Azure updates

General Availability: Microsoft Azure Load Testing is now Generally Available

Azure Load Testing is now Generally Available. Get started with Azure Load Testing today.

• Services

Public Preview: Azure Digital Twins

Public preview: User-assigned managed identities for routing events for Azure Digital Twins

• Azure Digital Twins
• Features

Generally available: Azure Digital Twins in West US 3, Qatar, Japan, and Korea

Azure Digital Twins is now available in 14 Azure regions worldwide including West US 3, Qatar Central, Japan East, and Korea Central.

• Regions & Datacenters

Generally available: New storage backend for Durable Functions — Microsoft Netherite & MSSQL

You can now use storage providers other than Azure Storage for Durable Functions.

• Azure Functions
• Features

Generally Available: Azure Functions support for Node.js 18

You can now use the latest version of Node.js with Azure Functions.

• Features

Generally Available: Azure Kubernetes Service introduces two pricing tiers: Free and Standard

Identify and use the most appropriate AKS tier for your projects.

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Pricing & Offerings
• Features

Now Available: Azure Databricks is generally available in China North 3

Azure Databricks is now generally available in China North 3. 

• Azure Databricks
• Regions & Datacenters

Public preview: User-assigned managed identities for routing events for Azure Digital Twins

Azure Digital Twins now supports both system-assigned and user-assigned managed identities for authenticating to supported endpoints for routing digital twin events.

• Azure Digital Twins
• Features

Generally available: Azure Digital Twins in West US 3, Qatar, Japan, and Korea

Azure Digital Twins is now available in 14 Azure regions worldwide including West US 3, Qatar Central, Japan East, and Korea Central.

• Regions & Datacenters

General availability: Trusted launch for Azure VMs in Azure for US Government regions

Allows you to enable secure boot, vTPM, virtualization-based security, and Microsoft Defender for Cloud integration, providing additional layers of defense against sophisticated threats.

• Virtual Machines
• Security
• Regions & Datacenters
• Features

Azure Web PubSub Premium tier reaches General Availability

New plan offers greater resiliency, scalability, and flexibility - helping you add real-time two-way communication to your web and mobile apps.

• Azure Web PubSub
• Features

Azure Red Hat OpenShift on Azure Government is now Generally Available

Azure Red Hat OpenShift is now generally available for Azure Government customers (federal, state, local governments, and their partners).

• Features

Chaos studio - Public preview updates for January 2023 

Public preview enhancements and updates released for Chaos Studio in January 2023.

• SDK and Tools
• Regions & Datacenters
• Services
• Management

Public preview: Incremental snapshots for Ultra Disk Storage

To ensure business continuity, incremental snapshots for Ultra Disks are now available in public preview in the Sweden Central and US West 3 Azure region.

• Regions & Datacenters
• Features

Generally available: Indirect enterprise agreement on Azure Cost Management and Billing

Manage your enrollment hierarchy, view account usage, and monitor costs directly from the Azure Cost Management and Billing menu on the Azure portal (for indirect enterprise agreement customers)

• Microsoft Cost Management
• Management

General availability: Application security groups support for private endpoints

Application security groups (ASGs) support for private endpoints is now generally available.

• Microsoft Ignite
• Security
• Services
• Features

General availability: Mount Azure Storage as a local share in App Service Windows Code

Mounting Azure Storage File share as a network share in Windows code (non-container) in App Service is now generally available.

• App Service
• Features

General Availability: 5 GB Put Blob

Target availability: Q4 2022

Maximum Put Blob size is now increasing to 5 GB

• Compliance