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Public preview: Ephemeral OS disk support for confidential virtual machines
Create confidential VMs using Ephemeral OS disks for your stateless workloads.
Limited preview: Smart tiering to vault-archive tier for Azure Backup
You can now configure your backup policy to move all your eligible and recommended recovery points to vault-archive tier for Azure Virtual Machines, SQL Server/SAP HANA in Azure Virtual Machines.
Public preview: Azure Percept DK June (2206) software update
The Azure Percept March update includes fixes related to security.
Public preview: Microsoft Purview data sharing for Azure Storage
Microsoft Purview data sharing for in-place data sharing for Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS Gen2) and Azure Blob Storage is now in public preview.
June 2022
General availability: Azure Active Directory authentication for Application Insights
Target availability: Q2 2022
Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) authentication for Azure Monitor Application helps ensure that only authenticated telemetry is ingested in your Application Insights resources.
Generally available: Azure Backup multi-user authorization for recovery services vaults
Multi-user authorization for Backup provides enhanced protection for your backup data in recovery services vaults against unauthorized critical operations.
Generally available: 2022-05-31 Azure IoT Central REST API release
The Azure IoT Central REST API now enables GA support for creating and managing device groups and organizations, configure file uploads destination, and add organization association to existing endpoints.
Generally available: Resize rows in Azure IoT Central device raw data view
You can now resize rows in Azure IoT Central’s device raw data view allowing the ability to analyze more data in a single view.
General availability: Temporary access pass for Azure Active Directory
Target availability: Q2 2022
Temporary Access Pass is now generally available in Public and US Gov clouds.
General availability: MATCH clause for Query
The MATCH clause is used in the Azure Digital Twins query language and allows you to specify which pattern should be followed while traversing relationships in the ADT graph.
Generally available: Export device data under an organization in Azure IoT Central
Azure IoT Central data export feature now supports the ability to filter data under an organization as well as include organizations path in the exported data.
Public preview: Multiple backups per day for Azure Virtual Machines
Target availability: Q2 2022
Protect Azure Virtual Machines with mission critical applications with low recovery point objective.
Public preview: Create an additional 5000 Azure Storage accounts within your subscription
Azure Storage is announcing public preview of the ability to create additional 5000 storage accounts per subscription per region.
Azure SQL—Public preview updates for late June 2022
Public preview updates made in late June 2022 for Azure SQL.
Azure SQL—Generally available updates for late June 2022
Generally available updates made in late June 2022 for Azure SQL.
General availability: Azure Key Vault secrets provider on Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes
Enable fetching secrets from an Azure Key Vault directly into the workload running on an Arc connected Kubernetes cluster.
Generally available: Windows IoT on Arm64
Windows IoT on Arm64 brings increased functionality to devices.
General availability: Azure Machine Learning announcements for June 2022
New features include MLflow enhancements and train and deploy models in Azure hybrid and multi-cloud.
Public preview: Link feature in Azure SQL MI for SQL Server 2016
SQL Server 2016 customers can now use Azure without migrating through offloading analytics or read-only workloads to Azure SQL Managed Instance (MI).
General availability: Azure Advisor support for Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server
Get personalized recommendations based on your Azure Database for MySQL Flexible Server usage.
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