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Public preview: Automatic Cluster Upgrades in AKS
AKS simplifies the task of deploying new Kubernetes releases by enabling users to configure automatic cluster upgrades.
Public preview: Azure Log Analytics in UAE Central & Japan West
Azure Log Analytics is now in public preview for customers to start collecting telemetry and analyzing their services for health and usage in UAE Central & Japan West.
Public preview: Application Insight in Japan West
Application Insight is now in public preview for customers to start collecting telemetry and analyzing their services for health in Japan West.
Public preview: Prevent Shared Key authorization on Azure Storage accounts
Target availability: Q2 2021
Enhance secure access to Azure Storage accounts with Prevent Shared Key authorization.
App Service Authentication portal experience is now in public preview
A new version of the App Service Authentication/Authorization portal experience is now in preview.
Public preview of Linux Diagnostics Agent 4.0
A new major version release of the Linux Diagnostic Extension is now available in public preview.
Public preview: Azure Key Vault CSI driver support in Azure Kubernetes Service
Azure Key Vault provider for Secrets Store CSI driver allows you to get secret contents stored in an Azure Key Vault instance. Azure Key Vault simplifies the task of securing and using cryptographic keys and other secrets with AKS. With this new feature, you can use the Secrets Store CSI driver interface to mount secrets into Kubernetes pods while benefiting from the increased security and control via the Azure Key Vault. AKS customers can use this new capability to mount enterprise grade external secrets stores to AKS pods, thereby simplifying access to secrets, keys, and certificates in a secure manner. You can now mount secrets stored in Azure Key Vault into Kubernetes pods.
Confidential computing using Always Encrypted with secure enclaves now in public preview
Always Encrypted with secure enclaves enables in-place encryption and rich confidential queries on sensitive data by leveraging Intel SGX secure enclaves, available in the new DC-series hardware configuration.
Azure IoT Edge for Linux on Windows available for public preview
Azure IoT Edge for Linux on Windows provides the ability to run Linux containers on Windows under the Azure IoT Edge context. This allows you to connect your Azure IoT Edge for Linux instance to your Azure IoT Hub subscription and deploy your custom Linux Edge Modules to Windows devices.
Azure Monitor ITSM Connector for ServiceNow ITOM with Secure Export
Introducing a public preview of Secure Export as a new version of Azure Monitor ITSM Connector, providing integration with ServiceNow ITOM.
Backup for Azure Managed Disk is in limited preview
Target availability: Q1 2021
Azure Backup offers snapshot lifecycle management to Azure Managed Disk by automating periodic creation of snapshot and retain it for configured duration using Backup policy.
Monitoring your Azure Data Explorer Clusters with Azure Monitor (Insights) - public preview
Azure Monitor for Azure Data Explorer (public preview) provides comprehensive monitoring of your Azure Data Explorer clusters by delivering a unified view of the performance, operations, and usage.
View change data through Azure Monitor workbook integration with Application Change Analysis
Target availability: Q2 2021
Application Change Analysis integration with Azure Monitor workbook is now in public preview
Cross resource query between Azure Monitor and Azure Data Explorer in public preview
Azure Monitor cross resource query enables you to run cross-resource queries by using client tools that support Kusto queries.
View changes at-scale with Application Change Analysis now in public preview
Application Change Analysis now has a new UI to view changes in all resources under selected subscriptions, without 10 rows per page limitation. Check it out and monitor your Azure resources at-scale.
Public preview | Azure NetApp Files : Application Consistent Snapshot tool (AzAcSnap)
AzAcSnap leverages the volume snapshot and replication functionalities in Azure NetApp Files and Azure Large Instance.
December 2020
Public preview: Support of Azure Container Registry across Availability Zones
Announcing the public preview support of Azure Container Registry across Availability Zones
Azure Automation Python 3 runbook support is now available in public preview
Execute Python 3 runbooks in Cloud Sandbox and Hybrid Worker.
Azure Monitor for Containers support for Private Clusters now in public preview
You can now view live monitoring data for private clusters.
Additional support for managed identity in Azure Stream Analytics now in public preview
Azure Stream Analytics now supports managed identity for Blob input, Event Hubs (input and output), Synapse SQL Pools and customer storage account. As a result, customers do not have to manage service-to-service credentials by themselves, and can process events when streams of data are coming from Event Hubs in a VNet or using a firewall.
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