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General availability: Azure Backup support for trusted launch Azure Virtual Machines
Target availability: Q2 2022
Configure backup of your trusted launch Azure Virtual Machines through enhanced policy
Generally available: Easily manage your Azure IoT Central dashboards using a catalog
The new dashboard catalog feature in Azure IoT Central allows for easier search, management, and navigation of dashboards.
Public preview: Container Storage Interface extensible API for AKS
You can now disable and enable any of the AKS supported CSI drivers using this API.
Public preview: AKS Private Link Service integration
You can now have AKS take care of creating the Private Link Service association to the Kubernetes service identified by the frontend IP configuration of an internal Azure Load Balancer.
Public preview: Key Management System integration
You can now store secrets in BYOK encrypted etcd using Key Management System (KMS).
Generally available: Open Service Mesh extension for Azure Arc
You can now use a managed service mesh for Arc-enabled Kubernetes clusters.
Public preview: HostProcess Containers
You can now package and distribute management operations and functionalities that require host access while retaining versioning and deployment methods provided by containers.
Generally available: Industrial IoT Connectivity Partners integrate with Azure IoT Central
Industrial IoT starts with Azure IoT Central. Now you can leverage the expertise of Industrial IoT Connectivity Partners who are ready to connect your industrial assets in hours instead of weeks – no matter if it’s modern or legacy equipment.
Public preview: Additional support for managed identity authentication in Azure Stream Analytics
Stream Analytics now supports authenticating to Azure Cosmos DB and Azure Service Bus using Managed Identities.
Public preview: Azure DNS Private Resolver – Hybrid name resolution and conditional forwarding
Seamlessly perform conditional forwarding from on-prem to Azure Private DNS Zones and from Azure Virtual Networks to any target DNS server.
General availability: Azure Data Lake Storage Gen1 to Gen2 using Azure Portal
Migrate your data from Azure Data Lake Storage Gen1 to Gen2 to speed up your time to insights
Generally available: OCR supports 164 languages in the Cognitive Services Computer Vision
Computer Vision Read API for Optical Character Recognition (OCR) announced the general availability of the new model with support for 164 languages. It’s also available as a Docker container.
Azure SQL—Generally available updates for early May 2022
General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL.
Generally available: Minor versions upgrade for Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server
Run the most stable, compliant, and secure MySQL community versions 8.0.28 and 5.7.37 on Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server.
Generally available: IT Service Management Integration with secure webhook
IT Service Management is now integrated with secure webhook, an updated version that allows you to create work items in an ITSM tool when Azure Monitor sends alerts.
Public preview: Azure Container Apps now support log streaming and console connect
You can now connect to a container console and use live log streaming for testing and diagnosis.
Public preview: Static Web Apps support skipping API builds via Azure pipelines
You can now skip the default API build via Azure pipelines.
Public preview: Improved Azure DevOps support in Static Web Apps
You no longer have to go through a series of manual steps to configure your DevOps CI/CD pipeline for your Static Web Apps project.
Generally available: Azure Compute Gallery support for trusted launch Virtual Machines
Azure Compute Gallery now allows you to create and share custom images for Trusted launch virtual machines
Generally available: Azure IoT Edge supports Debian Bullseye on ARM32v7
Target availability: Q2 2022
Debian is included in the Tier 1 OS support list for ARM32v7 devices. Official packages for Bullseye on ARM32v7 are now available on packages.microsoft.com.
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