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March 2023

Mar 30

Azure Service Fabric 9.1 Second Refresh Release

NOW AVAILABLE

This release includes quality improvements.

  • Azure Service Fabric
  • Services
Mar 29

HDInsight

IN DEVELOPMENT

Azure HDInsight for Apache Spark 3.3.0 is under development. 

  • Services
Mar 29

Azure HDInsight for Apache Kafka 3.2.0 is now available for public preview.

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure HDInsight for Apache Kafka 3.2.0 now available for public preview and ready for production workloads.

  • HDInsight
  • Services
Mar 29

Azure HDInsight for Apache HBase 2.4.11 is now available for public preview.

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure HDInsight for Apache HBase 2.4.11 now available for public preview and ready for production workloads.

  • HDInsight
  • Services
Mar 24

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.

  • Batch
  • Services
  • Retirements
Mar 22

General availability: Azure Virtual Network Manager

NOW AVAILABLE

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.

  • Services
Mar 22

General availability: Reserved namespaces for subdomains

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Traffic Manager now enables reserving domain labels across all traffic manager profiles.

  • Traffic Manager
  • Services
  • Features
Mar 20

Generally available: Encryption scopes on hierarchical namespace enabled storage accounts

NOW AVAILABLE

You can now use separate encryption keys for each customer in a single hierarchical namespace enabled storage account.

  • Storage Accounts
  • Azure Blob Storage
  • Azure Data Lake Storage
  • Services
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
  • Security
  • Services
  • Management
  • Features
Mar 16

Now available: Azure Kubernetes Service Edge Essentials

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Kubernetes Service Edge Essentials is a Microsoft supported lightweight Kubernetes distribution that is fine tuned to run on edge devices with constrained resources.

  • Azure Arc
  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Windows for IoT
  • Services
  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Operating System
Mar 15

Generally available: Azure Firewall Basic

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Firewall Basic provides cost-effective, enterprise-grade network security for small and medium businesses (SMBs).

  • Azure Firewall
  • Security
  • Services
  • Features
Mar 14

Public preview: Illumio for Azure Firewall

IN PREVIEW

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.

  • Azure Firewall
  • Security
  • Services
Mar 10

Public preview: Accelerated Connections for Network Virtual Appliances now in Azure Marketplace

IN PREVIEW

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.

  • Virtual Network
  • Services
  • Features
Mar 7

Public Preview: Data sharing lineage and search for Azure Storage in Microsoft Purview

IN PREVIEW

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…

  • Microsoft Purview
  • Services
  • Features
Mar 7

Generally Available: Model Serving on Azure Databricks

NOW AVAILABLE

Model Serving on Azure Databricks is now generally available

  • Azure Databricks
  • Services
  • Pricing & Offerings
Mar 1

Azure Virtual Network Manager Event Logging now in public preview

IN PREVIEW

Interact with Azure Virtual Network Manager (AVNM) event logs for network group membership changes.

  • Azure Virtual Network Manager
  • Services
  • Features
Mar 1

New Azure for Operators products and partner programs released

IN PREVIEW

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.

  • Services

February 2023

Feb 23

Generally Available: Azure Red Hat OpenShift in Qatar Central

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Red Hat OpenShift is now available in Qatar Central region.

  • Azure Red Hat OpenShift
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Open Source
  • Services
  • Features
Feb 23

Generally Available: Larger SKUs for App Service Environment v3

NOW AVAILABLE

Using the new larger Isolated v2 SKUs, you can now run larger and more complex workloads.

  • App Service
  • Services
  • Pricing & Offerings
Feb 20

Public preview: New General-Purpose VMs - Dlsv5 and Dldsv5

IN PREVIEW

The Dlsv5 and Dldsv5 VM series provide 2GiBs per vCPU and can offer lower price points within the general-purpose Azure Virtual Machines portfolio.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Services

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