Updates Archives
Monthly updates for November 2023
Generally Available: Azure Red Hat OpenShift in Italy North
Azure Red Hat OpenShift is now available in Italy North region.
Generally Available: Azure Mv3 Medium Memory (MM) Virtual Machines
Get improved performance and higher reliability for your memory-optimized workloads with the public preview of the new generation Mv3 Medium Memory (MM) Virtual Machines.
Preview: New Basic SKU functionality for Azure confidential ledger
The Azure confidential ledger Basic SKU gated preview will allow select customers using other Azure products to uplevel integrity protection by storing periodic data, blobs, and application signatures in Azure confidential ledger.
Azure Chaos Studio is now generally available
The general availability of Azure Chaos Studios provides a fully managed experimentation platform for discovering challenging issues through experiment templates, dynamic targets and a more guided user interface.
General availability: Additional Azure ExpressRoute peering locations
ExpressRoute lets you extend your on-premises networks into the Microsoft cloud over a private connection with the help of a connectivity provider or a direct connection with ExpressRoute Direct. With ExpressRoute, you can establish connections to Microsoft cloud services, such as Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365.
Public Preview: Announcing the preview of Azure Managed Confidential Consortium Framework
Deploy and build decentralized governance applications with granular confidentiality amongst members.
Preview: Azure confidential VMs with NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs
Azure confidential VMs with NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs is open for preview. Please use the sign-up at aka.ms/accgpusignup for your onboarding request.
Public preview: Confidential containers on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
AKS now lets you run individual pods in their own trusted execution environment (TEE)
Public preview: Confidential temp disk encryption for confidential VMs
Confidential temp disk encryption is now available for all confidential VMs.
Public Preview: New Marketplace app for Storage customers and feature enhancements to portal for Azure confidential ledger
Storage customers will now be able to use a marketplace application to connect their immutable blobs with enhanced integrity protection from Azure confidential ledger. Signatures from blobs will be stored and validated, as needed. In addition, the Azure confidential ledger portal experience has been enhanced to allow exploring transactions and retrieving cryptographic proof.
Generally Available: Trusted launch as default for VMs deployed through PowerShell and CLI
Trusted launch is now enabled by default for VMs deployed through PowerShell and CLI, enhancing the foundational security of these VMs.
Public Preview: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9.3 support for AMD-based confidential VMs
RHEL 9.3 is now available in public preview as the guest OS for all AMD-based confidential VMs.
Generally Available: AMD confidential VMs in new regions for November 2023
AMD confidential VMs now in Italy North, Germany West Central, UAE North.
Azure Virtual Network Manager Security Admin Rule generally available in select regions
Azure Virtual Network Manager's security admin rule configuration is now generally available in select regions, empowering users to enforce security rules across their virtual networks globally.
Public preview: ExpressRoute Seamless Gateway Migration
ExpressRoute customers can now seamlessly migrate.
Public preview: ExpressRoute Scalable Gateway
The ExpressRoute virtual network gateway facilitates both management and control plane connectivity to Virtual Machines and Private Endpoints over ExpressRoute.
General availability: ExpressRoute Direct and Circuit in different subscriptions
ExpressRoute Direct customers can now generate an authorization key for your ExpressRoute Direct resource and use it to make an ExpressRoute Circuit in a different subscription.
Public preview: Microsoft Copilot for Azure
Simplify how you design, operate, optimize, and troubleshoot apps and infrastructure from cloud to edge with Microsoft Copilot for Azure.
Experiment templates now available in Azure Chaos Studio
Create and customize an experiment from a template. Chaos Studio currently supports AAD Outage and Availability Zone Down scenarios.
General availability: Start and stop load (Azure Load Testing) faults in Azure Chaos Studio
Add a previously created load test (from Azure Load Testing) to your chaos experiment. Choose when exactly in your chaos experiment you would like to start and stop load.
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