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Generally Available: Trusted launch as default for VMs deployed through PowerShell and CLI
Trusted launch is now enabled by default for VMs deployed through PowerShell and CLI, enhancing the foundational security of these VMs.
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.
Generally Available: AMD confidential VMs in new regions for November 2023
AMD confidential VMs now in Italy North, Germany West Central, UAE North.
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.
Azure Machine Learning - General Availability for November
Five features now available in GA enable you to search thousands of OSS LLMs, provide a feature set specification and let the system handle the rest, and lower. compute management overhead and setup costs. You can also now deploy complex compute graphs under batch endpoints, and use one platform to build, tune, evaluate, deploy, and test AI workflows.
General availability: Azure AI Advantage for Azure Cosmos DB
Target availability: Q4 2023
Today, we are excited to announce the Azure AI Advantage customer offer.
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.
Public preview: Online Disaster recovery between SQL Server 2022 and Azure SQL Managed Instance
Target availability: Q4 2023
Managed online disaster recovery between SQL Server 2022 and Azure SQL Managed Instance allows near real-time database replication and bidirectional online failover to Azure and back.
General Availability: November 2022 Feature Wave for Azure SQL Managed Instance
Target availability: Q4 2023
The November 2022 Feature Wave for Azure SQL Managed Instance is now available for all subscription types for instances running in new subnets. It includes faster provisioning, zone redundancy, start/stop and support for distributed transactions.
General availability: Azure SQL Database Always Encrypted with virtualization-based security (VBS) enclaves
Target availability: Q4 2023
VBS enclaves in Azure SQL Database brings the benefits of secure enclaves, rich confidential queries, and in-place cryptographic operations, to all Azure SQL Database offerings, independent from the underlying hardware.
Public Preview: Azure SQL updates for mid-November 2023
Target availability: Q4 2023
Public Preview enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in mid-November 2023.
General availability: Azure SQL updates for mid-November 2023
Target availability: Q4 2023
General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in mid-November 2023.
New user interface experience for Azure SQL migration extension
Target availability: Q4 2023
The Azure SQL Migration, an Azure Data Studio extension powered by Azure Database Migration Service, now has a new improved UI experience.
Public Preview: Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra Feature Updates
Target availability: Q4 2023
New preview features available including vector search, turnkey major version upgrades, turnkey replication, and write-through cache!
Public Preview: Long Term Retention for Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server
Target availability: Q4 2023
Benefit from long term data retention and improved compliance using Azure Backup.
Public preview: Azure Database for PostgreSQL extension for Azure AI
Target availability: Q4 2023
Leverage integrated Azure AI services to build intelligent apps in Azure Database for PostgreSQL.
Public Preview: Azure Database for PostgreSQL Networking with private endpoints
Target availability: Q4 2023
We are announcing public preview of networking with private endpoints for Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server.
Public Preview: Enhanced performance and scalability in Azure Database for PostgreSQL
Target availability: Q4 2023
Benefit from the enhanced performance and scalability of Azure Database for PostgreSQL to improve mission-critical workloads.
General availability: Free tier on Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore
Target availability: Q4 2023
Unlock your potential with our free tier. Start building, testing, and growing your projects without any upfront costs. Scale up when you're ready for more.
General availability: Vector search in Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore
Target availability: Q4 2023
Unlock next-level AI applications with native vector similarity search in Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore.
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