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May 24 Generally available: DCsv3 and DCdsv3 series Virtual Machines

Confidential computing DCsv3 and DCdsv3-series virtual machines (VMs) are generally available.

May 24 General availability: GraphQL passthrough support in Azure API Management

GraphQL APIs are considered to be more efficient, flexible, and powerful and have benefits such as faster performance, longer API call limit threshold, and lesser time retrieving data.

May 24 Public preview: Synthetic GraphQL

You can now easily create a GraphQL API to support modern client application development.

May 24 Public preview: App Service new migration capabilities

Facilitates discovery, assessment, and migration to App Service and Azure Kubernetes Service.

May 24 Public preview: App Service Google Remote Procedure Call support

Host Google Remote Procedure Call (gRPC) apps on App Service.

May 24 General availability: App Service landing zone accelerator

Facilitate moving applications from on-premises to App Service using landing zone accelerator.

May 24 Generally available: App Service enhancements for WordPress on App Service for Linux

WordPress users benefit from improved performance and security.

May 24 Generally available: Landing zone accelerator for Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes

New landing zone accelerator for Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes gives you tools to accelerate and simplify hybrid and multicloud Kubernetes deployments.

May 24 Public preview: App Service Environment v3 Migration Feature in additional regions

Migration guidance allows you to move to App Service Environment v3 and take advantage of refreshed infrastructure, better performance, and the removal of the stamp fee found on older versions.

May 24 Generally available: Dynamic IP allocation and enhanced subnet support in AKS

You can now deploy AKS clusters in a more IP efficient manner while still having pods with VNet IPs.

May 24 Generally available: Custom node configuration on AKS

Configure your operating system (OS) settings or the kubelet parameters to match the needs of the workloads.

May 24 Draft 2: An open-source project for developers building apps on Kubernetes

Create a Dockerfile for your application and the necessary Kubernetes manifests needed.

May 24 CIS benchmark for Linux containers

You can now attest to the state of CIS compliance for their AKS Ubuntu worker nodes.

May 24 Generally available: Alias minor version support in AKS

You no longer need to specify the exact patch number in your AKS setup.

May 24 Public preview: ARM64 agent node support in AKS

You can now create AKS clusters with mixed architecture nodes made up of Intel and ARM chips.

May 24 Generally available: AKS cluster extensions

You can now leverage a rich set of first party solutions on AKS via an Azure Resource Manager driven experience.

May 24 Public preview: Azure Disk CSI driver v2 in AKS

Improve scalability and reduce pod failover latency by using Azure Disk CSI driver v2 in AKS.

May 24 Public preview: KEDA add-on for AKS

Quickly and easily deploy clusters with KEDA enabled, or enable KEDA on existing AKS clusters.

May 24 Public preview: Web application routing add-on for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Enable an ingress controller with SSL termination to quickly and securely access your applications in AKS.

May 24 Public preview: Draft extension for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Use Draft through the Azure CLI, Azure Portal, and Visual Studio Code to create a Dockerfile for your application and the necessary Kubernetes manifests.

May 24 Public preview: Windows Server 2022 host support in AKS

You can now use Windows Server 2022 with AKS and benefit from its many performance-related improvements.

May 24 Generally available: Subnet per node pool

You can expand your AKS clusters across multiple subnets in the same virtual network.

May 24 Public preview: AIOps powered intelligent view in application maps

You can now use AIOps powered intelligent view in application map to filter out noise and find real issues faster.

May 24 Public preview: ContainerLogv2 schema in Azure Monitor container insights

Container insights now offers a new, lightweight schema for the container logs in ContainerLogv2.

May 24 Public preview: Azure Monitor application insights JavaScript web snippet auto-injection for node.js

Azure Monitor application insights node.js customers can enable web monitoring with a simple configuration.

May 24 General availability: Azure Stack HCI single-node

Bring the benefits of hybrid to a single-node Azure Stack HCI configuration.

May 24 Public preview: Manage your Log Analytics Tables in the Azure portal

Log Analytics Tables can now be managed from a new Tables (preview) entry of the Azure portal in Log Analytics workspaces.

May 24 Generally available: Azure Functions Kafka trigger support

You can now detect and respond to real time messages streaming into Kafka Topics.

May 24 Generally available: Updated extension defaults for new Azure Functions projects

Extension bundles for new Azure Functions projects will now default to v3 in the client tools.

May 24 Public preview: Durable functions support for isolated .NET worker process

Build applications that need durable functions and run them in the isolated worker process within Azure Functions.

May 24 Generally available: Dynamic concurrency in Azure Functions

Azure Functions dynamic concurrency feature simplifies configuring concurrency for your function apps using Service Bus, Storage Blobs, and Storage Queue triggers.

May 24 Public preview: Azure Functions .NET Framework support in the isolated worker model

Apps using Azure Functions isolated worker model for .NET can now target .NET Framework.

May 24 Public preview: Durable functions support for managed identity for Azure Storage

Durable functions in Azure Functions now support using managed identity when using Azure Storage.

May 24 Generally available: Azure Communication Services mobile UI library

Save time with Azure Communication Services mobile UI library.

May 24 Public preview: Azure Communication Services Email

Add email notifications to your apps using Azure Communication Services Email.

May 24 Public preview: Azure Communication Services APIs in US Government cloud

Use Azure Communication Services APIs for voice, video, and messaging in US Government cloud.

May 24 Generally available: Azure Communication Services sample app builder and Microsoft Teams support

Quickly create and deploy a “virtual visits” experience connecting your applications with Microsoft Teams bookings.

May 24 Generally available: Azure Container Apps

Run microservices in containers without managing infrastructure.

May 24 General availability: Azure Cosmos DB Python SDK async IO support

Improve database performance by running I/O tasks concurrently using the Azure Cosmos DB Python SDK IO async support capability.

May 24 Public preview: Enhanced elasticity features for Azure Cosmos DB

Elasticity features for Azure Cosmos DB help achieve the best scalability and performance, including increased serverless capacity, database traffic burst handling, partition throughput redistribution, partition merge, and hierarchical partition keys.

May 24 Public preview: Azure Cosmos DB API for MongoDB data plane RBAC

The API for MongoDB now includes the ability to create users and roles and configure fine-grained access to your database account data.

May 24 Generally available: Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server 80 vCore Business Critical

Azure Database for MySQL Flexible server is now offering 80 vCore compute for tier 1 workloads.

May 24 General availability: Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server Business Critical service tier

Run your production workloads on the Business Critical service tier, best for high-performance transactional or analytical applications and achieve a 1.5x performance improvement over Single Server on open-source community MySQL.

May 24 Generally available: Azure Machine Learning managed endpoints and Command Line Interface v2

Deploy your machine learning models in a turnkey manner across powerful GPU and GPU machines. CLI v2 now also generally available.

May 24 Public preview: Azure Machine Learning updates

Azure Machine Learning now offers a Responsible AI dashboard and scorecard as well as additional enhancements in preview.

May 24 Public preview: New modern capabilities for Azure SQL Database

Simplify and expedite application development and reduce time-to-market with new features for Azure SQL Database.

May 24 Public preview: Azure Synapse Link for SQL

Synapse Link for SQL enables seamless near-real-time data movement from relational sources to analytical stores without the need to build ETL pipelines.

May 24 Generally available: Ledger in Azure SQL Database

Enable proof that your database has not been tampered with and restore it back to the original value if needed by enabling ledger in Azure SQL Database.

May 24 Generally available: Azure Cognitive Service for Language

Cognitive Service for Language now includes custom named entity recognition and custom text classification.

May 24 Public preview: Azure Cognitive Services updates

Azure Cognitive Services is announcing the following preview updates at Build: Azure OpenAI Service and summarization capabilities in Azure Cognitive Service for Language.

May 24 Public preview: Azure Applied AI Services enhancements

Enhancements in preview include Power Virtual Agents to enable sophisticated conversational flows; Azure Form Recognizer helps to streamline patient check-in and verification; Azure Metrics Advisor has simplified service customization.

May 24 Public preview: Microsoft Purview Data Policy for SQL dev ops roles

Microsoft Purview Data Policy enables policies for data access, now including SQL dev ops roles.

May 24 Generally available: Microsoft Purview Data Estate Insights

Microsoft Purview Data Estate Insights (in GA July 1, 2022) provides a bird’s eye view of your data estate’s health.

May 24 In development: Dynatrace for Azure

Natively integrated SaaS solution that provides deep cloud observability, advanced AIOps, and continuous runtime application security capabilities on Azure.

May 24 Public preview: NGINX for Azure

Natively integrate SaaS solution for advanced traffic management and monitoring on Azure.

May 24 Public preview: Stream Analytics no code editor

Stream Analytics no code editor provides a rich, no code, drag and drop experience for you to build you streaming pipeline within minutes.

May 24 Generally available: Increased size of Stream Analytics jobs and cluster

Maximum size of a Stream Analytics job and a cluster is increased from 192 SUs to 396 SUs.

May 24 Generally available: Stream Analytics query development improvements

See improvements to the Stream Analytics query development experience on the Azure portal to increase productivity.

May 24 IoT Hub IP address change notification

IoT Hub will be updating the underlying infrastructure and will go through an internal service update. The update will change the underlying DNS record for IoT Hub, resulting in a change of the IP address.

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