Updates Archives
Monthly updates for November 2019
Azure Storage—Restoration of NSG flow logs retention
Retention on NSG flow logs was recently disabled, however, the functionality has been restored for general purpose v2 (GPv2) accounts and Blob storage accounts. Support for general purpose v1 (GPv1) storage accounts in NSG flow logs is being deprecated and retention for them will not be restored.
New Azure SQL Database backup storage metrics are now generally available
New metrics are now available to monitor Azure SQL Database backup storage consumption.
The D15_v2/DS15_v2 Azure Virtual Machines may no longer be isolated, starting May 15, 2020
Target retirement date: May 15, 2020
We recently announced Azure Dedicated Host Preview which allows you to run your organization’s Linux and Windows virtual machines (VMs) on single-tenant physical servers
Change feed support now available in preview for Azure Blob Storage
Change feed support for Microsoft Azure Blob storage is now available in preview.
Azure Cognitive Services Translator Text— Maori language now available
Target availability: Q4 2019
Translator Text now supports the Maori language.
PostgreSQL and MySQL and MariaDB General Purpose Large Scale Storage Meter ID and Name Changes
Effective January 1, 2020, the meter IDs and names of Azure Database for PostgreSQL and MySQL and MariaDB General Purpose -Large Scale Storage will change.
Azure Data Share dataset movement meter name changes
Effective January 1, 2020, the meter names for Azure Data Share dataset movement—vCore will change.
Azure Data Box Edge (now Azure Stack Edge) meter name changes
Azure Data Box Edge is now Azure Stack Edge. Starting on January 1, 2020, meter names in US Gov regions will change when the service becomes generally available.
Azure Stack and Azure Data Box Edge meter name changes
Effective January 1, 2020, the meter names of Azure Stack and Data Box Edge will change.
Azure Functions premium plan meter ID changes
Starting on January 1, 2020, Azure Functions premium plan meter ID names will change.
New Dashboard with Cost Estimator
Azure Lab Services added a dashboard view enabling instructors to view the summary of the lab
IoT Hub new features now available for device and module twins
Announcing several feature improvements for Azure IoT Hub device and module twins, namely the support for deep property nesting, and increases to the twin document max size and key/value lengths.
Azure Database for MariaDB server is now available in Switzerland regions
Azure Database for MariaDB is now generally available in the recently announced regions of Switzerland.
Azure Database for MySQL is now available in Switzerland regions
Azure Database for MySQL is now generally available in the recently announced regions of Switzerland.
Azure Site Recovery is now available in new Azure regions
Azure Site Recovery is now available in Norway East and Norway West Azure regions.
Azure App Service—Increased scale out limits for Premium v2 plans
Azure App Service has increased the maximum scale out limit for PremiumV2 app service plans to 30 instances in select regions around the world.
HPC Specialized VMs (GPU) - NVv4-Series in preview
NVv4-Series VMs are now available in preview in South Central US and West Europe regions
Azure Media Services now supports Live Transcription in preview
Azure Media Services provides a platform which you can use to ingest, transcode, and dynamically package and encrypt your live video for delivery. Live Transcriptions is a new feature in the Azure Media Services v3 APIs, wherein you can enhance the streams delivered to your viewers with machine-generated text that is transcribed from spoken words in the audio feed.
Enhanced observability for event-driven applications with Azure Event Grid now in preview
Azure Event Grid now integrates with Azure Monitor alerts.
Publish to Azure Active Directory protected endpoints from Azure Event Grid now in preview
Azure Event Grid can now publish events to AAD protected endpoints
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