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Public preview: Azure Dedicated Host support for Ultra SSD
Introducing support for Azure Ultra Disks on Azure Dedicated Host.
Generally available: Azure Monitor metric alerts dynamic thresholds outage detection
Azure Monitor metric alerts with dynamic thresholds detection, leverages advanced machine learning (ML) to learn metrics' historical behavior and identify patterns and anomalies that indicate…
Generally available: Azure Firewall Premium is now ICSA labs certified
Azure Firewall Premium Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) certification from ICSA Labs is now generally available.
General availability: Azure Log Analytics in China North 3 and China East 3
Log Analytics, a feature of Azure Monitor, is now generally available for you to start collecting telemetry and analyzing your services for health and usage in China North 3 and China East 3.
General availability: Reservation administrator and reader roles in the Azure Portal
You can now assign reservation administrator and reader roles in the Azure Portal.
Generally available: Enforcement mode of machine configuration (previously guest configuration)
Set the configuration of your Azure Virtual Machine or Azure Arc-enabled server using the enforcement mode of machine configuration (formerly guest configuration).
General availability: Application Insights in China North 3 and China East 3
Application Insights, a part of Azure Monitor, is now generally available in China North 3 and China East 3 regions for you to collect telemetry and analyze your service health in production environments.
General availability: Next hop IP support for Route Server
Target availability: Q3 2022
Peer Route Server with network virtual appliances (NVAs) deployed behind an Azure Internal Load Balancer (ILB).
Public preview: AMD-based confidential VMs for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Announcing the public preview of confidential node pools on AKS with AMD SEV-SNP confidential VMs.
Generally available: US West 3 price adjustment
Pricing adjustment to bring value to our Azure customers in western US regions.
Azure StorSimple 8000/1200 series will no longer be supported starting 31st December 2022
Target retirement date: December 31, 2022
Updated announcement for Azure StorSimple 8000/1200 series end of life.
Generally available: Azure Public IPv6 offerings are free as of July 31
Decrease the cost of your transition to IPv6 when Azure Public IPv6 offerings go free on July 31 2022.
July 2022
General availability: Azure Sphere version 22.07
The 22.07 release includes reduced connect-to-cloud time for the OS, resulting in lower energy use; best practices guidance for production-ready applications; and optimized manufacturing scripts.
Public preview: Azure Synapse Analytics Spark elastic pool storage
Reduce job failures by using elastic pool storage.
Generally available: Trusted Launch support for DCsv3 and DCdsv3 series Virtual Machines
DCsv3 and DCdsv3-series virtual machines (VMs) now supports trusted launch feature.
Generally available: Guided tour experience added to Azure IoT Central
You now have the option to take the phone as a device guided tour when creating a new application in Azure IoT Central.
General availability: VM Applications – Manage and deploy applications to VMs and VMSS
VM Apps is a service that simplifies management, sharing, and global distribution of application packages at scale.
Public preview: SQL DB output connector improvements in Stream Analytics
You can now configure your Azure Stream Analytics job to write to a SQL table that hasn't yet been created or see schema mismatch detection for an existing SQL table.
Public preview: Share images across subscriptions and tenants with new Compute Gallery feature
Target availability: Q3 2022
Using direct shared gallery, a feature of Azure Compute Gallery, you can now share VM images directly with other subscriptions and tenants.
Generally available: Azure Stream Analytics in four new regions
Azure Stream Analytics is a fully managed, real-time analytics service designed to help you analyze and process fast moving streams of data.
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