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Monthly updates for April 2023

Apr 28

Application Gateway V1 will be retired on 28 April 2026– Transition to Application Gateway V2

Target retirement date: April 28, 2026

Application Gateway V1 will be retired on 28 April 2026

  • Application Gateway
  • Security
  • Retirements
Apr 27

New Azure Virtual Desktop features to answer our customers’ top needs

NOW AVAILABLE

New capabilities recently released that improve storage, enhance configuration, deliver exceptional endpoint security, and more.

  • Azure Virtual Desktop
  • Features
Apr 26

Public Preview : Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL Data Encryption with Customer Managed Keys

IN PREVIEW

Data encryption with customer-managed keys (CMK) for Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL allows you to bring your own key for data protection at rest.

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Features
Apr 26

Update your IoT Edge devices on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS reaches the end of standard support on May 31st, 2023. To continue to receive support and security updates, we highly recommend that you update your host OS to a Tier 1 supported platform. 

  • Azure IoT Edge
  • Security
  • Features
  • Operating System
Apr 26

General availability: Microsoft Azure available from new cloud region in Poland

NOW AVAILABLE

Microsoft has announced the opening of the newest cloud region Poland and the first in Central Europe.

  • Regions & Datacenters
Apr 26

Azure SQL—General availability updates for late-April 2023 

NOW AVAILABLE

General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL and Azure SQL Managed Instance in late-April 2023

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Azure SQL Managed Instance
  • Features
Apr 26

Azure Advisor VM/VMSS right-sizing recommendations with custom lookback period

NOW AVAILABLE

You can now customize the right sizing recommendations for virtual machines and virtual machine scale sets to make them more relevant and actionable for your workloads.

  • Azure Advisor
  • Management
Apr 26

General Availability: Centrally Managed Azure Hybrid Benefit for SQL Server

NOW AVAILABLE

Today, we’re officially announcing the general availability for Centrally Managed Azure Hybrid Benefit for SQL Server.

  • Microsoft Cost Management
  • SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines
  • Pricing & Offerings
Apr 26

Public Preview: Azure API Management and Microsoft Defender for APIs integration

Take your API security coverage to the next level with Azure API Management and Microsoft Defender for APIs integration.

  • API Management
  • Features
Apr 26

Continuous Language ID in Azure Speech Service

NOW AVAILABLE

Continual Language ID makes transcription and translation easier by identifying up to 10 languages in a single piece of audio continuously.

  • Azure AI services
  • Features
Apr 26

Public Preview: Azure Monitor Metrics Dataplane API released

IN PREVIEW

The Azure Metrics Dataplane API is a new approach to Azure Monitoring that improves resource insight gathering by enabling higher querying capacity and efficiency.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Azure Resource Mover
  • Features
Apr 26

Generally available: Azure Monitor alerts now suggests signals to alert on

NOW AVAILABLE

When creating an alert rule using the Azure portal, configuring the condition of the alert rule is now made simpler with popular signals and settings.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Features
Apr 26

Generally Available: Operation Abort in AKS

NOW AVAILABLE

You can now abort long running operations in AKS via the CLI.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Features
Apr 26

Generally Available: Inbound IP restrictions for Azure Container Apps

NOW AVAILABLE

You can now restrict inbound traffic by IP without using a custom solution.

  • Azure Container Apps
  • Features
Apr 26

Public preview: Session affinity for Azure Container Apps

IN PREVIEW

You can now enable session affinity without writing code.

  • Azure Container Apps
  • Features
Apr 26

Generally Available: TCP support for Azure Container Apps

NOW AVAILABLE

You can now expose arbitrary TCP ports from your container apps.

  • Azure Container Apps
  • Features
Apr 26

Generally available: Synthetic GraphQL

NOW AVAILABLE

With Synthetic GraphQL, customers can create GraphQL APIs using their existing REST and SOAP APIs, allowing them to modernize their application API stack with minimal effort.

  • API Management
  • Features
Apr 26

Generally available: API Management Authorizations

NOW AVAILABLE

API Management Authorizations are now generally available, providing a simple and reliable way to unbundle and abstract authorizations from web APIs.

  • API Management
  • Features
Apr 26

Public preview: Azure Key Vault references for secrets in Azure Container Apps

IN PREVIEW

You can now source Container Apps secrets values from Azure Key Vault

  • Azure Container Apps
  • Features
Apr 26

Public Preview: Support for Azure VMs using Premium SSD v2 in Azure Backup

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q2 2023

Public preview for the support for Azure VMs using Premium SSD v2 in Azure Backup.

  • Azure Backup
  • Management

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