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Public preview: Container Storage Interface extensible API for AKS
You can now disable and enable any of the AKS supported CSI drivers using this API.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Public preview: Static Web Apps support skipping API builds via Azure pipelines
You can now skip the default API build via Azure pipelines.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Public preview: Azure Machine Learning announcements for April 2022
Compartmentalize access to data with identity passthrough and configure email notifications from Azure Learning.
April 2022
Public preview: Azure Lab Services April 2022 update
Improve performance, reliability, and scalability for Azure Lab Services in the latest update.
Public preview: Azure Compute Gallery feature ‘community gallery’
Target availability: Q2 2022
New Azure Compute Gallery feature ‘community gallery’ makes your private images public.
Azure SQL—Public preview updates for late April 2022
Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL.
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.
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.
Public preview: Azure Functions now supports PowerShell 7.2
You can now use the latest version of PowerShell with Azure Functions.
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