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Azure Service Fabric 9.1 Second Refresh Release
This release includes quality improvements.
Azure HDInsight for Apache Kafka 3.2.0 is now available for public preview.
Azure HDInsight for Apache Kafka 3.2.0 now available for public preview and ready for production workloads.
Azure HDInsight for Apache HBase 2.4.11 is now available for public preview.
Azure HDInsight for Apache HBase 2.4.11 now available for public preview and ready for production workloads.
Batch Service in select regions will be retired on 31 March 2026
Target retirement date: April 01, 2026
Migrate your Batch workloads before 31 March 2026 to other regions where Azure Batch will continue to be available.
General availability: Azure Virtual Network Manager
Azure Virtual Network Manager (AVNM) is now generally available. AVNM is a one-stop shop for managing the connectivity and security of your network resources at scale.
General availability: Reserved namespaces for subdomains
Azure Traffic Manager now enables reserving domain labels across all traffic manager profiles.
Generally available: Encryption scopes on hierarchical namespace enabled storage accounts
You can now use separate encryption keys for each customer in a single hierarchical namespace enabled storage account.
Public preview: Listener TLS certificates management available in the Azure portal
You can now manage the TLS certificates associated with Listeners through Azure portal.
Now available: Azure Kubernetes Service Edge Essentials
Azure Kubernetes Service Edge Essentials is a Microsoft supported lightweight Kubernetes distribution that is fine tuned to run on edge devices with constrained resources.
Generally available: Azure Firewall Basic
Azure Firewall Basic provides cost-effective, enterprise-grade network security for small and medium businesses (SMBs).
Public preview: Illumio for Azure Firewall
Illumio for Azure Firewall enables organizations to understand application traffic and dependencies and apply consistent protection across environments - limiting exposure, containing breaches, and improving efficiency.
Public preview: Accelerated Connections for Network Virtual Appliances now in Azure Marketplace
Accelerated Connections is a new product that enhances Accelerated Networking enabled vNICs, enabling customers to increase connections per second and improve performance in multiple active connection scenarios.
Public Preview: Data sharing lineage and search for Azure Storage in Microsoft Purview
Data Sharing Lineage is now available in Microsoft Purview for Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) Gen2 and Azure Blob (Blob) Storage in public preview. Data Sharing Lineage is aimed to provide detailed…
Generally Available: Model Serving on Azure Databricks
Model Serving on Azure Databricks is now generally available
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.
February 2023
Generally Available: Azure Red Hat OpenShift in Qatar Central
Azure Red Hat OpenShift is now available in Qatar Central region.
Generally Available: Larger SKUs for App Service Environment v3
Using the new larger Isolated v2 SKUs, you can now run larger and more complex workloads.
Public preview: New General-Purpose VMs - Dlsv5 and Dldsv5
The Dlsv5 and Dldsv5 VM series provide 2GiBs per vCPU and can offer lower price points within the general-purpose Azure Virtual Machines portfolio.
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