Azure updates

Public preview: AKS Private Link Service integration

You can now have AKS take care of creating the Private Link Service association to the Kubernetes service identified by the frontend IP configuration of an internal Azure Load Balancer.

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Features

Public preview: HostProcess Containers

You can now package and distribute management operations and functionalities that require host access while retaining versioning and deployment methods provided by containers.

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Features

Public preview: Additional support for managed identity authentication in Azure Stream Analytics

Stream Analytics now supports authenticating to Azure Cosmos DB and Azure Service Bus using Managed Identities.

• Azure Stream Analytics
• Features

Public preview: Azure DNS Private Resolver – Hybrid name resolution and conditional forwarding

Seamlessly perform conditional forwarding from on-prem to Azure Private DNS Zones and from Azure Virtual Networks to any target DNS server.

• Azure DNS
• Features
• Services

Public preview: Azure Container Apps now support log streaming and console connect

You can now connect to a container console and use live log streaming for testing and diagnosis.

• Azure Container Apps
• Features

Public preview: Static Web Apps support skipping API builds via Azure pipelines

You can now skip the default API build via Azure pipelines.

• Static Web Apps
• Features

Public preview: Improved Azure DevOps support in Static Web Apps

You no longer have to go through a series of manual steps to configure your DevOps CI/CD pipeline for your Static Web Apps project.

• Static Web Apps
• Features

Public preview: Azure Virtual Machines DCsv3 in Australia, Japan, US, and Asia

Confidential computing DCsv3 and DCdsv3-series virtual machines (VMs) are in public preview in Australia East, Japan East, South Central US, and Southeast Asia.

• Regions & Datacenters
• Pricing & Offerings
• Security

Public preview: Control the minimum TLS version used with Azure Service Bus

To enforce stricter security measures, you can now configure your Service Bus namespace to require that clients send and receive data with a minimum version of TLS.

• Service Bus
• Features
• Compliance
• Security

Public preview: Event Grid enables user authorization to create partner topics

Gain a greater security stance by explicitly authorizing a partner to create partner topics or partner destinations in your Azure subscription.

• Event Grid
• Features
• Security

Public preview: Static Web Apps support for preview environments in Azure DevOps

You can now deploy Static Web Apps to staging environments using Azure DevOps.

• Static Web Apps
• Features

Public preview: Azure Machine Learning announcements for March 2022

New features include multi-class, multi-label, and named entity recognition, search for Azure Machine Learning assets across multiple workspaces, and label with text named entity recognition.

• Azure Machine Learning
• Features

Public preview: Azure Machine Learning announcements for April 2022

Compartmentalize access to data with identity passthrough and configure email notifications from Azure Learning.

• Azure Machine Learning
• Features

Public preview: Azure Compute Gallery feature ‘community gallery’

Target availability: Q2 2022

New Azure Compute Gallery feature ‘community gallery’ makes your private images public.

• Features

Azure SQL—Public preview updates for late April 2022

Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL.

• Azure SQL Database
• Features

Public preview: Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra enhancements

Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra now includes support for deploying Cassandra 4.0 clusters and running nodetool commands using Azure CLI.

• Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra
• Features

Public preview: Azure Storage as share in Windows Code in App Service

Mount Azure Files as a local share in Windows Code in Azure App Service.

• App Service
• Features

Public preview: Azure Functions now supports PowerShell 7.2

You can now use the latest version of PowerShell with Azure Functions.

• Azure Functions
• Features