Updates Archives
Monthly updates for November 2019
Azure Database for MySQL—Large storage is now generally available
Support is now available for up to 16 TB of storage and up to 20,000 IOPS in Azure Database services for MySQL.
Azure Synapse Analytics—Continuous integration and deployment with SSDT is now available
The highest requested feature for Azure Synapse Analytics is now available—SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) Database projects. This release includes support for SSDT with Visual Studio 2019, along with native platform integration with Azure DevOps, providing built-in continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) capabilities for enterprise level deployments.
Azure DevOps—New sprint burndown widget and improved pipelines security
In the latest update to Azure DevOps, we added a new sprint burndown widget that supports burning down by story points, count of tasks and by summing custom fields. In addition, we improved pipelines security by restricting the scope of access tokens.
Azure Data Factory has added Avro and CosmosDB to data flows
Target availability: Q4 2019
Azure Data Factory has added native CosmosDB and Avro connectors to mapping data flows
Azure Stream Analytics—Real-time scoring with custom machine learning models
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 does not require users to write any code.
Azure Stream Analytics—Managed Identity authentication with Power BI
Stream Analytics now offers full support for managed identity-based authentication with Power BI for dynamic dashboarding experience.
Azure Stream Analytics—C# custom deserializers in Cloud and IoT edge
Take advantage of the power of Stream Analytics to process data in Protobuf, XML, or any custom format.
Online scaling for Stream Analytics jobs
Target availability: Q4 2019
With online scaling capability, it’s now possible to increase or decrease the SU capacity of a running job without having to stop it, so you will no longer be required to stop your job if you need to change the SU allocation.
Azure Kinect DK coming to Japan, Germany and the United Kingdom
In March 2020 the Azure Kinect DK will be available for purchase in Japan, Germany and the United Kingdom.
Public and project-scoped feeds for Azure Artifacts
Azure Artifacts now allows creating public feeds (shared with every unauthenticated user on the Internet) or project-scoped ones
Azure DevOps roadmap update
Exciting enhancements and features are coming soon to all Azure DevOps services. Visit the features timeline for the complete list.
Enforce artifact policies for Azure Pipelines - Preview
Azure Pipelines allows the creation and enforcement of artifact policies that will help tracing an artifact from source control to production. Available in preview.
Azure Active Directory B2C now supports monthly active users billing
Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) B2C now supports billing based on the count of unique users with authentication activity within a calendar month, known as monthly active users (MAU) billing.
Azure HDInsight—Autoscale is now generally available
Autoscale for Azure HDInsight is now generally available across all regions for Apache Spark and Hadoop workloads. This feature makes it possible to operate your big data analytics workloads in a more cost-efficient and productive way, so you can drive higher use of your HDInsight clusters and pay only for what you need.
Azure Shared Image Gallery now available in Azure Government and Azure China
Azure Shared Image Gallery is now generally available in Azure Government and Azure China cloud regions.
Azure Shared Image Gallery now supports specialized images in preview
Azure Shared Image Gallery now supports specialized images in preview. This feature enables you to create specialised image versions using multiple snapshots (OS disk and data disks).
New deployment strategies and caching for Azure Pipelines
Updates to Azure Pipelines include new deployment strategies (canary for Kubernetes, rolling for Kubernetes and VMs), as well as the GA of Pipeline Caching.
HDInsight HBase Accelerated Writes is now generally available
Target availability: Q4 2019
The accelerated writes feature in the HDInsight HBase cluster attaches a Premium SSD managed disk to every region server (worker node). Write ahead logs are configured to be written to Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) mounted on premium managed disks instead of standard Azure page blobs. Premium managed disks are SSD-based and offer excellent I/O performance with fault tolerance. Using premium managed disks for WALs allows us to separate write ahead log storage from Apache HBase data storage.
Azure HDInsight now enables you to customise Azure SQL Database for Ambari
A new Azure HDInsight capability enables you to customise and upgrade your Azure SQL Database for Apache Ambari during cluster creation.
Native Azure Active Directory authentication support in point-to-site VPN
Target availability: Q4 2019
Native Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) authentication support for OpenVPN protocol and Azure VPN Client for Windows are now available.
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