Azure updates

Public Preview – Support for WebSocket APIs in Azure API Management Self-hosted Gateway 

We are announcing the native support for WebSocket APIs in the self-hosted gateway feature inside Azure API Management.

• API Management
• Features

Public Preview: Data mapping designer in Azure Logic Apps (Standard)

Microsoft has re-envisioned data transformations in Azure Logic Apps (Standard) by building a new data mapper experience from the ground up.

• Logic Apps
• Features

PublicPreview: Azure API Management: API Center

Centrally organize and manage APIs across the entire organization, regardless of API type, deployment location, lifecycle stage, or choice of API gateway or API management solution using Azure API Center.   Boost developer productivity by facilitating API discovery and promoting API reuse.  Establish a governance model for API portfolio across the entire organization.  Elevate API inventory management by organizing and enriching APIs with custom metadata, API versions, and deployment details.  Click here to learn more.

• API Management
• Features

Public Preview: JSON Schema support in Azure Event Hubs Schema Registry for Kafka applications

The Azure Event Hubs Schema Registry provides support for JSON Schema

• Features

Public Preview: Azure Files geo-redundancy for standard large file shares

Target availability: Q2 2023

Azure Files geo-redundancy for large file shares is now in public preview for standard SMB file shares.

• Azure Files
• Storage Accounts
• Features

Public Preview: Azure AI Content Safety

Azure AI Content Safety is a new Azure AI service that identifies harmful online content, categorizes it and assigns severity scores to support human content moderator workloads.

• Azure Cognitive Services
• Services
• Microsoft Build

Private Preview: Kafka Input and Output with Azure Stream Analytics

Target availability: Q2 2023

You can connect directly to Kafka to ingest from Kafka clusters or output data to Kafka clusters in your Azure Stream Analytics (ASA) job.

• Azure Stream Analytics
• Microsoft Build
• Open Source
• Features

Public preview: Soft delete of Recovery Points for Azure Backup

Azure Backup's soft delete of recovery points allows you to recover any recovery points that may have been accidentally or maliciously deleted owing to operations that could lead to deletion of one or more recovery points.

• Azure Backup
• Microsoft Ignite
• Features
• Security

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.

• Azure Cosmos DB
• Microsoft Build
• Features

Optimize your reservation purchases with reservation utilization alerts.

Target availability: Q2 2023

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

• Microsoft Cost Management
• Management
• Features

Optimize your reservation purchases with reservation utilization alerts.

Target availability: Q2 2023

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

• Microsoft Cost Management
• Management
• Features

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.

• Features

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.

• Azure Stream Analytics
• Event Hubs
• Features

Public Preview: App Service automatic scaling support in portal UX

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

• App Service
• Microsoft Build

Optimize your reservation purchases with reservation utilization alerts.

Target availability: Q2 2023

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

• Microsoft Cost Management
• Management
• Features

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.

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

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.

• Azure Databricks
• Microsoft Build

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.

• Azure Data Explorer
• Microsoft Build
• Features
• Security