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Introducing New Capabilities in Azure Deployment Environments
Target availability: Q4 2023
Azure Deployment Environments is adding new capabilities to deliver an end-to-end developer experience, broader infrastructure-as-code (IaC) template support, and the ability to control costs by configuring auto-delete schedules.
Public preview: VM Hibernation
VMs can now be put into a hibernate state in which you don't pay for any VM usage, while the VM state can be saved and be restored at a later time.
Public preview: Azure VMSS Zonal Expansion
Zonal expansion for VMs and VM Scale Sets empowers users to smoothly transition their regionally configured VMs or VM scale sets into a zonal configuration across Azure availability zones, resulting an increased availability Service Level Agreement (SLA) from 99.95% to 99.99%.
GA: Azure Boost
Target availability: Q4 2023
Azure Boost is one of Microsoft Azure’s latest and most significant infrastructure innovations, enabling greater network and storage performance at scale, improves security, and reduced servicing impact.
Public preview: New Generation AMD VMs - Dasv6/Easv6/Fasv6
Azure introduces the latest AMD-based VMs in public preview for the D, E, and F series VMs, built on the 4th Generation AMD EPYC™ (Genoa) CPU.
May 2023
Public preview: Soft delete of Recovery Points for Azure Backup
Azure Backup's soft delete of recovery points allows you to recover any recovery points that may have been accidentally or maliciously deleted owing to operations that could lead to deletion of one or more recovery points.
March 2023
Generally available: Resource governance for client applications in Azure Event Hubs
Independently throttle your event streaming workloads using application groups and client applications information at namespace or event hub/Kafka topic level.
January 2023
General availability: Application security groups support for private endpoints
Application security groups (ASGs) support for private endpoints is now generally available.
December 2022
Public preview: Performance improving features for Azure Service Bus premium
Scale your Azure Service Bus premium namespaces far beyond the current limitations with two new features.
Public preview: Log compaction support in Azure Event Hubs
Retain the latest events of an event log by using compacted event hubs or Kafka topics in Azure Event Hubs.
November 2022
Public preview: Call automation capabilities for Azure Communication Services
A new set of APIs are in preview, to help developers build server-based, calling workflows.
Public preview: Cross Subscription Restore for Azure Virtual Machines
Target availability: Q4 2022
Cross Subscription Restore for Azure Virtual Machines is provides flexibility to choose any subscription during restore.
October 2022
General availability: Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage
Premium SSD v2 is the next generation Azure Premium SSD Disk Storage. It offers the most advanced general-purpose block storage solution with the best price-performance.
General availability: OpenTelemetry exporter for Azure Data Explorer
Azure Data Explorer now supports ingestion of data from many receivers via the OpenTelemetry exporter.
Generally available: Kusto Trender
Kusto Trender is a new JavaScript client library for Kusto focused on IoT scenarios. It is now available on GitHub.
Public preview: Enhanced soft delete for Azure Backup
Enhanced soft delete helps you recover your backup data after it has been deleted, giving you protection against data loss scenarios like ransomwares, malicious actors, and accidental deletes.
Public preview: Multi-user authorisation for Backup vaults
Multi-user authorisation provides enhanced protection for your backup data against unauthorised critical operations.
Public preview: Immutable vaults for Azure Backup
Immutable vaults helps you protect your backups against threats like ransomware attacks and malicious actors by ensuring that your backup data cannot be deleted before its intended expiry time.
Generally available: Windows Admin Center for Azure Virtual Machines
Target availability: Q4 2022
Windows Admin Center for Azure Virtual Machines is now generally available for you to manage the Operating System of your Windows Server infrastructure in Azure.
General availability: Static IP configurations of private endpoints
Azure private endpoint support of statically defined IP addresses is now generally available allowing you to provide static IP addresses when configuring your private endpoints.
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