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Virtual Network Integration Support (Public Preview) for Azure Stream Analytics
ASA is thrilled to announce public preview of Virtual Network Integration support for Azure Stream Analytics!
Public preview: Soft delete of Recovery Points for Azure Backup
Azure Backup's soft delete of recovery points allows you to recover any recovery points that may have been accidentally or maliciously deleted owing to operations that could lead to deletion of one or more recovery points.
Preview: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9.2 support for AMD confidential VMs
User of AMD-based confidential VMs can now select the RHEL 9.2 technical preview as their guest OS.
Public Preview: AMD confidential VM option for Azure Data Explorer (ADX)
Users can now run their most sensitive data workloads in ADX clusters on AMD-based confidential VM SKUs.
Azure Key Vault Access Configuration Update
Target availability: Q2 2023
Azure RBAC is now the recommended authorization system for the Azure Key Vault data plane.
General Availability: Routing Intent and Virtual WAN Integrated Firewall NVAs
Routing intent supports inter-region/inter-hub traffic inspection and branch-to-branch traffic inspection for Azure Virtual WAN.
General availability: Seamlessly upgrade your Application Gateway V2 WAF configuration to a policy
Azure’s regional Web Application Firewall (WAF) on Application Gateway now supports a fully automated experience when upgrading your WAF from configuration to policy.
Microsoft Azure Payment HSM Service now supports two host IP network interfaces
Azure Payment HSM Service now supports two host IP network interfaces
Generally available: Azure Bastion now support shareable links
Target availability: Q2 2023
Shareable links allows users to connect to target resources via Azure Bastion without access to the Azure portal.
Public Preview: App Service Minimum TLS Cipher Suite Now on Azure Portal
Disable Weak TLS Cipher Suites for Your App Service Web Apps (Preview)
Public Preview: Palo Alto Networks SaaS Cloud NGFW Integration with Virtual WAN
The first security software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution to be integrated in Azure Virtual WAN, allowing you to protect your workloads with a highly available NGFW.
April 2023
Update your IoT Edge devices on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS reaches the end of standard support on May 31st, 2023. To continue to receive support and security updates, we highly recommend that you update your host OS to a Tier 1 supported platform.
Preview: Introducing DCesv5 and ECesv5-series Confidential VMs with Intel TDX
Today, we’re excited to announce the expansion of our Confidential VM family with the launch of the DCesv5-series and ECesv5-series in preview. Featuring 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, these VMs are backed by an all-new hardware-based Trusted Execution Environment called Intel® Trust Domain Extensions (TDX). Organizations can use these VMs to seamlessly bring confidential workloads to the cloud without any code changes to their applications.
GA: Azure Active Directory workload identity with AKS
You can now use AAD workload identity with AKS in production
Private Preview: Enable Trusted launch on your existing Azure Gen2 VMs
Use this preview to enable Trusted launch on your existing Gen2 VMs to improve foundational security of your Gen2 VMs.
General availability: IP Protection SKU for Azure DDoS Protection
IP Protection provides cost-effective, enterprise-grade DDoS protection designed to meet the needs of SMB.
Public preview: Private Application Gateway v2
Target availability: Q1 2023
Application Gateway v2 is introducing support for private IP only frontend configurations, enhanced control over NSG rules, and support for forced tunneling/route table rules to virtual appliances.
March 2023
Announcement: Azure Active Directory backed authentication for JMS 2.0 API on Azure Service Bus
Announcement of AAD support for the JMS 2.0 API of Azure Service Bus.
Retirement Announcement: Assigning alert trigger playbooks within Microsoft Sentinel analytics rules
Target retirement date: March 15, 2026
Effective 15 March 2026, adding playbooks within Microsoft Sentinel analytics rules creation/edit will be deprecated.
Generally Available: Durable Functions support of managed identity for Azure Storage
You can now use an identity-based connection to access Azure Storage, instead of embedding secrets in connection strings.
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