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General availability: Azure Lab Services August 2022 update

Improve performance, reliability, and scalability for Azure Lab Services with the latest update.

• Azure DevTest Labs
• Azure Virtual Desktop
• Services

Retirement of Computer Vision API v3.2 previews

Target retirement date: January 30, 2023

Migrate your workloads to Computer Vision API v3.2 GA before 30 January 2023.

• Retirements

Azure SQL—Public preview updates for early August 2022

Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in early August 2022

• Azure SQL Database
• Features

Public preview: Migration tool feature with Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server

Use the new migration tool to migrate workloads from Single to Flexible Server on Azure Database for PostgreSQL, a managed service running the open-source Postgres database on Azure.

• Azure Database for PostgreSQL
• Management
• Features
• Open Source

Generally available: Audit log for continuous mode with Azure Cosmos DB

Audit your restore actions on continuous mode in Azure Cosmos DB accounts.

• Azure Cosmos DB
• Features

Public preview: RedisJSON available in Azure Cache for Redis Enterprise

Gain powerful tools for working with JSON formatted data in Redis through the RedisJSON module.

• Azure Cache for Redis
• Features

Public preview: Azure Load Testing in West US 2

Azure Load Testing is in public preview in West US 2.

• Azure Load Testing
• Services

Generally available: AKS node pool user start/stop feature

You can now completely stop specific user node pools and pick up later where you left off with a switch of a button, saving time and costs.

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Features

Generally available: FIPS compliant nodes for Windows in AKS

You can now create Windows-based node pools with FIPS 140-2 enabled.

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Features

General availability: Azure App Service Environment v3 support for custom domain suffix

General availability: Azure App Service Environment v3 support for custom domain suffix

• App Service
• Features

Public preview: .NET 7 support in Linux Consumption Plan

Announcing the .NET 7 support for Azure functions in isolated process in public preview for Linux Consumption Plan.

• Azure Functions
• Features

Public preview: Container insights portal integration with basic logs

Container insights customers using basic logs on the ContainerLogV2 schema (preview) can now get the same drill-in querying experience in the portal as with analytics logs at a reduced cost.

• Azure Monitor
• Features

Public preview: Azure Dedicated Host support for Ultra SSD

Introducing support for Azure Ultra Disks on Azure Dedicated Host.

• Azure Dedicated Host
• Features

Generally available: Azure Monitor metric alerts dynamic thresholds outage detection

Azure Monitor metric alerts with dynamic thresholds detection, leverages advanced machine learning (ML) to learn metrics' historical behavior and identify patterns and anomalies that indicate…

• Azure Monitor
• Features

Azure Firewall Premium is now ICSA labs certified

Azure Firewall Premium Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) certification from ICSA Labs is now available.

• Azure Firewall
• Compliance
• Security

General availability: Azure Log Analytics in China North 3 and China East 3

Log Analytics, a feature of Azure Monitor, is now generally available for you to start collecting telemetry and analyzing your services for health and usage in China North 3 and China East 3.

• Azure Monitor
• Log Analytics
• Regions & Datacenters

General availability: Reservation administrator and reader roles in the Azure Portal

You can now assign reservation administrator and reader roles in the Azure Portal.

• Features

Generally available: Enforcement mode of machine configuration (previously guest configuration)

Set the configuration of your Azure Virtual Machine or Azure Arc-enabled server using the enforcement mode of machine configuration (formerly guest configuration).

• Azure Automanage
• Management

General availability: Application Insights in China North 3 and China East 3

Application Insights, a part of Azure Monitor, is now generally available in China North 3 and China East 3 regions for you to collect telemetry and analyse your service health in production environments.

• Azure Monitor
• Application Insights
• Regions & Datacenters