Updates Archives
Monthly updates for October 2023
Public preview: Announcing the new Azure Bastion Developer SKU
The Bastion Developer SKU represents a novel, cost-effective, and streamlined version of the Bastion service.
Public preview: Traffic Splitting for Azure Static Web Apps
Split traffic to your Azure Static Web Apps across multiple environments to gradually rollout features and compare versions being tested.
Public preview: Snippets for Azure Static Web Apps
Inject snippets into your website’s pages to add analytics, customizations and integrations, or to optimize performance without changing your source code.
Public preview: Disable Secure Shell (SSH) support in AKS
You can now disable secure shell (SSH) in AKS
Public preview: Azure NetApp Files standard storage with cool access
Azure NetApp Files standard storage with cool access is now in public preview. With the new cool access feature, you can enable standard volumes with the ability to transparently store data more cost-effectively on Azure storage accounts based on its access pattern.
Public preview: Built-in Azure Monitor alerts for Azure Site Recovery
Learn about the new and improved alerting capabilities offered for Azure Site Recovery, via Azure Monitor
Public preview: Flush data operation for Azure Cache for Redis
Target availability: Q4 2023
Basic, Standard, and Premium tier caches now support a built-in flush operation that can be started as a management operation.
Public preview: Update channel for Basic, Standard and Premium Caches
Target availability: Q4 2023
Receive early updates by configuring the update channel for your Basic, Standard and Premium tier cache instances.
Public Preview: VMSS Automatic Instance Repairs - Reimage, Restart Repair Actions
New recovery options available on automatic instance repairs provides the capability for less-disruptive repair actions on sensitive workloads.
Azure Machine Learning - Public Preview for October
Four features now available in Public Preview enable you to customize your compute instance experience by using curated or custom environments, collect all model dependencies in a single operation to generate a package than can be move and deployed across environments, label your images at each pixel level with high quality, and conenct and fine-tune Azure OpenAI models with Azure Machine Learning.
Private Preview: Regional Disaster Recovery by Azure Backup for AKS
Customers can now utilize Azure Backup for AKS to recover their containerized applications and data during a regional disaster scenario.
Announcing Public Preview of Azure API Management Pricing Tiers: Basic v2 and Standard v2
Target availability: Q4 2023
We're thrilled to announce the public preview launch of our latest Azure API Management pricing tiers: Basic v2 and Standard v2. These new tiers address highly sought-after customer requests, bring quality-of-service enhancements, and offer a flexible starting point for API Management, allowing organizations of any size to embark on their API journey.
App Service: Backup and Restore over Azure Virtual Network
Customers can now use custom backups, to back up their web app's files and configuration data to a firewall-protected storage account.
Public Preview: Customer-managed keys for Azure NetApp Files volume encryption is now available in US Gov regions (Preview)
Customer keys are protected from attacks for maximum security of their Azure NetApp File volumes; the feature is now available in US Gov regions (Preview)
Public preview: Announcing Microsoft Playwright Testing service: Scalable end-to-end testing for modern web apps
Now in preview: Microsoft Playwright Testing, a new service for running Playwright tests easily at scale. Playwright, a fast-growing, open-source framework, enables reliable end-to-end testing and automation for modern web apps. Microsoft Playwright Testing service uses the cloud, enabling you to simultaneously run Playwright tests with much higher parallelization across different operating system-browser combinations. Learn more https://aka.ms/MPT/about
Public Preview: Azure Data Explorer Add-On for Splunk
Azure Data Explorer Add-On for Splunk (Public Preview)
Public Preview: Azure Log Alerts support for Azure Resource Graph (ARG)
We are now introducing support for running queries also on Azure Resource Graph (ARG) tables, and even joining data between Azure Resource Graph (ARG) data sources from your Log Analytics workspace and Application Insights resources in a single query.
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