Updates Archives
Monthly updates for September 2018
HDInsight 4.0 in preview
Azure HDInsight 4.0 Preview is now available, backed by our enterprise-grade SLA.
Azure Database Migration Service: SQL to Azure SQL DB Managed Instance online migrations
Migrate SQL Server databases to Azure SQL Database Managed Instance with minimal downtime by using preview functionality in the Azure Database Migration Service.
Azure Database Migration Service: SQL to Azure SQL Database offline migration support
Now generally available, the Azure Database Migration Service provides you with the ability to assess SQL Server workloads running on-premises or on VMs, and to perform offline migrations to Azure SQL Database Managed Instance.
Preview of performance recommendations for Azure Database for PostgreSQL
Azure Database for PostgreSQL can learn and adapt to your workloads. The preview release of performance recommendations provides a list of recommendations for creating new indexes to potentially improve the performance of your workloads.
Query performance insights for Azure Database for PostgreSQL in preview
The query performance insights feature in Azure Database for PostgreSQL is now available in preview.
Preview of Query Store for Azure Database for PostgreSQL
Azure Database for PostgreSQL now provides preview support for query store, which collects and stores query execution statistics and wait event distributions.
Latest update to the Power BI service
The latest update to the Power BI service includes dashboard comments and Premium Capacity Monitoring app.
Power BI Desktop September
We have a preview of aggregations for Power BI that allow you to seamlessly store only summarised values in memory without having to load your entire data set into Power BI, greatly improving the performance of your reports.
Azure Policy for Azure DevOps
Azure Policy integration with Azure DevOps is now available.
Azure Advisor: New recommendations and tighter integrations
Additional recommendations are now available in Azure Advisor, your personalised guide to Azure best practices. Advisor is a free service that helps you optimise your Azure resources to reduce costs, boost performance, strengthen security and improve reliability.
Azure Service Health: Immediate alerts about resource health issues
Azure Service Health now offers immediate alerts about resource health issues – even before an outage is declared – to help you stay informed about the status of your Azure environment. Service Health provides personalised alerts and guidance when Azure service issues like incidents and planned maintenance affect your resources.
App Service – Python for App Service Linux preview
App Service on Linux now supports Python 3.6/3.7 in preview.
Azure Databricks Delta now in preview
The delta feature is now available in preview at no additional cost in the premium SKU of Azure Databricks. With delta, customers get better data reliability, improved performance for their jobs and queries, and the opportunity to simplify their data pipelines. Delta is a transactional storage layer in Azure Databricks. With delta, we’re enabling customers to simplify building high-performance analytics solutions at scale using Azure Databricks and get better reliability and higher performance on Spark jobs and queries.
New GPU-enabled NVv2 Azure Virtual Machines for graphics-intensive applications
NVv2 Azure Virtual Machines, which have been architected to support remote visualisation workloads and other graphics-intensive applications, are now available in preview.
Azure Cosmos DB reserved capacity now generally available
Azure Cosmos DB reserved capacity helps you save when you pre-pay for one year or three years. With Azure Cosmos DB reserved capacity, get a discount on the resources used and reduce your costs by up to 65 per cent compared to pay-as-you-go prices.
Azure Cosmos DB Cassandra API now generally available
With the Azure Cosmos DB Cassandra API, experience the power of the Azure Cosmos DB platform with the familiarity of your favourite Apache Cassandra SDKs and tools.
Azure Sphere services are in public preview and dev kits are broadly available
Azure Sphere is an IoT offering from Microsoft that enables manufacturers to create highly secured, Internet-connected microcontroller (MCU) devices. The first Azure Sphere dev kit is now available, and the Azure Sphere Security Service, Operating System and Visual Studio development tools for Azure Sphere are now in preview.
Cosmos DB Multi-Master support now generally available
Multi-master support for Azure Cosmos DB is now available in all public regions. Elastically scale writes (in addition to reads) all around the world, across any number of Azure regions for any API (SQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, Gremlin, Table) that the service supports.
Azure Standard SSDs now generally available
We’re announcing the general availability of Standard SSD: a cost-effective Azure Managed Disks offering optimised for low IOPS workloads that need consistent performance.
Azure Active Directory Integration with Azure Files in preview
Azure Files Azure AD Integration for SMB access using Azure AD Domain Services is now available in preview.
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