Updates Archives
Monthly updates for May 2023
Public preview: Azure Container Storage
Azure Container Storage is a new Azure service built natively for containers that enables customers to create and manage volumes for running production scale stateful container applications.
General Availability : Azure Monitor for SAP solutions
This is a GA launch announcement blog for Azure Monitor for SAP solutions.
Private preview: Azure Backup support for confidential VMs using Customer Managed Keys
Azure Backup support for confidential VMs using Customer Managed Keys
Generally available: Policy analytics for Azure Firewall
Policy analytics for Azure Firewall, now in general availability, provides enhanced visibility into traffic flowing through Azure Firewall, enabling the optimization of your firewall configuration without impacting your application performance.
General Availability: Azure Center for SAP solutions
Target availability: Q2 2023
Azure Center for SAP solutions brings together an integrated set of capabilities for deploying and managing SAP landscapes by making Azure SAP aware. You can take advantage of the management capabilities for both new and your existing Azure-based SAP systems.
We're retiring Speech-to-text REST preview API v3.1-preview.1 on May 12, 2023
Target retirement date: May 12, 2023
We recently made the Speech-to-text REST API version 3.1 generally available. With this release, we'll retire the preview version v3.1-preview.1 on May 12, 2023.
General Availability: Azure Automation supports Python 3.8 runbooks
Azure Automation support for Python 3.8 runbooks is now Generally Available.
Alert processing rules fields update
Target availability: Q3 2023
Alert processing rules are a set of rules that allow for modifications to be made to fired alerts, distinct from alert rules which generate new alerts. With alert processing rules, you can add or remove action groups from your fired alerts.
General Availability: AzAcSnap 8 — Azure Application Consistent Snapshot tool updates
AzAcSnap Version 8 Release
Generally available: Azure Bastion now support shareable links
Target availability: Q2 2023
Shareable links allows users to connect to target resources via Azure Bastion without access to the Azure portal.
Azure VMware Solution now available in Qatar with AV36P
We are excited to announce that the Azure VMware Solution has gone live in Qatar Central and is now available to customers.
Public Preview: Database-is-alive metrics for monitoring Azure Postgres Flexible Server database availability.
Monitor the database availability for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server via database-is-alive metric.
Public preview: Init containers in Azure Container Apps
You can now have separate containers that run before application containers are started in a replica and can perform all of the initialization logic.
Public Preview: Cross Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) in Azure Container Apps
You can now enable CORS for your Azure Container App through the portal or CLI.
Public Preview – Azure Cache for Redis now supports aAAD based authentication and authorization
Preview password-free authentication with integrated Azure Active Directory (AAD) complemented with role-based access control supported by open source Redis.
GA: Azure Pipelines task to build and deploy to Azure Container Apps
Use an Azure Pipelines task to build and deploy to Azure Container Apps.
General Availability: Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server major version upgrade
Upgrade your Azure Database for MySQL flexible server version from 5.7 to 8.0.
Public preview: 99th percentile latency metric in Azure Cache for Redis
Debug server-side latency with a new Azure Cache for Redis metric
Public Preview: Troubleshooting guides for Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server
Save time by analyzing and troubleshooting common performance issues with troubleshooting guides.
GA: GitHub action to build and deploy to Azure Container Apps
Use a GitHub action to build and deploy to Azure Container Apps.
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