Updates Archives
Monthly updates for November 2021
Public preview: Azure NetApp Files application volume group for SAP HANA
With Azure NetApp Files application volume group (AVG) for SAP HANA, you are able to deploy all volumes required to install and operate an SAP HANA system according to best practices.
General availability: Data transformation at Export in Azure IoT Central
This update allows the ability for you to transform device data in IoT Central into your preferred structure and export that transformed data to an external destination.
General availability: Secure Data Egress via Managed Identity in Azure IoT Central
Azure IoT Central now supports System Assigned Managed Identity allowing you to configure secure data exports.
Public preview refresh: Azure IoT Central REST API new and updated endpoints
IoT Central REST API now supports a series of new API endpoints that you can access through the 1.1-preview endpoint.
Public preview: New SAP HANA telemetry in AMS
SAP HANA license status, delta merges, and more telemetry now available in Azure Monitor for SAP Solutions.
In development: New planned datacenter region in Belgium (Belgium Central)
Microsoft has announced plans to bring a new datacenter region to Belgium, including Availability Zones.
General availability: Improved legends in IoT Central Analytics charts
Grouping by Device Name is now supported in IoT Central Analytics charts.
Public preview: Azure Virtual Machines DCasv5 and ECasv5-series now available
New DCasv5 and ECasv5-series Azure Confidential Virtual Machines are available in public preview
Public preview: Azure Virtual Machines DCv3-series now available in Europe West and North
Confidential computing DCsv3 and DCdsv3-series virtual machines (VMs) are now available in Europe West and Europe North.
Public preview: Azure SQL bindings for Azure Functions
You can connect Azure SQL to Azure Functions more easily with input and output bindings, now available in public preview.
JetStream Disaster Recovery for Azure VMware Solution now generally available
JetStream Disaster Recovery is now generally available on Azure VMware Solution, enabling DR protection for VMware based business applications. JetStream Disaster Recovery for Azure VMware Solution is also cost-effective, leveraging Azure Blob Storage to minimize resources at the DR site.
Public preview: Azure Machine Learning updates - November 2021
New features now available in public preview for Azure Machine Learning include test AutoML models and calculate test metrics, support for storage account IP firewall, and new pipeline capabilities using CLI v2.
Virtual machines selector now generally available
The newly released virtual machines selector lets you quickly find the Azure VMs and disk storage options that meet your requirements. Localized in 26 different languages, the tool guides your selection based on workload categories, operating systems, and Azure regions of your choice. The virtual machine selector is integrated with the pricing calculator.
SFTP support for Azure Blob Storage - now in public preview
Azure Blob Storage is the only storage platform that supports SFTP over object storage natively in a serverless fashion, enabling you leverage object storage economics and features with legacy workloads that use SFTP.
General availability: Copy data to/from Azure Data Explorer using Azure Data Factory or Synapse Analytics
Mapping Data Flows provides scale-out data transformation in the cloud in Azure Data Factory and Azure Synapse Analytics. With these additional connectors, you can build ETL patterns at Spark scale in a code-free design environment without ever touching the Spark compute. Azure Integration Runtimes allow you to define the Spark environment and provide a serverless Spark compute for your data transformation pipelines.
General availability: Microsoft Azure available from new cloud region in Sweden
Azure is now available from our newest sustainable datacenter region Sweden Central.
Azure VMware Solution is now generally available in Japan West Azure Region
Azure VMware Solution has expanded availability to Japan West. With this release Japan West is now the second region within the Japan sovereign area to become available (joining Japan East).
Hardware-accelerated pools now in public preview for Apache Spark on Azure Synapse Analytics
Speed up big data processing in Azure Synapse with hardware-accelerated Spark pools.
General availability: Azure Archive rehydration priority update
Reduce high-priority retrieval costs for Archive Storage by deferring the decision to rehydrate with high priority, then updating the priority while the operation is pending.
Azure Cosmos DB: Names indexes for Cassandra API now in general availability
Create and drop named indexes while defining a new index or on existing data using the Cassandra API within Azure Cosmos DB.
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