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May 2023

May 23

Public Preview: Azure Cosmos DB SDKs OpenTelemetry and Application Insights integration

IN PREVIEW

Monitoring your applications is easier than ever with new support for OpenTelemetry and improved Application Insights integration.

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Microsoft Build
  • Features
May 23

Optimize your reservation purchases with reservation utilization alerts.

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q2 2023

Activate reservation utilization alerts and take control of your Azure reservation strategy.

  • Microsoft Cost Management
  • Management
  • Features
May 23

Optimize your reservation purchases with reservation utilization alerts.

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q2 2023

Activate reservation utilization alerts and take control of your Azure reservation strategy.

  • Microsoft Cost Management
  • Management
  • Features
May 23

General Availability: Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus is now Generally Available.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Managed Prometheus
  • Azure Managed Grafana
  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes
  • Management
  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Microsoft Build
  • Open Source
May 23

Public Preview: Dynamic Blob container name

IN PREVIEW

Azure Stream Analytics offers dynamic blob container name to give customers the flexibility to customize container names in Blob storage output.

  • Features
May 23

Public Preview: Azure Stream Analytics Schema Registry Integration

IN PREVIEW

Azure Stream Analytics can now fetch schema from the Schema Registry and deserialize data from Event Hub inputs for Avro format.

  • Azure Stream Analytics
  • Event Hubs
  • Features
May 23

Public Preview: App Service automatic scaling support in portal UX

IN PREVIEW

Now you can use the Azure Portal to configure App Service auto-scaling rules.

  • App Service
  • Microsoft Build
May 23

Optimize your reservation purchases with reservation utilization alerts.

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q2 2023

Activate reservation utilization alerts and take control of your Azure reservation strategy.

  • Microsoft Cost Management
  • Management
  • Features
May 23

Preview: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9.2 support for AMD confidential VMs

IN PREVIEW

User of AMD-based confidential VMs can now select the RHEL 9.2 technical preview as their guest OS.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Microsoft Build
  • Operating System
  • Open Source
  • Features
  • Security
May 23

AMD Confidential VM option for Azure Databricks

IN PREVIEW

Users can now select AMD-based confidential VMs for their Azure Databricks cluster driver node and cluster worker nodes.

  • Azure Databricks
  • Microsoft Build
May 23

Public Preview: AMD confidential VM option for Azure Data Explorer (ADX)

IN PREVIEW

Users can now run their most sensitive data workloads in ADX clusters on AMD-based confidential VM SKUs.

  • Azure Data Explorer
  • Microsoft Build
  • Features
  • Security
May 23

Build 2023: New Azure App Service plans fuel greater choice and savings

NOW AVAILABLE

New plans for Microsoft Azure App Service customers with two new offerings in the Premium v3 (Pv3) service tier, and expansion in the Isolated v2 tier.

  • App Service
  • Microsoft Build
May 23

Generally Available: V2 programming model for Azure Functions using Python

NOW AVAILABLE

A simplified programming model for Python developers.

  • Azure Functions
  • Microsoft Build
  • Features
May 23

General availability: Azure HX Virtual Machines for HPC

IN PREVIEW

HX-series VMs for HPC are now generally available in the Azure East US region.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Microsoft Build
May 23

Azure Key Vault Access Configuration Update

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q2 2023

Azure RBAC is now the recommended authorization system for the Azure Key Vault data plane.

  • Security
May 23

General availability: Azure HBv4 Virtual Machines for HPC

NOW AVAILABLE

HBv4-series VMs for HPC are now generally available in the Azure East US region.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Microsoft Build
May 23

Database Migration Assessment for Oracle - GA

NOW AVAILABLE

Database Migration Assessment for Oracle extension analyzes an organization's Oracle database, identifying performance requirements and code compatibility with the target Azure database for a smooth migration.

  • Azure Database Migration Service
  • Microsoft Build
  • Features
May 23

Public Preview: Time-travel for Azure Synapse Link for Cosmos DB

IN PREVIEW

Rewind to read previous transactions in Synapse Link containers to analyze previous versions of your document with time-travel for Azure Synapse Link

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Microsoft Build
  • Features
May 23

Available: Azure Database for MySQL connector for Power Platform and Azure Logic Apps

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Database for MySQL connector for Power Platform, Azure Logic Apps is now available and allows you to connect to any MySQL Flexible Server database to read and write data.

  • Azure Database for MySQL
  • Microsoft Build
  • Features
May 23

General availability: Confidential containers on Azure Container Instances (ACI)

ACI now lets you run containers in a trusted execution environment (TEE)

  • Azure Container Instances
  • Microsoft Build
  • Features

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