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You can now keep your VMs deallocated to save cost and have it automatically start up when a user connects.
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Azure Monitor for Containers is updating to use the Arc Extension Model for Kubernetes clusters hosted on Azure Arc. This support is currently in public preview.
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Use Azure Cloud Services (extended support), now generally available, to increase regional resiliency and gain access to new capabilities that the Azure Resource Manager-based deployment model provides.
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Seamless, fully orchestrated, no downtime for most scenarios and minimal effort migration path for your existing Cloud Services (classic) deployments.
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Azure Data Factory is now available in two new regions: Norway East and UAE North
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The new Authentication portal experience for App Service and Azure Functions, improving usability, initial setup, and increased security, is now available.”
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New enhancements and updates released for general availability in Azure Security Center in March 2021.
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Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure Security Center in March 2021.
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To protect your valuable resources, Azure Backup now supports backup & restore of Azure Virtual Machines with dedicated host.
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Azure virtual machine scale sets provide the management capabilities for applications that run across many VMs, automatic scaling of resources, and load balancing of traffic. Scale set orchestration modes allow you to have greater control over how virtual machine instances are managed by the scale set.
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Azure Monitor for Windows Virtual Desktop provides a centralized view of the health of your Windows Virtual Desktop environment and enables you to optimize your deployment and quickly troubleshoot issues.
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This quality release of the Azure Sphere OS includes bug fixes and updates to mitigate against the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) mentioned in the article.
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Now available in preview support, Azure Monitor insights and Azure Monitor workbooks makes it easier to visualize and customize metrics for dynamic monitoring of your Azure Cosmos DB resource.
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Make your serverless Azure SQL databases resilient to a much larger set of failures, including catastrophic datacenter outages, without any changes of the application logic by selecting zone redundancy.
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With new regions announced for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server, you can control multiple configuration parameters for fine-grained database tuning with a simpler developer experience to accelerate end-to-end deployment.
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Benefit from the new features in Kubernetes 1.20, now supported by AKS in general availability.
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Service Mesh capabilities to be natively integrated with AKS via the Open Service Mesh add-on.
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Customers can now leverage guidance jointly developed with IBM to run WebSphere Liberty and Open Liberty on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
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Network insights in Azure Monitor now supports monitoring Azure ExpressRoute resources out of the box without any additional configuration or setup.
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Azure Static Web Apps, currently in public preview, now supports building and deploying apps with Azure DevOps.
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