Azure updates

Generally available: Partitioned namespaces for Azure Service Bus Premium

Partitoned namespaces for Azure Service Bus, allowing the use of partitioning for the premium messaging tier, is now generally available.

• Service Bus
• Microsoft Ignite

Public preview: Cost analysis add-on for AKS

You now have increased visibility and transparency into cluster costs.

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Microsoft Ignite
• Open Source
• Features

Public preview: Vector database add-ons for Azure Container Apps

You can now get started quickly with cognitive search using Azure Container Apps and its native integration with three popular open source vector database variants.

• Azure Container Apps
• Microsoft Ignite
• Features

Public preview: Azure Container Apps adds native support for CNCF Buildpacks to automatically containerize your code

You can now focus on your code and quickly take your application from source to cloud. There’s no need to understand containers or how to package application code for deployment.

• Azure Container Apps
• Microsoft Ignite
• Features

Generally available: Azure Container Apps Landing Zone Accelerator

You can now provision Container Apps with workload profiles securely at an enterprise scale with a landing zone.

• Azure Container Apps
• Microsoft Ignite
• Features

Public preview: Policy-driven resiliency in Azure Container Apps

You can now use and customize policies that provide high value resiliency capabilities and apply them to your Container Apps.

• Azure Container Apps
• Microsoft Ignite
• Features

Public preview: Dedicated GPU workload profiles

You can now run GPU-enabled workloads in Azure Container Apps.

• Azure Container Apps
• Microsoft Ignite
• Features

Kubernetes AI toolchain operator

You can now more easily deploy machine learning (ML) models on AKS using the Kubernetes AI toolchain operator.

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Microsoft Ignite
• Open Source

GA: Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager

Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager is now generally available and offers an update orchestration feature so you can create an update strategy once and reference it in multiple update runs.

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager
• Microsoft Ignite
• Features

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.

• Security
• Microsoft Ignite
• Services
• Management
• Features

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.

• Azure Chaos Studio
• Microsoft Ignite
• Services

Generally available: AMD confidential VM option for Azure Databricks

Users can now select AMD-based confidential VMs for their Azure Databricks cluster driver node and cluster worker nodes.

• Azure Databricks
• Virtual Machines
• Security
• Microsoft Ignite
• Features

Announcing Azure API Management Credential Manager: Azure API Management Authorizations Renamed

Target availability: Q4 2023

We're thrilled to introduce the rebranding and feature enhancements of Azure API Management's Credential Manager, formerly known as Authorizations. The updated Credential Manager now boasts additional capabilities for user-delegated permissions.

• Microsoft Ignite
• Features

Public Preview: Announcing the preview of Azure Managed Confidential Consortium Framework

Deploy and build decentralized governance applications with granular confidentiality amongst members.

• Microsoft Azure Confidential Ledger
• SDK and Tools
• Security
• Microsoft Ignite
• Open Source
• Services

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.

• Security
• Microsoft Ignite
• Services

Public preview: Confidential containers on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

AKS now lets you run individual pods in their own trusted execution environment (TEE)

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Security
• Microsoft Ignite
• Open Source
• Services
• Features

Public preview: Confidential temp disk encryption for confidential VMs

Confidential temp disk encryption is now available for all confidential VMs.

• Virtual Machines
• Security
• Microsoft Ignite
• Services
• Features

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.

• Security
• Microsoft Ignite
• Services
• Management
• Features

Preview: Disk Integrity Tool for confidential VMs in Azure

The disk integrity tool for confidential VMs is now in preview. This enables you to measure and attest that your OS disk is launched as expected.

• Virtual Machines
• SDK and Tools
• Security
• Microsoft Ignite
• Features