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Generally Available: Kubernetes 1.25 support in AKS

You can now benefit from Kubernetes 1.25 enhancements in AKS.

• Features

Azure SQL—General availability updates for mid-December 2022

General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in mid-December 2022.

• Azure SQL Database
• Features

Public preview: Performance-improving features for Azure Service Bus premium

Scale your Azure Service Bus premium namespaces far beyond the current limitations with two new features.

• Service Bus
• Microsoft Ignite
• Features

Public preview: Use tag inheritance for cost management

Use tag inheritance preview to automatically apply subscription and resource group tags to child resource usage records.

• Microsoft Cost Management
• Management

Public preview: Log compaction support in Azure Event Hubs

Retain the latest events of an event log by using compacted event hubs or Kafka topics in Azure Event Hubs.

• Microsoft Ignite

General availability: Stream Analytics no-code editor updates in December 2022

New features are now available in Stream Analytics no-code editor GA including multiple parameter built-in functions support, Delta Lake format support in ADLS Gen2 output sink.

• Azure Stream Analytics
• Event Hubs
• Features

Public preview: Processor diagram in Physical Job Diagram for Stream Analytics job troubleshooting

The processor diagram in physical job diagram provides you further insights within the streaming nodes of your stream analytics jobs.

• Azure Stream Analytics
• Features

Generally available: Software inventory and agentless dependency analysis generally available with Azure Migrate

Now generally available for Hyper-V virtual machines and bare-metal servers

• Management
• Features

Public preview: New memory-optimised VM sizes – E96bsv5 and E112ibsv5

New VM sizes provide the best remote storage performance of any Azure VMs to date. You can now process more data with fewer vCPUs, while potentially reducing software licensing costs.

• Pricing & Offerings

General availability: Azure Automation Hybrid Runbook Worker Extension

Azure Automation announces General Availability of Azure Automation Hybrid Runbook Worker Extension

• Management

Generally available: Azure Site Recovery update rollup 65 - November 2022

This article describes the improvements for the latest version of Azure Site Recovery components. 

• Features

Community support for Azure Functions Proxies will end on 30 September 2025

Target retirement date: September 30, 2025

Transition to Azure API Management as soon as possible to avoid disruption to your Function applications using Proxies.

• Azure functions
• Retirements

General availability: Azure Sphere version 22.11

The Azure Sphere version 22.11 release includes various new features and developer resources.

• Azure Sphere
• SDK and Tools
• Operating System

Public preview: Azure Sphere support for European Data Boundary

Azure Sphere Security Service EU data processing and storage (Public Preview) 

• Azure Sphere
• Compliance
• Security
• Services