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Public Preview: Azure NetApp Files Cloud Backup for Virtual Machines
Azure NetApp Files datastores now supports Cloud Backup for Virtual Machines in preview
Generally available: Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage is now available in more regions
Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage is now available in more regions and offers the most advanced general-purpose block storage solution with the best price performance.
Public Preview: Azure Chaos Studio is now available in Southeast Asia region
Azure Chaos Studio is now available in Southeast Asia region.
Generally available: Zone Redundant Storage for Azure Disks is now available in East Asia
Zone Redundant Storage (ZRS) for Azure Disks is now available on Azure Premium SSD and Standard SSD in East Asia
July 2023
Generally available: Cloud Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) by Palo Alto Networks - an Azure Native ISV Service
The first ISV next-generation firewall service natively integrated in Azure is now generally available.
Generally available: Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage is now available in more regions.
Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage is now available in more regions and offers the most advanced general-purpose block storage solution with the best price performance.
June 2023
Preview Updates: Azure Elastic SAN Public Preview improvements
Introducing the latest update to Azure Elastic SAN (in preview), which now offers expanded range of regions, increased support for diverse workloads, and an array of new features.
Public Preview: Azure NetApp Files double encryption at-rest
Azure NetApp Files now supports multiple encryption layers for increased data security.
Generally available: Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage in Southeast Asia, UK South, South Central US and West US 3
Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage is now available in more regions and offers the most advanced general-purpose block storage solution with the best price performance.
Public Preview: Azure NetApp Files Availability zone volume placement enhancement – Populate existing volume
Populate previously deployed, existing volumes with the logical availability zone information to enable failure domain protection for workloads in specific availability zones.
Azure VMware Solution now available in North Switzerland
We are excited to announce that Azure VMware Solution has gone live in North Switzerland and is now available to customers.
Generally available: Azure OpenAI Service in UK South
Target availability: Q2 2023
Azure OpenAI Service is now available in the UK South region. UK South supports gpt-35-turbo at launch.
Public Preview: Azure Chaos Studio is now available in West US 2 region
Azure Chaos Studio is now available in West US 2 region.
May 2023
Generally available: Zone Redundant Storage for Azure Disks is now available in more regions.
Zone Redundant Storage (ZRS) for Azure Disks is now available on Azure Premium SSD and Standard SSD in Brazil South, UK South, East US, East US 2, and South-Central US.
Public Preview: Azure NetApp Files Standard Network Features - Edit Volumes
Azure NetApp Files now supports ability to edit existing ANF volumes and upgrading Basic network features to Standard network features.
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: Zone Redundant Storage for Azure Disks is available in Southeast Asia, Australia East and Qatar Central.
Zone Redundant Storage (ZRS) for Azure Disks is now available on Azure Premium SSD and Standard SSD in Southeast Asia, Australia East and Qatar Central.
April 2023
General availability: Microsoft Azure available from new cloud region in Poland
Microsoft has announced the opening of the newest cloud region Poland and the first in Central Europe.
Preview: Introducing DCesv5 and ECesv5-series Confidential VMs with Intel TDX
Today, we’re excited to announce the expansion of our Confidential VM family with the launch of the DCesv5-series and ECesv5-series in preview. Featuring 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, these VMs are backed by an all-new hardware-based Trusted Execution Environment called Intel® Trust Domain Extensions (TDX). Organizations can use these VMs to seamlessly bring confidential workloads to the cloud without any code changes to their applications.
Public preview: Azure Container Apps available in Azure China
You can now use Azure Container Apps in Azure China.
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