Azure updates

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.

• Azure Storage Actions
• Azure Blob Storage
• Azure Database for MariaDB
• Regions & Datacenters
• Features

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.

• HDInsight on AKS
• Open Source
• Regions & Datacenters
• Features

Generally available: Microsoft Dev Box in Southeast Asia, Brazil South, South Africa North, and Switzerland North 

Microsoft Dev Box is generally available in Southeast Asia, Brazil South, South Africa North, and Switzerland North.  

• Services

Generally available: Azure Stream Analytics in seven more regions

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• Regions & Datacenters

Public Preview: Azure Container Storage Updates: Expanded regions and performance options

Azure Container Storage (in preview) offers volume management built natively for containers. With the latest updates you can now deploy in 26 regions, use volume resize & cloning and choose from an expanded list of Disk SKUs.

• Azure Container Storage
• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Azure Disk Storage
• Azure Elastic SAN
• Regions & Datacenters
• Services
• Features

Generally available: Azure Load Testing in Japan East and Brazil South

Azure Load Testing is in generally available in Japan East and Brazil South.

• Azure Load Testing
• Features

Generally available: Zone Redundant Storage for Azure Disks is now available in more regions.

Zone Redundant Storage (ZRS) for Azure Disks is now available on Azure Premium SSD and Standard SSD in Brazil South, UK South, East US, East US 2, and South-Central US.

• Azure Disk Storage
• Regions & Datacenters
• Features

Public preview update: Azure Automation supports PowerShell 7.2 and Python 3.10 runbooks

Azure Automation has expanded Public preview support for PowerShell 7.2 and Python 3.10 runbooks.

• Management
• Features

Public Preview: Azure Chaos Studio is now available in Brazil South region

Azure Chaos Studio is now available in Brazil South region.

• Regions & Datacenters

Public Preview: Azure NetApp Files now support large volumes up to 500TiB in size

You can now create Azure NetApp Files large volumes between 100TiB to 500TiB in size.

• Azure NetApp Files
• Regions & Datacenters
• Features

General availability: Application security groups support for private endpoints

Application security groups (ASGs) support for private endpoints is now generally available.

• Security
• Microsoft Ignite
• Services
• Features

Public preview: Azure NetApp Files cross-zone replication

Replicate Azure NetApp Files volumes from one availability zone to another in a fast and cost-effective way, protecting your data from unforeseeable zone failures.

• Azure NetApp Files
• Regions & Datacenters
• Features

Generally available: Public IP Capability for Azure VMware Solution

Public IP capability on Azure VMware Solution provides internet connectivity for Azure VMware Solution workloads. You can now use NSX-T manager as your security terminating point.

• Azure VMware Solution
• Services