Updates Archives
Monthly updates for May 2020
Manufacturing solutions with AI in factories
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Firewall support for Azure Relay is now in preview
With new firewall support, now in preview, Azure Relay now offers the ability to restrict connectivity to only well-known IP addresses or IPv4 addresses in Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) ranges for improved security.
Azure Relay—Azure Private Link support for sender clients is now available in preview
With this preview release, traffic between your Relay sender client running inside your virtual network and Azure Relay uses the Microsoft backbone network providing network isolation.
Azure Blob versioning public preview now available
As the next step to enhance data management and protection, we are excited to announce the Blob storage versioning preview.
Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 PowerShell and CLI are now generally available
Use PowerShell and Azure CLI filesystem semantics for operations on Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 filesystems, directories and files.
Azure Private Link is now available for multiple new Azure services
Azure Private Link now supports multiple new Azure services in general availability and preview.
Azure Pipelines YAML CD features are now available with Azure DevOps update
Azure Pipelines YAML CD features are now available with the latest Azure DevOps update, plus more improvements to the Azure Pipelines user experience.
Azure IoT Central—April 2020 new features
April 2020 new features in Azure IoT Central are now available.
Azure IoT Central—April 2020 updates
April 2020 feature updates in Azure IoT Central are now available.
Azure Monitor for Containers is moving the health feature to limited preview
Target availability: Q2 2020
The health feature of Azure Monitor for Containers (currently in public preview) is moving to limited preview by the end of June 2020. This is being done to minimize the impact for your customers as improvements based on your feedback are implemented. There will be in-product notifications for customers to move to the private preview.
Private endpoints for Azure Storage are now generally available in the Azure Government region
Private endpoints for Azure Storage are now generally available in the Azure Government region. Private endpoints provide secure connectivity to Azure Storage from an Azure virtual network. On-premises networks can also securely connect to a storage account using a private endpoint when that network is connected to a virtual network using Azure Express Route or VPN.
Azure Private Link is now generally available in US Government regions
Azure Private Link now includes multiple new services available in GA.
Azure Private Link for Azure SQL Database and Azure Synapse Analytics is now available in all US government regions
Azure Private Link support for Azure SQL Database and Azure Synapse Analytics is now generally available in all US government regions.
Azure Monitor Logs is now available in the US Gov Arizona region
Azure Monitor Logs, a feature that allows you to collect telemetry and analyze and retrieve data, is now available in the US Gov Arizona region.
Azure SQL Auditing to storage account behind Virtual Network and firewall now generally available
We have been listening to feedback around the need to store Azure SQL audit logs in a secure location, and are excited to announce today that writing database events via Azure SQL Auditing to an Azure storage account destination behind an Azure Virtual Network or firewall is now in general availability.
App Service is now an events publisher on Azure Event Grid (in preview)
App Service is now an events publisher with Event Grid, enabling developers to subscribe to events from their web apps or app service plans and act using Azure Functions, Logic Apps, webhooks, and other services. The feature is available for Windows and Linux apps in all public regions.
Virtual machine (VM)-level disk bursting
Virtual machine (VM)-level disk bursting is a new feature that enables your workloads to handle unforeseen disk traffic spikes smoothly without the need to overprovision your virtual machine. The feature is now enabled on all of Azure Lsv2-series virtual machines.
Rules Engine for Azure Front Door Service is now in preview
Take advantage of new rules to further customize your Azure Front Door Service behavior. Rules Engine on Azure Front Door Service brings your specific routing needs to the forefront of its application delivery experience, giving you more control over how you define and enforce what content gets served from where. Rules Engine empowers you to modify request and response headers, or dynamically override your existing route behavior based on incoming requests.
Private Link is now available on Event Grid
Azure Event Grid now has Private Link integration for custom topics and event domains generally available in all Azure regions
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