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Azure – Public preview: Monitoring for Ampere Altra Arm–based VMs and AKS clusters
Azure Monitor now supports monitoring for Arm–based Azure Virtual Machines and Azure Kubernetes Service with Arm nodes. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: Operation abort
Stop an ongoing cluster or agentpool operation in emergency situations. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: Windows Network Policy Manager for Windows server 2022 in AKS
You can now add Azure network policies to Windows 2022 server in AKS. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: Azure Load Testing in UK South
Azure Load Testing is in public preview in UK South. Read More for the details.

Azure – Generally available: Multi-instance GPU support in AKS
You can now run your AKS production workloads using the A100 GPU SKU. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server major version upgrade
Upgrade your instance of Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server from version 5.7 to 8.0. Read More for the details.

Azure – Generally available: Fast restore for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server
Perform restores from the backup snapshot directly to speed up the overall provisioning time for your restored server with fast restore. Read More for the details.

Azure – General availability: Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server data encryption with CMK
Encrypt your data with customer-managed keys (CMK) to enable an extra layer of security for data at rest. Read More for the details.

Azure – General availability: Read replica for Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server
Provision up to 10 read replicas for high availability (HA) enabled servers in Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public preview: API Server VNET Integration for AKS private cluster
You can now use an API Server VNet Integration to ensure network traffic between your API server and your node pools remains on the private network only. Read More for the details.