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Monthly updates for February 2022
Public preview: Azure Spring Cloud Enterprise
Azure Spring Cloud Enterprise includes fully managed VMware Tanzu components to help you ship faster as well as long term support for Spring projects to unlock Spring’s full potential.
Public preview: Elastic and Azure Spring Cloud integration
Monitor every step of your cloud journey with the integration of Azure Spring Cloud logs and metrics into Elastic and instrument Spring Boot applications.
Public preview: Azure NetApp Files - application consistent snapshot tool v5.1
Application consistent snapshot tool is a command-line tool for simplifying data protection for third-party databases in Linux environments.
Public preview: WordPress enhancements for App Service
Improvements include a new image, multiple hosting plans, better performance, and simplified configuration.
Public preview: New capabilities for Azure Monitor logs
Add value and increase cost effectiveness with Azure Monitor logs
Public preview: Cost Management anomaly detection for subscriptions
Azure Cost Management offers subscription cost anomaly detection within the cost analysis preview to raise awareness and help identify unexpected changes in cost.
Public preview: Resource configuration changes
Resource configuration changes, a feature enabling the querying of changes to Azure resource configurations across subscriptions, management groups, and tenant, is now in public preview.
Public preview: Cross region virtual machine restore points
Create restore points in any region and copy restore points from one region to another.
Public preview: Azure Machine Learning February 2022 announcements
New features now available in public preview include automatic time series ID detection for automation, automatedML model’s training code generation, and move Azure Machine Learning workspaces between subscriptions.
Public preview: Azure Tables extension for Azure Functions
Azure Functions has an updated Tables extension, now in its own NuGet package
Public preview: App Service Environment v3 Migration Feature
Migration guidance allows you to move to App Service Environment v3 and take advantage of refreshed infrastructure, better performance, and the removal of the stamp fee found on older versions.
Public preview: Azure Monitor predictive autoscale for Azure virtual machine scale sets
Predictive autoscale for Azure virtual machine scale sets can manage and scale your virtual machine scale sets by observing and learning from historical CPU usage patterns.
Public preview: Kubernetes v1.23 support in AKS
Take advantage of new features in Kubernetes v1.23.
Public preview: OCR supports 164 languages in the Cognitive Services Computer Vision
Computer Vision Read API for Optical Character Recognition (OCR), part of Cognitive Services, announces its public preview with support for new languages including Arabic, Hindi, and other regional languages with the same writing scripts. It also extends handwritten OCR support for Japanese and Korean, along with enhancements for handwritten dates, names, and amounts and general performance and AI quality enhancements.
Public preview: Azure Bastion now supports file transfer via the native client
Azure Bastion offers support for file transfer between your target VM and local computer using Bastion and a native RDP or SSH client.
Private preview: AKS cluster persistent volume backup
AKS persistent volume backup provides backup and restore ability for the persistent volumes of your Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster.
Microsoft Defender for Cloud: Public preview updates for January 2022
Public preview enhancements and updates released for Microsoft Defender for Cloud in January 2022.
Public preview: Microsoft Azure Communication Services Telephony capabilities in Denmark and UK
Customers in Denmark and the UK can now purchase Toll-Free and Geographic phone numbers.
Public preview: Anomaly Detector adds synchronous multivariate detection and improved anomaly interpretation
Start using Anomaly Detector’s multivariate detection synchronously for quicker response, easier operations, and more informative result interpretation to help you analyze root causes.
Public preview: Azure SQL updates for early February 2022
Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL.
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