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Generally Available: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.3 now supported on Azure Virtual Machines
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9.3, the latest version of RHEL 9 from Red Hat is now generally available on Azure Virtual Machines (VMs). Availability of RHEL 9.3 for VMs on Azure is a step forward towards offering a more scalable, flexible Linux platform that pairs container innovation with a strong security posture.
General availability: Integration of Azure Monitor Agent support with Connection Monitor
Integration of Azure Monitor Agent support in Connection Monitor for monitoring connectivity across ARC enabled endpoints as sources and destinations
Public preview: Private subnet
Private subnet is a new feature that allows you to create subnets that prevent the creation of insecure default outbound public IP address creation
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.
General Availability of Azure Logic Apps' New Data Mapper for Visual Studio Code
Target availability: Q4 2023
Data Mapper is Azure Logic Apps' new visual data transformation tool. Now, in general availability, as a Visual Studio Code extension, it can create and edit maps between source and target schemas.
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.
Azure Logic Apps Standard VS Code Extension Installation Enhancements in public preview
Target availability: Q4 2023
Currently, in public preview starting from version 2.80.0, the installation process of the VS Code Extension for Azure Logic Apps Standard will be significantly simplified. The extension will automatically identify and install any required dependencies, such as other extensions or frameworks. This will also encompass all the necessary extensions, including the C# extension essential for debugging.
General Availability of Application Insights Enhancements for Azure Logic Apps (standard)
Target availability: Q4 2023
We are also excited to announce the general availability of Application Insights Enhancements for Azure Logic Apps (standard). This new capability gives you a simplified experience for discovering insights about your Logic App workflows and more control over filtering events at the source and reducing your storage costs.
Announcing general availability of .NET Framework Custom Code for Azure Logic Apps (standard)
Target availability: Q4 2023
We are pleased to announce the general availability of .NET Framework Custom Code for Azure Logic Apps (standard). This capability allows customers to extend their low-code solutions with the power of custom code.
Announcing Azure Integration Environment in public preview
Target availability: Q4 2023
We are excited to introduce a new Azure service that provides unified experience to help customers effectively manage and monitor their integration resources. This service comprises two core components: the Azure Integration Environment and Business Process Tracking, both currently in public preview.
Azure Logic Apps workflow assistant in public preview
Target availability: Q4 2023
Bringing the power of AI to Azure Logic Apps for the first time, this workflow assistant answers any questions you have about Azure Logic Apps from directly within the designer. Currently in public preview, this chat interface provides access to Azure Logic Apps documentation and best practices without requiring you to navigate documentation or search online forums.
Public preview: Azure Backup supports long term retention for backup of Azure Database for PostgreSQL– Flexible Server
Now you can retain backups for up to 10 years by defining your own backup and retention policy for PostgreSQL- Flexible server.
GA: Ultra Disk performance updates
Azure Ultra Disk Storage now provides maximum throughput of up to 10 GBps and IOPS of up to 400K IOPS per disk.
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 Container Storage is now available with Azure Linux container host
Azure Container Storage (in preview) offers volume management built natively for containers. With the latest update, you can deploy Azure Container Storage on Azure Linux container host.
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.
Generally available: Partitioned namespaces for Azure Service Bus Premium
Partitoned namespaces for Azure Service Bus, allowing the use of partitioning for the premium messaging tier, is now generally available.
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.
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