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General availability: ExpressRoute private peering support for BGP communities
Target availability: Q3 2023
Set BGP community tags on traffic sent from Azure to on-premises over ExpressRoute, enabling a greater variety of hybrid network designs.
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
Public preview: Using a common port for public and private listeners
Easily manage public-facing and private-facing traffic on a common port.
Generally Available: Azure VMware Solution Stretched Clusters with Customer-Managed Keys
Stretched clusters for Azure VMware Solution (AVS) is now Generally Available, providing 99.99% uptime for mission critical applications that require the highest availability.
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
Private Preview: Kafka Input and Output with Azure Stream Analytics
Target availability: Q2 2023
You can connect directly to Kafka to ingest from Kafka clusters or output data to Kafka clusters in your Azure Stream Analytics (ASA) job.
Virtual Network Integration Support (Public Preview) for Azure Stream Analytics
ASA is thrilled to announce public preview of Virtual Network Integration support for Azure Stream Analytics!
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.
Private preview: Azure Backup support for confidential VMs using Customer Managed Keys
Azure Backup support for confidential VMs using Customer Managed Keys
Public Preview – Azure Cache for Redis now supports aAAD based authentication and authorization
Preview password-free authentication with integrated Azure Active Directory (AAD) complemented with role-based access control supported by open source Redis.
Azure VMware Solution on Azure Government
We are excited to share details for the General Availability of Azure VMware Solution on Microsoft Azure Government
Generally available: Azure DNS Private Resolver is available in 8 additional regions
Azure DNS Private Resolver is now available in West US, Canada East, Qatar Central, UAE North, Australia Southeast, Norway East, Norway East, and Poland Central.
Generally Available: Azure Backup Server V4
V4 is the latest upgrade for Microsoft Azure Backup Server (MABS). Azure Backup Server can now be installed on Windows Server 2022 with SQL Server 2022 as its database. MABS V4 brings key enhancements in the areas of workload support, performance and security.
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.
Generally Available: Azure CNI Overlay for Linux
Simplify your AKS cluster management, routing configurations, and efficiently scale your clusters.
General Availability: Azure CNI Overlay
Azure CNI Overlay utilizes an overlay network to reduce IP utilization while providing better performance and scale.
Connect Azure Stream Analytics to Azure Data Explorer using managed private endpoint.
Target availability: Q2 2023
You can connect your Azure Stream Analytics job to Azure Data Explorer / Kusto clusters using managed private endpoints
Private Preview: Enable Trusted launch on your existing Azure Gen2 VMs
Use this preview to enable Trusted launch on your existing Gen2 VMs to improve foundational security of your Gen2 VMs.
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