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General availability: Azure NetApp Files support for large volumes up to 500TiB in size
You can now create Azure NetApp Files large volumes between 50TiB to 500TiB in size.
Public Preview: Azure HDInsight on AKS is now available for preview in 6 new regions
Azure HDInsight on AKS is a modern, reliable, secure, and fully managed Platform as a Service (PaaS) that runs on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). HDInsight on AKS allows you to deploy popular Open-Source Analytics workloads like Apache Spark™, Apache Flink®️, and Trino without the overhead of managing and monitoring containers. For more information about Azure HDInsight on AKS, see the documentation
Azure Firewall: New Regions Availability
Azure Firewall Basic, Standard, Premium and Azure Firewall Manager are now generally available in four new regions.
Preview: Azure Cobalt 100 Arm-based Virtual Machines
Target availability: Q2 2024
Azure Cobalt 100 Arm-based VMs are now available in preview. Please use the sign-up form at https://aka.ms/Cobalt100-VM-Preview-Signup to request access.
General availability: Azure Bastion Developer SKU
The Bastion Developer SKU represents a novel, cost-effective, and streamlined version of the Bastion service.
Azure Ultra Disk Storage is now available in Italy North
Now available in Italy North region, Azure Ultra Disk Storage provides high-performance along with sub-millisecond latency for your most-demanding workloads.
Public Preview: Azure Storage Actions is now available in 14 more regions
Azure Storage Actions is a fully managed platform that helps you automate data management operations for object storage and data lakes. The preview is now available in 14 more regions.
General Availability: Microsoft Azure now available from new cloud region in Mexico
Microsoft has announced the opening of its first hyper-scale cloud region in Mexico.
April 2024
General availability: Mexico Central region added to Azure HDInsight
Target availability: Q2 2025
HDInsight is now generally available in Mexico Central. Azure HDInsight is a managed, full-spectrum, open-source analytics service in the cloud for enterprises. You can use open-source frameworks such as Hadoop, Apache Spark, Apache Hive, LLAP, Apache Kafka, and more. For more information about HDInsight, see the Azure HDInsight documentation.
Public Preview: Azure HDInsight on AKS is now available for preview in 7 new regions
Target availability: Q2 2024
Azure HDInsight on AKS is now available for preview in seven new regions - East US 2 EUAP, West US, Japan East, Australia East, Canada Central, North Europe, Brazil South. Azure HDInsight on AKS is a modern, reliable, secure, and fully managed Platform as a Service (PaaS) that runs on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). HDInsight on AKS allows you to deploy popular Open-Source Analytics workloads like Apache Spark™, Apache Flink®️, and Trino without the overhead of managing and monitoring containers. For more information about Azure HDInsight on AKS, see the documentation.
Azure Virtual Network Manager security admin rule generally available in all public regions
Azure Virtual Network Manager's security admin rule configuration is now generally available in all public regions, empowering users to enforce security rules across their virtual networks globally.
General availability: HBv4-series & HX-series VMs are now available in Sweden Central.
HBv4 virtual machines (VMs) are optimized for various HPC workloads such as computational fluid dynamics, finite element analysis, frontend and backend EDA, rendering, molecular dynamics, computational geoscience, weather simulation, and financial risk analysis. HX-series Virtual Machines (VMs) are optimized for large memory HPC workloads such as backend EDA, finite element analysis, computational geoscience, and big data analytics.
General availability: Azure Virtual Network encryption availability in all regions
Azure Virtual Network encryption is a feature of Azure Virtual Networks. Virtual network encryption allows you to seamlessly encrypt and decrypt traffic between Azure Virtual Machines.
Azure Virtual Network Manager Security Admin Rule generally available in 45 regions
Azure Virtual Network Manager's security admin rule configuration is now generally available in 45 regions, empowering users to enforce security rules across their virtual networks globally.
March 2024
General availability: Availability zone volume placement for Azure NetApp Files
Deploy new Azure NetApp Files volumes in Azure availability zones (AZs) of your choice to support workloads across multiple availability zones
General Availability: Azure NetApp Files support for 1 TiB capacity pools
Azure NetApp Files now supports smaller 1 TiB capacity pool sizes, lowered from 2 TiB, when used with volumes using standard network features.
Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus is available in 13 additional Azure regions
Azure Managed Prometheus was announced GA in May 2023 and was available in 26 regions, with this new update Azure Managed Prometheus will be available in 13 additional regions.
Now available: Free data transfer out to internet when leaving Azure
Learn how to qualify for free egress when moving your data out of Azure.
General availability: Azure Virtual Network encryption now in additional regions
Azure Virtual Network encryption is a feature of Azure Virtual Networks. Virtual network encryption allows you to seamlessly encrypt and decrypt traffic between Azure Virtual Machines. Now available in additional regions.
Public preview: Azure NetApp Files volume enhancement – allow the same file path for volumes in different availability zones
Public Preview of Azure NetApp Files volume enhancement – file path uniqueness
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