Updates Archives
Monthly updates for October 2020
General Availability: Azure Kubernetes Service support for proximity placement groups
Co-locate agent nodes and minimize node-to-node latency with AKS support for proximity placement groups.
Preview: Azure Monitor for containers now support capacity monitoring of Persistent Volume (PV)
In this preview support you can monitor the capacity of the PVs. You can visualize, query and enable fast alert on the PV capacity & inventory metrics.
Azure Databricks now available in Switzerland North
Azure Databricks is now available in the Swiss Azure datacenters which marks another milestone on the way to digitize Switzerland
Azure Red Hat OpenShift 3.11 will be retired on 30 June 2022
Target retirement date: June 30, 2022
Start using Azure Red Hat OpenShift on OpenShift 4.
Community support for PHP 7.4 is ending on 28 November 2022
Target retirement date: November 28, 2022
App Service support for PHP 7.4 on Windows is ending on 28 November 2022.
Legacy developer portal in Azure API Management will retire on 31 October 2023
Target retirement date: October 31, 2023
Start using the new developer portal in Azure API Management.
Action Required: Update to Data Science Virtual Machine Ubuntu 18.04
Target retirement date: October 31, 2023
Migrate to Data Science Virtual Machine – Ubuntu 18.04 Image.
Schema Registry for Azure Event Hubs public preview
Utilize the Schema Registry in Azure Event Hubs to provide data governance and operational efficiencies for message delivery.
Policy to control the minimum TLS version used with Azure Storage now generally available
Secure Azure Storage HTTPS connection with minimum TLS version via policy control.
Microsoft to establish its first datacenter region in Taiwan
The new region is anticipated to include Microsoft Azure, with Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365 and Power Platform to follow.
Azure Backup Price and Meter ID Change - ZA North and ZA West regions of South Africa
Effective 12/01/2020, the price and meter IDs of Azure Backup will change.
New VM series supported by Azure Batch
An expanded selection of VMs can be used with Azure Batch, providing access to newer Azure VM series.
Java 11 support for Azure Functions is now generally available
Developers can now build and publish Azure Functions Apps using Java 11.
Public preview: Zone redundant configuration for Azure SQL DB general purpose tier
Make your general purpose databases and elastic pools resilient to a much larger set of failures, including catastrophic datacenter outages, without any changes of the application logic by selecting zone redundancy.
Change in verification code SMS content
The verification code SMS content will remove "MSG & DATA RATES MAY APPLY" by early November.
Azure Site Recovery update rollup 51 - October 2020
The latest Azure Site Recovery update provides provides fixes, updated Linux support for the Mobility service, and download links for Site Recovery components.
Azure API Management updates- October 2020
Regular Azure API Management service updates including new features, bug fixes, changes and other improvements.
Log Analytics Linux Agent for Fall 2020 now available
A new release of the Linux Agent is now available with support fixes and a new troubleshooting tool.
Increased functionalities to 1-click on Azure Data Explorer is now generally available
1-click capabilities for intuitive semi-automatic table and ingestion experiences in Azure Data Explorer is generally available.
Multiple new features for Azure VPN Gateway in public preview
Take advantage of multiple new enhancements and features that are now available in Azure VPN Gateway.
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