Updates Archives
Monthly updates for September 2017
PowerShell in Azure Cloud Shell
PowerShell in Cloud Shell will complement Bash to provide another authenticated, browser-based shell experience hosted in Azure that will streamline your Azure admin experience.
Azure Monitor updates
From Azure Monitor, you will be able to get at-a-glance reporting across your environment on the health and performance of your Azure services.
Automation and configuration for virtual machines
Azure Automation includes three new enterprise-grade capabilities for managing virtual machines—update management, inventory, and change tracking.
Azure Cost Management by Cloudyn
Azure is introducing Cost Management by Cloudyn, a recently acquired service that will help organizations manage and optimize cloud spend across a multi-cloud environment.
Azure Security Center updates
Azure Security Center, which helps customers protect workloads running in Azure against cyber threats, can also be used to secure workloads running on-premises and in other clouds.
Native integration between Azure Cosmos DB and Azure Functions
With the native integration between Azure Cosmos DB and Azure Functions, you will be able to simply add a trigger function directly from your Azure Cosmos DB account.
Adaptive query processing support for Azure SQL Database
SQL Server 2017 and Azure SQL Database introduce a new generation of query processing improvements that will adapt optimization strategies to your application workload’s runtime conditions.
Native scoring in Azure SQL Database
Now available in Azure SQL Database, native scoring will allow you to score machine learning models generated by RevoScaleR or revoscalepy packages from Transact-SQL.
Graph support for Azure SQL Database
Azure SQL Database will now offer fully integrated graph extensions, so users can define graph schema with graph objects.
Intelligent insights for Azure SQL Database
Azure SQL Database built-in intelligence will continuously monitor database usage, detect disruptive events that can cause poor performance, and generate an intelligent insights diagnostic log.
Azure Cosmos DB—Database account auditing
Now generally available, Azure diagnostics logs for Azure Cosmos DB will enable users to see logs for all requests made to their respective database account at the individual request level.
Azure Cosmos DB—New metrics and heatmaps
We’re happy to announce the availability of new metrics and heatmaps in Azure Cosmos DB.
Virtual Network service endpoints in Azure SQL Database
Announcing the public preview of Virtual Network service endpoints in Azure SQL Database.
Azure SQL Database—Track and remediate potential database vulnerabilities
Vulnerability Assessment is a scanning service built into the Azure SQL Database service. The service will employ a knowledge base of rules that will identify security vulnerabilities and deviations from best practices, such as misconfigurations, excessive permissions, and exposed sensitive data.
Premium elastic pools in Azure SQL Database
Until now, the amount of storage available to Premium elastic pools in Azure SQL Database was limited to 750 GB. We're pleased to announce that this limit has increased to 4 TB for the largest Premium pools.
Azure Reserved Virtual Machine Instances
Azure Reserved Virtual Machine Instances (RIs) will allow you to reserve virtual machines at extremely low prices on Azure.
Public preview: application security groups, service tags, augmented security rules
Application security groups, service tags, and augmented security groups are currently in preview.
Public preview: Load Balancer Standard
Load Balancer Standard is in preview. You can use it to create load-balanced deployments with greater scale, resiliency, and ease of use for virtual machine instances inside a virtual network.
Public preview: HA Ports
Azure Load Balancer introduces a HA Ports, a capability that enables you to load balance internal virtual network traffic on all ports for all supported protocols.
StorSimple 8000 series available only in the Azure portal from October 2017
Beginning October 2017, you need to use the new Azure portal to manage your StorSimple 8000 series devices. The Azure classic portal is no longer supported.
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