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November 2023

Nov 14

Experiment templates now available in Azure Chaos Studio

NOW AVAILABLE

Create and customize an experiment from a template. Chaos Studio currently supports AAD Outage and Availability Zone Down scenarios.

  • Azure Chaos Studio
  • Services
  • Features
Nov 14

General availability: Start and stop load (Azure Load Testing) faults in Azure Chaos Studio

NOW AVAILABLE

Add a previously created load test (from Azure Load Testing) to your chaos experiment. Choose when exactly in your chaos experiment you would like to start and stop load.

  • Azure Chaos Studio
  • Services
  • Features
Nov 13

Public Preview: Azure Monitor Alerts integration with Event Grid for Azure Key Vault system events

IN PREVIEW

​​​​​​​Azure Monitor alerts as a destination in Event Grid event subscriptions allow you to receive notification of critical events via action groups as Short Message Service (SMS), email, push notification, and more. You can leverage on the low latency event delivery of Event Grid with the flexibility and direct-to-customer notifications of Azure Monitor alerts.

  • Alerts
  • Services
  • Compliance
  • Features
Nov 8

General availability: Introducing NGads V620 Series VMs optimized for gaming scenarios

NOW AVAILABLE

The NGads V620 Series are now in public preview in the East US2, Europe West and West US3 regions. This new series enables service providers to build differentiated cloud gaming experiences.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Services
Nov 8

General availability: Using a common port for public and private listeners

NOW AVAILABLE

Easily manage public-facing and private-facing traffic on a common port.

  • Application Gateway
  • Services
  • Security
  • Management
  • Features
Nov 6

Ability to add dynamic values in Alert’s custom fields

NOW AVAILABLE

Alerts help you detect and address issues before users notice them by proactively notifying you when Azure Monitor data indicates there might be a problem with your infrastructure or application. We added to the Custom properties section in the alert payload ability to add dynamic value extracted from the alert payload, or a combination of both can be added to the alert notification payload.

  • Alerts
  • Services
  • Compliance
  • Features
Nov 6

Public preview: Application Gateway IPv6 support

IN PREVIEW

Azure Application Gateway v2 enables dual-stack (IPv4 and IPv6) connectivity from the clients, providing more flexible and reliable access to the backend Applications.

  • Application Gateway
  • Services
  • Security
  • Features

October 2023

Oct 31

General availability: Default Rule Set 2.1 for regional WAF with Application Gateway

NOW AVAILABLE

Increase your security posture and reduce false positives with Default Rule Set 2.1, now generally available on the regional WAF with Application Gateway

  • Application Gateway
  • Web Application Firewall
  • Services
  • Security
  • Features
Oct 30

Public preview: Announcing the new Azure Bastion Developer SKU

IN PREVIEW

The Bastion Developer SKU represents a novel, cost-effective, and streamlined version of the Bastion service.

  • Azure Bastion
  • Services
  • Security
  • Features
Oct 30

New E-mail templates for Log search alerts - API version 2021-08-01 and up

NOW AVAILABLE

During November, we will replace log search alerts (API version 2021-08-01 and up) that uses non-common schema template with an upgraded and more informative email template.

  • Alerts
  • Action Groups
  • Services
  • Compliance
  • Features
Oct 18

General Availability: Azure AI Content Safety

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q4 2023

Azure AI Content Safety, now generally available, is a service that enables developers to build safer online environments by detecting and assigning severity scores to unsafe images and text across content categories and languages. These capabilities empower businesses to effectively prioritize and streamline the review of both human and AI-generated content, enabling the responsible development of next-generation AI applications. Learn more: https://aka.ms/contentsafety  Get started in Azure AI Content Safety Studio: https://aka.ms/contentsafetystudio

  • Azure AI Content Safety
  • Services
Oct 10

Azure Files has been improved to support all valid Unicode characters

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Files now supports an expanded character set enabling file and directory names with all valid Unicode characters.

  • Azure Files
  • Services
  • Features
Oct 10

LSA payload update for fixes on 15-Jan

NOW AVAILABLE

On the 15-Jan we are going to fix those 2 values in LSA payload to contain the correct values according to our other alerts services.

  • Alerts
  • Services
  • Compliance
  • Features
Oct 9

Public Preview: Azure Chaos Studio has Query-Based Dynamic Targets

Azure Chaos Studio has Query-Based Dynamic Targets.

  • Services
  • Management
  • Features
Oct 5

Generally Available: Add an Azure Cosmos DB custom endpoint in Azure IoT Hub

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure IoT Hub now supports the ability to setup an Azure Cosmos DB account as a custom endpoint. This will help route device data from IoT Hub to Azure Cosmos DB directly.

  • Azure IoT Hub
  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Services
Oct 5

Public Preview: Customer-managed keys for Azure NetApp Files volume encryption is now available in US Gov regions (Preview)

IN PREVIEW

Customer keys are protected from attacks for maximum security of their Azure NetApp File volumes; the feature is now available in US Gov regions (Preview)

  • Azure NetApp Files
  • Services
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Compliance
  • Features
Oct 5

Public preview: Announcing Microsoft Playwright Testing service: Scalable end-to-end testing for modern web apps

IN PREVIEW

Now in preview: Microsoft Playwright Testing, a new service for running Playwright tests easily at scale. Playwright, a fast-growing, open-source framework, enables reliable end-to-end testing and automation for modern web apps. Microsoft Playwright Testing service uses the cloud, enabling you to simultaneously run Playwright tests with much higher parallelization across different operating system-browser combinations. Learn more https://aka.ms/MPT/about

  • Services
Oct 4

General Availability: Upgrade your existing Azure Gen2 VMs to Trusted Launch

NOW AVAILABLE

Enable Trusted Launch foundational compute security on existing Azure Generation 2 VMs.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Services
  • Compliance
  • Security
  • Features
Oct 2

Public Preview: Azure Log Alerts support for Azure Resource Graph (ARG)

IN PREVIEW

We are now introducing support for running queries also on Azure Resource Graph (ARG) tables, and even joining data between Azure Resource Graph (ARG) data sources from your Log Analytics workspace and Application Insights resources in a single query.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Alerts
  • Azure Resource Graph
  • Services
  • Compliance
  • Features

September 2023

Sep 29

Action required: Migrate to using ARG query for “Get Alert Summary” in Azure Monitor

NOW AVAILABLE

Target retirement date: September 30, 2026

The GetAlertSummary API will be retired on 30-Sep-2026.

  • Alerts
  • Services
  • Compliance
  • Retirements
  • Features

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