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RSS feedSeptember 2022
In Development: New options to bring your licenses to a partner’s cloud
Target availability: Q4 2022
On October 1, 2022, Microsoft will implement significant upgrades to our outsourcing and hosting terms that will benefit customers worldwide.
Generally available: New Azure Virtual Machines with Ampere Altra Arm-based processors
New general-purpose and memory-optimized Azure VMs, featuring Ampere Altra Arm-based processors, engineered to efficiently run scale-out, cloud-native workloads, are now available.
August 2022
Generally available: Unity Catalog for Azure Databricks
Unity Catalog is a unified and fine-grained governance solution for all data assets in your Lakehouse.
Generally available: Azure Database for PostgreSQL
The latest PostgreSQL minor versions 14.5, 13.8, 12.12, and 11.17 are available for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus).
Public preview: Serverless SQL for Azure Databricks
Serverless SQL for Azure Databricks provides instant compute to users for their BI and SQL workloads without waiting for clusters to start up or scale out.
Public preview: AMD-based confidential VMs for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Announcing the public preview of confidential node pools on AKS with AMD SEV-SNP confidential VMs.
Generally available: US West 3 price adjustment
Pricing adjustment to bring value to our Azure customers in western US regions.
Generally available: Azure Public IPv6 offerings are free as of July 31
Decrease the cost of your transition to IPv6 when Azure Public IPv6 offerings go free on July 31 2022.
July 2022
Generally available: Trusted Launch support for DCsv3 and DCdsv3 series Virtual Machines
DCsv3 and DCdsv3-series virtual machines (VMs) now supports trusted launch feature.
General availability: NVads A10 v5 Virtual Machines
Target availability: Q3 2022
NVads A10 v5 series virtual machines are now generally available. These are ideal for graphic, video, and AI workloads and include GPU portioning, making them perfect for any size workload.
Public preview: Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage
Premium SSD v2 is the next generation Azure Premium SSD Disk Storage. Provision the IOPS and throughput you need without necessarily purchasing additional storage capacity.
June 2022
Generally available: Improved Try Azure Cosmos DB for free experience
Get started using Azure Cosmos DB for free.
Public preview: SMB Continuous Availability shares for Citrix App Layering
New feature added to Azure NetApp Files.
General availability: Feature general availability and feature expansion of regional availability
Various Azure NetApp Files features have reached general availability and regional coverage has been expanded for Azure NetApp Files cross-region replication.
General availability: Storage optimized Azure VMs deliver higher performance for data analytics
The new Lasv3 and Lsv3 VM series are well suited for high throughput and high IOPS workloads including big data applications, SQL and NoSQL databases, data intensive applications and more.
May 2022
Generally available: DCsv3 and DCdsv3 series Virtual Machines
Confidential computing DCsv3 and DCdsv3-series virtual machines (VMs) are generally available.
Public preview: Azure Virtual Machines DCsv3 in Australia, Japan, US, and Asia
Confidential computing DCsv3 and DCdsv3-series virtual machines (VMs) are in public preview in Australia East, Japan East, South Central US, and Southeast Asia.
April 2022
General availability: Windows Server guest licensing offer for Azure Stack HCI
Bring simplicity and flexibility to licensing when you purchase unlimited Windows Server guest licenses for your Azure Stack HCI cluster through your Azure subscription.
Generally available: IBM WebSphere on Azure with evaluation licensing
Use evaluation licenses, instead of full entitlements, for WebSphere on Azure Virtual Machines for trial and prototyping.
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