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Azure Stream Analytics is Launching a New Competitive Pricing Model!
Up to 80% price reduction in Azure Stream Analytics
General Availability: Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus
Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus is now Generally Available.
Preview: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9.2 support for AMD confidential VMs
User of AMD-based confidential VMs can now select the RHEL 9.2 technical preview as their guest OS.
Public Preview: Palo Alto Networks SaaS Cloud NGFW Integration with Virtual WAN
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.
Generally Available: Ebsv5 and Ebdsv5 NVMe-enabled VM sizes
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.
Generally available: Serverless SQL for Azure Databricks
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.
Preview: Cloud Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) Palo Alto Networks - an Azure Native ISV Service
The first ISV next-generation firewall service natively integrated in Azure.
April 2023
General Availability: Centrally Managed Azure Hybrid Benefit for SQL Server
Today, we’re officially announcing the general availability for Centrally Managed Azure Hybrid Benefit for SQL Server.
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: Isovalent Cilium Enterprise through Azure Marketplace
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.
March 2023
Now available: Azure Kubernetes Service Edge Essentials
Azure Kubernetes Service Edge Essentials is a Microsoft supported lightweight Kubernetes distribution that is fine tuned to run on edge devices with constrained resources.
GA: Spot Priority Mix
Deploy a Virtual Machine Scale Set with both Spot and standard virtual machines using flexible orchestration mode.
Generally Available: Model Serving on Azure Databricks
Model Serving on Azure Databricks is now generally available
More transactions at no additional cost for Azure Standard SSD
Save money on billable transactions as we waive transaction fees for Azure Standard SSD customers that exceed the maximum hourly limit.
February 2023
Public preview: Incremental snapshots for Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage
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
Generally Available: Larger SKUs for App Service Environment v3
Using the new larger Isolated v2 SKUs, you can now run larger and more complex workloads.
Public Preview: Azure NetApp Files support for 2TiB capacity pools
Azure NetApp Files now supports smaller 2TiB capacity pool sizes, lowered from 4TiB, when used with volumes using standard network features.
Public preview: Azure Managed Lustre
Accelerate HPC and AI workloads with a managed parallel file system
Read-write premium caching now in public preview
Now you can do more with Azure HPC Cache at the same cost you’ve come to expect.
Generally Available: Azure Kubernetes Service introduces two pricing tiers: Free and Standard
Identify and use the most appropriate AKS tier for your projects.
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