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Public preview: Call automation capabilities for Azure Communication Services
A new set of APIs are in preview, to help developers build server-based, calling workflows.
Generally Available: New versions supported for languages and frameworks in Azure App Service
We added support for Python 3.10, PHP 8.1 and Node 18.
Public preview: Go language support on Azure App Service
Go language support is available as an experimental language release on Linux App Service.
General availability: Azure Monitor Logs, custom log API and ingestion-time transformations
New Custom Log API and Ingestion-time Transformations announced in Azure Monitor Logs.
Generally available Day 0 support for .NET 7.0 on App Service
Day 0 support for .NET 7.0 on App Service.
General availability: Azure Monitor agent custom and IIS logs
Azure Monitor agent team has shipped custom log collection and IIS log collection.
General Availability of Cross Zonal Restore of Azure Virtual Machines from Azure Backup
Cross Zonal Restore for Azure Virtual Machines helps to restore to any zone of your choice.
Public preview: Enhanced metrics for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server
Have more visibility and fine-grained control of your Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server instances with new enhanced metrics.
Public preview: Premium series hardware for Azure SQL Database Hyperscale
Target availability: Q4 2022
Leverage new premium-series hardware based on the latest Intel CPUs that offers significantly improved performance and scalability on Azure SQL Database Hyperscale.
Private preview: Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Backup
Azure Backup is announcing private preview of AKS Backup, providing the ability to backup and restore AKS clusters.
Public preview: Use Azure Quota Rest APIs to manage service limits (quotas)
Target availability: Q4 2022
Use Azure REST Quota API to manage service limits (quotas), query current usage and quotas, and even update limits for your supported Azure resources when required.
Public preview: Cross Subscription Restore for Azure Virtual Machines
Target availability: Q4 2022
Cross Subscription Restore for Azure Virtual Machines is provides flexibility to choose any subscription during restore.
Public preview: Azure Bastion now support shareable links
Shareable links allows users to connect to target resources via Azure Bastion without access to the Azure portal.
Public preview: Add an Azure Cosmos DB custom endpoint in IoT Hub
Azure IoT Hub now supports the ability to set up an Azure Cosmos DB account as a custom endpoint. This will help route device data from IoT Hub to Azure Cosmos DB directly.
Public preview: Azure SQL trigger for Azure Functions
You can invoke an Azure Function when a row in a SQL database is created, updated or deleted through the Azure SQL trigger for Azure Functions, now available in public preview.
General availability: Arm-based VMs now available in four additional Azure regions
The Azure Arm-based VMs are now available in four more regions.
General availability: DR secondary free with SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines
Optimise business costs by licensing your Disaster Recovery secondary for free with SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines.
Public preview: License Geo-redundant Disaster Recovery for SQL Managed Instance for free
Save on business continuity costs and license geographically redundant Disaster Recovery with Azure SQL Managed Instance.
Generally available: Azure Synapse Link for SQL
Azure Synapse Link for SQL enables seamless near-real-time data movement from relational sources in Azure SQL Database and SQL Server 2022 to analytical stores without needing to build ETL pipelines.
Generally available: Azure SQL Managed Instance backup portability to SQL Server 2022
Backup of your Azure SQL Managed Instance database can now be restored to a SQL Server 2022 instance.
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