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RSS feedOctober 2023
Generally available: Enhanced soft delete for Azure Backup
Enhanced soft delete helps you recover your backup data even after it has been deleted, giving you protection against data loss scenarios like ransomwares, malicious actors, and accidental deletes.
September 2023
General Availability: Share VM images publicly with community gallery - Azure Compute Gallery feature
Target availability: Q3 2023
With community gallery, you can now share VM images with the broader Azure community.
Generally Available: Azure Update Manager
Azure Update Manager, previously known as Update Management Center, is now generally available.
Generally available: Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry-based Distro for Node.js and Python
Target availability: Q3 2023
Use OpenTelemetry-based instrumentation with vender-neutral APIs to power metrics, logs, and distributed traces in Azure Monitor application insights.
Generally available: Export Cost Management data to secure storage accounts with firewall
You can export Cost Management data to secure storage accounts with firewall.
August 2023
Preview: Export Cost Management data to secure storage accounts with firewall
Export Cost Management data to secure storage accounts with firewall
General Availability: Improve VM resiliency with Azure Advisor's Availability Zone recommendation.
Target availability: Q3 2023
Avoid downtime and business interruptions by migrating your virtual machines to availability zones
Public preview: Support for new custom error pages in Application Gateway
Azure Application Gateway introduces more response codes to configure the custom error pages.
Public preview: Azure Storage Mover support for SMB and Azure Files
Migrate your SMB shares to Azure file shares with Azure Storage Mover.
July 2023
Public preview: Assess cost optimization opportunities using new workbook template in Azure Advisor
Target availability: Q3 2023
Review cost optimization insights for your Azure environment and identify savings using the new Cost Optimization workbook template in Azure Advisor.
Hotpatch is now generally available on Windows Server VMs on Azure with the Desktop Experience installation mode
Hotpatch is now available for Windows Server Azure Edition VMs using the newly released images. Hotpatch is a feature that allows you to patch and install OS security updates to Windows Server Azure Edition VMs on Azure without requiring a reboot!
Azure SQL—General availability updates for early July 2023
Target availability: Q3 2023
General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in early July 2023.
June 2023
Public Preview: Network Observability add-on on AKS
Enable network observability add-on on AKS clusters to gain insights into how your cluster operate and to identify potential problems before they cause outages or performance degradation.
Public preview: Assess impact of service retirements using new workbook template in Azure Advisor
Review upcoming service and feature retirements and their impact on your workloads using the new Service Retirement workbook template which is available in Azure Advisor.
May 2023
Optimize your reservation purchases with reservation utilization alerts.
Target availability: Q2 2023
Activate reservation utilization alerts and take control of your Azure reservation strategy.
Optimize your reservation purchases with reservation utilization alerts.
Target availability: Q2 2023
Activate reservation utilization alerts and take control of your Azure reservation strategy.
General Availability: Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus
Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus is now Generally Available.
Optimize your reservation purchases with reservation utilization alerts.
Target availability: Q2 2023
Activate reservation utilization alerts and take control of your Azure reservation strategy.
Public Preview: Azure Monitor announces Network Observability AKS add-on
The new Network Observability AKS add-on provides complete observability into the network health and connectivity of your AKS cluster.
Public preview: Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus for Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes
Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus is now extending monitoring support for Kubernetes clusters hosted on Azure Arc.
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