New Azure features and functionality for February 2023
It’s been a busy month as far as new Azure features and functionality go! Just in case you’ve missed something, we’ve collected all of the announcements from February 2023 in one place. Be sure to give this list a read through, as there’s a wealth of exciting new functions and updates to check out!
General Availability
- Customer Initiated Storage Account Conversion
- Scale improvements and metrics enhancements on Azure’s regional WAF
- Larger SKUs for App Service Environment v3
- Azure IoT Edge supports Ubuntu 22.04
- Azure Monitor Query client module for Go
- Azure Data Explorer Dashboards
- Azure Backup: Enhanced experience for creating and managing private endpoints for Recovery Services vaults
- Durable Functions support for .NET isolated model
- Encryption using CMK for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server
- 50K relationships per twin support in Azure Digital Twins
- Azure Active Directory for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server
- Azure Functions support for Python 3.10
- Azure Private Link support for Azure Databricks
- “Find my partner” for Azure Data Explorer
- Automatic Backup for App Service Environment and Azure Functions Dedicated Hosting
- Managed Run Command – Execute PowerShell or shell scripts on Virtual Machines and Scale Sets
- Microsoft Azure Load Testing
- New storage backend for Durable Functions — Microsoft Netherite & MSSQL
- Azure Functions support for Node.js 18
- Azure Web PubSub Premium tier
- Azure Red Hat OpenShift on Azure Government
Updates
- Stream Analytics no-code editor updates in Feb 2023
- Azure Sphere OS version 23.02
- Azure Site Recovery update rollup 66 – February 2023
- Azure SQL – updates for mid-February 2023
Misc
- Improved geo-replication for Azure Cache for Redis
- Azure Kubernetes Service introduces two pricing tiers: Free and Standard
- Azure SQL Gen 4 hardware approaching end of life 31 March 2023
