Updates Archives
Monthly updates for August 2019
Soft delete for virtual machines in Azure Backup
We now provide soft delete capability to help protect cloud backups for IaaS virtual machines from accidental as well as malicious deletion.
Azure Data Factory mapping data flows adds SQL scripts to sink transformation
Azure Data Factory has added the ability to execute custom SQL scripts from your SQL sink transformation in mapping data flows. Now you can easily perform options such as disabling indexes, allows identity inserts, and other DDL/DML operations from data flows.
Service Fabric Azure Files Volume Driver is now generally available
Service Fabric Azure Files Volume Driver is now generally available. The Azure Files volume plugin is a Docker volume plugin that provides Azure Files based volumes for Docker containers.
Azure Site Recovery update rollup 39—August 2019
This update provides information on recent fixes as well as download links to the latest versions of Site Recovery components.
Global trace flags are now available in Azure SQL Database Managed Instance
You can now enable trace flags on Azure SQL Database Managed Instance to increase compatibility of your Managed Instance Database Engine and SQL Server Database Engine.
Azure IoT Hub manual failover now available
This feature is part of IoT Hub cloud service and allows customers to failover an IoT hub instance from its primary Azure region to its corresponding geo-paired region.
Azure Function Consumption plan for Linux is now available
The Azure Functions Consumption hosting plan is now generally available for Linux-based applications.
Python support in Azure Functions is now available
Python support in Azure Functions is now generally available and ready for production workloads.
Azure SQL provides a unified management experience
Azure SQL is a modern SQL platform that serves developers and enterprises by offering a rich selection of deployment options, powered by an industry leading SQL Server engine.
SQL data discovery and classification for Azure SQL Database is now available
SQL data discovery and classification, which provides advanced capabilities built into Azure SQL Database for discovering, classifying, labeling, and protecting sensitive data, is now available.
Same region read replica is now available for Azure Database for MariaDB
Azure Database for MariaDB now supports asynchronous replication of data from one Azure Database for MariaDB server (the ‘master’) to up to five Azure Database for MariaDB servers (the ‘replicas’) in the same region.
New Azure Blockchain SDK updates with Truffle
Work more efficiently with the updated Azure Blockchain Development Kit by using our new interactive debugger.
Azure Archive Expanded Capabilities now in Public Preview
Azure Archive Storage follows-up price drop with 3 new feature enhancements in public preview.
Announcing new lower pricing for Azure Archive Storage
Effective August 1, Azure Archive Storage dropped prices by up to 50% in some regions.
New Copy APIs for efficient data copy in Azure Blob Storage
Introducing a new set of copy APIs to enable efficient data transfer to Azure or inside Azure datacenters.
Azure portal August 2019 feature update
This month, Azure portal has updates to Azure Security Center and a new experience for Azure Migrate.
General availability of Managed Identity for Linux in App Service and Functions
Managed identity support for App Service on Linux and the Azure Functions Linux Consumption Plan is now generally available.
General availability of user-assigned managed identities for App Service and Azure Functions
App Service and Azure Functions support for user-assigned managed identities is now generally available.
New Quick Action Transformations Added to Data Factory Mapping Data Flows
Data Factory Mapping Data Flows has added a new "Quick Actions" feature to automate the creation of data transformations.
Update to Azure SQL Database serverless increases compute scale limits by 4x
We are now announcing the max vcore limit has increased by 4x to 16 vcores and provides greater compute scaling headroom for serverless databases with more demanding workloads.
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