Updates Archives
Monthly updates for March 2023
Generally available: ContainerLogV2 Schema in Azure Monitor container insights
Azure Monitor container insights now offers a new, lightweight schema for the container logs in ContainerLogV2
Generally available: Metric charts support for split-by operations on multiple dimensions
Azure Portal metric charts will now enable customers to analyze metrics on their Azure resources by supporting the split-by operator on more than one dimension.
Generally available: Azure Firewall Basic
Azure Firewall Basic provides cost-effective, enterprise-grade network security for small and medium businesses (SMBs).
Public Preview - Backup for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Azure Backup is announcing public preview of Backup for AKS allowing customers to protect their applications by providing ability to backup and restore AKS clusters.
Public preview: Database connections support in Azure Static Web Apps
You can now make REST or GraphQL requests to a built-in `/data-api` endpoint to retrieve and modify contents of a connected database, without having to write backend code.
General Availability of Azure Hybrid Benefit for SQL Server on Azure VMware Solution
Customers can now take advantage of the unlimited virtualization licensing capability included with the SQL Server Software Assurance with Azure Hybrid Benefit for SQL Server on Azure VMware Solution.
General Availability: Support for pg_hint_plan and semver extensions in Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server
Use the newly available pg_hint_plan extension to tweak PostgreSQL execution plans and semver extension to do semantic versioning in Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server.
Public preview: Azure Static Web Apps support for A Record
You can now add an APEX custom domain to your Static Web Apps with A Records
Azure Machine Learning – March 2023 Region Expansion Announcement
Azure Machine Learning is now Generally Available in the UK West region.
Azure Machine Learning - Public Preview updates for March 2023
New feature now available in Public Preview includes the ability to receive troubleshooting documentation on failed environment builds and shorten the training phase of large-scale distributed PyTorch models.
Public Preview: Selective Disk Backup and Restore in Enhanced Policy for Azure VM Backup
Target availability: Q1 2023
We are adding the “Selective Disk Backup and Restore” capability in Enhanced Policy of Azure VM Backup.
Generally available: Azure Digital Twins Data history supports Graph updates
The Azure Digital Twins Data history now supports historizing twin property updates, twin lifecycle events, and relationship lifecycle events.
Public preview: Illumio for Azure Firewall
Illumio for Azure Firewall enables organizations to understand application traffic and dependencies and apply consistent protection across environments - limiting exposure, containing breaches, and improving efficiency.
Public preview: Azure Cognitive Service for Vision Powers State-of-the-Art Computer Vision Development
Extract robust insights from images and video content across multiple industry domains
Generally available: Immutable vaults for Azure Backup
Target availability: Q1 2023
Immutable vaults help you protect your backups against threats like ransomware attacks and malicious actors by ensuring that your backup data cannot be deleted before its intended expiry time.
Public Preview: Azure Chaos Studio now available in
Azure Chaos Studio is now available in East Asia region.
General availability: Ephemeral OS disks supports encryption at host using customer managed keys
Create Ephemeral VMs with customer managed key encryption types for encryption at host.
Public preview: Accelerated Connections for Network Virtual Appliances now in Azure Marketplace
Accelerated Connections is a new product that enhances Accelerated Networking enabled vNICs, enabling customers to increase connections per second and improve performance in multiple active connection scenarios.
Private Preview: Azure Backup enables vaulted backups for Azure Files for comprehensive data protection.
Target availability: Q1 2023
You can now transfer the backups of Azure Files to the vault to get complete protection against various data loss scenarios.
GA: Spot Priority Mix
Deploy a Virtual Machine Scale Set with both Spot and standard virtual machines using flexible orchestration mode.
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