Updates Archives
Monthly updates for June 2022
Public preview: Multiple backups per day for Azure Virtual Machines
Target availability: Q2 2022
Protect Azure Virtual Machines with mission critical applications with low recovery point objective.
Public preview: Create an additional 5000 Azure Storage accounts within your subscription
Azure Storage is announcing public preview of the ability to create additional 5000 storage accounts per subscription per region.
Azure SQL—Public preview updates for late June 2022
Public preview updates made in late June 2022 for Azure SQL.
Public preview: Link feature in Azure SQL MI for SQL Server 2016
SQL Server 2016 customers can now use Azure without migrating through offloading analytics or read-only workloads to Azure SQL Managed Instance (MI).
Public preview: Azure Data Studio MongoDB extension for Azure Cosmos DB
Use the new Azure Data Studio MongoDB extension for Azure Cosmos DB to manage all your MongoDB resources.
Public preview: Continuous backup enhancements in Azure Cosmos DB
Azure Cosmos DB accounts can now take advantage of continuous backup with seven-day data retention and point-in-time restore capabilities.
Public preview: Azure Cosmos DB SQL API Go SDK improvements
Use new Go SDK features in your Azure Cosmos DB SQL API account including authentication with Azure Active Directory, the ability to execute single partition queries, and transactional batch support.
Public preview: AKS release tracker
AKS release tracker allows you to see the status of AKS releases across Azure regions.
Public preview: New API backend options in Azure Static Web Apps
You can now use App Service, Container Apps, or API Management as an API backend in Azure Static Web Apps.
Public preview: Custom certificate authorities
You can now add custom certificate authorities to your AKS cluster(s).
Public preview: Kubernetes release 1.24 support in AKS
Benefit from the latest features in Kubernetes release 1.24.
Public preivew: App Service support for .NET 7
Deploy and scale .Net 7-based web apps on an enterprise-grade service.
Private preview: App Service hybrid connections manager for Linux
This feature is in private preview. Linux users can now use hybrid connections manager without maintaining a Windows client.
Public preview: Service Bus Explorer capabilities in the Azure Portal
Send, receive, and peek messages on queues, topics, and subscriptions.
Public preview: SMB Continuous Availability shares for Citrix App Layering
New feature added to Azure NetApp Files.
Public preview: Resource governance for client applications in Azure Event Hubs
Target availability: Q2 2022
Independently throttle your event streaming workloads using application groups and client applications information.
Public preview: Apache Parquet capturing support in Azure Event Hubs
Target availability: Q2 2022
Load real-time streaming data in Azure Event Hubs to data lakes, warehouses, and other storage services in Parquet format.
Public preview: Azure Virtual Network Manager in nine new regions
You can create an Azure Virtual Network Manager instance in nine more regions and manage your virtual networks at scale across regions, subscriptions, management groups, and tenants globally from a single pane of glass.
Public preview: ExpressRoute Direct and Circuit in different subscriptions
You can now redeem an ExpressRoute Direct authorization to create an ExpressRoute Circuit in a different subscription.
Public preview: Windows Admin Center in the Azure portal
Preview remote management capabilities through a single pane of glass in the Azure portal.
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