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General Availability - Azure Backup for AKS
Azure Backup is announcing General Availability of Azure Backup for AKS allowing customers to protect their applications by providing ability to backup and restore AKS clusters.
General Availability of Azure App Configuration Kubernetes Provider
Azure App Configuration Kubernetes Provider lets you centrally configure the applications running in Kubernetes clusters. The latest version offers workload identity authentication in the provider and dynamic refresh of the configuration data.
Generally Available: Collect Syslog from AKS nodes using Azure Monitor Container Insights
The Syslog collection feature in Azure Monitor - Container Insights is generally available.
General availability: Reservations for Microsoft Fabric
You can now save up to 40.5% on Microsoft Fabric capacity when you commit to one-year reservations.
Public Preview: Attach and VMs to and from Existing Virtual Machine Scale Sets
You can now easily bring existing VMs to an existing Virtual Machine Scale Set with Flexible Orchestration Mode to take advantage of the scaling orchestrations offered by scale sets. You can now detach a VM from the scale set for isolation and troubleshooting.
GA: Stateful entities in Durable Functions on the isolated worker model for .NET
The stateful entities feature for Durable Functions is now available for .NET apps on the isolated worker model.
Azure Functions brings new flexibility with unlimited execution time
You can now request for access to try out Flex Consumption, a new Azure Functions hosting plan that provides fast scaling and networking features with a serverless billing model.
Public Preview: Azure IoT Operations
Azure IoT Operations is now in Public Preview. Azure IoT Operations addresses an enterprise’s fundamental needs, but also wrangles edge data to generate local insights and brings interoperability and scalability to IoT solutions.
Public preview: Cost analysis add-on for AKS
You now have increased visibility and transparency into cluster costs.
Public preview: Vector database add-ons for Azure Container Apps
You can now get started quickly with cognitive search using Azure Container Apps and its native integration with three popular open source vector database variants.
Public preview: Azure Container Apps adds native support for CNCF Buildpacks to automatically containerize your code
You can now focus on your code and quickly take your application from source to cloud. There’s no need to understand containers or how to package application code for deployment.
Generally available: Azure Container Apps Landing Zone Accelerator
You can now provision Container Apps with workload profiles securely at an enterprise scale with a landing zone.
Public preview: Policy-driven resiliency in Azure Container Apps
You can now use and customize policies that provide high value resiliency capabilities and apply them to your Container Apps.
Public preview: Dedicated GPU workload profiles
You can now run GPU-enabled workloads in Azure Container Apps.
Kubernetes AI toolchain operator
You can now more easily deploy machine learning (ML) models on AKS using the Kubernetes AI toolchain operator.
GA: Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager
Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager is now generally available and offers an update orchestration feature so you can create an update strategy once and reference it in multiple update runs.
Generally available: AMD confidential VM option for Azure Databricks
Users can now select AMD-based confidential VMs for their Azure Databricks cluster driver node and cluster worker nodes.
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.
Preview: Disk Integrity Tool for confidential VMs in Azure
The disk integrity tool for confidential VMs is now in preview. This enables you to measure and attest that your OS disk is launched as expected.
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