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Monthly updates for November 2019

27 Nov

IoT Hub message routing to Azure Data Lake StoreGen2 is now available

NOW AVAILABLE

IoT Hub message routing to Data Lake StoreGen2 is now available

  • Azure IoT Hub
  • Features
22 Nov

The D15_v2/DS15_v2 Azure Virtual Machines may no longer be isolated, starting May 15, 2020

Target retirement date: May 15, 2020

We recently announced Azure Dedicated Host Preview which allows you to run your organization’s Linux and Windows virtual machines (VMs) on single-tenant physical servers

  • Virtual Machines
  • Services
  • Retirements
19 Nov

Azure Database for PostgreSQL single server is now available in Switzerland regions

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Database for PostgreSQL is now generally available in the recently announced regions of Switzerland.

  • Azure Database for PostgreSQL
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Open Source
  • Features
19 Nov

Azure Database for MariaDB server is now available in Switzerland regions

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Database for MariaDB is now generally available in the recently announced regions of Switzerland.

  • Azure Database for MariaDB
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Services
  • Open Source
  • Features
19 Nov

Azure Database for MySQL is now available in Switzerland regions

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Database for MySQL is now generally available in the recently announced regions of Switzerland.

  • Azure Database for MySQL
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Services
  • Open Source
18 Nov

Azure Media Services now supports live transcription in preview

IN PREVIEW

Azure Media Services provides a platform which you can use to ingest, transcode, and dynamically package and encrypt your live video for delivery. Live transcriptions is a new feature in the Azure Media Services v3 APIs, wherein you can enhance the streams delivered to your viewers with machine-generated text that is transcribed from spoken words in the audio feed.

  • Media Services
  • Video Indexer
  • Services
  • Features
14 Nov

HPC Specialized VMs - HB and HC-series

IN PREVIEW

Azure HB and HC Virtual Machines expand to new regions

  • Virtual Machines
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Services
  • Features
14 Nov

Azure Key Vault Virtual Machine extension now generally available

NOW 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.

  • Key Vault
  • Security
14 Nov

Extension of Customer Lockbox for Microsoft Azure beyond virtual machines

IN PREVIEW

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.

  • Security Center
  • Security
14 Nov

Azure Disk Encryption in more places, and more services offering customer-managed keys

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Disk Encryption enables you to encrypt your Azure Virtual Machine disks with your keys safeguarded in Azure Key Vault.

  • Security Center
  • Security
13 Nov

Migrate from Bing Speech to Speech Services and the Speech SDK by 14 January 2020

Target retirement date: January 14, 2020

We’re extending the Bing Speech retirement date to 14 January 2020.

  • Azure AI services
  • Services
  • Retirements
12 Nov

Azure Database for PostgreSQL Single Server – Reserved capacity is now available

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Database for PostgreSQL Single Server reserved capacity is now available to reserve compute power for your existing and future PostgreSQL servers.

  • Azure Database for PostgreSQL
  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Open Source
  • Features
12 Nov

Azure Database for MariaDB – Reserved capacity is now available

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Database for MariaDB reserved capacity is now available to reserve compute power for your existing and future MariaDB servers.

  • Azure Database for MariaDB
  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Open Source
  • Features
12 Nov

Azure Database for MySQL – Reserved capacity is now available

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Database for MySQL reserved capacity is now available to reserve compute power for your existing and future MySQL servers.

  • Azure Database for MySQL
  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Open Source
  • Features
11 Nov

Azure Stream Analytics – Real-time scoring with custom machine learning models

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Stream Analytics now supports high-performance, real-time scoring by taking advantage of custom pre-trained machine learning models that are managed by Azure Machine Learning service and hosted in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) or Azure Container Instances, using a workflow that doesn’t require users to write any code.

  • Azure Stream Analytics
  • Features
5 Nov

Announcing enhancements to Azure Virtual WAN

IN PREVIEW

Significant updates include the preview of hub-to-hub.

  • Virtual WAN
  • Services
5 Nov

Azure Firewall Manager is now in preview

IN PREVIEW

Azure Firewall Manager Preview is a security management service that provides central security policy and route management for cloud-based security perimeters. It works with Azure Virtual WAN Hub, a Microsoft-managed resource that lets you easily create hub and spoke architectures. When security and routing policies are associated with such a hub, it is referred to as a Secured Virtual Hub.

  • Azure Firewall
  • Security
4 Nov

Vulnerability assessment in Azure Security Center

IN PREVIEW

Applications that are installed in virtual machines could often have vulnerabilities that could lead to a breach of the virtual machine. We are announcing that the Security Center Standard tier includes built-in vulnerability assessment for virtual machines for no additional fee.

  • Security Center
  • Security
4 Nov

Advanced data security for SQL servers on Azure Virtual Machines

IN PREVIEW

Azure Security Center’s support for threat protection and vulnerability assessment for SQL DBs running on IaaS virtual machines (VMs) is now in preview

  • Security Center
  • Security
4 Nov

New Azure Monitor Application Insights agent is now available

IN PREVIEW

For customers who have ASP.NET applications hosted on Azure Virtual Machines running IIS, we’re adding a new “codeless” onboarding method that uses an agent and doesn’t require access to the code.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Features

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