Updates Archives
Monthly updates for May 2019
Azure Virtual Machine PowerOff now available with fast shutdown
You can now quickly and forcefully power off (stop) your Azure VM with the new skipShutdown flag.
Background on Azure Sphere tenant concept
An Azure Sphere tenant provides a secure way for your organization to remotely manage its Azure Sphere devices in isolation from other customers’ devices.
Azure Site Recovery Update Rollup 36 (May 2019)
The latest Site Recovery update is now available.
Corrected billing for Azure SQL Data Warehouse and other Azure services
We’ve corrected billing for Azure SQL Data Warehouse and other Azure services that impacted EA customers only.
Result-set Caching for Azure SQL Data Warehouse is now in preview
Result-set caching enables instant query response times while reducing time-to-insight for business analysts and reporting users
Azure Lab Services update: Address range feature now available
In Azure Lab Services, we now added the ability to provide address range of virtual machines for the labs.
Azure Monitor BUILD 2019 updates
Azure Monitor is launching a number of exciting features including end to end AKS monitoring, granular RBAC for logs, intelligent and scalable alerts, a new application change analysis capability and more.
Ordered Clustered Columnstore Indexes for Azure SQL Data Warehouse is now in preview
Columnstore is a key enabler for storing and efficiently querying large amounts of data.
Workload Importance for Azure SQL Data Warehouse is now generally available
Workload Management Classification and Importance provide the ability to influence the run order of queries.
JSON data support for Azure SQL Data Warehouse is now in preview
Business analysts can now use familiar T-SQL language to query and manipulate documents that are formatted as JSON data
Dynamic Data Masking for Azure SQL Data Warehouse is now in preview
Dynamic Data Masking (DDM) prevents unauthorized access to your sensitive data in your data warehouse by obfuscating it on-the-fly in the query results, based on the masking rules you define.
Azure Red Hat OpenShift now available
Azure Red Hat OpenShift, a fully managed Red Hat OpenShift service, jointly operated with Red Hat is now available.
New networking features for App Service Linux are now in preview
New networking capabilities to enable Linux apps to access resources securely are now available in preview.
Perpetual free tier offering for Linux-based applications on App Service
There’s a new, free tier offering for Linux app developers.
App Service support for Java 11 (Linux and Windows) is now available
App Service now supports Java 11 for both Linux and Windows
Azure App Service new full screen experience is now available
App Service is offering a new, full screen experience that simplifies the application creation and publishing workflow.
New-and-improved SAP connector is now generally available
The SAP connector for Logic Apps enables bidirectional integration of data between SAP and other LOB applications or SaaS. The connector works with SAP's classical releases such R/3, ECC systems on-premises. The connector also enables integration with the SAP's newer HANA based SAP systems such as S/4 HANA, wherever they are hosted - on premises or in the cloud.
Improved distributed tracing of serverless applications built with Functions and API Management is now available
We have improved observability of serverless applications built with Functions and API Management – allowing you to easily monitor, debug, and maintain them with Application Insights.
Expose a Function App via API Management by linking it to a new or existing API is now available
We have simplified the publishing and consumption experience of API-based Function Apps. You can now easily manage them with API Management from the Function Apps’ own interface in the Azure portal.
Durable Functions now supports a new stateful entities pattern
Durable Functions now supports a new stateful entities pattern, enabling you to build stateful Azure Functions that map to an actor.
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