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Announcements
Stay informed with the latest breakthroughs and innovations in cloud technology, directly from the experts at Microsoft Azure. Our announcements section is your go-to source for new features and pathways to empower your digital transformation.
Azure Firewall Manager is now generally available
Azure Firewall Manager is now generally available, and includes Azure Firewall Policy, Azure Firewall in a Virtual WAN Hub (Secure Virtual Hub), and Hub Virtual Network.
Introducing Azure Load Balancer insights using Azure Monitor for Networks
Azure Load Balancer customers now have instant access to a preconfigured solution for health monitoring and configuration analysis enabling rapid fault localization and informed design decisions.
Deploy to Azure Container Instances with Docker Desktop
Today we’re excited about the first release of the new Docker Desktop integration with Microsoft Azure.
Rules Engine for Azure Front Door and Azure CDN is now generally available
Today we are announcing the general availability of the Rules Engine feature on both Azure Front Door and Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN).
Simplifying declarative deployments in Azure
Azure provides customers a simple and intuitive way to declaratively provision and manage infrastructure through Azure Resource Manager (ARM) Templates.
Announcing Azure Machine Learning scholarships and courses with Udacity
According to LinkedIn’s Emerging Jobs Report for 2020, AI specialist roles are most sought after with a 74 percent annual growth rate in hiring over the last four years.
New general purpose and memory-optimized Azure Virtual Machines with Intel now available
With this announcement, we are introducing two new Azure Virtual Machines families, one of which represents a brand-new product category in our portfolio.
General availability of Azure Files on-premises Active Directory Domain Services authentication
We are excited to announce the general availability of Azure Files support for authentication with on-premises Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) today.
Introducing live video analytics from Azure Media Services—now in preview
Live Video Analytics (LVA) provides a platform for you to build hybrid applications with video analytics capabilities. LVA offers the capability of capturing, recording, and analyzing live video and publishing the results to Azure services in the cloud and/or the edge.
New features and insights in Azure Monitor
Over the past few months, we have released many new capabilities targeting to improve native integration with Azure, enable easier onboarding at scale, support enterprise security and compliance needs, provide rich full stack distributed tracing, and much more.
Azure Firewall forced tunneling and SQL FQDN filtering now generally available
To two new key features in Azure Firewall, forced tunneling and SQL, FQDN filtering, are now generally available. Additionally, we increased the limit for multiple public IP addresses from 100 to 250 for both Destination Network Address Translation (DNAT) and Source Network Address Translation (SNAT).