Azure

Reserve compute capacity and obtain a capacity SLA for Azure virtual machine deployments with on-demand capacity reservations.
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Increase the availability at scale of business-critical applications with new Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets features. Simplify workload deployment, management, and scalability with Virtual Machine Scale Sets flexible orchestration mode, now in public preview.
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New Azure Spot Virtual Machines capabilities – ‘try & restore’ and REST APIs to simulate VM evictions – are now in public preview.
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Manage your data with greater ease by using Azure Purview to register multiple sources at the same time.
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You can now customize how Azure Purview Data Catalog assets are grouped into resource sets and are named as well.
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Azure Migrate assessments for Azure VMware Solution with improved node sizing logic is now generally available.
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Confidential computing capability now available on AKS for your container workloads.
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Azure Stream Analytics Dedicated offers a single-tenant clustered deployment of Stream Analytics for complex and demanding streaming scenarios.
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Container Insights from Azure Monitor now enables you to monitor the capacity of the Persistent Volumes. You can visualize via workbooks, query, and write alerts. You can now access all your Kubernetes related visualizations such as Node-disk, Node-network, Workloads, & Persistent Volume, and many more in new Reports (tab).
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Announcing preview of Microsoft Azure Percept, a comprehensive, easy-to-use platform with added security for creating edge artificial intelligence (AI) solutions.
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Azure Migrate now has unified discovery and assessment for SQL Server natively within the Azure Migrate experience.
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Azure Monitor application insights App Service integration on Node.js Linux environments provides no-code enablement of application insights via Azure portal, PowerShell, or ARM Templates.
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In many of today’s mixed reality scenarios, there is a need to align digital content with physical objects. Azure Object Anchors, now in preview, eliminates the need for markers or manual holographic alignment within mixed reality applications.
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Private Azure Marketplace, streamlines your operations by letting administrators govern which third-party solutions their users can use.
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Reduce development costs and time using the new public preview features in Microsoft Power Fx.
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Build immersive mixed reality experiences with Azure Remote Rendering, now generally available. Use it to enable high fidelity 3D visualization of objects and view models with a billion or more polygons without decimation.
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Private Azure Marketplace, now generally available, streamlines your operations saving you time.
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Azure Key Vault provider for Secrets Store CSI driver allows you to get secret contents stored in an Azure Key Vault instance. Azure Key Vault simplifies the task of securing and using cryptographic keys and other secrets with AKS.
With this new feature, you can use the Secrets Store CSI driver interface to mount secrets into Kubernetes pods while benefiting from the increased security and control via the Azure Key Vault.
AKS customers can use this new capability to mount enterprise grade external secrets stores to AKS pods, thereby simplifying access to secrets, keys, and certificates in a secure manner.
You can now mount secrets stored in Azure Key Vault into Kubernetes pods.
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This update to the evaluation release of 21.02 includes a security fix.
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New enhancements and updates released for general availability in Azure Security Center in February 2021.
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