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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.
Generally Available: Azure Monitor announces managed services for Prometheus
Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus delivers the best of the open-source ecosystem while automating complex tasks such as scaling, high-availability, and long-term data retention.
Public Preview: Azure NetApp Files Standard Network Features - Edit Volumes
Azure NetApp Files now supports ability to edit existing ANF volumes and upgrading Basic network features to Standard network features.
Microsoft Azure Payment HSM Service now supports two host IP network interfaces
Azure Payment HSM Service now supports two host IP network interfaces
Public preview: Azure Container Storage
Azure Container Storage is a new Azure service built natively for containers that enables customers to create and manage volumes for running production scale stateful container applications.
Generally available: Policy analytics for Azure Firewall
Policy analytics for Azure Firewall, now in general availability, provides enhanced visibility into traffic flowing through Azure Firewall, enabling the optimization of your firewall configuration without impacting your application performance.
General Availability: Azure Center for SAP solutions
Target availability: Q2 2023
Azure Center for SAP solutions brings together an integrated set of capabilities for deploying and managing SAP landscapes by making Azure SAP aware. You can take advantage of the management capabilities for both new and your existing Azure-based SAP systems.
We're retiring Speech-to-text REST preview API v3.1-preview.1 on May 12, 2023
Target retirement date: May 12, 2023
We recently made the Speech-to-text REST API version 3.1 generally available. With this release, we'll retire the preview version v3.1-preview.1 on May 12, 2023.
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
Azure VMware Solution on Azure Government
We are excited to share details for the General Availability of Azure VMware Solution on Microsoft Azure Government
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.
Generally available: Serverless SQL for Azure Databricks
Serverless SQL for Azure Databricks is now generally available. This capability provides instant compute to users for their BI and SQL workloads, with minimal management required.
Preview: Cloud Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) Palo Alto Networks - an Azure Native ISV Service
The first ISV next-generation firewall service natively integrated in Azure.
April 2023
Azure Service Fabric 9.1 Third Refresh Release
This release includes new features and fixes.
Hotpatch is now available on preview images of Windows Server VMs on Azure with the Desktop Experience installation mode
Hotpatch is available for preview images of Windows Server Azure Edition VMs running the Desktop Experience installation mode.
Generally available: Azure App Service – New Premium v3 Offerings
Introducing two new offerings in the Premium v3 (Pv3) service tier on Azure App Service
Public preview: Isovalent Cilium Enterprise through Azure Marketplace
Isovalent Cilium Enterprise is now available to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) customers in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, marking a key milestone in delivering the expansive eBPF-powered Cilium and Isovalent Cilium Enterprise to Azure Kubernetes Service and Azure.
Azure Storage Mover is now Generally Available
We are excited to announce that Azure Storage Mover is now generally available.
Connect Azure Stream Analytics to Azure Data Explorer using managed private endpoint.
Target availability: Q2 2023
You can connect your Azure Stream Analytics job to Azure Data Explorer/Kusto clusters using managed private endpoints
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