Updates Archives
Monthly updates for April 2018
Region expansion: Global VNet Peering
Global VNet Peering is available in all Azure public regions, excluding the China, Germany, and Azure Government regions.
Azure SQL Data Warehouse now offers transparent Data Encryption with customer managed keys
Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) with Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) support is generally available for Azure SQL Data Warehouse.
General availability: Replicated tables in Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Reduce data movement and make your queries more efficient with the general availability of replicated tables in Azure SQL Data Warehouse.
Microsoft Graph Security API now available
Simplify integration of Microsoft and partner security solutions with the Microsoft Graph Security API. The security API empowers customers and partners to build on the intelligent security graph.
Public preview: Event Hubs for Node.js
Send events and receive event streams from Azure Event Hubs in your Node.js applications by using the updated package.
Public preview: Event Hubs for Python
Send events and receive event streams from Azure Event Hubs in your Python applications by using the updated package.
General availability: Azure Container Instances
Azure Container Instances is generally available, with a decreased price, an improved Azure portal experience, new features, and expanded regions.
Azure DevTest Labs: Redeploy a lab virtual machine
You can redeploy a lab virtual machine so that you don't waste time troubleshooting your remote desktop connection or application access to a Windows-based Azure virtual machine.
Deprecating the Log Search API for Azure Log Analytics
The Log Search API will be deprecated during the week of April 30, 2018.
Virtual network service endpoints for Azure Storage
Virtual network service endpoints allow you to secure Azure Storage accounts to your virtual networks, fully removing public internet access to these resources. Service endpoints provide optimal routing by always keeping traffic destined to Azure Storage on the Azure backbone network.
Azure Backup now supports network-restricted storage accounts
Azure Backup now supports storage accounts that are secured with Azure Storage firewalls and virtual networks.
General availability: Transparent Data Encryption with customer managed keys for Azure SQL
Transparent Data Encryption with customer managed keys is now generally available in Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Data Warehouse.
Azure DNS private zones
Azure DNS private zones provide a simple, reliable, secure DNS service to manage and resolve names in a virtual network, without the need for you to create and manage a custom DNS solution.
Region expansion: Global VNet Peering
Global VNet Peering is now generally available in four additional regions: West Europe, US East 2, Southeast Asia, and Central US.
General availability: Azure Database for PostgreSQL
Azure Database for PostgreSQL is now generally available.
General availability: Azure Database for MySQL
Azure Database for MySQL is now generally available.
What's new in Azure DNS - Metrics and alerting
Learn what's new in Azure DNS metrics and alerts.
Configuration of TLS versions in App Service and Functions apps now available
Explicitly set the TLS version for individual Azure App Service and Azure Functions hosted applications.
What's new in Azure Log Analytics - April 2018
The latest updates to the Log Analytics portal include auto-sorting of results by default, Query Explorer support for renaming and deleting saved items, and new query language functions.
Recovery Services vault limit increased to 500 vaults per subscription per region
Recovery Services vault limit increased to 500 vaults per subscription per region.
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