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Public preview: Multiple backups per day for Azure Virtual Machines
Target availability: Q2 2022
Protect Azure Virtual Machines with mission critical applications with low recovery point objective.
Public preview: Create an additional 5000 Azure Storage accounts within your subscription
Azure Storage is announcing public preview of the ability to create additional 5000 storage accounts per subscription per region.
Azure SQL—Public preview updates for late June 2022
Public preview updates made in late June 2022 for Azure SQL.
Azure SQL—Generally available updates for late June 2022
Generally available updates made in late June 2022 for Azure SQL.
General availability: Azure Key Vault secrets provider on Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes
Enable fetching secrets from an Azure Key Vault directly into the workload running on an Arc connected Kubernetes cluster.
Generally available: Windows IoT on Arm64
Windows IoT on Arm64 brings increased functionality to devices.
General availability: Azure Machine Learning announcements for June 2022
New features include MLflow enhancements and train and deploy models in Azure hybrid and multi-cloud.
Public preview: Link feature in Azure SQL MI for SQL Server 2016
SQL Server 2016 customers can now use Azure without migrating through offloading analytics or read-only workloads to Azure SQL Managed Instance (MI).
General availability: Azure Advisor support for Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server
Get personalized recommendations based on your Azure Database for MySQL Flexible Server usage.
Public preview: Azure Data Studio MongoDB extension for Azure Cosmos DB
Use the new Azure Data Studio MongoDB extension for Azure Cosmos DB to manage all your MongoDB resources.
Public preview: Continuous backup enhancements in Azure Cosmos DB
Azure Cosmos DB accounts can now take advantage of continuous backup with seven-day data retention and point-in-time restore capabilities.
Public preview: Azure Cosmos DB SQL API Go SDK improvements
Use new Go SDK features in your Azure Cosmos DB SQL API account including authentication with Azure Active Directory, the ability to execute single partition queries, and transactional batch support.
Generally available: Azure Cosmos DB Core (SQL) API Query Engine improvements
Query your Azure Cosmos DB containers even more efficiently with new query engine optimizations.
Generally available: Improved Try Azure Cosmos DB for free experience
Get started using Azure Cosmos DB for free.
Public preview: AKS release tracker
AKS release tracker allows you to see the status of AKS releases across Azure regions.
Public preview: New API backend options in Azure Static Web Apps
You can now use App Service, Container Apps, or API Management as an API backend in Azure Static Web Apps.
Public preview: Azure Functions support for Python 3.10
Develop Python 3.10 apps locally and deploy them to all Azure Functions plans.
Public preview: Custom certificate authorities
You can now add custom certificate authorities to your AKS cluster(s).
Public preview: Kubernetes release 1.24 support in AKS
Benefit from the latest features in Kubernetes release 1.24.
Generally available: HTTP proxy support for AKS clusters
You can now use HTTP proxy feature with all AKS add-ons.
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