Updates Archives
Monthly updates for October 2022
General availability: Confidential VM option for SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines
Run your SQL Server workloads on the latest AMD-backed confidential virtual machines, ensuring protection of data in use.
General availability: AMD-based confidential VMs for Azure Kubernetes Service
Announcing the general availability of confidential node pools on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) with AMD SEV-SNP confidential VMs.
Generally available: ARM64 support in AKS
Benefit from ARM64's better price, compute performance, and lower power utilization in AKS node pools.
Generally available: Windows server 2022 host support in AKS
You can now benefit from the latest Windows Server 2022 features in AKS.
Generally available: 5,000 node scale in AKS
Generally available: 5,000 node scale in AKS
Generally available: Event Grid integration with AKS
You can now get notification via Event Grid when a new Kubernetes version is available on AKS.
General availability: 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.
Generally available: Azure Hybrid Benefit for AKS and Azure Stack HCI
We are expanding Azure Hybrid Benefit for Windows Server Software Assurance (SA) customers to easily modernize with Azure, wherever they are.
Generally available: Azure Automanage for Azure Virtual Machines and Arc-enabled servers
Announcing the general availability for Azure Automanage with expanded configuration options.
General availability: User-assigned managed identities for Azure Stream Analytics
Target availability: Q4 2022
Azure Stream Analytics currently allows you to use user-assigned managed identities to authenticate your job's inputs and outputs.
General availability: Use managed identities to access Cosmos DB from Stream Analytics
Target availability: Q4 2022
You can use managed identity to authenticate to your Cosmos DB output from Azure Stream Analytics.
General availability: Azure Data Explorer output from Azure Stream Analytics
Target availability: Q4 2022
Azure Data Explorer output from Azure Stream Analytics is now generally available.
Generally available: Dapr support for managed identity in Azure Container Apps
Container Apps now provides support for using Dapr with Managed Identity.
Generally available: Dapr secrets API support
You can now use Dapr secrets APIs from your Azure Container Apps and leverage Dapr secret store component references when creating other components in the environment.
Azure Machine Learning—Generally available updates for October 2022/Ignite
Features include controlling/customizing a model’s training code and using Python functions to develop tasks.
General availability: New Azure proximity placement groups feature
You can now use the new optional parameter "intent" to specify the VM sizes and zone intended for the proximity placement group.
General availability: Simplified disaster recovery for VMware machines using Azure Site Recovery
Target availability: Q4 2022
Today we’re officially announcing the general availability of a simpler, more reliable, and modernized way to protect your VMware virtual machines using Azure Site Recovery, for recovering quickly from disasters.
Desired state configuration VM Extension for Linux, and Azure Automation DSC support for Linux, will be retired on 30 September 2023
Target retirement date: September 30, 2022
PowerShell DSC Virtual Machine extension for Linux, and Azure Automation DSC support for Linux, will be retired on 30 September 2023
Generally available: Query Store hints Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance
Shape your query plans without changing the code.
Azure Machine Learning—General availability updates for September 2022
New features include the ability to establish event-driven notifications and the capability to label data in text documents using text named-identity recognition.
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