front Door endpoints for Azure Storage accounts
Azure Storage is announcing native integration with Azure Front Door for content delivery with blob storage as your origin
General availability: Azure Front Door Standard/Premium in Azure Government
Azure Front Door Standard/Premium is the new Azure native, modern cloud content delivery network (CDN) catering to both dynamic and static content delivery acceleration with enhanced security and a simple and predictable pricing model.
Generally Available: Private Link service integration
Target availability: Q3 2023
You can now directly create a Private Link Service (PLS) for Kubernetes services via annotations in the service manifest file.
July 2023
Public preview: Managed private endpoint for Azure Managed Grafana
Managed private endpoint in Azure Managed Grafana enables a customer to connect their Grafana workspace privately to supported Azure data sources. It is simple to configure and manage.
June 2023
General availability: Azure Front Door upgrade from standard to premium
Upgrade from standard to premium for enhanced Web Application Firewall rules and private connectivity to your origins using Private Link.
Public preview: Azure Front Door Standard/Premium in Azure Government
Azure Front Door Standard/Premium is the new Azure native, modern cloud content delivery network (CDN) catering to both dynamic and static content delivery acceleration with enhanced security and a simple and predictable pricing model.
Generally available: Private Link support for Application Gateway
Application Gateway Private Link allows you to connect your workloads over a private connection spanning across VNets and subscriptions
May 2023
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
Generally available: Azure Private Link support for Inbound traffic in Azure API Management
With Azure Private Link support in Azure API Management, you can now integrate clients in a virtual network privately.
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