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Generally available updates for early March 2023
General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in early March 2023
Generally Available: Azure Monitor Logs now supports Availability Zones in Canada Central, France Central and Japan East
Azure Monitor Logs continues to extend its Availability Zone support by adding three regions – Canada Central, France Central and Japan East – to the East US 2 and West US 2 regions, which are already supported.
Azure SQL—General availability updates for early March 2023
General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in early March 2023
Disclosure: In-tree disk and file drivers will no longer be supported starting in Kubernetes v1.26
Migrate your existing in-tree disk and file volumes to CSI drivers using provided guidance.
Azure Virtual Network Manager Event Logging now in public preview
Interact with Azure Virtual Network Manager (AVNM) event logs for network group membership changes.
New Azure for Operators products and partner programs released
Azure for Operators announces the next wave of services to empower operators to modernize and monetize their 5G investments, enable enterprises with ubiquitous computing from cloud to edge.
Public preview: Azure PostgreSQL migration extension for Azure Data Studio
Provide end-to-end assessment experience with right-sized target recommendations for Azure Database for PostgreSQL using the Azure PostgreSQL migration extension in Azure Data Studio.
General availability: Power BI with Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server
Integrate Power BI with Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server directly from the Azure portal to quickly get started with building your data visualizations!
Generally available: Burstable compute for single node configurations for Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL
Use new burstable compute in single node configurations to start small with distributed Postgres and scale out later.
Now Available: Azure Monitor Ingestion client libraries
The initial stable release of the Azure Monitor Ingestion client libraries is now available. Upload custom logs to Log Analytics workspaces in .NET, Java, JavaScript, and Python.
General availability: Azure Archive Storage now available in West US 3
Reduce spending by storing rarely accessed data to Azure Archive Storage, now in new regions.
Public Preview: Azure Monitor container insights offers customizable cost optimization settings
Azure Monitor container insights now allows customers to configure custom collection settings for the Perf, Inventory, InsightsMetrics, and KubeEvents tables to reduce their Log Analytics ingestion.
General availability: New enhanced connection troubleshoot
Azure Network Watcher announces enhanced connection troubleshoot helping resolve network connectivity issue comprehensively along with actionable insights
Public preview: Login and TDE-enabled database migrations with Azure Database Migration Service
Provide a secure and improved user experience for migrating TDE databases and SQL/Windows logins to Azure SQL.
Generally available: 4 TiB, 8 TiB, and 16 TiB storage per node for Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL
Onboard even larger distributed Postgres workloads to Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL with fewer nodes using 4 TiB, 8 TiB, or 16 TiB storage per node.
Public preview: Confidential containers on ACI
ACI now lets you run containers in a trusted execution environment (TEE)
GA: Online live resize of persistent volumes
Scale up persistent volumes without taking the application offline.
Public preview: Pod sandboxing in AKS
AKS now allows you to isolate workloads at the kernel level.
Public preview: Caching in ACR
You can now use caching in ACR to achieve faster and more reliable pull operations.
Public Preview: Auto vacuum metrics for Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server
Monitor the auto vacuum process health for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server via Azure Monitor metrics and write custom alert rules on these metrics.
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