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July 2023

20 Jul

Windows Server end-of-support (EOS): Upgrade seamlessly with Azure Migrate (Public preview)

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q3 2023

With Azure Migrate, seamlessly upgrade legacy Windows servers while migrating to Azure, minimizing effort, downtime, and risk. By creating a copy of the server in Azure and performing the upgrade there, the impact on the original server is minimized, ensuring a secure and efficient transition.

  • Azure Migrate
  • Microsoft Inspire
  • Operating System
  • Features
19 Jul

Preview: Azure Boost

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q3 2023

Azure Boost is one of Microsoft Azure’s latest and most significant infrastructure innovations, enabling greater network and storage performance at scale, improves security, and reduced servicing impact.

  • Microsoft Inspire
18 Jul

New Extended Security Updates (ESUs) enabled by Azure Arc

IN PREVIEW

At Inspire, we are announcing Extended Security Updates (ESUs) enabled by Azure Arc. Customers will be able to purchase and seamlessly deploy ESUs through Azure Arc in on-premises or multicloud environments, right from the Azure portal.

  • Microsoft Inspire
18 Jul

Hotpatch is now generally available on Windows Server VMs on Azure with the Desktop Experience installation mode

NOW AVAILABLE

Hotpatch is now available for Windows Server Azure Edition VMs using the newly released images. Hotpatch is a feature that allows you to patch and install OS security updates to Windows Server Azure Edition VMs on Azure without requiring a reboot!

  • Management
  • Microsoft Inspire

October 2022

17 Oct

Public preview: Exactly once delivery for Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2

IN PREVIEW

Stream Analytics now supports end-to-end exactly once semantics when writing to Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2.

  • Azure Stream Analytics
  • Microsoft Inspire
  • Features

July 2022

20 Jul

General availability: Azure confidential VMs (DCasv5/ECasv5-series VMs)

NOW AVAILABLE

General availability of Azure confidential Virtual Machines.

  • Microsoft Inspire
20 Jul

Public preview: Azure Monitor for SAP solutions

IN PREVIEW

Azure Monitor for SAP solutions allows you to collect and visualize end-to-end SAP telemetry in the Azure portal.

  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Microsoft Inspire
  • Features
19 Jul

Public preview: Azure Marketplace for Arc-enabled Azure Stack HCI

IN PREVIEW

Get popular VM images directly from Microsoft and third-party publishers via the Azure Marketplace.

  • Azure Stack HCI
  • Microsoft Inspire
19 Jul

Public preview: Remote support for Arc-enabled Azure Stack HCI

IN PREVIEW

Get remote access to your cluster for support and maintenance purposes.

  • Azure Stack HCI
  • Microsoft Inspire
19 Jul

Public preview: Arc-enabled guest VMs with extensions for Azure Stack HCI

IN PREVIEW

Simplify management and configuration of your guest virtual machine.

  • Azure Stack HCI
  • Microsoft Inspire
19 Jul

Public preview: Azure Stack HCI version 22H2

IN PREVIEW

Evaluate the latest Azure Stack HCI version 22H2 in the preview channel.

  • Azure Stack HCI
  • Microsoft Inspire
19 Jul

Generally available: Premium-series hardware for Azure SQL Managed Instance

NOW AVAILABLE

Leverage new Azure SQL Managed Instance premium-series hardware based on the latest Intel CPUs that offers significantly improved performance and scalability.

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Management
  • Microsoft Inspire
  • Features
19 Jul

General availability: Citus 11 support for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus)

NOW AVAILABLE

Support for Citus 11 is now included in Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus), a managed service running the distributed open-source PostgreSQL database on Azure.

  • Azure Database for PostgreSQL
  • Microsoft Inspire
  • Features
  • Open Source
19 Jul

General Availability: Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server - On demand backups

NOW AVAILABLE

Initiate on demand backups of your production workloads and store them based on your server’s backup retention policy.

  • Azure Database for MySQL
  • Microsoft Inspire
  • Features
  • Open Source
19 Jul

Public preview: Cross-region read replicas for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus)

IN PREVIEW

Create read replicas of your Hyperscale (Citus) server group in different regions.

  • Azure Database for PostgreSQL
  • Microsoft Inspire
  • Features
  • Open Source
19 Jul

Generally available: Basic tier updates for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus)

NOW AVAILABLE

Hyperscale (Citus) Basic tier now supports 16, 32, and 64 vCores and 1 TiB and 2 TiB storage.

  • Azure Database for PostgreSQL
  • Microsoft Inspire
  • Features
  • Open Source
19 Jul

Generally available: vCore compute options for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus)

NOW AVAILABLE

Run memory-intensive enterprise applications with higher concurrency and no throttling on the new 96 and 104 vCore compute options.

  • Azure Database for PostgreSQL
  • Microsoft Inspire
  • Features
  • Open Source
19 Jul

Generally available: New extensions for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server

NOW AVAILABLE

Install the new extensions and use this functionality for development with Javascript and geographic routing logic with Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server.

  • Azure Database for PostgreSQL
  • Microsoft Inspire
  • Features
19 Jul

Generally available: PostgreSQL 14 with Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server now supports the latest Postgres version 14.

  • Azure Database for PostgreSQL
  • Microsoft Inspire
  • Features
19 Jul

Generally available: Same-zone high availability for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server

NOW AVAILABLE

Deploy high availability within the same zone for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server.

  • Azure Database for PostgreSQL
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Microsoft Inspire
  • Features

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