Azure updates

Generally available: Immutable vaults for Azure Backup

Target availability: Q1 2023

Immutable vaults help you protect your backups against threats like ransomware attacks and malicious actors by ensuring that your backup data cannot be deleted before its intended expiry time.

• Azure Backup
• Security
• Management
• Features

Public Preview: Azure Chaos Studio now available in

Azure Chaos Studio is now available in East Asia region.

• Regions & Datacenters

General availability: Ephemeral OS disks supports encryption at host using customer managed keys

Create Ephemeral VMs with customer managed key encryption types for encryption at host.

• Virtual Machines
• Managed Disks
• Features

Public preview: Accelerated Connections for Network Virtual Appliances now in Azure Marketplace

Accelerated Connections is a new product that enhances Accelerated Networking enabled vNICs, enabling customers to increase connections per second and improve performance in multiple active connection scenarios.

• Virtual Network
• Services
• Features

Private Preview: Azure Backup enables vaulted backups for Azure Files for comprehensive data protection.

Target availability: Q1 2023

You can now transfer the backups of Azure Files to the vault to get complete protection against various data loss scenarios.

• Security
• Features

GA: Spot Priority Mix

Deploy a Virtual Machine Scale Set with both Spot and standard virtual machines using flexible orchestration mode.

• Virtual Machine Scale Sets
• Pricing & Offerings

General availability: Yocto Kirkstone recipes for IoT Edge 1.4 LTS

Announcing the addition of Kirkstone compatible recipes to build the latest IoT Edge 1.4.x LTS release.

• Azure IoT Edge
• Open Source
• Operating System
• Features

Public Preview: Azure Backup enables vaulted backups for Azure Blob for comprehensive data protection.

Target availability: Q1 2023

Enable scheduled backups for Azure Blob using Azure Backup to ensure business continuity and recovery from inadvertent or malicious deletion or ransomware attacks.

• Security
• Features

Generally available: Azure Ultra Disk Storage in the China North 3 Azure region

Now available in the China North 3 Azure region, Azure Ultra Disk Storage provides high performance along with sub-millisecond latency for your most demanding workloads.

• Azure Disk Storage
• Regions & Datacenters

Public Preview: Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus now supports querying PromQL

Azure Workbooks now have a Prometheus data source allowing users to write PromQL natively in the portal. The Prometheus explorer offers an out of the box querying experience.

• Features

Generally available: App Insights Extension for Azure Virtual Machines and VM Scale Sets

Application insights extension enables easy to use application monitoring for IIS-hosted .NET Framework and .NET Core applications running on Azure VMs and VM scale sets.

• Azure Monitor
• Features

Public Preview: Data sharing lineage and search for Azure Storage in Microsoft Purview

Data Sharing Lineage is now available in Microsoft Purview for Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) Gen2 and Azure Blob (Blob) Storage in public preview. Data Sharing Lineage is aimed to provide detailed…

• Microsoft Purview
• Services
• Features

Generally Available: Model Serving on Azure Databricks

Model Serving on Azure Databricks is now generally available

• Azure Databricks
• Pricing & Offerings
• Services

More transactions at no additional cost for Azure Standard SSD

Save money on billable transactions as we waive transaction fees for Azure Standard SSD customers that exceed the maximum hourly limit.

• Pricing & Offerings
• Features

Generally available updates for early March 2023

General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in early March 2023

• Azure SQL Database
• Azure SQL Managed Instance
• Features

Generally Available: Azure Monitor Logs now supports Availability Zones in Canada Central, France Central and Japan East

Azure Monitor Logs continues to extend its Availability Zone support by adding three regions – Canada Central, France Central and Japan East – to the East US 2 and West US 2 regions, which are already supported.

• Regions & Datacenters
• Features

Azure SQL—General availability updates for early March 2023

General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in early March 2023

• Azure SQL Database
• Features

Disclosure: In-tree disk and file drivers will no longer be supported starting in Kubernetes v1.26

Migrate your existing in-tree disk and file volumes to CSI drivers using provided guidance.

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Features

Azure Virtual Network Manager Event Logging now in public preview

Interact with Azure Virtual Network Manager (AVNM) event logs for network group membership changes.

• Azure Virtual Network Manager
• Services
• Features