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Azure HDInsight for Apache Kafka 3.2.0 is now available for public preview.
Azure HDInsight for Apache Kafka 3.2.0 now available for public preview and ready for production workloads.
Generally available: Mount Azure Files and ephemeral storage in Azure Container Apps
Persist data in Azure Container Apps via mounted volumes.
Azure Maps is now HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) compliant
Azure Maps ensures HIPAA compliance is achieved for protected health information (PHI), such as geocoding patient home addresses.
Public Preview: Simplified flush operation for caches using active geo-replication
Flush all data from active geo-replicated caches using portal, PowerShell, or CLI
Public Preview: In-place scaling for enterprise caches
Scale enterprise caches up or out without disrupting the operation of the current cache using in-place scaling.
Public preview: AKS support for Kubernetes 1.26 release
You can now try out Kubernetes v1.26 features with Azure Kubernetes Service
Public Preview: Storage in-place sharing in Microsoft Purview in additional regions
Storage in-place data sharing with Microsoft Purview public preview is now supported for Azure Data Lake Gen2 and Blob storage accounts in East US, East US2, North Europe, Southcentral US, West Central US, West Europe, West US, West US2
Public Preview: Connection audit logs for Enterprise tier caches
Log all connections to your cache.
Azure HDInsight for Apache Kafka 3.2.0 is now available for public preview.
Azure HDInsight for Apache Kafka 3.2.0 now available for public preview and ready for production workloads.
Generally Available: Larger SKUs for App Service Environment v3
Enterprises are now able to operate more securely with large SKUs to support more demanding workloads with App Service Environment v3.
Preview: customer managed key encryption for Enterprise tier caches
Encrypt Redis persistence files using customer managed keys
Azure SQL—General availability updates for late-March 2023
General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in late-March 2023
Generally available: Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage in East US 2, North Europe and West US 2
Now available in East US 2, North Europe and West US 2region, Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage offers the most advanced general-purpose block storage solution with the best price-performance.
Generally available: Azure Monitor Alerts now support duplicating alert rules
Azure Monitor alert rule can now be duplicated via the Azure portal.
Multi-Column Distribution for Dedicated SQL pools is now available!
Multi-Column Distribution (MCD) is highly desirable for easing migrations, promotes faster query performance and reduces data skew.
Public Preview: Azure Migrate - Discover ASP.NET & Java web apps and assess ASP.NET in all environments
Discovery of Java & ASP.NET web apps and assessment of ASP.NET web apps to Azure App Service code (native) on VMware, Hyper-V and Physical servers is now in public preview.
General availability: Microsoft Purview DevOps policies for Azure SQL Database
Purview DevOps policies can be used to assign permissions needed for performance monitoring and security auditing at scale and without direct connection to the database.
Generally available: New Azure Monitor audit logging policy released
Azure Monitor is announcing the release of new Azure Policy built-in policies and initiatives for enabling platform logging of audit events for Azure services.
General availability: Migration feature with Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server
Use the new migration tool to migrate workloads from Single Server to Flexible Server on Azure Database for PostgreSQL, a managed service running the open-source Postgres database on Azure.
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