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Monthly updates for April 2023

Apr 26

Public Preview : Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL Data Encryption with Customer Managed Keys

IN PREVIEW

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.

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Features
Apr 26

Public Preview: Azure Monitor Metrics Dataplane API released

IN PREVIEW

The Azure Metrics Dataplane API is a new approach to Azure Monitoring that improves resource insight gathering by enabling higher querying capacity and efficiency.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Azure Resource Mover
  • Features
Apr 26

Public preview: Session affinity for Azure Container Apps

IN PREVIEW

You can now enable session affinity without writing code.

  • Azure Container Apps
  • Features
Apr 26

Public preview: Azure Key Vault references for secrets in Azure Container Apps

IN PREVIEW

You can now source Container Apps secrets values from Azure Key Vault

  • Azure Container Apps
  • Features
Apr 26

Public Preview: Support for Azure VMs using Premium SSD v2 in Azure Backup

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q2 2023

Public preview for the support for Azure VMs using Premium SSD v2 in Azure Backup.

  • Azure Backup
  • Management
Apr 24

Preview: Introducing DCesv5 and ECesv5-series Confidential VMs with Intel TDX

IN PREVIEW

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.

  • Security
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Pricing & Offerings
Apr 19

Public preview: Azure Container Apps available in Azure China

IN PREVIEW

You can now use Azure Container Apps in Azure China.

  • Azure Container Apps
  • Regions & Datacenters
Apr 18

Public preview: AKS service mesh addon for Istio

IN PREVIEW

Installing and using Istio on your AKS clusters is now easier.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Open Source
  • Features
Apr 18

Public preview: Fail Fast Upgrade on API Breaking change detection

IN PREVIEW

Use this feature to reduce time you have to spend on post upgrade workload troubleshooting

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Features
Apr 18

Hotpatch is now available on preview images of Windows Server VMs on Azure with the Desktop Experience installation mode

IN PREVIEW

Hotpatch is available for preview images of Windows Server Azure Edition VMs running the Desktop Experience installation mode.

  • Services
  • Management
Apr 18

Public Preview: Isovalent Cilium Enterprise through Azure Marketplace

IN PREVIEW

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.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Virtual Network
  • Services
  • Features
  • Pricing & Offerings
Apr 17

Regional expansion: Azure Elastic SAN Public Preview is now available in more regions.

IN PREVIEW

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.

  • Azure Disk Storage
  • Storage Accounts
  • Regions & Datacenters
Apr 12

Public preview: Node Resource Group (NRG) lockdown

IN PREVIEW

You can use this feature to stop unintended changes to AKS resources and reduce support issues.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Features
Apr 12

Azure SQL—Public preview updates for mid-April 2023

IN PREVIEW

Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in mid-April 2023

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Features
Apr 12

Public preview: Azure Container Apps offers new plan and pricing structure

IN PREVIEW

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.

  • Azure Container Apps
  • Features
Apr 12

Public Preview of query performance insight for Azure Database for PostgreSQL- Flexible Server

IN PREVIEW

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.

  • Azure Database for PostgreSQL
  • Features
Apr 12

Public preview: Azure Functions V4 programming model for Node.js

IN PREVIEW

Introducing a more intuitive and idiomatic experience for JavaScript and TypeScript developers writing Azure Functions apps

  • Azure Functions
  • Features
Apr 12

Public preview: Azure Container Apps supports user defined routes (UDR) and smaller subnets

IN PREVIEW

You can now define UDRs to manage how outbound traffic is routed for your container app environment’s subnet

  • Azure Container Apps
  • Features
Apr 10

Public Preview: Azure Chaos Studio is now available in Sweden Central region

IN PREVIEW

Azure Chaos Studio is now available in Sweden Central region.

  • Regions & Datacenters
Apr 10

Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus has updated our AKS add-on to support Windows nodes

IN PREVIEW

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.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Managed Prometheus
  • Features

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