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Store and manage medical imaging data with Azure Data Lake Storage (Preview)

With the integration of Azure Data Lake Storage and the DICOM service, organizations can now enjoy full control over their imaging data and increased flexibility for accessing and working with that data through the Azure storage ecosystem and APIs.

• Services
• Features

Public preview: Intel TDX based confidential VMs now available in the Azure portal, Azure CLI and ARM templates

The DCesv5 and ECesv5-series confidential virtual machines (VMs) are now available in the Azure portal and via the CLI and ARM templates. These VMs enable organizations to bring confidential workloads to the cloud without code changes to applications.

• Virtual Machines
• Security
• Regions & Datacenters
• Pricing & Offerings

Azure Event Grid releases public preview support for events from services like Microsoft Entra ID, Microsoft Outlook, and Microsoft Teams.

Target availability: Q4 2023

Support for Microsoft Graph API events helps you automate actions in response to Microsoft resource changes.

• Services
• Features

Public Preview: New AKS cost views for standard and premium tier clusters

New AKS cost views showing aggregated costs for clusters in a subscription and costs of all namespaces in clusters are now available in Cost analysis within Azure portal for standard and premium tier clusters.

• Management

Public preview: Node autoprovision support in AKS

AKS can now take care of VM SKU selection based on the workloads you are scheduling rather than you having to pre-allocate node pools of a certain SKU type.

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Features

Public Preview: Accelerated logs in Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server

Target availability: Q4 2023

Gain a performance boost in the Business-Critical service tier of Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server with accelerated logs.

• Azure Database for MySQL
• Features

Public Preview: Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server, enhanced disaster recovery features

Target availability: Q4 2023

Explore advanced disaster recovery with Virtual Endpoints and seamless role-swapping in Azure Database for PostgreSQL.

• Azure Database for PostgreSQL
• Features

Azure Event Grid system topics support for resource management and health resources now in Public Preview

Health resources and resource management alerts available through Event Grid system topics

• Event Grid
• Features

Migration of Azure Virtual Network injected Azure Data Explorer cluster to Private Endpoints

If you are using VNet injection to secure your Azure Data Explorer (ADX) cluster, you may face some challenges such as complexity, scalability, and public IP dependency. We recommend that you switch to Azure Private Endpoints, which allow you to connect to your cluster privately within your VNet. We have released a preview feature that lets you migrate your VNet injected ADX cluster to Private Endpoints easily and quickly.

• Azure Data Explorer
• Azure Private Link
• Security
• Features