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Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in mid-November 2022.

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New feature wave enhancements for Azure SQL Managed Instance make it even more performant, reliable, and secure with on-premises SQL Server and the broader Azure platform.

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New feature wave enhancements for Azure SQL Managed Instance make it even more performant, reliable, and secure with on-premises SQL Server and the broader Azure platform.

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The link feature in Azure SQL Managed Instance connects your SQL Servers hosted anywhere to SQL Managed Instance, providing hybrid flexibility and database mobility.

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Azure Synapse Link for SQL enables seamless near-real-time data movement from relational sources in Azure SQL Database and SQL Server 2022 to analytical stores without needing to build ETL pipelines.

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Backup of your Azure SQL Managed Instance database can now be restored to a SQL Server 2022 instance.

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Save on business continuity costs and license geographically redundant Disaster Recovery with Azure SQL Managed Instance.

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Optimize business costs by licensing your Disaster Recovery secondary for free with SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines.

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Participate in retail evaluation now to ensure compatibility. The Azure Sphere team has also updated the trusted keystore of Azure Sphere devices, resulting in an additional reboot for production devices.

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Azure’s regional Web Application Firewall on Application Gateway now supports customizing actions per rule. This new functionality allows you greater control over how the Web Application Firewall handles incoming traffic.

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Start using the new policies with TLS 1.3 for your Azure Application Gateway to improve security and performance.

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This rule set provides you enhanced protection against bots and provides granular control over bots detected by WAF by categorizing bot traffic as good, bad, or unknown bots.

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Protect your data by encrypting Premium SSD, Standard SSD, and Standard HDD managed disks with cross tenant customer-managed keys.

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Use Azure REST Quota APIs to manage the service limits (quotas) of Azure Virtual Machines (cores/vCPU), Networking, Azure HPC Cache, and Azure Purview services.

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You can use this feature to back up confidential VMs using Platform Managed Keys.

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Azure Resource Manager will be deprecating support for TLS 1.1 and older in Fall 2023. To maintain an uninterrupted connection with Azure Resource Manager, update your operating systems and work environments to support TLS 1.2.

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Azure Managed HSM now supports SSL/TLS Offload for F5 and Nginx.

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You can now use this feature to upgrade your Azure Front Door Standard profile to Premium tier without downtime.

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You can use this feature to migrate Azure Front Door (classic) to Azure Front Door Standard and Premium with zero downtime.

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Wayfinding in Azure Maps Creator enables you to provide your users with the shortest path between two points within a facility.

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