Updates Archives
Monthly updates for April 2023
Public Preview : Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL Data Encryption with Customer Managed Keys
Data encryption with customer-managed keys (CMK) for Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL allows you to bring your own key for data protection at rest.
Public Preview: Azure Monitor Metrics Dataplane API released
The Azure Metrics Dataplane API is a new approach to Azure Monitoring that improves resource insight gathering by enabling higher querying capacity and efficiency.
Public preview: Session affinity for Azure Container Apps
You can now enable session affinity without writing code.
Public preview: Azure Key Vault references for secrets in Azure Container Apps
You can now source Container Apps secrets values from Azure Key Vault
Public Preview: Support for Azure VMs using Premium SSD v2 in Azure Backup
Target availability: Q2 2023
Public preview for the support for Azure VMs using Premium SSD v2 in Azure Backup.
Preview: Introducing DCesv5 and ECesv5-series Confidential VMs with Intel TDX
Today, we’re excited to announce the expansion of our Confidential VM family with the launch of the DCesv5-series and ECesv5-series in preview. Featuring 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, these VMs are backed by an all-new hardware-based Trusted Execution Environment called Intel® Trust Domain Extensions (TDX). Organizations can use these VMs to seamlessly bring confidential workloads to the cloud without any code changes to their applications.
Public preview: Azure Container Apps available in Azure China
You can now use Azure Container Apps in Azure China.
Public preview: AKS service mesh addon for Istio
Installing and using Istio on your AKS clusters is now easier.
Public preview: Fail Fast Upgrade on API Breaking change detection
Use this feature to reduce time you have to spend on post upgrade workload troubleshooting
Hotpatch is now available on preview images of Windows Server VMs on Azure with the Desktop Experience installation mode
Hotpatch is available for preview images of Windows Server Azure Edition VMs running the Desktop Experience installation mode.
Public Preview: Isovalent Cilium Enterprise through Azure Marketplace
Isovalent Cilium Enterprise is now available to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) customers in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace marking a key milestone in delivering the expansive eBPF-powered Cilium and Isovalent Cilium Enterprise to Azure Kubernetes Service and Azure.
Regional expansion: Azure Elastic SAN Public Preview is now available in more regions.
Azure Elastic SAN (preview) is now available in Australia East, North Europe, Sweden Central, UK South, West Europe, East US, East US 2, South Central US, and West US 3.
Public preview: Node Resource Group (NRG) lockdown
You can use this feature to stop unintended changes to AKS resources and reduce support issues.
Azure SQL—Public preview updates for mid-April 2023
Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in mid-April 2023
Public preview: Azure Container Apps offers new plan and pricing structure
You can now run your apps using serverless, consumption-based compute, and optionally run your apps on dedicated workload profiles that offer more CPU and memory if needed.
Public Preview of query performance insight for Azure Database for PostgreSQL- Flexible Server
Introducing the public preview of query performance insight for Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server, a new feature to help you improve the overall performance of your database.
Public preview: Azure Functions V4 programming model for Node.js
Introducing a more intuitive and idiomatic experience for JavaScript and TypeScript developers writing Azure Functions apps
Public preview: Azure Container Apps supports user defined routes (UDR) and smaller subnets
You can now define UDRs to manage how outbound traffic is routed for your container app environment’s subnet
Public Preview: Azure Chaos Studio is now available in Sweden Central region
Azure Chaos Studio is now available in Sweden Central region.
Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus has updated our AKS add-on to support Windows nodes
Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus has updated our AKS metrics add-on to support Prometheus metric collection from the Windows nodes in your AKS clusters.
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