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Azure Red Hat OpenShift now available in public preview in Azure Government
Azure Government customers can use Azure Red Hat OpenShift to build cloud-native applications
General availability: Azure Log Analytics in West US 3, Korea South, and Canada East
Log Analytics, a feature of Azure Monitor, is now generally available for customers to start collecting telemetry and analyzing their services for health and usage in West US 3, Korea South, and Canada East.
Public preview: Azure Spring Cloud RBAC config server and registry access and Nginx logs and metrics
Spring Cloud Config Server and Service Registry access using Azure Active Directory and Nginx ingress logs and metrics are now available in preview in Azure Spring Cloud.
Public preview: Visual Studio Code for the Web
Visual Studio Code for the Web is a web-based code editor that runs within the browser and allows opening repositories on GitHub and Azure Repos, and making lightweight code changes.
OCR (Read) supports 122 languages in the Cognitive Services Computer Vision public preview
Computer Vision Read API for Optical Character Recognition (OCR), part of Cognitive Services, announces its public preview with new languages including Russian, Bulgarian, other Cyrillic and more Latin languages. This release also highlight handwritten OCR support for many languages, along with enhancements for digital PDFs and Machine Readable Zone (MRZ) text in identity documents.
Azure Maps iOS SDK is now in public preview
Develop integrated immersive mapping solutions for mobile applications with Azure Maps iOS SDK
Public preview: Customize Azure Static Web Apps authentication with a serverless function
Azure Static Web Apps adds support for programmatically assigning custom user roles using Azure Functions.
Public preview: AKS out of tree cloud provider controller manager
Cloud provider controller manager enables AKS releases independent of Kubernetes release cadence.
Public preview: AKS support for WebAssembly System Interface (WASI) workloads
Deploy WebAssembly System Interface (WASI) workloads in Kubernetes using Krustlets
Public preview: AKS support for Kubernetes 1.22
You can now take advantage of the latest features of Kubernetes 1.22 including a new PodSecurity admission feature and more.
Public preview: HTTPS proxy configuration support
You can now specify HTTPS proxy configuration when creating your AKS clusters and node pools.
New centralized management experience for Azure Hybrid Benefit for SQL Server in public preview
Introducing a new way to manage Azure Hybrid Benefit for SQL Server centrally at an Azure subscription or account level, providing better control and optimized cost savings.
Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server: Ddsv4 and Edsv4 SKUs in public preview
Support for Ddsv4 and Edsv4 compute tiers is now supported for Flexible Server on Azure Database for PostgreSQL, a managed service running the open-source Postgres database on Azure.
Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus): Azure Private Link support in public preview
Private Link is now available in preview for Hyperscale (Citus) on Azure Database for PostgreSQL, a managed service running the open-source Postgres database on Azure.
Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server: Geo-redundant backup and restore in public preview
Strengthen your business continuity and disaster recovery plan with geo backup and restore, now available on Flexible Server for Azure Database for MySQL.
Azure Machine Learning announcements - Oct 2021 public preview capabilities
New features now available in public preview include compute instance and cluster No Public IP, Hashicorp Tarraform configuration templates, and AutoML for images.
Public preview: Dynamic concurrency in Azure Functions
Azure Functions dynamic concurrency feature simplifies configuring concurrency for your function apps.
Public preview: Standard network features for Azure NetApp Files
Standard network features for Azure NetApp Files volumes is now in public preview in select regions. This includes support for increased IP limits, Network Security Groups, User-defined routes, and additional connectivity patterns like connectivity over Active/Active VPN gateway and ExpressRoute FastPath
Azure Applied AI Services | Latest public preview enhancements to Azure Form Recognizer
Azure Form Recognizer now offers a pre-built version of the service in preview for document extraction as well as the following capabilities in preview: signature detection, hotel receipts processing, and deeper extraction of content from US driver's licenses. In addition, the service is now easier to use with Form Recognizer Studio and new REST APIs.
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