Updates Archives
Monthly updates for October 2021
Querying Delta Lake files using T-SQL in Azure Synapse Analytics is generally available
Querying Delta Lake format using the T-SQL language in Azure Synapse is generally available.
Public preview: Multiple backups per day for Azure Files
Azure Backup now supports configuring multiple backups per day for Azure Files via backup policy. You can achieve RPO (Recovery Point Objective) up to 4 hours using Azure Files snapshot-based backup solution.
General availability: Azure Data Explorer Insights
Azure Data Explorer Insights provides comprehensive monitoring of your clusters by delivering a unified view of your cluster performance, usage, ingestion operations, cache, and more.
Zerto Disaster Recovery for Azure VMware Solution
Zerto Disaster Recovery is now available and supported with Azure VMware Solution, delivering data protection and disaster recovery services that eliminate data loss and downtime for vSphere virtual machines running on Azure VMware Solution environment.
General availability: Azure Backup now supports Archive Tier through Azure Portal
Azure Backup support to move backups for SQL and SAP HANA databases running in Azure VMs into the Archive tier, via Azure portal and Azure CLI, is also generally available.
Azure Monitor Log Analytics and Application Insights support for Availability Zones is now generally available in West US 2
Azure Monitor Log Analytics and Application Insights are now support Availability Zones capability in West US 2.
General availability: Azure Advisor recommendations for Azure Data Explorer Clusters
Azure Advisor analyzes the Azure Data Explorer cluster configurations and usage telemetry and offers personalized and actionable recommendations to help you optimize your cluster. Advisor is designed to help you save you time on the cluster optimization. The recommendations include suggested actions you can take right away, postpone, or dismiss.
General availability: Azure Log Analytics in West US 3, Korea South, and Canada East
Log Analytics, a feature of Azure Monitor, is now generally available for customers to start collecting telemetry and analyzing their services for health and usage in West US 3, Korea South, and Canada East.
Public preview: Azure Spring Cloud RBAC config server and registry access and Nginx logs and metrics
Spring Cloud Config Server and Service Registry access using Azure Active Directory and Nginx ingress logs and metrics are now available in preview in Azure Spring Cloud.
General availability: Azure Monitor Query SDK
The new Azure Monitor Query SDK is now generally available for .NET, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, and Python, allowing developers to build apps that perform read-only queries in Azure Monitor's Logs and Metrics platform.
General availability: Cross region replication for Azure NetApp Files
Azure NetApp Files supports cross region replication for disaster-recovery (DR) purposes and provides frequent, efficient and cost-effective volume and snapshot replication between Azure standard and non-standard region pairs.
OCR (Read) supports 122 languages in the Cognitive Services Computer Vision public preview
Computer Vision Read API for Optical Character Recognition (OCR), part of Cognitive Services, announces its public preview with new languages including Russian, Bulgarian, other Cyrillic and more Latin languages. This release also highlight handwritten OCR support for many languages, along with enhancements for digital PDFs and Machine Readable Zone (MRZ) text in identity documents.
General availability: Azure IoT Central new and updated features—September 2021
September updates include dashboard and analytics enhancements, improvements to device registration, and support for bring your own device keys.
Announcing Azure Synapse Analytics pre-purchase plans, now generally available
You can now save up to 28 percent on Azure Synapse workloads without sacrificing flexibility with Azure Synapse pre-purchase plans.
Azure Maps iOS SDK is now in public preview
Develop integrated immersive mapping solutions for mobile applications with Azure Maps iOS SDK
Azure Machine Learning now generally available in West US 3
Azure Machine learning, bringing AI to everyone with an end-to-end, scalable, trusted platform available in West US 3.
Public preview: AKS support for Kubernetes 1.22
You can now take advantage of the latest features of Kubernetes 1.22 including a new PodSecurity admission feature and more.
Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus): Azure Private Link support in public preview
Private Link is now available in preview for Hyperscale (Citus) on Azure Database for PostgreSQL, a managed service running the open-source Postgres database on Azure.
Azure Machine Learning announcements - Oct 2021 generally available capabilities
New features now generally available include authenticate with Managed Identities, simplify data upload with dataset uploads, parallel run step with partitioned dataset, and create and edit environments using Environments UI.
Azure Machine Learning announcements - Oct 2021 public preview capabilities
New features now available in public preview include compute instance and cluster No Public IP, Hashicorp Terraform configuration templates, and AutoML for images.
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