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Windows Server end-of-support (EOS): Upgrade seamlessly with Azure Migrate (Public preview)
Target availability: Q3 2023
With Azure Migrate, seamlessly upgrade legacy Windows servers while migrating to Azure, minimizing effort, downtime, and risk. By creating a copy of the server in Azure and performing the upgrade there, the impact on the original server is minimized, ensuring a secure and efficient transition.
Preview: Azure Boost
Target availability: Q3 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.
New Extended Security Updates (ESUs) enabled by Azure Arc
At Inspire, we are announcing Extended Security Updates (ESUs) enabled by Azure Arc. Customers will be able to purchase and seamlessly deploy ESUs through Azure Arc in on-premises or multicloud environments, right from the Azure portal.
Hotpatch is now generally available on Windows Server VMs on Azure with the Desktop Experience installation mode
Hotpatch is now available for Windows Server Azure Edition VMs using the newly released images. Hotpatch is a feature that allows you to patch and install OS security updates to Windows Server Azure Edition VMs on Azure without requiring a reboot!
October 2022
Public preview: Exactly once delivery for Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2
Stream Analytics now supports end-to-end exactly once semantics when writing to Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2.
July 2022
General availability: Azure confidential VMs (DCasv5/ECasv5-series VMs)
General availability of Azure confidential Virtual Machines.
Public preview: Azure Monitor for SAP solutions
Azure Monitor for SAP solutions allows you to collect and visualize end-to-end SAP telemetry in the Azure portal.
Public preview: Azure Marketplace for Arc-enabled Azure Stack HCI
Get popular VM images directly from Microsoft and third-party publishers via the Azure Marketplace.
Public preview: Remote support for Arc-enabled Azure Stack HCI
Get remote access to your cluster for support and maintenance purposes.
Public preview: Arc-enabled guest VMs with extensions for Azure Stack HCI
Simplify management and configuration of your guest virtual machine.
Public preview: Azure Stack HCI version 22H2
Evaluate the latest Azure Stack HCI version 22H2 in the preview channel.
Generally available: Premium-series hardware for Azure SQL Managed Instance
Leverage new Azure SQL Managed Instance premium-series hardware based on the latest Intel CPUs that offers significantly improved performance and scalability.
General availability: Citus 11 support for Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Hyperscale (Citus)
Support of Citus 11 is now included in Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus), a managed service running the distributed open source PostgreSQL database on Azure.
General Availability: Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server - On demand backups
Initiate on demand backups of your production workloads and store them based on your server’s backup retention policy.
Public preview: Cross-region read replicas for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus)
Create read replicas of your Hyperscale (Citus) server group in different regions.
Generally available: Basic tier updates for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus)
Hyperscale (Citus) Basic tier now supports 16, 32, and 64 vCores and 1 TiB and 2 TiB storage.
Generally available: vCore compute options for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus)
Run memory-intensive enterprise applications with higher concurrency and no throttling on the new 96 and 104 vCore compute options.
Generally available: New extensions for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server
Install the new extensions and use this functionality for development with Javascript and geographic routing logic with Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server.
Generally available: PostgreSQL 14 with Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server
Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server now supports the latest Postgres version 14.
Generally available: Same-zone high availability for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server
Deploy high availability within the same zone for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server.
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