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General availability: Azure Stack HCI new features release
Get the latest features release, version 22H2, for Azure Stack HCI.
Public preview: New Azure Virtual Machine Scale Set and Spot Virtual Machines capabilities
You can now include standard VMs and Spot VMs in the same Azure Virtual Machine Scale Set. New VM-series are now supported with Virtual Machine Scale Sets flexible orchestration mode.
General availability: Azure Monitor Logs - capabilities to add value and lower costs
Azure Monitor Logs announce the general availability of capabilities that help you increase cost effectiveness.
Public preview: Azure Monitor application insights Java profiling, using Java Flight Recorder
Java application profiling using Java Flight Recorder (JFR) is now in preview in Azure Monitor application insights.
Public preview: Azure Monitor Logs - create granular level RBAC for custom tables
Setting RBAC query read action on Azure Monitor Logs table is now publicly available.
Public preview: Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus
Azure Monitor's new fully managed Prometheus compatible service delivers the best of what you like about open-source ecosystem while automating complex tasks such as scaling, high-availability, and long-term data retention.
Public preview: Rules for Azure Kubernetes Service and Log Analytic workspace resources
Enable a set of recommended alert rules for your Azure Kubernetes Service and Log Analytics workspace resources.
Generally available: Azure Monitor agent migration tools
Migration to the cost-effective, secure, performant, and manageable new Azure Monitor agent is now made easy using migration tools and helpers.
Generally available: Azure Monitor agent support for Windows clients
Using the new Windows client installer you can now get the benefits of the new agent and data collection rules on your Windows 10 and 11 client devices.
General availability: AMD confidential VM guest attestation
Guest attestation enables verifying the trustworthiness (good state) of the trusted execution environment on which the guest VM is executing.
General availability: Confidential VM option for SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines
Run your SQL Server workloads on the latest AMD-backed confidential virtual machines, ensuring protection of data in use.
Preview: Azure Managed Confidential Consortium Framework
Confidential Consortium Framework is a new Azure service that lets you use open-source for building and managing multi-party applications that require decentralized trust and governance in a trusted network.
General availability: AMD-based confidential VMs for Azure Kubernetes Service
Announcing the general availability of confidential node pools on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) with AMD SEV-SNP confidential VMs.
Public preview: Azure CNI Overlay mode in Azure Kubernetes Service
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) now offers a new network overlay mode that is more efficient in terms of IP utilization.
Generally available: ARM64 support in AKS
Benefit from ARM64's better price, compute performance, and lower power utilization in AKS node pools.
Public preview: Kubernetes apps on Azure Marketplace
Benefit from independent software vendor (ISV) created Kubernetes solutions in the Azure Marketplace that offer simple, click through deployments.
Public preview: Azure Active Directory workload identity support in AKS
Workload identity provides a simpler approach for managing identities and overcomes limitations of Azure Active Directory pod-managed identity.
Generally available: Windows server 2022 host support in AKS
You can now benefit from the latest Windows Server 2022 features in AKS.
Generally available: 5,000 node scale in AKS
Generally available: 5,000 node scale in AKS
Generally available: Event Grid integration with AKS
You can now get notification via Event Grid when a new Kubernetes version is available on AKS.
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