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RSS feedMarch 2023
Azure Maps is now HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) compliant
Azure Maps ensures HIPAA compliance is achieved for protected health information (PHI), such as geocoding patient home addresses.
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.
Azure Maps is now HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) compliant
Azure Maps ensures HIPAA compliance is achieved for protected health information (PHI), like when calculating travel time and distance from a patient’s location to the nearest healthcare facility.
We’re retiring Cluster Configuration with Flux v1 on 24 May 2025 – transition to GitOps extension for Kubernetes to move to Flux v2
Target retirement date: May 24, 2025
Migrate to GitOps Extension for Flux v2 by 24 May 2025
Generally available: Azure SQL Database offline migrations in Azure SQL Migration extension
The Azure SQL Migration extension allows offline database migrations of on-premises and cloud SQL Server databases to Azure SQL Database, providing a comprehensive modernization experience in Azure Data Studio.
Azure SQL—Public preview updates for mid-March 2023
Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in mid-March 2023
Private Preview: Azure Backup enables vaulted backups for Azure Files for comprehensive data protection.
Target availability: Q1 2023
You can now transfer the backups of Azure Files to the vault to get complete protection against various data loss scenarios.
New Azure for Operators products and partner programs released
Azure for Operators announces the next wave of services to empower operators to modernize and monetize their 5G investments, enable enterprises with ubiquitous computing from cloud to edge.
February 2023
Azure Backup: Enhanced experience for creating and managing private endpoints for Recovery Services vaults is now available
Azure Backup now provides an improved experience for creating and using private endpoints for your Recovery Services vaults.
General availability: Azure Private Link support for Azure Databricks
Azure Private Link for Azure Databricks
January 2023
Chaos studio - Public preview updates for January 2023
Public preview enhancements and updates released for Chaos Studio in January 2023.
General availability: Application security groups support for private endpoints
Application security groups (ASGs) support for private endpoints is now generally available.
General Availability: Azure Active Directory authentication for exporting and importing Managed Disks
New integration with Azure Active Directory (AD) to export and import data to Azure Managed Disks improves security
Private Preview: Featured Clothing
This insight provides information on key items worn by individuals within a video and the timestamp in which the clothing appears.
November 2022
Private preview: Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Backup
Azure Backup is announcing private preview of AKS Backup providing ability to backup and restore AKS clusters.
Public preview: Upgrade from Azure Front Door Standard to Premium tier
You can now use this feature to upgrade your Azure Front Door Standard profile to Premium tier without downtime.
Public preview: Azure SQL Database offline migrations in Azure SQL Migration extension
Assess, get right-sized Azure recommendations for Azure migration targets, and migrate databases offline from on-premises SQL Server to Azure SQL Database.
Generally available: Azure NetApp Files datastores for Azure VMware Solution
Azure NetApp Files for datastores is now generally available in Azure VMware Solution.
October 2022
Azure SQL—General availability updates for late October 2022
General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in late October 2022.
General availability: Static IP configurations of private endpoints
Azure private endpoint support of statically defined IP addresses is now generally available allowing you to provide static IP addresses when configuring your private endpoints.
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