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May 2023

May 23

Generally Available: Azure Monitor announces managed services for Prometheus

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus delivers the best of the open-source ecosystem while automating complex tasks such as scaling, high-availability, and long-term data retention.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Azure Monitor
  • Azure Managed Grafana
  • Services
  • Compliance
  • Microsoft Build
  • Management
  • Features
  • Open Source
May 23

Public Preview: Azure Log Alerts support for Azure Data Explorer

IN PREVIEW

Azure Monitor Log Alerts is expanding to support monitoring based on data that stored in Azure Data Explorer (ADX) tables, empowering customers to leverage ADX without compromising their service monitoring.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Azure Data Explorer
  • Microsoft Build
  • Management
  • Features
May 17

Azure Backup Reports now includes support for more workloads

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Backup Reports now includes support for more workloads: Azure Database for PostgreSQL Servers, Azure Blobs and Azure Disks.

  • Management
May 16

Public preview: Optimize your workloads for reliability using new workbook template in Azure Advisor

IN PREVIEW

Evaluate the reliability posture of your workloads, assess risks and plan improvements using the new Reliability workbook template which is now available in Azure Advisor.

  • Azure Advisor
  • Management
May 15

General Availability: Azure Center for SAP solutions

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q2 2023

Azure Center for SAP solutions brings together an integrated set of capabilities for deploying and managing SAP landscapes by making Azure SAP aware. You can take advantage of the management capabilities for both new and your existing Azure-based SAP systems.

  • Services
  • Management
May 11

General Availability: Azure Automation supports Python 3.8 runbooks

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Automation support for Python 3.8 runbooks is now Generally Available.

  • Management
  • Features
May 10

Azure Advisor data in Azure Resource Graph is now available in Azure China and US Government clouds

NOW AVAILABLE

Advisor recommendations are now available in Azure Resource Graph in Azure China and US Government clouds.

  • Azure Advisor
  • Management
May 8

Generalized Azure Compute Gallery custom image support in Update management center

IN PREVIEW

VM Image support for Update management center has expanded with the addition of support for generalized Azure Compute Gallery custom images.

  • Azure Update Manager
  • Microsoft Build
  • Management
  • Features

April 2023

Apr 26

Azure Advisor VM/VMSS right-sizing recommendations with custom lookback period

NOW AVAILABLE

You can now customize the right sizing recommendations for virtual machines and virtual machine scale sets to make them more relevant and actionable for your workloads.

  • Azure Advisor
  • Management
Apr 26

Public Preview: Support for Azure VMs using Premium SSD v2 in Azure Backup

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q2 2023

Public preview for the support for Azure VMs using Premium SSD v2 in Azure Backup.

  • Azure Backup
  • Management
Apr 18

Hotpatch is now available on preview images of Windows Server VMs on Azure with the Desktop Experience installation mode

IN PREVIEW

Hotpatch is available for preview images of Windows Server Azure Edition VMs running the Desktop Experience installation mode.

  • Services
  • Management
Apr 5

Generally available: Large disk support for disaster recovery of Hyper-V VMs using Site Recovery

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q2 2023

You can now enable disaster recovery for Hyper-VMs with data disks up to 32 TB in size.

  • Azure Site Recovery
  • Management
Apr 5

Public Preview: Support for Azure VMs using Ultra disks in Azure Backup

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q2 2023

Public preview for the support for Azure VMs using Ultra disks in Azure Backup.

  • Azure Backup
  • Management
Apr 3

Public preview update: Azure Automation supports PowerShell 7.2 and Python 3.10 runbooks

IN PREVIEW

Azure Automation has expanded Public preview support for PowerShell 7.2 and Python 3.10 runbooks.

  • Management
  • Features

March 2023

Mar 27

Generally available: Azure Site Recovery - Migrate Azure Automation account's authentication from Run As accounts to Managed Identity

NOW AVAILABLE

This article describes a new feature update for Azure Site Recovery. 

  • Management
  • Features
Mar 27

Generally available: Simpler way to renaming Network Interface (NIC) and Disks for protected VMs in Azure Site Recovery

NOW AVAILABLE

This article describes a new feature update for Azure Site Recovery. 

  • Management
  • Features
Mar 17

Public preview: Listener TLS certificates management available in the Azure portal

IN PREVIEW

You can now manage the TLS certificates associated with Listeners through Azure portal.

  • Application Gateway
  • Services
  • Security
  • Management
  • Features
Mar 13

Generally available: Immutable vaults for Azure Backup

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q1 2023

Immutable vaults help you protect your backups against threats like ransomware attacks and malicious actors by ensuring that your backup data cannot be deleted before its intended expiry time.

  • Azure Backup
  • Security
  • Management
  • Features

February 2023

Feb 16

Azure Backup: Enhanced experience for creating and managing private endpoints for Recovery Services vaults is now available

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Backup now provides an improved experience for creating and using private endpoints for your Recovery Services vaults.

  • Azure Backup
  • Security
  • Management
  • Features
Feb 15

Public preview: VBS enclaves for Always Encrypted in Azure SQL Database

IN PREVIEW

VBS enclaves enable you with the flexibility to use Always Encrypted with secure enclaves in all Azure SQL Database offerings.

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Security
  • Management
  • Features

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