Updates Archives
Monthly updates for July 2023
New Extended Security Updates (ESUs) enabled by Azure Arc
At Inspire, we are announcing Extended Security Updates (ESUs) enabled by Azure Arc. Customers will be able to purchase and seamlessly deploy ESUs through Azure Arc in on-premises or multicloud environments, right from the Azure portal.
Public Preview: Vector search, a feature of Azure Cognitive Search
Target availability: Q3 2023
With Vector search, Developers can store, index, and deliver search applications over vector representations of organizational data including text, images, audio, video, and more.
Hotpatch is now generally available on Windows Server VMs on Azure with the Desktop Experience installation mode
Hotpatch is now available for Windows Server Azure Edition VMs using the newly released images. Hotpatch is a feature that allows you to patch and install OS security updates to Windows Server Azure Edition VMs on Azure without requiring a reboot!
General availability: Partial document update in the Azure Cosmos DB Python SDK
Target availability: Q3 2023
Modify just the required fields without having to replace the whole document with partial document update in the Azure Cosmos DB Python SDK.
General availability: Always Serve for Azure Traffic Manager
Always Serve feature for Azure Traffic Manager (ATM) is now generally available. This feature allows you to disable endpoint health checks from an ATM profile and always serve traffic to that given endpoint.
Public preview: Stream Analytics No-Code Editor available in Azure Stream Analytics Portal
The no-code editor is now available in Azure Stream Analytics portal to enable building your Stream Analytics jobs effortlessly, no coding required.
Public Preview: Customer Managed Failover for ADLS Gen2
Target availability: Q3 2023
Customer-managed failover now supports ADLS Gen2
Retirement notice: Azure Media Services is being retired on 30 June 2024
Target retirement date: June 30, 2024
Azure Media Services will be retired on 30 June 2024 - transition to a Microsoft partner solution or Azure Video Indexer
Generally available: Autoscale Stream Analytics jobs
Generally available: Autoscale Stream Analytics jobs
Public Preview: Azure Dedicated Host - Resize
Introducing resize capability for Azure dedicated hosts
Microsoft Dev Box is now generally available
Target availability: Q3 2023
Microsoft Dev Box is generally available now. Dev Box is a virtualized solution that empowers developers to quickly spin up self-service workstations preconfigured for their tasks while maintaining centralized management to maximize security and compliance.
General availability: ExpressRoute private peering support for BGP communities
Target availability: Q3 2023
Set BGP community tags on traffic sent from Azure to on-premises over ExpressRoute, enabling a greater variety of hybrid network designs.
General availability: Call automation capabilities for Azure Communication Services
Target availability: Q2 2023
A new set of APIs are in preview, to help developers build server-based, calling workflows.
Datadog – An Azure Native ISV Service – the most desired new features now available
Explore new capabilities with Datadog – An Azure Native ISV Service, that include a scalable solution to monitor resources in multiple subscriptions, configuration for Cloud Security Posture Management and ability to mute the monitor for expected VM shutdowns.
Public preview: Latest generation burstable VMs - Bsv2, Basv2, and Bpsv2
Target availability: Q3 2023
The new second generation burstable VMs provide the lowest cost of entry to the Azure VM portfolio with greater performance.
Azure AD is becoming Microsoft Entra ID
Microsoft Entra ID is the new name for Azure Active Directory (Azure AD). No action is required from you.
Azure SQL—General availability updates for early July 2023
Target availability: Q3 2023
General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in early July 2023.
Azure Managed Lustre now generally available
Reduce infrastructure setup with a managed file system optimized for HPC and AI workloads.
Generally available: Azure Digital Twins supports Digital Twins Definition Language version 3
ADT supports defining models using the Digital Twins Definition Language version 3 (DTDL v3)
Azure’s cross-region Load Balancer is now generally available
Azure Load Balancer support for cross-region load balancing is now generally available. You can now load balance across Azure regions enabling a globally redundant architecture via Azure Load Balancer.
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