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April 2024

10 Apr

General Availability: Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server networking with Azure Private Link

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q2 2024

Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server now supports Private Endpoints in General Availability.

  • Azure Database for PostgreSQL
  • Features

March 2024

13 Mar

General Availability: Private Link in Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q1 2024

Private endpoint for Azure Cosmos DB via Azure Private Link is now available, enhancing security.

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Features

January 2024

30 Jan

Public preview: ExpressRoute guided portal experience for multi-site resiliency

IN PREVIEW

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.

  • Azure ExpressRoute
  • ExpressRoute Circuits
  • ExpressRoute Gateways
  • Services

November 2023

21 Nov

General Availability: Standard network features support in US Gov regions

NOW AVAILABLE

Standard network features for azure NetApp files are now available in the US Gov regions

  • Azure NetApp Files
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Features
15 Nov

Announcing the public preview of Azure confidential VMs with Intel TDX

IN PREVIEW

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.

  • Security
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Pricing & Offerings
15 Nov

Public Preview: Azure Database for PostgreSQL Networking with private endpoints

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q4 2023

We are announcing public preview of networking with private endpoints for Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server.

  • Azure Database for PostgreSQL
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
8 Nov

Public Preview: Azure SQL updates for early-November 2023

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q4 2023

Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in early-November 2023.

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Features

October 2023

11 Oct

General Availability: Azure Private Link for MySQL – Flexible Server

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q4 2023

Use Azure Private Link for private connectivity with MySQL – Flexible Server.

  • Azure Database for MySQL
  • Features
10 Oct

Announcing Public Preview of Azure API Management Pricing Tiers: Basic v2 and Standard v2

IN PREVIEW

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.

  • API Management
  • Features

September 2023

12 Sep

Public preview: Standard network features support in US Government region

IN PREVIEW

Standard network features for azure NetApp files are now available in the US Government (VA) region.

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

August 2023

24 Aug

Quick create Azure Front Door endpoints for Azure Storage accounts

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Storage is announcing native integration with Azure Front Door for content delivery with blob storage as your origin

  • Storage Accounts
  • Azure Front Door
  • Security
  • Features
18 Aug

General availability: Azure Front Door Standard/Premium in Azure Government

NOW AVAILABLE

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.

  • Azure Front Door
  • Security
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Services
16 Aug

Generally Available: Private Link service integration

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q3 2023

You can now directly create a Private Link Service (PLS) for Kubernetes services via annotations in the service manifest file.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Features

July 2023

5 Jul

Public preview: Managed private endpoint for Azure Managed Grafana

IN PREVIEW

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.

  • Features

June 2023

12 Jun

General availability: Azure Front Door upgrade from standard to premium

NOW AVAILABLE

Upgrade from standard to premium for enhanced Web Application Firewall rules and private connectivity to your origins using Private Link.

  • Azure Front Door
  • Security
  • Services
  • Features
8 Jun

Public preview: Azure Front Door Standard/Premium in Azure Government

IN PREVIEW

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.

  • Azure Front Door
  • Security
  • Services
  • Features
6 Jun

Generally available: Private Link support for Application Gateway

NOW AVAILABLE

Application Gateway Private Link allows you to connect your workloads over a private connection spanning across VNets and subscriptions

  • Application Gateway
  • Azure Private Link
  • Security
  • Services
  • Features

May 2023

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

23 Mar

Generally available: Azure Private Link support for Inbound traffic in Azure API Management

NOW AVAILABLE

With Azure Private Link support in Azure API Management, you can now integrate clients in a virtual network privately.

  • API Management
  • Microsoft Build

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