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Generally Available: Azure Chaos Studio supports new faults for Service Bus
Azure Chaos Studio supports new faults for Service Bus.
Store and manage medical imaging data with Azure Data Lake Storage (Preview)
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.
Azure Event Grid releases public preview support for events from services like Microsoft Entra ID, Microsoft Outlook, and Microsoft Teams.
Target availability: Q4 2023
Support for Microsoft Graph API events helps you automate actions in response to Microsoft resource changes.
Public Preview: IT Service Management Connector (ITSMC) is now certified with ServiceNow Vancouver version
The ITSM connector provides a bi-directional connection between Azure and ITSM tools to help track and resolve issues faster.
Azure support plan offer extended to June 30, 2024
Target availability: Q1 2024
Beginning January 1, 2024, all new and renewing Azure customers who purchase an Enterprise Agreement (EA or EES) or are part of the field-led Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA) will receive Azure Standard support. Qualifications for the promotion will end on June 30, 2024.
November 2023
Generally Available: Azure Red Hat OpenShift in Italy North
Azure Red Hat OpenShift is now available in Italy North region.
Generally Available: Azure Mv3 Medium Memory (MM) Virtual Machines
Get improved performance and higher reliability for your memory-optimized workloads with the public preview of the new generation Mv3 Medium Memory (MM) Virtual Machines.
Preview: New Basic SKU functionality for Azure confidential ledger
The Azure confidential ledger Basic SKU gated preview will allow select customers using other Azure products to uplevel integrity protection by storing periodic data, blobs, and application signatures in Azure confidential ledger.
Azure Chaos Studio is now generally available
The general availability of Azure Chaos Studios provides a fully managed experimentation platform for discovering challenging issues through experiment templates, dynamic targets and a more guided user interface.
General availability: Additional Azure ExpressRoute peering locations
ExpressRoute lets you extend your on-premises networks into the Microsoft cloud over a private connection with the help of a connectivity provider or a direct connection with ExpressRoute Direct. With ExpressRoute, you can establish connections to Microsoft cloud services, such as Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365.
Public Preview: Announcing the preview of Azure Managed Confidential Consortium Framework
Deploy and build decentralized governance applications with granular confidentiality amongst members.
Preview: Azure confidential VMs with NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs
Azure confidential VMs with NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs is open for preview. Please use the sign-up at aka.ms/accgpusignup for your onboarding request.
Public preview: Confidential containers on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
AKS now lets you run individual pods in their own trusted execution environment (TEE)
Public preview: Confidential temp disk encryption for confidential VMs
Confidential temp disk encryption is now available for all confidential VMs.
Public Preview: New Marketplace app for Storage customers and feature enhancements to portal for Azure confidential ledger
Storage customers will now be able to use a marketplace application to connect their immutable blobs with enhanced integrity protection from Azure confidential ledger. Signatures from blobs will be stored and validated, as needed. In addition, the Azure confidential ledger portal experience has been enhanced to allow exploring transactions and retrieving cryptographic proof.
Generally Available: Trusted launch as default for VMs deployed through PowerShell and CLI
Trusted launch is now enabled by default for VMs deployed through PowerShell and CLI, enhancing the foundational security of these VMs.
Public Preview: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9.3 support for AMD-based confidential VMs
RHEL 9.3 is now available in public preview as the guest OS for all AMD-based confidential VMs.
Generally Available: AMD confidential VMs in new regions for November 2023
AMD confidential VMs now in Italy North, Germany West Central, UAE North.
Azure Virtual Network Manager Security Admin Rule generally available in select regions
Azure Virtual Network Manager's security admin rule configuration is now generally available in select regions, empowering users to enforce security rules across their virtual networks globally.
Public preview: ExpressRoute Seamless Gateway Migration
ExpressRoute customers can now seamlessly migrate.
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