Azure updates

Public preview: Azure Front Door Standard/Premium in Azure Government

Azure Front Door Standard/Premium is the new Azure native, modern cloud content delivery network (CDN) catering to both dynamic and static content delivery acceleration with enhanced security and a simple and predictable pricing model.

• Azure Front Door
• Services
• Security
• Features

Generally available: Private Link support for Application Gateway

Application Gateway Private Link allows you to connect your workloads over a private connection spanning across VNets and subscriptions

• Application Gateway
• Azure Private Link
• Services
• Security
• Features

Public preview: Introducing NGads V620-series VMs optimized for cloud gaming

VGads V620-series virtual machines (VMs), now in public preview in the East US2, Europe west, and West US3 regions, enable service providers to build differentiated cloud gaming experiences.

• Virtual Machines
• Services
• Pricing & Offerings

General Availability: Isovalent Cilium Enterprise through Azure Marketplace

Target availability: Q2 2023

Isovalent Cilium Enterprise is now generally available through Azure Marketplace.

• Virtual Network
• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Services
• Microsoft Build
• Features

Azure Support Plan Offer extended to December 31, 2023

The existing Azure Support offer is being extended. The promotion will run from July 1, 2023 to December 31, 2023.

• Services

Public Preview: Azure AI Content Safety

Azure AI Content Safety is a new Azure AI service that identifies harmful online content, categorizes it and assigns severity scores to support human content moderator workloads.

• Azure AI services
• Services
• Microsoft Build

Generally Available: Azure Monitor announces managed services for Prometheus

Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus delivers the best of the open-source ecosystem while automating complex tasks such as scaling, high-availability, and long-term data retention.

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Azure Monitor
• Azure Managed Grafana
• Services
• Compliance
• Microsoft Build
• Management
• Features
• Open Source

Public Preview: Azure NetApp Files Standard Network Features - Edit Volumes

Azure NetApp Files now supports ability to edit existing ANF volumes and upgrading Basic network features to Standard network features.

• Azure NetApp Files
• Services
• Regions & Datacenters
• Features

Microsoft Azure Payment HSM Service now supports two host IP network interfaces

Azure Payment HSM Service now supports two host IP network interfaces

• Azure Payment HSM
• Services
• Security
• Features

Public preview: Azure Container Storage

Azure Container Storage is a new Azure service built natively for containers that enables customers to create and manage volumes for running production scale stateful container applications.

• Azure Disk Storage
• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Services
• Features

Generally available: Policy analytics for Azure Firewall

Policy analytics for Azure Firewall, now in general availability, provides enhanced visibility into traffic flowing through Azure Firewall, enabling the optimization of your firewall configuration without impacting your application performance.

• Azure Firewall
• Services
• Security
• Features

General Availability: Azure Center for SAP solutions

Target availability: Q2 2023

Azure Center for SAP solutions brings together an integrated set of capabilities for deploying and managing SAP landscapes by making Azure SAP aware. You can take advantage of the management capabilities for both new and your existing Azure-based SAP systems.

• Services
• Management

We're retiring Speech-to-text REST preview API v3.1-preview.1 on May 12, 2023

Target retirement date: May 12, 2023

We recently made the Speech-to-text REST API version 3.1 generally available. With this release, we'll retire the preview version v3.1-preview.1 on May 12, 2023.

• Azure AI services
• Services
• Retirements
• SDK and Tools
• Features

Alert processing rules fields update

Target availability: Q3 2023

Alert processing rules are a set of rules that allow for modifications to be made to fired alerts, distinct from alert rules which generate new alerts. With alert processing rules, you can add or remove action groups from your fired alerts.

• Services
• Compliance
• Features

General Availability: AzAcSnap 8 — Azure Application Consistent Snapshot tool updates

AzAcSnap Version 8 Release

• Azure NetApp Files
• Services
• SDK and Tools
• Features

Azure VMware Solution on Azure Government

We are excited to share details for the General Availability of Azure VMware Solution on Microsoft Azure Government

• Azure VMware Solution
• Services

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.

• Services
• Pricing & Offerings
• Security
• Features

Generally available: Serverless SQL for Azure Databricks

Serverless SQL for Azure Databricks is now generally available. This capability provides instant compute to users for their BI and SQL workloads, with minimal management required.

• Azure Databricks
• Services
• Pricing & Offerings