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Monthly updates for January 2023

Jan 30

Generally available: Apply Azure storage access tiers to append blobs and page blobs with blob type conversion

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q1 2023

Convert append blobs and page blobs to block blobs so that you can apply access tiers.

  • Storage Accounts
  • Hot/Cool/Cold Blob Storage Tiers
  • Features
Jan 30

Chaos studio - Public preview updates for January 2023 

IN PREVIEW

Public preview enhancements and updates released for Chaos Studio in January 2023.

  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Services
  • Management
  • SDK and Tools
Jan 25

Public preview: Incremental snapshots for Ultra Disk Storage

IN PREVIEW

To ensure business continuity, incremental snapshots for Ultra Disks are now available in public preview in the Sweden Central and US West 3 Azure region.

  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Features
Jan 24

Generally available: Indirect enterprise agreement on Azure Cost Management and Billing

NOW AVAILABLE

Manage your enrollment hierarchy, view account usage, and monitor costs directly from the Azure Cost Management and Billing menu on the Azure portal (for indirect enterprise agreement customers)

  • Microsoft Cost Management
  • Management
Jan 24

General availability: Application security groups support for private endpoints

NOW AVAILABLE

Application security groups (ASGs) support for private endpoints is now generally available.

  • Security
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Services
  • Features
Jan 24

General availability: Mount Azure Storage as a local share in App Service Windows Code

NOW AVAILABLE

Mounting Azure Storage File share as a network share in Windows code (non-container) in App Service is now generally available.

  • App Service
  • Features
Jan 24

General Availability: 5 GB Put Blob

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q4 2022

Maximum Put Blob size is now increasing to 5 GB

  • Compliance
Jan 23

Public Preview: Container insights support for AKS hybrid clusters

IN PREVIEW

Container insights now supports AKS hybrid clusters

  • Azure Monitor
  • Features
Jan 23

Classic VM retirement: extending retirement date to September 1st 2023

Target retirement date: September 01, 2023

Extended migration period for your IaaS VMs from Azure Service Manager to Azure Resource Manager. Please complete the migration by 1 September 2023.

  • Retirements
Jan 19

Public Preview: Azure App Health Extension - Rich Health States

IN PREVIEW

Application Health Extension, Rich Health States allows for more detailed health reporting on your VM applications.

  • Virtual Machine Scale Sets
  • Features
Jan 18

Public preview: Azure Database for MySQL - Logic Apps and Power Automate integration

Use the Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server connector to connect to MySQL data and build with Power Automate and Logic Apps.

  • Azure Database for MySQL
  • Open Source
  • Management
  • Features
Jan 18

Azure Machine Learning - Generally availability updates for January 2023

NOW AVAILABLE

New features in GA include the ability to place customized tags, search for machine learning assets, isolate network for managed online endpoints, build custom metrics views, and simplify data security. 

  • Azure Machine Learning
  • Features
Jan 18

Azure Machine Learning - Public preview announcements for January 2023

IN PREVIEW

New features now available in Public Preview include the ability to build an end-to-end training pipeline with no-code, recover a deleted workspace, and identify root causes of pipeline failure.

  • Azure Machine Learning
  • Features
Jan 18

General Availability: Active Directory Connector for Arc-enabled SQL MI

NOW AVAILABLE

Active Directory Connector (ADC) for Arc-enabled SQL Managed Instance is now available to perform Active Directory authentication.

  • Services
  • Features
Jan 18

Public preview: Tribal Group events available to Azure Event Grid customers

IN PREVIEW

You can now subscribe to events Tribal Group applications and automate your processes based on Tribal Group application state changes.

  • Event Grid
  • Features
Jan 18

Generally available: Azure Active Directory authentication for SQL Server 2022

NOW AVAILABLE

Customers with SQL Server 2022 can enable Azure Active Directory authentication, single sign-on, unify SQL Server authentication and leverage multi-factor authentication.

  • Services
  • Features
Jan 18

Public Preview of Viewing SQL Server Databases via Azure Arc

IN PREVIEW

Surfaces all the active databases and their configurations for each of the Arc-enabled SQL Servers in Azure.

  • Services
  • Features
Jan 18

Public Preview: Microsoft Purview access policies for SQL Server 2022

IN PREVIEW

Author policies that govern the access to Active Directory users directly from Azure to all your SQL Server 2022 data sources at scale.

  • SQL Server – Azure Arc
  • Services
  • Features
Jan 12

Public Preview: Azure Automation Visual Studio Code Extension

IN PREVIEW

Use the Azure Automation extension to perform local authoring and management of automation runbooks using VS Code

  • Automation
  • Management
  • Features
Jan 12

General availability: IoT Edge Metrics Collector 1.1

NOW AVAILABLE

This refresh updates the module's dependencies and base image.

  • Azure IoT Edge
  • Services

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