Updates Archives
Monthly updates for May 2023
Public Preview: Azure Data Explorer bindings for Azure Functions
Target availability: Q2 2023
Azure Data Explorer Bindings for Azure Functions (Public Preview)
Public Preview – Support for WebSocket APIs in Azure API Management Self-hosted Gateway
We are announcing the native support for WebSocket APIs in the self-hosted gateway feature inside Azure API Management.
Public Preview: Data mapping designer in Azure Logic Apps (Standard)
Microsoft has re-envisioned data transformations in Azure Logic Apps (Standard) by building a new data mapper experience from the ground up.
PublicPreview: Azure API Management: API Center
Centrally organize and manage APIs across the entire organization, regardless of API type, deployment location, lifecycle stage, or choice of API gateway or API management solution using Azure API Center. Boost developer productivity by facilitating API discovery and promoting API reuse. Establish a governance model for API portfolio across the entire organization. Elevate API inventory management by organizing and enriching APIs with custom metadata, API versions, and deployment details. Click here to learn more.
Public Preview: JSON Schema support in Azure Event Hubs Schema Registry for Kafka applications
The Azure Event Hubs Schema Registry provides support for JSON Schema
Public Preview: Azure Files geo-redundancy for standard large file shares
Target availability: Q2 2023
Azure Files geo-redundancy for large file shares is now in public preview for standard SMB file shares.
Public Preview: Azure AI Content Safety
Azure AI Content Safety is a new Azure AI service that identifies harmful online content, categorizes it and assigns severity scores to support human content moderator workloads.
Private Preview: Kafka Input and Output with Azure Stream Analytics
Target availability: Q2 2023
You can connect directly to Kafka to ingest from Kafka clusters or output data to Kafka clusters in your Azure Stream Analytics (ASA) job.
Public preview: Soft delete of Recovery Points for Azure Backup
Azure Backup's soft delete of recovery points allows you to recover any recovery points that may have been accidentally or maliciously deleted owing to operations that could lead to deletion of one or more recovery points.
Public Preview: Azure Cosmos DB SDKs OpenTelemetry and Application Insights integration
Monitoring your applications is easier than ever with new support for OpenTelemetry and improved Application Insights integration.
Optimize your reservation purchases with reservation utilization alerts.
Target availability: Q2 2023
Activate reservation utilization alerts and take control of your Azure reservation strategy.
Optimize your reservation purchases with reservation utilization alerts.
Target availability: Q2 2023
Activate reservation utilization alerts and take control of your Azure reservation strategy.
Public Preview: Dynamic Blob container name
Azure Stream Analytics offers dynamic blob container name to give customers the flexibility to customize container names in Blob storage output.
Public Preview: Azure Stream Analytics Schema Registry Integration
Azure Stream Analytics can now fetch schema from the Schema Registry and deserialize data from Event Hub inputs for Avro format.
Public Preview: App Service automatic scaling support in portal UX
Now you can use the Azure Portal to configure App Service auto-scaling rules.
Optimize your reservation purchases with reservation utilization alerts.
Target availability: Q2 2023
Activate reservation utilization alerts and take control of your Azure reservation strategy.
Public Preview: Azure Monitor announces Network Observability AKS add-on
The new Network Observability AKS add-on provides complete observability into the network health and connectivity of your AKS cluster.
Preview: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9.2 support for AMD confidential VMs
User of AMD-based confidential VMs can now select the RHEL 9.2 technical preview as their guest OS.
AMD Confidential VM option for Azure Databricks
Users can now select AMD-based confidential VMs for their Azure Databricks cluster driver node and cluster worker nodes.
Public Preview: AMD confidential VM option for Azure Data Explorer (ADX)
Users can now run their most sensitive data workloads in ADX clusters on AMD-based confidential VM SKUs.
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