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Monthly updates for June 2015

30 Jun

General availability: Azure Virtual Machine services in Azure Resource Manager

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Virtual Machines, virtual networks, load balancer network interfaces, public IP addresses, network security groups, VPN gateways and Application Gateways are generally available and supported through Azure Resource Manager.

  • Load Balancing
  • Virtual Machines
  • Virtual Network
  • VPN Gateway
  • Security
  • Features
29 Jun

API Management service updates

Improvements in the JWT token policy, proxy server, and developer portal for the API Management service.

  • API Management
  • Features
25 Jun

General availability: Azure Application Gateway

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Application Gateway helps you build highly scalable and available applications by providing application-level (HTTP/HTTPS) load balancing and delivery control.

  • Application Gateway
  • Services
  • Security
25 Jun

Programmatic access to Azure usage data and resource retail rates

IN PREVIEW

Get programmatic access to Azure usage and pricing data.

  • Pricing & Offerings
25 Jun

Limited public preview: Azure SQL Data Warehouse

IN PREVIEW

Azure SQL Data Warehouse is a fully managed, elastic, and petabyte-scale columnar data-warehouse service that’s fully compatible and integrated with the Microsoft SQL Server ecosystem.

  • Azure Synapse Analytics
  • Services
24 Jun

Schedule Logic apps to run in the future

Create a Logic app that will run at a specific time in the future by using a new startTime property on triggers.

  • App Service
  • Features
24 Jun

General availability: Azure Active Directory Connect Health

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure AD Connect Health helps you monitor and gain insight into your on-premises identity infrastructure.

  • Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD)
  • Services
  • Security
  • Features
24 Jun

Application Insights supports exporting data to Excel

IN PREVIEW

Application Insights enables exporting charts and tables from Metric Explorer to Excel files.

  • Application Insights
  • Services
  • Features
24 Jun

Automation: Graphical authoring improvements June 2015

Azure Automation graphical runbook authoring added new features to improve your experience in configuring activity input parameters, creating runbook input parameters, and testing.

  • Automation
  • Features
24 Jun

General availability: Azure Active Directory Connect

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Active Directory Connect, the tool to connect Active Directory and Azure Active Directory in a few clicks, is now generally available.

  • Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD)
  • Services
  • Security
  • Features
24 Jun

General availability: Azure Key Vault

NOW AVAILABLE

Key Vault is generally available to help cloud application developers safeguard keys and other secrets.

  • Key Vault
  • Services
  • Security
23 Jun

Azure Redis Cache: Scaling preview and more features

Scaling and more features were in added in the June update for Azure Redis Cache.

  • Azure Cache for Redis
  • Features
11 Jun

Application Insights pricing in effect

Application Insights pricing starts with a free tier and is based on data volume. There's also a free trial of the Premium tier.

  • Application Insights
  • Pricing & Offerings
11 Jun

Azure Cosmos DB Updates in Azure Preview portal

A number of Azure Cosmos DB enhancements were made in the Azure Preview portal.

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Features
10 Jun

Generally availablity: Azure Premium Storage in Australia East

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Premium Storage is a solid-state drive (SSD)–based storage solution designed to support I/O-intensive workloads.

  • Storage Accounts
  • Services
  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Regions & Datacenters
9 Jun

Azure Backup available in new regions

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Backup is now available in the following regions: Central US, North Central US, South Central US, East US2, Brazil South.

  • Azure Backup
  • Regions & Datacenters
5 Jun

CDN updates in Azure Management portal

You can now use the Management portal to configure a custom CDN origin, create multiple CDN endpoints for the origin, and save the CDN content in any folder.

  • Content Delivery Network
  • Services
5 Jun

General availability: Recover Generation 2 virtual machines to Azure

NOW AVAILABLE

You can now protect and recover Generation 2 virtual machines to Azure in all regions supported by Azure Site Recovery.

  • Azure Site Recovery
4 Jun

Create empty resource groups

You can create empty resource groups from Browse > Resource groups via the Add command or by searching for "resource group" in the Marketplace.

  • Microsoft Azure portal
  • Features
4 Jun

Logic app templates in Azure Marketplace

There is a section in the Azure Marketplace that is full of templates for Logic apps to get you started quickly.

  • App Service
  • Features

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