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August 2023

Aug 16

Public preview: Azure VNet flow logs

IN PREVIEW

Gain visibility of IP traffic flowing through your Virtual Networks

  • Virtual Network
  • Services
  • Features
Aug 15

Public Preview: Azure NetApp Files Cloud Backup for Virtual Machines

IN PREVIEW

Azure NetApp Files datastores now supports Cloud Backup for Virtual Machines in preview

  • Azure NetApp Files
  • Azure VMware Solution
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Services
  • Features
Aug 15

Public preview: Azure Mv3 Medium Memory (MM) Virtual Machines

IN PREVIEW

Get improved performance and higher reliability for your memory-optimized workloads with the public preview of the new generation Mv3 Medium Memory (MM) Virtual Machines.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Services
  • Features
Aug 14

General Availability : Help API provides access to self-help diagnostics

NOW AVAILABLE

Help API is now Generally Available! Help API provides you relevant and high-quality, self-help solutions to resolve issues with your Azure resource quickly and conveniently.

  • Services
Aug 14

Public preview: New Monitoring and Logging Updates in Azure Firewall

IN PREVIEW

Resource Health and Embedded Firewall Workbooks are now in public preview.

  • Azure Firewall
  • Security
  • Services
  • Features
Aug 14

General availability: New Monitoring and Logging Updates in Azure Firewall

NOW AVAILABLE

Structured Logs and Latency Probe Metric are now in general availability.

  • Azure Firewall
  • Security
  • Services
  • Features
Aug 10

Public preview: Support for new custom error pages in Application Gateway

IN PREVIEW

Azure Application Gateway introduces more response codes to configure the custom error pages.

  • Application Gateway
  • Compliance
  • Security
  • Services
  • Management
  • Features
Aug 8

Public preview: Azure Storage Mover support for SMB and Azure Files

IN PREVIEW

Migrate your SMB shares to Azure file shares with Azure Storage Mover.

  • Azure Storage Mover
  • Services
  • Management
  • Features
Aug 7

Public Preview: Azure Chaos Studio has User-Assigned Managed Identity and Custom Role Assignment

Azure Chaos Studio has User-Assigned Managed Identity and Custom Role Assignment.

  • Security
  • Services
  • Features
Aug 7

General availability: Illumio for Microsoft Azure Firewall

NOW AVAILABLE

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
  • Features
Aug 3

General availability | Azure NetApp Files: SMB Continuous Availability (CA) shares

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure NetApp Files SMB Continuous Availability (CA) shares is now Generally Available (GA)

  • Azure NetApp Files
  • Services
  • Features
Aug 3

Public Preview: Azure Chaos Studio supports new faults for App Service and Virtual Machines

Azure Chaos Studio supports new App Service and Virtual Machine faults.

  • Services
  • Features
Aug 3

Azure Load Testing: Run tests for up to 24 hours

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Load Testing now enables running tests for durations up to 24 hours.

  • Azure Load Testing
  • Services
  • Features
Aug 3

Azure Load Testing: Create and manage tests and test runs using Azure CLI

IN PREVIEW

Azure Load Testing now supports managing tests and test runs from Azure CLI

  • Azure Load Testing
  • Services
  • Features
Aug 3

Azure Load Testing: Run tests with 100,000 virtual users

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Load Testing now supports running tests with 100,000 virtual users, using up to 400 engine instances.

  • Azure Load Testing
  • Services
  • Features
Aug 3

Private Preview – DR for Shared Disks – Azure Site Recovery

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q3 2023

Now you can protect, monitor, and recover your WSFC-clusters as a single unit across its DR Lifecycle, while also generating cluster-consistent recovery points – which are consistent across all the disks (including the Shared Disk) of the cluster.

  • Services
  • Features
Aug 1

Public preview: Route Server hub routing preference

IN PREVIEW

Configure hub routing preference to influence path selection for the same on-premises destination prefixes learned over (S2S) VPN, ExpressRoute, and SD-WAN NVAs.

  • Azure Route Server
  • Services
Aug 1

Public preview: Route Server hub routing preference

IN PREVIEW

Configure hub routing preference to influence path selection for the same on-premises destination prefixes learned over (S2S) VPN, ExpressRoute, and SD-WAN NVAs.

  • Azure Route Server
  • Services

July 2023

Jul 31

Generally available: Cloud Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) by Palo Alto Networks - an Azure Native ISV Service

NOW AVAILABLE

The first ISV next-generation firewall service natively integrated in Azure is now generally available.

  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Services
Jul 27

Updated default TLS policy for Azure Application Gateway

NOW AVAILABLE

The default TLS policy for new deployments of Azure Application Gateway is now set to AppGwSslPolicy20220101.

  • Application Gateway
  • Security
  • Services
  • Features

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