Updates Archives
Monthly updates for November 2019
Batch delivery in Azure Event Grid for high-throughput scenarios now in preview
Azure Event Grid subscriptions can now be configured to publish events to your endpoints in batches (and not only individually) in order to handle more efficiently high-throughput scenarios.
Azure Event Grid now supports CloudEvents v1.0 for greater interoperability
Azure Event Grid now supports CloudEvents v1.0, the open standard event format incubated at the Cloud Native Compute Foundation and built by several collaborators, including Microsoft
Azure DevTest Labs: Azure managed identities to deploy lab environments
Azure managed identities to deploy lab environments as a lab owner, you can now use a user-assigned managed identity to deploy environments in a lab. This feature is helpful in scenarios where the environment contains or has references to Azure resources such as key vaults, shared image galleries and networks that are external to the environment’s resource group. It enables creation of sandbox environments that aren’t limited to the resource group of that environment only.
Azure Logic Apps updates for September and October 2019
The Azure Logic Apps updates for September and October 2019 include features, connector updates and announcements about regional deployments.
Azure Site Recovery update rollup 42 – November 2019
Learn about the latest Azure Site Recovery updates.
HPC Specialized VMs - HB and HC-series
Azure HB and HC Virtual Machines expand to new regions
New Azure policies to manage certificates across your organisation, currently in preview
Large organisations have thousands of certificates in key vaults distributed across thousands of applications and subscriptions.
Azure Key Vault Virtual Machine extension now generally available
The Azure Key Vault Virtual Machine extension makes it easier for apps running on virtual machines to use certificates from a key vault, by abstracting the common tasks as well as best practices.
Extension of Customer Lockbox for Microsoft Azure beyond virtual machines
Customer Lockbox provides customers with the capability to control Azure support engineers’ access to workloads that contain customer data. This expanded support now provides customers control over access to their data for a larger set of Azure offerings.
Azure Disk Encryption in more places, and more services offering customer-managed keys
Azure Disk Encryption enables you to encrypt your Azure Virtual Machine disks with your keys safeguarded in Azure Key Vault.
Release of Microsoft Secure Code Analysis toolkit to help you build secure code
With the Microsoft Security Code Analysis extension, you can infuse security analysis tools including Credential Scanner, BinSkim and others into your Azure DevOps continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.
Threat Protection for Azure Key Vault in public preview in North America regions
Azure Key Vault is an essential service for protecting data and improving performance of cloud applications by offering the ability to centrally manage keys, secrets, cryptographic keys and policies in the cloud.
Threat Protection for Azure Storage includes Malware Reputation Screening
You can now view detected malware across storage accounts using Azure Security Center.
Azure Container Registry repository-scoped RBAC permissions are now in preview
Announcing the public preview of repository-scoped RBAC permissions for Azure Container Registry (ACR).
Azure Container Registry – Diagnostic logs are now in preview
Diagnostic logs for Azure Container Registry are now in preview.
New Azure Advisor recommendation category: operational excellence
Azure Advisor is launching a new category of recommendations called operational excellence. This new category will help you follow best practices for process and workflow efficiency, resource manageability and deployment.
Migrate SQL Server databases for Windows users to SQL managed instance
Support is now available in preview for T-SQL Data Definition Language (DDL) for Windows users and groups migrating from SQL Server databases to SQL managed instance with Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) authentication.
GitHub Actions for Azure are now generally available
GitHub Actions, now generally available, make it possible to create simple, yet powerful workflows to automate software compilation and delivery, and are integrated with GitHub.
Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus) – User role management is now available
Now in general availability, user role management enables management of Postgres user roles on Hyperscale (Citus) server group nodes in addition to "citus" and other built-in roles.
Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus) – 64 vCore compute option is now available
Now in general availability, Hyperscale (Citus) supports a 64 vCore compute option in addition to the 4, 8, 16 and 32 vCore choices previously available.
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