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June 2023

6 Jun

Generally available: Multiple backups per day for Azure Virtual Machines

NOW AVAILABLE

Protect Azure Virtual Machines with Recovery Point Objective (RPO) as low as four hours.

  • Azure Backup
  • Features
1 Jun

Public preview: Introducing NGads V620-series VMs optimized for cloud gaming

IN PREVIEW

VGads V620-series virtual machines (VMs), now in public preview in the East US2, Europe west, and West US3 regions, enable service providers to build differentiated cloud gaming experiences.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Services
  • Pricing & Offerings
1 Jun

Generally available: 8TB memory Mv2 Virtual Machine

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q2 2023

Mv2 8TB Memory virtual machine is generally available now for your in-memory workloads.

  • Features

May 2023

31 May

Generally available: Azure Files scalability improvement for Azure Virtual Desktop and other workloads that open root directory handles

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q2 2023

Azure Files has increased the root directory handle limit per share from 2,000 to 10,000 for standard and premium file shares.

  • Azure Files
  • Storage Accounts
  • Features
24 May

Public Preview: Azure AI Content Safety

IN PREVIEW

Azure AI Content Safety is a new Azure AI service that identifies harmful online content, categorizes it and assigns severity scores to support human content moderator workloads.

  • Azure AI services
  • Services
  • Microsoft Build
24 May

Virtual Network Integration Support (Public Preview) for Azure Stream Analytics

ASA is thrilled to announce public preview of Virtual Network Integration support for Azure Stream Analytics! 

  • Microsoft Build
  • Security
  • Features
23 May

Optimize your reservation purchases with reservation utilization alerts.

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q2 2023

Activate reservation utilization alerts and take control of your Azure reservation strategy.

  • Microsoft Cost Management
  • Management
  • Features
23 May

Optimize your reservation purchases with reservation utilization alerts.

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q2 2023

Activate reservation utilization alerts and take control of your Azure reservation strategy.

  • Microsoft Cost Management
  • Management
  • Features
23 May

Optimize your reservation purchases with reservation utilization alerts.

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q2 2023

Activate reservation utilization alerts and take control of your Azure reservation strategy.

  • Microsoft Cost Management
  • Management
  • Features
23 May

Build 2023: New Azure App Service plans fuel greater choice and savings

NOW AVAILABLE

New plans for Microsoft Azure App Service customers with two new offerings in the Premium v3 (Pv3) service tier, and expansion in the Isolated v2 tier.

  • App Service
  • Microsoft Build
23 May

Azure Machine Learning - General Availability for Build

NOW AVAILABLE

New features now available in GA include the ability to enable MLOPs across dev, test, and prod environments to promote assets across multiple workspaces.

  • Azure Machine Learning
  • Microsoft Build
  • Features
23 May

Announcing the public preview of custom Text Analytics for health

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q2 2023

Custom Text Analytics for health is the newest healthcare NLP offering from Cognitive Services for Language. It allows you to add a layer of customization on top of Text Analytics for health using state-of-the-art machine learning models to build your own healthcare entity extraction model with your specific domain data. The model's authoring experience can be performed either using the graphical user interface on the Language Studio or programmatically using the REST APIs. The feature is now in public preview allowing you to make 5,000 text records of predictions per language resource for free using the Standard (S) pricing tier.

  • Features
17 May

Public preview: Rolling Upgrades with MaxSurge for Virtual Machine Scale Sets

IN PREVIEW

Rolling Upgrades with MaxSurge provides you a new way of upgrading VM instances in a Virtual Machine Scale Set to the latest scale set model.

  • Features
17 May

General Availability: Routing Intent and Virtual WAN Integrated Firewall NVAs

NOW AVAILABLE

Routing intent supports inter-region/inter-hub traffic inspection and branch-to-branch traffic inspection for Azure Virtual WAN.

  • Security
  • Features
11 May

Alert processing rules fields update

IN DEVELOPMENT

Target availability: Q3 2023

Alert processing rules are a set of rules that allow for modifications to be made to fired alerts, distinct from alert rules which generate new alerts. With alert processing rules, you can add or remove action groups from your fired alerts.

  • Services
  • Compliance
  • Features
11 May

General Availability: AzAcSnap 8 — Azure Application Consistent Snapshot tool updates

NOW AVAILABLE

AzAcSnap Version 8 Release

  • Azure NetApp Files
  • Services
  • SDK and Tools
  • Features
10 May

Public Preview: Cross Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) in Azure Container Apps

IN PREVIEW

You can now enable CORS for your Azure Container App through the portal or CLI.

  • Azure Container Apps
  • Features
4 May

Public Preview: Palo Alto Networks SaaS Cloud NGFW Integration with Virtual WAN

IN PREVIEW

The first security software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution to be integrated in Azure Virtual WAN, allowing you to protect your workloads with a highly available NGFW.

  • Services
  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Security
  • Features

April 2023

27 Apr

New Azure Virtual Desktop features to answer our customers’ top needs

NOW AVAILABLE

New, recently released capabilities that improve storage, enhance configuration, deliver exceptional endpoint security and more.

  • Azure Virtual Desktop
  • Features
26 Apr

Azure Advisor VM/VMSS right-sizing recommendations with custom lookback period

NOW AVAILABLE

You can now customize the right sizing recommendations for virtual machines and virtual machine scale sets to make them more relevant and actionable for your workloads.

  • Azure Advisor
  • Management

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