Updates Archives
Monthly updates for June 2018
Tags to group, filter, and search APIs, operations, and products
Users can add and manage tags—text labels—to APIs, operations, and products. Tags allow better group, filter, and search in deployments with a large number of entities.
Azure API Management integration with Azure Application Insights
The Azure API Management integration with Azure Application Insights is now available. With this integration, you now have the ability to troubleshoot and debug APIs more effectively by adding API Management telemetry into Application Insights,
Azure Container Instances: June updates
Azure Container Instances enables multiple features in the newest API release, such as YAML support for deployment/export via AZ CLI 2.0, Log Analytics integration, secure environment variables, and liveness probes.
Cognitive Services Speech SDK June 2018 update
Cognitive Services Speech SDK 0.4.0 has been released with additional functionalities of audio input stream support and detailed output format support, along with bug fixes.
General availability: Disaster recovery for Azure IaaS virtual machines
Disaster recovery for Azure IaaS virtual machines using Azure Site Recovery is generally available.
General availability: Azure mobile app for Android and iOS
The Azure mobile app is generally available, so you can stay connected to your Azure resources—anytime, anywhere.
SQL Data Warehouse PolyBase support for Azure Storage Encryption using customer-managed keys
PolyBase in SQL Data Warehouse, the preferred loading mechanism, can transparently read data from the encrypted storage layer and move the data in a secure way by using the WASBS protocol.
Standard SSD Disks for Azure Virtual Machines is now in public preview
Azure Standard SSDs are a cost-effective Managed Disk solution optimized for dev-test and entry-level production applications requiring consistent latency.
API DevOps with Azure API Management
Microsoft is working on guidance, samples, and open source tools that will enable you to automate API deployment to shared environments, and by multiple teams, without interfering with each other.
OpenAPI v3 support in Azure API Management
Azure API Management currently supports OpenAPI versions 1.2 and 2.0. Microsoft is in the process of adding support for the recently released OpenAPI version 3 of the specification in both JSON and YAML formats.
HTTP/2 support in Azure API Management
HTTP/2 is a major revision of the HTTP protocol focused on performance and efficiency. Microsoft is working on enabling HTTP/2 support on the client-facing side of the gateway.
Use an external cache with Azure API Management
Response caching is an effective way to reduce request latency and back end load. Microsoft is working on enabling you to use an external Redis-compatible cache, for example, Azure Redis Cache.
More flexibility to manage product subscriptions in Azure API Management
Currently, API Management provides users access to APIs based on product subscriptions owned by a user, and each subscription includes properties and a pair of API keys. Microsoft is working on expanding this approach to allow subscriptions and keys to be owned by a group of users, or even to not be associated with any users.
Use Azure Key Vault-managed client certificates in Azure API Management
Microsoft is working to expand the ability to use Azure Key Vault-managed SSL certificates for custom domain names in API Management to mutual certificate authentication between the API gateway and a back end system.
PostgreSQL 10.3 released on Azure Database for PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL major version 10 is now available on Azure Database for PostgreSQL.
Public preview: Storage Explorer in the Azure portal
We're excited to announce the public preview of Storage Explorer for your storage accounts in the Azure portal.
Streamline setting up your Power BI Embedded environment
Configure your Power BI Embedded environment by using an improved setup page.
Apply bookmark state on report load through Power BI Embedded Bookmarks API
An application can apply bookmarks upon loading the report through Power BI Embedded Bookmarks API.
Set the background color of a Power BI Embedded IFrame
You can now set the background color of the Power BI Embedded IFrame by making it transparent. By doing so, you'll give the IFrame the defined color of the DIV element that contains the IFrame.
Azure Security Center—New features announced at RSA 2018 now GA
Azure Security Center released new features, now generally available, that will provide you with centralized visibility into the security state of your hybrid cloud workloads, and help you quickly take action.
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