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Public preview: ExpressRoute Metro for High Resiliency
ExpressRoute lets you extend your on-premises networks into the Microsoft cloud over a private connection with the help of a connectivity provider. With ExpressRoute, you can establish connections to Microsoft cloud services, such as Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365.
Public preview: Azure Backup supports long term retention for backup of Azure Database for MySQL– Flexible Server
Target availability: Q1 2024
Now you can retain backups for up to 10 years by defining your own backup and retention policy for MySQL- Flexible server.
Public Preview: Azure Backup enables vaulted backups for Azure Files for comprehensive data protection.
Target availability: Q1 2024
Azure Backup now supports transferring Azure Files backups to the vault for comprehensive protection against severe data loss scenarios like ransomware attack.
March 2024
Public Preview: Safety evaluations for generative AI applications in Azure AI Studio
Target availability: Q1 2024
Measure your generative AI application’s susceptibility to jailbreak attacks and to producing unsafe content, so you can implement effective mitigations and go from prototype to production with confidence.
Public preview: Support for Key Vault Certificates in Azure Container Apps
You can now use Azure Key Vault to store and manage your own TLS/SSL certificates for use with Azure Container Apps.
Public preview: PowerShell 7.4 support for Azure Functions
You can now develop apps using PowerShell 7.4 locally and deploy them to Azure Functions
Public Preview: Azure Container Apps OpenTelemetry Agent support
You can now use open-source standards to send your app’s data.
Public Preview: Azure SQL updates for late-March 2024
Target availability: Q1 2024
Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in late-March 2024.
Public Preview: Real-time text translation using the azure_ai extension in Azure Database for PostgreSQL
Target availability: Q1 2024
Text translation right within SQL facilitates building intelligent multilingual applications on Azure Database for PostgreSQL.
Public Preview: Invoke Azure Machine Learning models using the azure_ai extension
Target availability: Q1 2024
Invoke Azure Machine Learning models in real-time from SQL in Azure Database for PostgreSQL.
Public Preview: On-demand capacity reservations for Specialty SKUs
Target availability: Q2 2024
You can now reserve capacity with SLA for following Specialty VM sizes, Mv3 series, NC-series (v3 and newer), NV-series (v2 and newer), and Lsv2 series
Public preview: Change partition key of a container in Azure Cosmos DB (NoSQL API)
Target availability: Q1 2024
The ability to change the partition key of a container in Azure Cosmos is now available in preview for NoSQL API.
Public Preview: Azure SQL Database Mirroring in Microsoft Fabric
Target availability: Q1 2024
Mirroring Azure SQL Database provides an easy experience to continuously replicate SQL DB data directly into Microsoft Fabric.
Azure Static Web Apps distributed functions capability now in Public Preview
Reduced latency by distributing managed functions to regions of high demand.
Preview: New Features in Azure Container Storage
Azure Container Storage is a fully managed volume orchestration service built natively for containers. New capabilities include support for Temp SSD, simplified installation via AKS CLI, and scalable storage for cost-efficient workload management.
Public Preview: Agentless multi-disk crash consistent backup by Azure Backup for VM
Azure VM backup now supports agentless multi-disk crash consistent backups in public preview.
Public Preview: Next generation of general purpose service tier for Azure SQL Managed Instance
Target availability: Q1 2024
The next generation of general purpose service tier brings improved performance, 32 TB storage and higher database density.
Public preview: Public IP Domain Name Label Scope
Announcing the public preview for a new capability in Azure public IP address that can prevent DNS subdomain takeover while still allowing for re-use of DNS names.
Public preview: Database watcher for Azure SQL
Target availability: Q1 2024
Enable in-depth, managed monitoring of Azure SQL databases, elastic pools, and managed instances.
Operator and CRD support with Azure Managed Prometheus
Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus will support CRD-based configs for scrape jobs to collect metrics from workloads running in your AKS cluster. With this new update, customers can use custom resources (service monitor and pod monitor) to configure metric collection with Managed Prometheus.
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