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Azure Service Bus large message support reaches general availability
This new capability removes need for workarounds and enables migration of legacy payloads to Azure
General availability: Provisioned throughput increase for Azure Ultra Disk Storage
The provisioned throughput for Azure Ultra Disk Storage has been increased to 4,000 MB/s per disk.
General availability: Centralized management of keys for encrypting Azure disks
Centralized management of keys for encrypting Azure disks is now generally available, allowing you to manage encryption keys centrally in a subscription and encrypt disks and snapshots in other subscriptions in your organization.
New capabilities introduced for disk pool (public preview) for Azure VMware Solution
Disk pool enables you to access Azure Disk Storage for high-performance, durable block storage for your Azure VMware Solution workloads. We are introducing new enhancements to disk pool to improve availability, cost-efficiency, and management.
Public preview: Cross-region snapshot copy for Azure Disk Storage
Cross-region snapshot copy is now in preview, allowing you to copy disk snapshots to any region for disaster recovery scenarios.
Live resize of Azure Disk Storage in public preview
With live resize of Azure Disk Storage in preview, you can dynamically increase your disk size without any downtime to your application.
Open Service Mesh add-on for AKS is now generally available
Use the service mesh capabilities from Open Service Mesh (OSM) integrated natively with the AKS managed service offering.
Azure SQL: Public preview updates for early November 2021
Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL Managed Instance in mid-September 2021.
General availability: AKS support for Secrets Store CSI driver
Easily integrate secrets stores into your Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) so you can securely access your secrets via the container’s file system.
Public preview: Industry-aware analytics with database templates in Azure Synapse
Database templates in Azure Synapse enable you to integrate and shape data from across multiple internal and external sources. This helps you eliminate data silos and accelerate building analytics-infused applications for your specific industry.
Public preview: Simplified provisioning of access to data lake assets
Azure Purview will enable data owners to use a simple intuitive experience to centrally manage access to data in Azure Storage
Azure Service Operator v2 release is now generally available
Use Azure Service Operator to provision resources within Kubernetes and implement self-service resource provisioning for your application developers.
Public preview: Azure Container Registry connected registry for IoT Edge
You can now synchronize container images from your cloud registry and serve them on-premises for use by IoT devices and use the connected registry in an disconnected setting up to 90 days.
Public preview: Explore your Amazon RDS data in Azure Purview
Azure Purview, the unified data governance solution, expands its multi-cloud coverage with support for Amazon RDS.
Public preview: Azure Container Apps
Today we're announcing the public preview of Azure Container Apps. Run and scale modern apps using a fully managed serverless container service built for microservices.
Azure Synapse Link for Azure Cosmos DB: Custom partitioning support in public preview
Partition your data in analytical store using keys that are critical for your business logic to achieve better query and data load performance.
Azure Machine Learning public preview announcement Ignite, November 2021
New feature Azure Arc-enabled machine learning inference and data labeling with text classification using ML Assist capabilities are now available in preview in Azure Machine Learning.
Public preview: gMSAv2 security policy support for Kubernetes workloads on Windows
AKS will now take care of GMSA configuration, as well as maintaining trust during scale operations in the Windows nodepool.
Public preview updates to Azure SQL Managed Instance boosts performance, scale, and flexibility
New investments in Azure SQL Managed Instance bring more performance, scale, and flexibility to your SQL workloads in this latest significant update to the service.
Azure Cognitive Service for Language now generally available
Azure Cognitive Service for Language provides high-quality natural language capabilities, from sentiment analysis and entity extraction to automated question answering.
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