Azure-updates

Announcing General Availability of Azure API Management Basic v2 and Standard v2 Tiers

Doelbeschikbaarheid: Q2 2024

We're thrilled to announce the General Availability of Azure API Management's newest pricing tiers – Basic v2 and Standard v2. The Azure API Management v2 pricing tiers represent a significant leap forward, offering a comprehensive range of capabilities tailored to projects of all sizes, from small-scale endeavors to large-scale enterprise applications. Importantly, these new v2 pricing tiers are available alongside our existing Azure API Management classic pricing tiers, ensuring continuity for users. It's worth noting that the Azure API Management classic pricing tiers remain actively supported and invested in.  

• API Management
• Pricing & Offerings

Public Preview: On-demand capacity reservations for Specialty SKUs

Doelbeschikbaarheid: 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

• Pricing & Offerings

General Availability: Azure NetApp Files support for 1 TiB capacity pools

Azure NetApp Files now supports smaller 1 TiB capacity pool sizes, lowered from 2 TiB, when used with volumes using standard network features.

• Azure NetApp Files
• Regions & Datacenters
• Pricing & Offerings
• Features

Public preview: Azure Modeling and Simulation Workbench

Azure Modeling and Simulation Workbench is a new service that provides a fully managed work environment for engineering development, accelerating project startup, and enabling secure collaboration between development teams.

• Virtuele machines
• Premium Blob Storage
• Azure Modeling en simulatie Workbench
• Azure NetApp Files
• Services
• Pricing & Offerings

Now available: Free data transfer out to internet when leaving Azure

Learn how to qualify for free egress when moving your data out of Azure.

• Bandbreedte
• Regions & Datacenters
• Pricing & Offerings
• Features
• Compliance

Public preview: New Generation AMD VMs - Dasv6/Easv6/Fasv6

Doelbeschikbaarheid: Q1 2024

Azure introduces the latest AMD-based VMs in public preview for the D, E, and F series VMs, built on the 4th Generation AMD EPYC™ (Genoa) CPU.

• Pricing & Offerings

Azure Advisor integration with Azure Monitor Log Analytics Workspace

Advisor is a personalized cloud consultant that helps you follow best practices to optimize your Azure deployments. It analyzes your resource configuration and usage telemetry and then recommends solutions that can help you improve the cost effectiveness, performance, Reliability, and security of your Azure resources.   We in Azure Monitor believe that observability should be cost effective, and we want to help our customers control their cost, operational excellence, performance, reliability, and security of their  Azure  resources. This, in turn, helps grow their overall satisfaction with, and usage of Azure.  We have introduced several cost optimization related recommendations and added Azure Advisor to the Log Analytics Workspace admin experience. more recommendations are on the way. 

• Log Analytics
• Azure Advisor
• Pricing & Offerings
• Features
• Compliance

Azure Spring Apps Enterprise is now eligible for Azure savings plan for compute

Doelbeschikbaarheid: Q1 2023

Enjoy up to 47% savings when you commit to Azure savings plan for Azure Spring Apps Enterprise.

• Azure Spring Apps
• Pricing & Offerings
• Features

General Availability: Azure NetApp Files support for 2 TiB capacity pools

Azure NetApp Files now supports smaller 2 TiB capacity pool sizes, lowered from 4 TiB, when used with volumes using standard network features.

• Azure NetApp Files
• Pricing & Offerings
• Features

General availability: Reservations for Microsoft Fabric

You can now save up to 40.5% on Microsoft Fabric capacity when you commit to one-year reservations.

• Microsoft Fabric
• Microsoft Ignite
• Pricing & Offerings
• Features

Public Preview: Azure IoT Operations

Azure IoT Operations is now in Public Preview. Azure IoT Operations addresses an enterprise’s fundamental needs, but also wrangles edge data to generate local insights and brings interoperability and scalability to IoT solutions.

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Azure Arc
• Windows voor IoT
• Microsoft Ignite
• Pricing & Offerings

Announcing the public preview of Azure confidential VMs with Intel TDX

Microsoft is excited to announce the public preview of DCesv5 and ECesv5-series confidential VMs. These VMs are powered by 4th Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors with Intel® Trust Domain Extensions (TDX). They enable organizations to bring confidential workloads to the cloud without code changes to applications and will be available starting December 1st.

• Security
• Microsoft Ignite
• Regions & Datacenters
• Pricing & Offerings

GA: Azure Boost

Doelbeschikbaarheid: Q4 2023

Azure Boost is one of Microsoft Azure’s latest and most significant infrastructure innovations, enabling greater network and storage performance at scale, improves security, and reduced servicing impact.

• Microsoft Ignite
• Pricing & Offerings

Public preview: New Generation AMD VMs - Dasv6/Easv6/Fasv6

Azure introduces the latest AMD-based VMs in public preview for the D, E, and F series VMs, built on the 4th Generation AMD EPYC™ (Genoa) CPU.

• Microsoft Ignite
• Pricing & Offerings

Export cost details using the FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification (FOCUS)

Sign up for an early preview of Cost Management exports that provide cost data aligned to the open-source FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification (FOCUS).

• Microsoft Cost Management
• Open Source
• Management
• Pricing & Offerings
• Features