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General Availability: Microsoft Azure Load Testing is now Generally Available
Azure Load Testing is now Generally Available. Get started with Azure Load Testing today.
Generally available: Azure Digital Twins in West US 3, Qatar, Japan, and Korea
Azure Digital Twins is now available in 14 Azure regions worldwide including West US 3, Qatar Central, Japan East, and Korea Central.
Generally available: New storage backend for Durable Functions — Microsoft Netherite & MSSQL
You can now use storage providers other than Azure Storage for Durable Functions.
Generally Available: Azure Functions support for Node.js 18
You can now use the latest version of Node.js with Azure Functions.
Generally Available: Azure Kubernetes Service introduces two pricing tiers: Free and Standard
Identify and use the most appropriate AKS tier for your projects.
Now Available: Azure Databricks is generally available in China North 3
Azure Databricks is now generally available in China North 3.
Generally available: Azure Digital Twins in West US 3, Qatar, Japan, and Korea
Azure Digital Twins is now available in 14 Azure regions worldwide including West US 3, Qatar Central, Japan East, and Korea Central.
General availability: Trusted launch for Azure VMs in Azure for US Government regions
Allows you to enable secure boot, vTPM, virtualization-based security, and Microsoft Defender for Cloud integration, providing additional layers of defense against sophisticated threats.
Azure Web PubSub Premium tier reaches General Availability
New plan offers greater resiliency, scalability, and flexibility - helping you add real-time two-way communication to your web and mobile apps.
Azure Red Hat OpenShift on Azure Government is now Generally Available
Azure Red Hat OpenShift is now generally available for Azure Government customers (federal, state, local governments, and their partners).
Azure SQL Gen 4 hardware approaching end of life 31 March 2023
Target retirement date: January 31, 2023
Intel E5-2673 (Haswell) v3-based CPUs used in Gen 4 hardware will no longer be supported after 31 March 2023. Transition to newer compute hardware for your Azure SQL databases and instances.
January 2023
Generally available: Apply Azure storage access tiers to append blobs and page blobs with blob type conversion
Target availability: Q1 2023
Convert append blobs and page blobs to block blobs so that you can apply access tiers.
Generally available: Indirect enterprise agreement on Azure Cost Management and Billing
Manage your enrollment hierarchy, view account usage, and monitor costs directly from the Azure Cost Management and Billing menu on the Azure portal (for indirect enterprise agreement customers)
General availability: Application security groups support for private endpoints
Application security groups (ASGs) support for private endpoints is now generally available.
General availability: Mount Azure Storage as a local share in App Service Windows Code
Mounting Azure Storage File share as a network share in Windows code (non-container) in App Service is now generally available.
General Availability: 5 GB Put Blob
Target availability: Q4 2022
Maximum Put Blob size is now increasing to 5 GB
Azure Machine Learning - Generally availability updates for January 2023
New features in GA include the ability to place customized tags, search for machine learning assets, isolate network for managed online endpoints, build custom metrics views, and simplify data security.
General Availability: Active Directory Connector for Arc-enabled SQL MI
Active Directory Connector (ADC) for Arc-enabled SQL Managed Instance is now available to perform Active Directory authentication.
Generally available: Azure Active Directory authentication for SQL Server 2022
Customers with SQL Server 2022 can enable Azure Active Directory authentication, single sign-on, unify SQL Server authentication and leverage multi-factor authentication.
General availability: IoT Edge Metrics Collector 1.1
This refresh updates the module's dependencies and base image.
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