Updates Archives
Monthly updates for September 2020
Azure Monitor ITSM Connector for BMC Helix with Secure Export
Introducing a preview of Secure Export as a new version of Azure Monitor ITSM Connector, providing integration with BMC Helix.
General availability of workspace-based Application Insights
Azure Monitor Application Insights now integrates deeply with Log Analytics for a unified workspace-based mode enabling you to store your app logs and your platform/infrastructure logs together in one place.
General availability of Azure Monitor for Key Vault and Azure Cache for Redis
Azure Monitor for Key Vault and Azure Monitor for Azure Cache for Redis provide out of the box insights for these resources using platform telemetry.
Public preview: Azure App Service Migration Assistant – Java Tomcat Support
You can now migrate your Java Tomcat web apps to Azure using the Azure App Service Migration Assistant tool.
Public preview: Steeltoe .NET Application Support in Azure Spring Cloud
Develop and release applications faster with Steeltoe .NET application support in Azure Spring Cloud.
Virtual Machine (VM) level Disk Bursting on Dvs3 and Esv3 VMs
Virtual Machine (VM) level Disk Bursting is now enabled on for our Dsv3 and Esv3 virtual machines, allowing customers’ workloads to handle unforeseen disk traffic spikes smoothly without the need to overprovision their virtual machine.
Azure Arc enabled servers are now generally available
Azure Arc enabled servers are now generally available for Windows and Linux servers outside of Azure
Dedicated clusters for Azure Monitor Log Analytics with data encryption at rest and Lockbox
Handle large scale deployments better by taking advantage of data encryption at rest (with Customer Managed Keys) and Lockbox, and even configure cluster-level capacity reservation with discounted pricing.
Global virtual network peering support for Azure SQL Managed Instance now available
Utilize global virtual network peering for your managed instances to save time through easy network configuration and by offloading your gateways from database replication traffic.
Hosting catalog databases for all supported versions of SSRS in Azure SQL Managed Instance
Expand your ability to quickly migrate existing solutions to Azure SQL Managed Instance with new catalog database hosting capabilities.
Major performance improvements for Azure SQL Managed Instances
Enhanced log write throughput and superior data/log IOPS make Azure SQL Managed Instances even more appealing for migration.
Machine Learning on Azure SQL Managed Instance in preview
Machine Learning Services with support for R and Python languages now include preview support on Azure SQL Managed Instance.
Configurable backup storage redundancy options for Azure SQL Database coming soon
New Azure SQL Database backup storage options coming soon, including local and zone-redundant storage.
Azure Stack Hub with GPU's now generally available
Azure Stack Hub now supports NVIDIA V100, NVIDIA T4 and AMD Mi25 GPU enabling ML, VDI and Inferencing on the edge.
Apache Spark for Azure Synapse In-cluster Caching and Shuffle Service (Preview)
Optimize performance on caching and shuffle with new services from Apache Spark for Azure Synapse
Public preview: Azure Kubernetes Service support for Kubernetes 1.19
AKS users can now benefit from features in Kubernetes 1.19 release
App-consistent backup for Oracle and MySQL DBs in preview
Pre-packaged script based solution to get application consistent snapshots for Oracle and MySQL DBs. Just provide connection information and workload name and leverage the instant restore benefit of Azure VM backups and minimize costs by selectively include/excluding relevant disks.
Public preview of Azure PostgreSQL backup with long-term retention
Now you can retain backups for up to 10 years by defining your own backup and retention policy for individual databases on PostgreSQL servers.
Introducing Azure Backup Center
Backup Center currently is in public preview for the workloads of Azure Virtual Machines and Azure Database for PostgreSQL servers and limited public preview for the workloads SQL in Azure VMs, SAP HANA in Azure VMs and Azure Files.
Azure Synapse Link now supports Azure Cosmos DB API for Mongo DB (Preview)
Analyze MongoDB data stored in Azure Cosmos DB collections using Azure Synapse Link.
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