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March 2023

Mar 29

Azure HDInsight for Apache Kafka 3.2.0 is now available for public preview.

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure HDInsight for Apache Kafka 3.2.0 now available for public preview and ready for production workloads.

  • HDInsight
  • Services
Mar 29

HDInsight

IN DEVELOPMENT

Azure HDInsight for Apache Spark 3.3.0 is under development. 

  • Services
Mar 29

Generally available: Mount Azure Files and ephemeral storage in Azure Container Apps

NOW AVAILABLE

Persist data in Azure Container Apps via mounted volumes.

  • Azure Container Apps
  • Features
Mar 29

Azure Maps is now HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) compliant

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Maps ensures HIPAA compliance is achieved for protected health information (PHI), such as geocoding patient home addresses.

  • Azure Maps
  • Compliance
Mar 29

Public Preview: Simplified flush operation for caches using active geo-replication

IN PREVIEW

Flush all data from active geo-replicated caches using portal, PowerShell, or CLI

  • Azure Cache for Redis
  • Features
Mar 29

Public Preview: In-place scaling for enterprise caches

IN PREVIEW

Scale enterprise caches up or out without disrupting the operation of the current cache using in-place scaling.

  • Azure Cache for Redis
  • Features
Mar 29

Public preview: AKS support for Kubernetes 1.26 release

IN PREVIEW

You can now try out Kubernetes v1.26 features with Azure Kubernetes Service

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Features
Mar 29

Public Preview: Storage in-place sharing in Microsoft Purview in additional regions

IN PREVIEW

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

  • Features
Mar 29

Public Preview: Connection audit logs for Enterprise tier caches

IN PREVIEW

Log all connections to your cache.

  • Azure Cache for Redis
  • Features
Mar 29

Azure HDInsight for Apache Kafka 3.2.0 is now available for public preview.

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure HDInsight for Apache Kafka 3.2.0 now available for public preview and ready for production workloads.

  • HDInsight
  • Services
Mar 29

Generally Available: Larger SKUs for App Service Environment v3

NOW AVAILABLE

Enterprises are now able to operate more securely with large SKUs to support more demanding workloads with App Service Environment v3.

  • App Service
  • Features
Mar 29

Preview: customer managed key encryption for Enterprise tier caches

IN PREVIEW

Encrypt Redis persistence files using customer managed keys

  • Azure Cache for Redis
  • Features
Mar 29

Azure SQL—General availability updates for late-March 2023

NOW AVAILABLE

General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in late-March 2023

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Features
Mar 29

Generally available: Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage in East US 2, North Europe and West US 2

NOW AVAILABLE

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.

  • Azure Disk Storage
  • Storage Accounts
  • Regions & Datacenters
Mar 29

Generally available: Azure Monitor Alerts now support duplicating alert rules

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Monitor alert rule can now be duplicated via the Azure portal.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Features
Mar 29

Multi-Column Distribution for Dedicated SQL pools is now available!

NOW AVAILABLE

Multi-Column Distribution (MCD) is highly desirable for easing migrations, promotes faster query performance and reduces data skew.

  • Azure Synapse Analytics
  • Features
Mar 29

Public Preview: Azure Migrate - Discover ASP.NET & Java web apps and assess ASP.NET in all environments

IN PREVIEW

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.

  • App Service
  • Azure Migrate
  • SDK and Tools
  • Features
Mar 29

General availability: Microsoft Purview DevOps policies for Azure SQL Database

NOW AVAILABLE

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.

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Features
Mar 29

Generally available: New Azure Monitor audit logging policy released

NOW AVAILABLE

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.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Azure Policy
  • Compliance
  • Features
Mar 29

General availability: Migration feature with Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server

NOW AVAILABLE

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.

  • Azure Database for PostgreSQL
  • Features

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