Azure updates

Generally Available: Kubernetes marketplace

Access to a vibrant ecosystem of first-party and third-party solutions for building robust enterprise solutions.

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Microsoft Build
• Features

Generally Available: Generation 2 VM for Windows

You can now run Windows workloads on Generation 2 VMs.

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Microsoft Build
• Features

Generally Available: Azure Linux support in AKS

Deploy Azure Linux as the node pool host OS in the AKS cluster and build apps on top of the preferred container.

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Linux Virtual Machines
• Microsoft Build
• Features

Public preview: New features in Azure Container Storage

Azure Container Storage, a unique storage provisioning and management service built natively for containers, is introducing several new features in preview.

• Storage Accounts
• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Microsoft Build
• Features

Public preview: Azure SQL Database Hyperscale elastic pools

You can now efficiently provision and scale compute resources independent of data size by deploying multiple Azure SQL Hyperscale databases with varying workloads in elastic pools.

• Azure SQL Database
• Microsoft Build
• Features

Generally Available: Enhanced document expiration with Time to Live (TTL) on any field.

Effortlessly set a TTL on any field in a collection, giving you more flexibility to control how your documents expire in Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB RU.

• Azure Cosmos DB
• Microsoft Build
• Features

Public Preview: In-Account restore for continuous backup accounts

Customers can restore the deleted database and containers in the same continuous backup account.

• Azure Cosmos DB
• Microsoft Build
• Features

Public Preview: Azure Cosmos DB computed properties

Simplify complex queries using computed properties which can represent frequently used query logic such as expressions based on persisted item properties and can be indexed for increased performance.

• Azure Cosmos DB
• Microsoft Build
• Features

Generally Available: Azure Cosmos DB burst capacity

Now generally available, Azure Cosmos DB burst capacity helps improve performance by allowing you to use idle throughput to handle temporary spikes in traffic.

• Azure Cosmos DB
• Microsoft Build
• Features

Azure Machine Learning - Public Preview for Build

New features now available in PuPr include the ability to evaluate text/image data fairness and enjoy one platform to build, tune, evaluate, deploy, and test AI workflow with LLM. 

• Azure Machine Learning
• Microsoft Build
• Features

Azure Machine Learning - General Availability for Build

New features now available in GA include the ability to enable MLOPs across dev, test, and prod environments to promote assets across multiple workspaces.

• Azure Machine Learning
• Microsoft Build
• Features

Announcing the public preview of custom Text Analytics for health

Target availability: Q2 2023

Custom Text Analytics for health is the newest healthcare NLP offering from Cognitive Services for Language. It allows you to add a layer of customization on top of Text Analytics for health using state-of-the-art machine learning models to build your own healthcare entity extraction model with your specific domain data. The model's authoring experience can be performed either using the graphical user interface on the Language Studio or programmatically using the REST APIs. The feature is now in public preview allowing you to make 5,000 text records of predictions per language resource for free using the Standard (S) pricing tier.

• Features

Public Preview: Azure NetApp Files Standard Network Features - Edit Volumes

Azure NetApp Files now supports ability to edit existing ANF volumes and upgrading Basic network features to Standard network features.

• Azure NetApp Files
• Regions & Datacenters
• Services
• Features

Public preview: Rolling Upgrades with MaxSurge for Virtual Machine Scale Sets

Rolling Upgrades with MaxSurge provides you a new way of upgrading VM instances in a Virtual Machine Scale Set to the latest scale set model.

• Features

Generally available: Azure Site Recovery update rollup 67 - May 2023

This article describes the improvements for the latest version of Azure Site Recovery components. 

• Features

General availability: Azure Data Explorer adds new geospatial capabilities

Azure Data Explorer now supports geospatial analysis with three new functions: geo_point_buffer, geo_line_buffer, and geo_polygon_buffer. These functions let you create polygonal buffers around points, lines, or polygons.

• Azure Data Explorer
• Features

General Availability: Routing Intent and Virtual WAN Integrated Firewall NVAs

Routing intent supports inter-region/inter-hub traffic inspection and branch-to-branch traffic inspection for Azure Virtual WAN.

• Features
• Security

Azure Backup Reports now includes support for more workloads

Azure Backup Reports now includes support for more workloads: Azure Database for PostgreSQL Servers, Azure Blobs and Azure Disks.

• Management

Public preview: Optimize your workloads for reliability using new workbook template in Azure Advisor

Evaluate the reliability posture of your workloads, assess risks and plan improvements using the new Reliability workbook template which is now available in Azure Advisor.

• Azure Advisor
• Management