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Public Preview: Azure Cosmos DB SDKs OpenTelemetry and Application Insights integration
Monitoring your applications is easier than ever with new support for OpenTelemetry and improved Application Insights integration.
Optimize your reservation purchases with reservation utilization alerts.
Target availability: Q2 2023
Activate reservation utilization alerts and take control of your Azure reservation strategy.
Optimize your reservation purchases with reservation utilization alerts.
Target availability: Q2 2023
Activate reservation utilization alerts and take control of your Azure reservation strategy.
General Availability: Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus
Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus is now Generally Available.
Public Preview: Dynamic Blob container name
Azure Stream Analytics offers dynamic blob container name to give customers the flexibility to customize container names in Blob storage output.
Public Preview: Azure Stream Analytics Schema Registry Integration
Azure Stream Analytics can now fetch schema from the Schema Registry and deserialize data from Event Hub inputs for Avro format.
Public Preview: App Service automatic scaling support in portal UX
Now you can use the Azure Portal to configure App Service auto-scaling rules.
Optimize your reservation purchases with reservation utilization alerts.
Target availability: Q2 2023
Activate reservation utilization alerts and take control of your Azure reservation strategy.
Preview: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9.2 support for AMD confidential VMs
User of AMD-based confidential VMs can now select the RHEL 9.2 technical preview as their guest OS.
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: AMD confidential VM option for Azure Data Explorer (ADX)
Users can now run their most sensitive data workloads in ADX clusters on AMD-based confidential VM SKUs.
Build 2023: New Azure App Service plans fuel greater choice and savings
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.
Generally Available: V2 programming model for Azure Functions using Python
A simplified programming model for Python developers.
General availability: Azure HX Virtual Machines for HPC
HX-series VMs for HPC are now generally available in the Azure East US region.
Azure Key Vault Access Configuration Update
Target availability: Q2 2023
Azure RBAC is now the recommended authorization system for the Azure Key Vault data plane.
General availability: Azure HBv4 Virtual Machines for HPC
HBv4-series VMs for HPC are now generally available in the Azure East US region.
Database Migration Assessment for Oracle - GA
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.
Public Preview: Time-travel for Azure Synapse Link for Cosmos DB
Rewind to read previous transactions in Synapse Link containers to analyze previous versions of your document with time-travel for Azure Synapse Link
Available: Azure Database for MySQL connector for Power Platform and Azure Logic Apps
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.
General availability: Confidential containers on Azure Container Instances (ACI)
ACI now lets you run containers in a trusted execution environment (TEE)
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