Updates Archives
Monthly updates for December 2019
Azure Red Hat OpenShift region expansion
Azure Red Hat OpenShift is now generally available in Brazil South, Central India, Japan East, Korea Central, North Central US and South Africa North.
Improvements to Azure Monitor for containers could impact your queries
The new Azure Monitor for containers agent, version ciprod12042019, introduces major improvements in resource use and data volume optimizations to help reduce costs. As part of these improvements, we’ve disabled the collection of Name and Image fields in the ContainerLog table since these fields are available in other tables
Azure Active Directory Domain Services meter name changes
The meter names of Azure Active Directory Domain Services directory objects will change between December 10, 2019, and February 1, 2020. The name changes will be in effect to accommodate upcoming enhancements. This won't impact existing service behavior, only the name you see on your bill.
Csharp and Java SDKs for IoT Plug and Play are now in Preview
We have added two more SDK languages to the IoT Plug and Play public preview. You can now develop with the Azure IoT Csharp SDK and the Azure IoT Java SDK, in addition to Azure IoT SDK for Node.js and Azure IoT SDK for C.
Azure Australia Central Region Changes
Effective 1 February 2020 , the pricing promotion for the Azure Australia Central regions will end and all services in Australia Central and Australia Central 2 will be price-matched to Australia East.
Azure Cognitive Speech Services meter ID changes
Effective February 1, 2020, the Resource GUIDs (also known as Meter IDs) of Custom Voice endpoint hosting in Speech Services will change. Billing will change from daily to hourly.
Azure Search meter names will change on February 1, 2020
Effective February 1, 2020, the meter names of Azure Search will change.
Azure SQL Database managed instance meter PITRs name changes
Effective February 1, 2020, the meter names of Azure SQL Database managed instance point-in-time restore (PITR) backup will change.
Azure IOT Central meter IDs will change on February 3, 2020
Effective February 3, 2020, the meter IDs of Azure IoT Central will change based on the number of message allocations. The Overages Messages meter ID will change as well. Modify your billing routines that rely on meter IDs. Your pricing may also be impacted. See the pricing page for details.
IoT Hub feature, service tags, is now generally available
With the general availability of IoT Hub service tags, customers can discover IoT Hub service endpoints’ IP addresses with ease.
Azure SQL Database Gen 4 hardware approaching end of life in 2020
Target retirement date: December 18, 2019
Azure SQL Database is beginning the decommissioning process of Gen 4 Intel E5-2673 v3 (Haswell)-based CPUs and is transitioning to Intel E5-2673 v4 (Broadwell) 2.3 GHz and Intel SP8160 (Skylake) processors for all new deployments.
Serial console for Azure Virual Machines now available in US Government Cloud
Serial console is now available in preview in the Azure US Government Cloud, allowing customers in the government-only clouds to access the serial console of their VMs or virtual machine scale set instances.
Web Application Firewall—New bot protection rule now in preview
A new bot protection ruleset (Microsoft_BotManagerRuleSet_1.0) is now in preview for Azure Web Application Firewall with Azure Front Door service.
Custom Translator—November 2019 improvements and language models update
Target availability: Q4 2019
Here are the updates on Microsoft Custom Translator bug fixes, improvements, and new/refreshed models for November 2019.
HC-Series High Performance Computing VMs now available in South Central US
HC-Series VMs are now available in South Central US
Easily monitor backup storage costs for Azure SQL databases and elastic pools
Easily monitor backup storage costs for your single databases and elastic pools directly from the Azure portal.
Azure Spot VMs now in Preview
Buy unused compute capacity at deep discounts and run interruptible workloads at scale with Azure Spot VMs now in Preview.
Azure Dedicated Hosts now generally available
A new Azure service that provides physical servers capable of hosting one or more Azure virtual machines. The server is dedicated to your organization and workloads.
Azure Monitor Application Insights now available in Switzerland North and Australia Southeast
Target availability: Q4 2019
Azure Application Insights is now generally available in the Switzerland North and the Australia Southeast regions.
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