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Monthly updates for April 2022

7 Apr

General availability: Azure Backup now supports vault-archive tier for Azure VMs

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Backup now provides the capability to move long term retention (LTR) recovery points to low-cost archive tier for Azure Virtual Machines.

  • Azure Backup
  • Management
  • Features
7 Apr

General availability: Azure Data Explorer supports Azure private endpoints

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q1 2022

Enhance your security posture by leveraging Azure private endpoints to connect to your Azure Data Explorer cluster privately

  • Azure Data Explorer
  • Features
  • Security
6 Apr

Generally available: Azure storage table access using Azure Active Directory

NOW AVAILABLE

Accessing Azure storage table using Azure AD for authentication and Azure RBAC for authorization provides superior security over using shared key for access.

  • Features
  • Security
6 Apr

Generally available: Support for Private Link in Azure IoT Central

NOW AVAILABLE

Enhance your security posture by privately connecting devices to Azure IoT Central via private endpoint, eliminating exposure to the public internet.

  • Azure IoT Central
  • Features
6 Apr

Public preview: Azure Backup supports metrics and metric alerts for Azure Blobs

IN PREVIEW

You can now monitor the restore job health of your backed up blobs via Azure Monitor metrics and write custom alert rules on these metrics.

  • Azure Backup
  • Azure Monitor
  • Management
5 Apr

Public preview: Capacity reservation support in AKS

IN PREVIEW

You can now use reserved capacity with AKS via the capacity reservation feature.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Features
5 Apr

Generally available: Azure Virtual Machines increase storage throughput by up to 300%

NOW AVAILABLE

Microsoft is announcing the general availability of the Ebs/Ebds v5 memory optimized Azure VM series, that deliver up to 300% increase in remote storage performance compared to prior generation VMs.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Services
  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Features
5 Apr

Public preview: Azure Virtual Machines DCsv3 available in Switzerland and West US

IN PREVIEW

Confidential computing DCsv3 and DCdsv3-series virtual machines (VMs) are in preview in Switzerland North and West US.

  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Security
5 Apr

Generally available: Azure Data Explorer Inline script deployment with ARM Template

NOW AVAILABLE

We can now build an entire Azure Data Explorer environment with ARM template. Schema entities (e.g. tables, functions, policies) can be deployed without an external storage account.

  • Azure Data Explorer
  • Azure Resource Manager templates
  • Features
5 Apr

Generally available: Support for copying tiles added to Azure IoT Central

NOW AVAILABLE

IoT Central customers will now be able to quickly build new visuals in their dashboards by simply copying an existing tile.

  • Azure IoT Central
  • Features
4 Apr

Public preview: Arm64-based Azure VMs can deliver up to 50% better price-performance

IN PREVIEW

New general-purpose and memory-optimized Azure Virtual Machines, which feature Ampere Altra Arm-based processors, deliver even better price-performance than comparable x86-based Azure Linux Virtual Machines.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Virtual Machine Scale Sets
  • Services
  • Pricing & Offerings
4 Apr

Generally available: Apache Kafka 2.4 in Azure HDinsight

NOW AVAILABLE

Apache Kafka 2.4 is now in Azure HDinsight.

  • Open Source
4 Apr

Generally available: Apache Spark 3.1.2 in Azure HDinsight

NOW AVAILABLE

Spark 3.1 is now generally available on HDInsight 4.0 release across all regions.

  • Open Source
4 Apr

Public preview: Azure Bastion support for Kerberos authentication

IN PREVIEW

Azure Bastion now supports the Kerberos authentication protocol in public preview.

  • Azure Bastion
  • Features
  • Security

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