Updates Archives
Monthly updates for April 2019
Public preview: Windows Server 2019 container support in Azure App Service
Windows Server 2019 Container Support is now available in the public preview of Windows Containers on Azure App Service.
Support for new redirect of URLs of Azure AD B2C is in development
Recently, Azure AD B2C has introduced a new URL, b2clogin.com, and plans to retire the previously used one at a future time.
New developer portal in Azure API Management is in development
We are working on a new, open-source developer portal offering in Azure API Management, based on our own fork of the Paperbits framework (paperbits.io).
Performance Recommendations for Azure Database for PostgreSQL now available
Azure Database for PostgreSQL can learn and adapt to users’ workloads. The generally available release of Performance Recommendations, which is one of three features comprising the Intelligent Performance feature set, provides users with a list of recommendations for creating or dropping new indexes to potentially improve the performance of their workloads.
Query Performance Insights for Azure Database for PostgreSQL now available
The Query Performance Insights feature in Azure Database for PostgreSQL is now generally available. Query Performance Insights is one of the three features that comprise the Intelligent Performance feature set.
Query Store for Azure Database for PostgreSQL now available
Azure Database for PostgreSQL now provides general availability support for Query Store, which is one of three features comprising the Intelligent Performance feature set. Query Store collects and stores query execution statistics and wait event distributions.
Event-driven Java with Spring Cloud Stream Binder for Azure Event Hubs is now available
It’s simple to build highly scalable, event-driven Java apps using Spring Cloud Stream with Event Hubs, a fully managed, real-time data ingestion service now available on Azure that’s a resilient and reliable service for any situation.
Azure portal April 2019 update
The Azure portal has been updated in the areas of IaaS, Azure Data Explorer, Security Center, Azure Site Recovery, RBAC, support, and more.
Azure Search—New storage optimized service tiers are now in preview
The new L-series tiers offer significantly more storage at a reduced cost per terabyte compared to the standard tiers. This is ideal for internal applications searching over large file repositories, archival scenarios when you have business data going back many years, or e-discovery applications.
Video Indexer has been enhanced with new features
Significant updates have been made to Video Indexer, including enhanced language customization experiences, new scene segmentation, and ending rolling credits detection models.
The identity experience framework orchestration platform of Microsoft Azure Active Directory B2C (Azure AD B2C) is now available
Craft custom policies and user flows for identity (for example, sign-in, sign-up, profile edit, password reset) in consumer and e-commerce applications with the identity experience framework orchestration platform of Microsoft Azure Active Directory B2C (Azure AD B2C)
Premium Blob storage is now generally available
Premium Blob storage is a new tier of Azure Blob storage that’s ideal for demanding workloads requiring high transaction rates, or faster and more consistent response times like IOT and telemetry.
Upgrade your existing Service Bus standard namespaces to premium in-place
Upgrade existing multi-tenant Service Bus standard namespaces to dedicated premium namespaces by using our new migration tool.
New geospatial features in Azure Stream Analytics are now generally available
Azure Stream Analytics now offers full support for WKT geospatial format.
Managed identities-based authentication for egress to Azure Data Lake Storage Gen 1
If you use Azure Stream Analytics, you’ll now be able to run your real-time pipelines with MSI based authentication while writing to Azure Data Lake Storage Gen 1.
Azure AD password protection
Azure AD password protection helps you eliminate easily guessed passwords from your environment, which can dramatically lower the risk of being compromised by a password spray attack.
B-series update: B1ls is now available
The new B1ls Azure virtual machine, which has the smallest memory and lowest cost among Azure VM instances, is now available.
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