Updates Archives
Monthly updates for April 2019
Azure portal April 2019 update
The Azure portal has been updated in the areas of IaaS, Azure Data Explorer, Security Center, Azure Site Recovery, RBAC, support and more.
Azure Search – New storage-optimised service tiers are now in preview
The new L-series tiers offer significantly more storage at a reduced cost per terabyte compared to the standard tiers. This is ideal for internal applications searching over large file repositories, archival scenarios when you have business data going back many years or e-discovery applications.
Video Indexer has been enhanced with new features
Significant updates have been made to Video Indexer, including enhanced language customisation experiences, new scene segmentation and ending rolling credits detection models.
Reduced pricing for Azure AD B2C
The Azure AD B2C service will no longer charge for “Stored Users” from 1 April 2019, to lower the cost of managing consumer identities.
The identity experience framework orchestration platform of Microsoft Azure Active Directory B2C (Azure AD B2C) is now available
Craft custom policies and user flows for identity (for example sign-in, sign-up, profile edit, password reset) in consumer and e-commerce applications with the identity experience framework orchestration platform of Microsoft Azure Active Directory B2C (Azure AD B2C)
Premium Blob storage is now generally available
Premium Blob storage is a new tier of Azure Blob storage that’s ideal for demanding workloads requiring high transaction rates, or faster and more consistent response times, such as IOT and telemetry.
Upgrade your existing Service Bus standard namespaces to premium in-place
Upgrade existing multi-tenant Service Bus standard namespaces to dedicated premium namespaces by using our new migration tool.
New geospatial features in Azure Stream Analytics are now generally available
Azure Stream Analytics now offers full support for WKT geospatial format.
Managed identities-based authentication for egress to Azure Data Lake Storage Gen 1
If you use Azure Stream Analytics, you’ll now be able to run your real-time pipelines with MSI based authentication while writing to Azure Data Lake Storage Gen 1.
Azure AD password protection
Azure AD password protection helps you eliminate easily guessed passwords from your environment, which can dramatically lower the risk of being compromised by a password spray attack.
B-series update: B1ls is now available
The new B1ls Azure virtual machine, which has the smallest memory and lowest cost among Azure VM instances, is now available.
Speech service region expansion to ten additional regions
The post is about informing customers of the ten new regions that Speech is now available in.
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