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Public Preview: Attach and VMs to and from Existing Virtual Machine Scale Sets
You can now easily bring existing VMs to an existing Virtual Machine Scale Set with Flexible Orchestration Mode to take advantage of the scaling orchestrations offered by scale sets. You can now detach a VM from the scale set for isolation and troubleshooting.
Azure Logic Apps Standard VS Code Extension Installation Enhancements in public preview
Target availability: Q4 2023
Currently, in public preview starting from version 2.80.0, the installation process of the VS Code Extension for Azure Logic Apps Standard will be significantly simplified. The extension will automatically identify and install any required dependencies, such as other extensions or frameworks. This will also encompass all the necessary extensions, including the C# extension essential for debugging.
Announcing Azure Integration Environment in public preview
Target availability: Q4 2023
We are excited to introduce a new Azure service that provides unified experience to help customers effectively manage and monitor their integration resources. This service comprises two core components: the Azure Integration Environment and Business Process Tracking, both currently in public preview.
Public preview: Azure Backup supports long term retention for backup of Azure Database for PostgreSQL– Flexible Server
Now you can retain backups for up to 10 years by defining your own backup and retention policy for PostgreSQL- Flexible server.
Azure Container Storage is now available with Azure Linux container host
Azure Container Storage (in preview) offers volume management built natively for containers. With the latest update, you can deploy Azure Container Storage on Azure Linux container host.
Public Preview: Azure IoT Operations
Azure IoT Operations is now in Public Preview. Azure IoT Operations addresses an enterprise’s fundamental needs, but also wrangles edge data to generate local insights and brings interoperability and scalability to IoT solutions.
Public preview: Cost analysis add-on for AKS
You now have increased visibility and transparency into cluster costs.
Public preview: Vector database add-ons for Azure Container Apps
You can now get started quickly with cognitive search using Azure Container Apps and its native integration with three popular open source vector database variants.
Public preview: Azure Container Apps adds native support for CNCF Buildpacks to automatically containerize your code
You can now focus on your code and quickly take your application from source to cloud. There’s no need to understand containers or how to package application code for deployment.
Public preview: Policy-driven resiliency in Azure Container Apps
You can now use and customize policies that provide high value resiliency capabilities and apply them to your Container Apps.
Public preview: Dedicated GPU workload profiles
You can now run GPU-enabled workloads in Azure Container Apps.
Preview: New Basic SKU functionality for Azure confidential ledger
The Azure confidential ledger Basic SKU gated preview will allow select customers using other Azure products to uplevel integrity protection by storing periodic data, blobs, and application signatures in Azure confidential ledger.
Public Preview: Announcing the preview of Azure Managed Confidential Consortium Framework
Deploy and build decentralized governance applications with granular confidentiality amongst members.
Preview: Azure confidential VMs with NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs
Azure confidential VMs with NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs is open for preview. Please use the sign-up at aka.ms/accgpusignup for your onboarding request.
Public preview: Confidential temp disk encryption for confidential VMs
Confidential temp disk encryption is now available for all confidential VMs.
Public Preview: New Marketplace app for Storage customers and feature enhancements to portal for Azure confidential ledger
Storage customers will now be able to use a marketplace application to connect their immutable blobs with enhanced integrity protection from Azure confidential ledger. Signatures from blobs will be stored and validated, as needed. In addition, the Azure confidential ledger portal experience has been enhanced to allow exploring transactions and retrieving cryptographic proof.
Preview: Disk Integrity Tool for confidential VMs in Azure
The disk integrity tool for confidential VMs is now in preview. This enables you to measure and attest that your OS disk is launched as expected.
Public Preview: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9.3 support for AMD-based confidential VMs
RHEL 9.3 is now available in public preview as the guest OS for all AMD-based confidential VMs.
Azure Machine Learning - Public Preview for November
Target availability: Q4 2023
Three features now available in public preview enable you to choose which models/datasets are right for you without having to run any job, seamlessly read/write data from a Fabric datastore; and Model-as-a-Service with inference APIs and hosted fine-tuning.
Announcing the public preview of Azure confidential VMs with Intel TDX
Microsoft is excited to announce the public preview of DCesv5 and ECesv5-series confidential VMs. These VMs are powered by 4th Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors with Intel® Trust Domain Extensions (TDX). They enable organizations to bring confidential workloads to the cloud without code changes to applications and will be available starting December 1st.
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