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General availability: Azure Front Door Migration from classic to standard/premium

Azure Front Door Standard/Premium is the new Azure native, modern cloud content delivery network (CDN) catering to both dynamic and static content delivery acceleration with enhanced security and a simple and predictable pricing model.

• Azure Front Door (classic)
• Azure Front Door
• Services
• Security
• Features

General availability: Azure Front Door upgrade from standard to premium

Upgrade from standard to premium for enhanced Web Application Firewall rules and private connectivity to your origins using Private Link.

• Azure Front Door
• Services
• Security
• Features

General availability: Inbound ICMPv6 pings and traceroute are now supported on Azure Load Balancer

Ping and traceroute to both IPv4 and IPv6 frontend of a Standard Public Load Balancer like you natively would on an on-premises device without any external software needed.

• Load Balancer
• Features

Public preview: Azure Front Door Standard/Premium in Azure Government

Azure Front Door Standard/Premium is the new Azure native, modern cloud content delivery network (CDN) catering to both dynamic and static content delivery acceleration with enhanced security and a simple and predictable pricing model.

• Azure Front Door
• Services
• Security
• Features

Announcing the new Azure Container Registry libraries

We’re pleased to announce that version 1.1.0 of the Azure Container Registry (ACR) libraries for .NET, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, and Python are now generally available.

• SDK and Tools

Public preview: Azure Container Instances(ACI) Spot containers

You can now take advantage of unused Azure computing with Azure Container Instances (ACI)

• Azure Container Instances
• Features

Public Preview: Azure AD Support for Azure Files SMB shares REST API

With this announcement, cloud native and modern applications that use REST APIs to access Azure SMB shares can utilize identity-based authentication and authorization to access file shares.

• Azure Files
• SDKs
• Storage Accounts
• SDK and Tools
• Features

Generally available: Private Link support for Application Gateway

Application Gateway Private Link allows you to connect your workloads over a private connection spanning across VNets and subscriptions

• Application Gateway
• Azure Private Link
• Services
• Security
• Features

Generally available: Multiple backups per day for Azure Virtual Machines

Protect Azure Virtual Machines with Recovery Point Objective (RPO) as low as four hours.

• Azure Backup
• Features

General availability: New KQL function to enrich your data analysis with geographic context

KQL introduces a new function to retrieve country, state, city, and coordinates from IP addresses using GeoLite2 data. Find out how to use geo_info_from_ip_address() and what it can do for your data analysis.

• Azure Data Explorer
• Azure Synapse Analytics
• Features

Generally available: Azure Data Explorer Kusto Emulator on Linux

The Kusto Emulator is now available as a Linux Docker Container!

• Azure Data Explorer
• SDK and Tools
• Features

Public Preview: Azure Chaos Studio is now available in West US 2 region

Azure Chaos Studio is now available in West US 2 region.

• Regions & Datacenters

Public preview: Introducing NGads V620-series VMs optimized for cloud gaming

VGads V620-series virtual machines (VMs), now in public preview in the East US2, Europe west, and West US3 regions, enable service providers to build differentiated cloud gaming experiences.

• Virtual Machines
• Services
• Pricing & Offerings

General Availability: Isovalent Cilium Enterprise through Azure Marketplace

Target availability: Q2 2023

Isovalent Cilium Enterprise is now generally available through Azure Marketplace.

• Virtual Network
• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Services
• Microsoft Build
• Features

Generally available: Jobs API to support bulk import in Azure Digital Twins

GA release for bulk import support for Azure Digital Twins

• Azure Digital Twins
• Features

Generally available: 8TB memory Mv2 Virtual Machine

Target availability: Q2 2023

Mv2 8TB Memory virtual machine is generally available now for your in-memory workloads.

• Features

General availability: Azure Load Balancer per VM limit removal

Increase resiliency, higher availability, and flexibility by utilizing more than 2 Standard Load Balancers per VM.

• Load Balancer
• Features

Azure Support Plan Offer extended to December 31, 2023

The existing Azure Support offer is being extended. The promotion will run from July 1, 2023 to December 31, 2023.

• Services