Most services go to private preview then public preview before being released to general availability. The private preview is only available to certain Azure customers for evaluation purposes.
Box 2: Yes
Public Preview means that the service is in public beta and can be tried out by anyone with an Azure subscription. Services in public preview are often offered at a discount price.
Public previews are excluded from SLAs and in some cases, no support is offered.
Box 3: No
An Azure service in general availability is available to all Azure customers, not just a subset of the customers.
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