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RSS feedSeptember 2023
General Availability: Share VM images publicly with community gallery - Azure Compute Gallery feature
Target availability: Q3 2023
With community gallery, you can now share VM images with the broader Azure community.
July 2022
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.
January 2022
General availability: FIPS enabled node pool in Azure Kubernetes
You can now create FIPS 140-2 enabled node pools in AKS
October 2021
General availability: Azure Sphere version 21.10
Version 21.10 is a feature update for the Azure Sphere OS, the SDK, supporting tools, and customer documentation.
March 2021
Public preview: Azure Purview powered search in Azure Synapse Analytics workspaces
Enable effortless discovery of trustworthy, valuable data with an Azure Purview powered search within Synapse Studio.
July 2020
How to start with Azure Data Explorer—A new online course
A new online course that offers a comprehensive overview of data analytics with Azure Data Explorer is now available for free.
May 2020
Azure Service Health—Emerging issues now available
Service Health now surfaces new widespread Azure service issues which were previously only available on the Azure Status page.
Azure Stack Hub now supports cross-platform compatibility on PowerShell
Azure Stack Hub now supports cross-platform compatibility on PowerShell and ensures hybrid consistency with Azure.
March 2020
Flatcar Container Linux available in Azure Marketplace
Flatcar Container Linux by Kinvolk is now available in the Azure Marketplace. Flatcar is an immutable Linux distribution for containers, and a compatible fork of CoreOS Container Linux.
January 2020
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Bring-Your-Own-Subscription Gold Images now Generally Available in Azure
Target availability: Q1 2020
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) bring-your-own-subscription (BYOS) images, also referred to as RHEL Gold images, are now generally available in Azure with a simple automated sign-up process. This new automated sign-up process provides faster and simpler access to the gold images.
September 2019
Egress lockdown in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is now generally available
Achieve additional security by restricting outbound (egress) traffic for cluster nodes to a limited number of ports and addresses.
August 2019
New PowerShell scripts to streamline Azure Monitor Logs query and data collection
Two new scripts are available now in PowerShell Gallery to streamline the query and collection of logs into Azure Monitor Logs.
Azure Blob Storage on IoT Edge is now generally available
Azure Blob Storage on IoT Edge is a lightweight, Azure-consistent IoT module that provides local block blob storage and enables you to automatically upload data to Azure from your local block blob storage using deviceToCloudUpload properties.
July 2018
Lenovo XClarity Integrator for Azure Log Analytics
Lenovo XClarity Integrator for Azure Log Analytics is available in the Azure Marketplace.
June 2018
Start/Stop VMs during off-hours in Azure Automation has been updated
Start/Stop VMs during off-hours in Azure Automation has been updated in the areas of email functionality, dependent modules, and runbooks.
February 2017
Announcing the new Azure Marketplace experience
The new Azure Marketplace experience will help you discover and deploy products, deep dive for more info, and get hands-on experience.
May 2016
Automation Runbook Gallery update
The Azure Automation Runbook Gallery supports script content from the PowerShell Gallery.
January 2016
Azure Automation: Graphical and PowerShell runbooks added to Gallery
To help with common automation tasks, four new graphical runbooks and two new PowerShell runbooks are available in the Automation gallery.
August 2014
MyGet available in the Microsoft Azure Store
MyGet provides hosted NuGet Servers. Developers can use their own packages to create and host NuGet feeds, or use another package source (such as NuGet.org).
MemCachier memcache-as-a-service available in the Azure Store
MemCachier is now offering their popular memcache-as-a-service in the Azure Store. MemCachier manages and scales clusters of memcache servers so that you can focus on your app.
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