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October 2023

3 Oct

Generally available: Enhanced soft delete for Azure Backup

NOW AVAILABLE

Enhanced soft delete helps you recover your backup data even after it has been deleted, giving you protection against data loss scenarios like ransomwares, malicious actors, and accidental deletes.

  • Security
  • Management
  • Features

September 2023

21 Sep

General Availability: Share VM images publicly with community gallery - Azure Compute Gallery feature

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q3 2023

With community gallery, you can now share VM images with the broader Azure community.

  • Gallery
  • Open Source
  • Management
  • Features
21 Sep

Generally Available: Azure Update Manager

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Update Manager, previously known as Update Management Center, is now generally available.

  • Azure Arc
  • Management
20 Sep

Generally available: Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry-based Distro for Node.js and Python

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q3 2023

Use OpenTelemetry-based instrumentation with vender-neutral APIs to power metrics, logs, and distributed traces in Azure Monitor application insights.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Application Insights
  • SDK and Tools
  • Open Source
  • Management
12 Sep

Generally available: Export Cost Management data to secure storage accounts with firewall

NOW AVAILABLE

You can export Cost Management data to secure storage accounts with firewall.

  • Azure Cost Management and Billing
  • Management

August 2023

28 Aug

Preview: Export Cost Management data to secure storage accounts with firewall

IN PREVIEW

Export Cost Management data to secure storage accounts with firewall

  • Azure Cost Management and Billing
  • Management
  • Compliance
24 Aug

General Availability: Improve VM resiliency with Azure Advisor's Availability Zone recommendation.

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q3 2023

Avoid downtime and business interruptions by migrating your virtual machines to availability zones

  • Azure Advisor
  • Management
10 Aug

Public preview: Support for new custom error pages in Application Gateway

IN PREVIEW

Azure Application Gateway introduces more response codes to configure the custom error pages.

  • Application Gateway
  • Security
  • Services
  • Management
  • Features
  • Compliance
8 Aug

Public preview: Azure Storage Mover support for SMB and Azure Files

IN PREVIEW

Migrate your SMB shares to Azure file shares with Azure Storage Mover.

  • Azure Storage Mover
  • Services
  • Management
  • Features

July 2023

31 Jul

Public preview: Assess cost optimization opportunities using new workbook template in Azure Advisor

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q3 2023

Review cost optimization insights for your Azure environment and identify savings using the new Cost Optimization workbook template in Azure Advisor.

  • Azure Advisor
  • Management
18 Jul

Hotpatch is now generally available on Windows Server VMs on Azure with the Desktop Experience installation mode

NOW AVAILABLE

Hotpatch is now available for Windows Server Azure Edition VMs using the newly released images. Hotpatch is a feature that allows you to patch and install OS security updates to Windows Server Azure Edition VMs on Azure without requiring a reboot!

  • Microsoft Inspire
  • Management
10 Jul

Azure SQL—General availability updates for early July 2023

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q3 2023

General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in early July 2023.

  • Management
  • Features

June 2023

22 Jun

Public Preview: Network Observability add-on on AKS

IN PREVIEW

Enable network observability add-on on AKS clusters to gain insights into how your cluster operate and to identify potential problems before they cause outages or performance degradation.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Azure Monitor
  • Virtual Network
  • Services
  • Management
  • Features
13 Jun

Public preview: Assess impact of service retirements using new workbook template in Azure Advisor

IN PREVIEW

Review upcoming service and feature retirements and their impact on your workloads using the new Service Retirement workbook template which is available in Azure Advisor.

  • Azure Advisor
  • Management

May 2023

23 May

Optimize your reservation purchases with reservation utilization alerts.

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q2 2023

Activate reservation utilization alerts and take control of your Azure reservation strategy.

  • Azure Cost Management and Billing
  • Management
  • Features
23 May

Optimize your reservation purchases with reservation utilization alerts.

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q2 2023

Activate reservation utilization alerts and take control of your Azure reservation strategy.

  • Azure Cost Management and Billing
  • Management
  • Features
23 May

General Availability: Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus is now Generally Available.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Managed Prometheus
  • Azure Managed Grafana
  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes
  • Open Source
  • Management
  • Microsoft Build
  • Pricing & Offerings
23 May

Optimize your reservation purchases with reservation utilization alerts.

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q2 2023

Activate reservation utilization alerts and take control of your Azure reservation strategy.

  • Azure Cost Management and Billing
  • Management
  • Features
23 May

Public Preview: Azure Monitor announces Network Observability AKS add-on

IN PREVIEW

The new Network Observability AKS add-on provides complete observability into the network health and connectivity of your AKS cluster.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Azure Monitor
  • Azure Managed Grafana
  • Open Source
  • Management
  • Microsoft Build
  • Features
23 May

Public preview: Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus for Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes

IN PREVIEW

Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus is now extending monitoring support for Kubernetes clusters hosted on Azure Arc.

  • Azure Arc
  • Azure Monitor
  • Azure Managed Grafana
  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Open Source
  • Management
  • Microsoft Build
  • Features

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