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May 2023

24 May

Azure Stream Analytics is Launching a New Competitive Pricing Model!

Up to 80% price reduction in Azure Stream Analytics

  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Microsoft Build
23 May

General Availability: Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus is now Generally Available.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Managed Prometheus
  • Azure Managed Grafana
  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes
  • Management
  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Microsoft Build
  • Open Source
23 May

Preview: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9.2 support for AMD confidential VMs

IN PREVIEW

User of AMD-based confidential VMs can now select the RHEL 9.2 technical preview as their guest OS.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Microsoft Build
  • Operating System
  • Open Source
  • Features
  • Security
4 May

Public Preview: Palo Alto Networks SaaS Cloud NGFW Integration with Virtual WAN

IN PREVIEW

The first security software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution to be integrated in Azure Virtual WAN, allowing you to protect your workloads with a highly available NGFW.

  • Services
  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Features
  • Security
3 May

Generally Available: Ebsv5 and Ebdsv5 NVMe-enabled VM sizes

NOW AVAILABLE

The new NVMe-enabled VM sizes of the Ebsv5 and Ebdsv5 VM offer the highest remote storage IOPS and throughput performance of any Azure VMs to date. 

  • Virtual Machines
  • Pricing & Offerings
3 May

Generally available: Serverless SQL for Azure Databricks

NOW AVAILABLE

Serverless SQL for Azure Databricks is now generally available. This capability provides instant compute to users for their BI and SQL workloads, with minimal management required.

  • Azure Databricks
  • Services
  • Pricing & Offerings
2 May

Preview: Cloud Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) Palo Alto Networks - an Azure Native ISV Service

IN PREVIEW

The first ISV next-generation firewall service natively integrated in Azure.

  • Services
  • Pricing & Offerings

April 2023

26 Apr

General Availability: Centrally Managed Azure Hybrid Benefit for SQL Server

NOW AVAILABLE

Today, we’re officially announcing the general availability for Centrally Managed Azure Hybrid Benefit for SQL Server.

  • Microsoft Cost Management
  • SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines
  • Pricing & Offerings
24 Apr

Preview: Introducing DCesv5 and ECesv5-series Confidential VMs with Intel TDX

IN PREVIEW

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.

  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Security
18 Apr

Public Preview: Isovalent Cilium Enterprise through Azure Marketplace

IN PREVIEW

Isovalent Cilium Enterprise is now available to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) customers in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace marking a key milestone in delivering the expansive eBPF-powered Cilium and Isovalent Cilium Enterprise to Azure Kubernetes Service and Azure.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Virtual Network
  • Services
  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Features

March 2023

16 Mar

Now available: Azure Kubernetes Service Edge Essentials

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Kubernetes Service Edge Essentials is a Microsoft supported lightweight Kubernetes distribution that is fine tuned to run on edge devices with constrained resources.

  • Azure Arc
  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Windows for IoT
  • Services
  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Operating System
9 Mar

GA: Spot Priority Mix

NOW AVAILABLE

Deploy a Virtual Machine Scale Set with both Spot and standard virtual machines using flexible orchestration mode.

  • Virtual Machine Scale Sets
  • Pricing & Offerings
7 Mar

Generally Available: Model Serving on Azure Databricks

NOW AVAILABLE

Model Serving on Azure Databricks is now generally available

  • Azure Databricks
  • Services
  • Pricing & Offerings
6 Mar

More transactions at no additional cost for Azure Standard SSD

NOW AVAILABLE

Save money on billable transactions as we waive transaction fees for Azure Standard SSD customers that exceed the maximum hourly limit.

  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Features

February 2023

23 Feb

Public preview: Incremental snapshots for Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage

IN PREVIEW

To ensure business continuity, incremental snapshots for Premium SSD V2 Disk Storage are now available in public preview in the US East and West Europe Azure region

  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Features
23 Feb

Generally Available: Larger SKUs for App Service Environment v3

NOW AVAILABLE

Using the new larger Isolated v2 SKUs, you can now run larger and more complex workloads.

  • App Service
  • Services
  • Pricing & Offerings
22 Feb

Public Preview: Azure NetApp Files support for 2TiB capacity pools 

IN PREVIEW

Azure NetApp Files now supports smaller 2TiB capacity pool sizes, lowered from 4TiB, when used with volumes using standard network features. 

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

Public preview: Azure Managed Lustre

IN PREVIEW

Accelerate HPC and AI workloads with a managed parallel file system

  • Azure HPC Cache
  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Azure Machine Learning
  • Azure Blob Storage
  • Pricing & Offerings
20 Feb

Read-write premium caching now in public preview

IN PREVIEW

Now you can do more with Azure HPC Cache at the same cost you’ve come to expect.

  • Azure HPC Cache
  • Pricing & Offerings
1 Feb

Generally Available: Azure Kubernetes Service introduces two pricing tiers: Free and Standard

NOW AVAILABLE

Identify and use the most appropriate AKS tier for your projects.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Features

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