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Public Preview: Use Azure Quota Rest APIs to manage service limits (quotas)
Target availability: Q4 2022
Use Azure REST Quota API to manage service limits (quotas), query current usage and quotas, and even update limits for your supported Azure resources, when required.
Public preview: Use Azure Quota REST APIs to manage service limits (quotas)
Target availability: Q4 2022
Use Azure REST Quota APIs to manage the service limits (quotas) for Azure VMs, HPC Cache, Purview services, and networking.
December 2020
Azure portal to end support for Internet Explorer 11 on March 31, 2021
Start using the using the new Edge browser from Microsoft.
October 2020
Azure portal September 2020 update
Updates include improvements to the ARM template deployment experience, a variety of updates for Azure Blob Storage, and more.
August 2020
Azure Monitor for containers with Azure Portal now supports Kubernetes resource view
Azure monitor for containers with Azure portal now supports new Kubernetes resource view. In this new view you can diagnose the issue by drilling down to resource types including deployments, pods, and replica sets & see historical data trend and overall usage over time.
May 2020
Azure custom role creation in the Azure portal is now generally available
Azure custom roles can now be created and edited in the Azure portal. Use the new experience to ease your role-based access control (RBAC) workflow.
April 2020
Azure Support API is generally available
Create and manage Azure support tickets programmatically
September 2019
Azure portal September 2019 feature update
The Azure portal has updates to Azure Data Explorer and to Azure SQL.
August 2019
Azure portal August 2019 feature update
This month, Azure portal has updates to Azure Security Center and a new experience for Azure Migrate.
July 2019
Azure portal July 2019 feature update
This month, Azure portal updates include updates to Azure Security Center, the ability to use ephemeral OS disks on Azure VMs, sending Windows diagnostics data to Azure Monitor and more.
May 2019
Improvements to the Azure portal user experience are now available
Announcing exciting updates that improve the user experience in the Azure portal
Azure now supports GitHub identity single sign-on
GitHub identities are now supported as sign in option to log in to Azure. An existing Microsoft account is no longer needed to sign in to Azure.
Azure now supports GitHub identity single sign-on
GitHub identities are now supported as sign in option to log in to Azure. An existing Microsoft account is no longer needed to sign in to Azure.
New services and capabilities in Azure Cognitive Services
New services and capabilities are available in preview through Azure Cognitive Services.
Azure Cognitive Services capabilities that are now generally available
The following Azure Cognitive Services capabilities are now generally available: neural text to speech and computer vision read.
March 2019
Azure portal March 2019 update
Learn about updates to the Azure portal for March 2019, including Virtual Network Gateway overview page changes, new full-screen DNS Zone and Load Balancer create blades, and Azure Management Group integration with Activity Log.
February 2019
Introducing the Azure portal “how to” video series
A new video weekly series highlights specific aspects of the Azure portal so you can be more efficient and productive while deploying your cloud workloads from the portal.
Azure Cost Management is now generally available for EA customers
Azure Cost Management is now generally available for EA customers
Azure Cost Management preview for Azure Government
Announcing Azure Cost Management preview for Azure Government.
Azure Cost Management preview for pay-as-you-go
Azure Cost Management for pay-as-you-go is now in preview.
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