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Generally available: Multiple backups per day for Azure Virtual Machines
Protect Azure Virtual Machines with Recovery Point Objective (RPO) as low as four hours.
Public preview: Introducing NGads V620-series VMs optimized for cloud gaming
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.
Generally available: 8TB memory Mv2 Virtual Machine
Target availability: Q2 2023
Mv2 8TB Memory virtual machine is generally available now for your in-memory workloads.
May 2023
Generally available: Azure Files scalability improvement for Azure Virtual Desktop and other workloads that open root directory handles
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.
Public Preview: Azure AI Content Safety
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.
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!
Optimize your reservation purchases with reservation utilization alerts.
Target availability: Q2 2023
Activate reservation utilization alerts and take control of your Azure reservation strategy.
Optimize your reservation purchases with reservation utilization alerts.
Target availability: Q2 2023
Activate reservation utilization alerts and take control of your Azure reservation strategy.
Optimize your reservation purchases with reservation utilization alerts.
Target availability: Q2 2023
Activate reservation utilization alerts and take control of your Azure reservation strategy.
Build 2023: New Azure App Service plans fuel greater choice and savings
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.
Azure Machine Learning - General Availability for Build
New features now available in GA include the ability to enable MLOPs across dev, test, and prod environments to promote assets across multiple workspaces.
Announcing the public preview of custom Text Analytics for health
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.
Public preview: Rolling Upgrades with MaxSurge for Virtual Machine Scale Sets
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.
General Availability: Routing Intent and Virtual WAN Integrated Firewall NVAs
Routing intent supports inter-region/inter-hub traffic inspection and branch-to-branch traffic inspection for Azure Virtual WAN.
Alert processing rules fields update
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.
General Availability: AzAcSnap 8 — Azure Application Consistent Snapshot tool updates
AzAcSnap Version 8 Release
Public Preview: Cross Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) in Azure Container Apps
You can now enable CORS for your Azure Container App through the portal or CLI.
Public Preview: Palo Alto Networks SaaS Cloud NGFW Integration with Virtual WAN
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.
April 2023
New Azure Virtual Desktop features to answer our customers’ top needs
New, recently released capabilities that improve storage, enhance configuration, deliver exceptional endpoint security and more.
Azure Advisor VM/VMSS right-sizing recommendations with custom lookback period
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.
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