Updates Archives

General availability: Azure Arc-enabled servers in Azure China

Secure, govern, and manage your hybrid servers from Azure

• Azure Arc enabled servers
• Azure Arc
• Regions & Datacenters
• Management

Generally Available: Azure Dedicated Host - Restart

Target availability: Q4 2022

Introducing Azure dedicated host - Restart functionality

• Features

General availability: Feature enhancements to Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF)

Azure’s WAF now supports multiple new features - SQLi and XSS detection queries, new built-in Azure policies, and increased exclusions limit with support for exclusions on bot manager rule set.

• Web Application Firewall
• Application Gateway
• Azure Front Door
• Security
• Features

General availability: Yocto recipes for IoT Edge 1.4 LTS

Announcing refreshed recipes for IoT Edge to build the latest 1.4 LTS release.

• Azure IoT Edge
• Operating System
• Features
• Open Source

Public preview: Build a business case with Azure Migrate

Build a business case in Azure Migrate today to understand the return on investment for migrating your servers, SQL Server deployments and ASP.NET web apps running in your VMware environment to Azure.

• Services
• Features

General availability: Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server data encryption with CMK

Encrypt your data with customer-managed keys to enable an extra layer of security for data at rest.

• Azure Database for MySQL
• Security
• Features
• Open Source

General availability: Azure AD authentication with Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server

Simplify permission management by using Microsoft Azure Active Directory identities to authenticate with instances of Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server.

• Features
• Open Source

General availability: Azure Cosmos DB Azure Functions extension version 4

Authenticate to Azure Functions with Azure Active Directory using the Azure Cosmos DB extension version 4.

• Features

Generally available: Updated API names for Azure Cosmos DB

See multiple updated API names in Azure Cosmos DB on product pages, in technical documentation, and billing that will not impact your experience, product functionality, or performance.

• Azure Cosmos DB
• Features

General availability: Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL now available in new regions

Create Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL clusters now in the Sweden Central and Switzerland West regions.

• Azure Cosmos DB
• Regions & Datacenters

Public Preview: Materialized view for Azure Cosmos DB for Apache Cassandra

Experience even greater compatibility for native Apache Cassandra with materialized view.

• Azure Cosmos DB
• Features

General availability: JSON support in Azure Cache for Redis Enterprise tiers

Gain powerful tools for working with JSON formatted data in Azure Cache for Redis through the RedisJSON module.

• Azure Cache for Redis
• Features

Public Preview: Azure Site Recovery Higher Churn Support

Azure Site Recovery High Churn Support

• Azure Site Recovery
• Features

Public preview: Azure Arc enabled Azure Container Apps

You can now run Azure Container Apps on your own Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes clusters (AKS and AKS-HCI). 

• Azure Arc
• Features

Public preview: Azure Functions support for Python 3.10

You can now take advantage of Python 3.10 features with Azure Functions.

• Features

Generally Available: Azure Functions Extension Bundle v4

The latest Azure Functions Extension Bundle is now generally available.

• Features

Generally Available: Durable Functions support for Java

Durable Functions make it easy to orchestrate stateful workflows as-code in a serverless environment.

• Features

Generally Available: Azure Functions support for Java 17

You can now use the latest LTS version of Java with Azure Functions.

• Azure Functions
• Features

Public preview: New UX for the AKS DevX Extension for Visual Studio Code

Easily containerize non-container applications using Draft.

• Features