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General availability: HBv4-series & HX-series VMs are now available in Sweden Central.
HBv4 virtual machines (VMs) are optimized for various HPC workloads such as computational fluid dynamics, finite element analysis, frontend and backend EDA, rendering, molecular dynamics, computational geoscience, weather simulation, and financial risk analysis. HX-series Virtual Machines (VMs) are optimized for large memory HPC workloads such as backend EDA, finite element analysis, computational geoscience, and big data analytics.
Azure Machine Learning data collector is now generally available
Target availability: Q2 2024
Azure Machine Learning data collector provides real-time logging of input and output data from models that are deployed to managed online endpoints or Kubernetes online endpoints. This data can be seamlessly used for model monitoring, debugging, or auditing, thereby providing observability into the performance of your deployed models.
Using Azure Virtual Network Manager network groups in security admin rules is now in public preview
Using your Azure Virtual Network Manager network groups in the source and/or destination of security admin rules is now in public preview, enabling users to achieve network isolation across different environments and manage network segments more easily at scale.
Action recommended: Prepare for model version retirement in Azure OpenAI
Action recommended: Prepare for model version retirement in Azure OpenAI
General availability: Azure Virtual Network encryption availability in all regions
Azure Virtual Network encryption is a feature of Azure Virtual Networks. Virtual network encryption allows you to seamlessly encrypt and decrypt traffic between Azure Virtual Machines.
Azure Load Testing availability in Fairfax (USGov Virginia)
Target availability: Q2 2024
Azure Load Testing GA in Fairfax cloud - USGov Virginia. US Government customers on the Fairfax cloud can now use Azure Load Testing to simplify their end-to-end load testing process.
Public Preview: Resiliency Review on Azure Advisor
Target availability: Q1 2024
Improve your workload’s resiliency and optimize your cloud deployments by reviewing recommendations on Advisor
Public preview: ExpressRoute Metro for High Resiliency
ExpressRoute lets you extend your on-premises networks into the Microsoft cloud over a private connection with the help of a connectivity provider. With ExpressRoute, you can establish connections to Microsoft cloud services, such as Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365.
March 2024
Preview: Improved throughput performance on Azure Disks’ Standard SSD
Azure Disks Standard SSD throughput limits are now 100 MB/s on disks sized 8191 GBs and lower.
Generally available: Microsoft Dev Box in Southeast Asia, Brazil South, South Africa North, and Switzerland North
Microsoft Dev Box is generally available in Southeast Asia, Brazil South, South Africa North, and Switzerland North.
Generally available: Application Gateway (v2) IPv6 support
Azure Application Gateway v2 enables dual-stack (IPv4 and IPv6) connectivity from the clients, providing more flexible and reliable access to the backend Applications.
General availability: Listener TLS certificates management in the Azure portal
You can now manage the TLS certificates associated with Listeners through Azure portal.
Generally available: Azure Health Data Services DICOM service with Azure Data Lake Storage
With the integration of Azure Data Lake Storage and the DICOM service, organizations can now enjoy full control over their imaging data and increased flexibility for accessing and working with that data through the Azure storage ecosystem and APIs.
Microsoft open sources Retina: A cloud-native container networking observability platform
The Microsoft's Azure Container Networking team is announcing Retina, a cloud-native container networking observability platform that enables Kubernetes users, admins, and developers to visualize, observe, debug, and analyze Kubernetes’ workload traffic irrespective of Container Network Interface (CNI), operating system (OS), and cloud.
Billing for Azure Monitor stateful log search alerts
Starting from May 1, 2024, you will be charged for stateful log alerts in Azure Monitor.
Public preview: Azure Modeling and Simulation Workbench
Azure Modeling and Simulation Workbench is a new service that provides a fully managed work environment for engineering development, accelerating project startup, and enabling secure collaboration between development teams.
Azure Classic Administrator roles are retiring on 31 August 2024
Target retirement date: August 31, 2024
On 31 August 2024, Azure classic administrator roles will be retired. Transition from Azure Classic Administrator roles to RBAC roles
WhatsApp Business Platform now available for applications built on Azure
Target availability: Q1 2024
Azure Communication Services Advanced Messaging is now generally available, enabling developers to send and receive messages from their applications through third party social messaging platforms, like the WhatsApp Business Platform. This latest messaging service helps businesses create intelligent B2C communication workflows to reach more customers at scale and deliver safe, reliable communications to customers worldwide.
Generally Available: Azure Chaos Studio supports new fault for Azure Event Hubs
Azure Chaos Studio supports new faults for Azure Event Hubs.
General availability: Azure Virtual Network encryption now in additional regions
Azure Virtual Network encryption is a feature of Azure Virtual Networks. Virtual network encryption allows you to seamlessly encrypt and decrypt traffic between Azure Virtual Machines. Now available in additional regions.
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