Microsoft releases frequent updates, features, and services to Azure. This is a roundup of the May releases KiZAN found most interesting.
New Feature
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Virtual Network: Resource Health for virtual network NAT
Azure Kubernetes Service: Draft 2 for assisting in transitioning non-container apps to AKS
Preview Feature
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App Services: Azure pipelines to preview environment
DNS: Azure DNS private resolver service
Azure Kubernetes Service: Now supports KMS plugin integration to enable encryption at rest of “etcd” using Azure Key Vault
Azure Kubernetes Service: Introduction of replica mounts on Azure Disk persistent volumes to ensure rapid availability of volumes when pods failover between cluster nodes for stateful apps
Web Application Firewall: Azure Firewall Manager now supports WAF policies for Azure Front Door and Application Gateway
Monitor: Machine learning models to guide on root cause of issue being investigated by recommending which node to node edges need further investigation
Generally Available
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Key Vault: Zero-touch key rotation for customer-managed keys stored in Azure Key Vault
Container Apps: Managed serverless container service