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Monthly updates for November 2021

30 Nov

Public preview: Azure NetApp Files application volume group for SAP HANA

IN PREVIEW

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.

  • Azure NetApp Files
  • Features
  • Pricing & Offerings
30 Nov

General availability: Data transformation at Export in Azure IoT Central

NOW AVAILABLE

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.

  • Azure IoT Central
  • Features
29 Nov

General availability: Secure Data Egress via Managed Identity in Azure IoT Central

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure IoT Central now supports System Assigned Managed Identity allowing you to configure secure data exports.

  • Azure IoT Central
  • Features
23 Nov

Public preview refresh: Azure IoT Central REST API new and updated endpoints

IN PREVIEW

IoT Central REST API now supports a series of new API endpoints that you can access through the 1.1-preview endpoint.

  • Azure IoT Central
  • Features
23 Nov

Public preview: New SAP HANA telemetry in AMS

IN PREVIEW

SAP HANA license status, delta merges, and more telemetry now available in Azure Monitor for SAP Solutions.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Features
23 Nov

In development: New planned datacenter region in Belgium (Belgium Central)

IN DEVELOPMENT

Microsoft has announced plans to bring a new datacenter region to Belgium, including Availability Zones.

  • Regions & Datacenters
22 Nov

General availability: Improved legends in IoT Central Analytics charts

NOW AVAILABLE

Grouping by Device Name is now supported in IoT Central Analytics charts.

  • Azure IoT Central
  • Features
22 Nov

Public preview: Azure Virtual Machines DCasv5 and ECasv5-series now available

IN PREVIEW

New DCasv5 and ECasv5-series Azure Confidential Virtual Machines are available in public preview

  • Virtual Machines
  • Security
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Pricing & Offerings
18 Nov

Public preview: Azure Virtual Machines DCv3-series now available in Europe West and North

IN PREVIEW

Confidential computing DCsv3 and DCdsv3-series virtual machines (VMs) are now available in Europe West and Europe North.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Security
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Pricing & Offerings
17 Nov

Public preview: Azure SQL bindings for Azure Functions

IN PREVIEW

You can connect Azure SQL to Azure Functions more easily with input and output bindings, now available in public preview.

  • Azure Functions
  • Azure SQL
  • Open Source
  • SDK and Tools
17 Nov

JetStream Disaster Recovery for Azure VMware Solution now generally available

NOW 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.

  • Azure VMware Solution
  • Services
  • Features
17 Nov

Public preview: Azure Machine Learning updates - November 2021

IN PREVIEW

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.

  • Azure Machine Learning
  • Features
17 Nov

Virtual machines selector now generally available

NOW 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.

  • Virtual Machines
  • SDK and Tools
17 Nov

SFTP support for Azure Blob Storage - now in public preview

IN 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.

  • Azure Blob Storage
  • Azure Data Lake Storage
  • Storage Accounts
  • Features
17 Nov

General availability: Copy data to/from Azure Data Explorer using Azure Data Factory or Synapse Analytics

NOW AVAILABLE

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.

  • Azure Synapse Analytics
  • Azure Data Factory
  • Azure Data Explorer
  • Azure Integration Runtime
  • Features
16 Nov

General availability: Microsoft Azure available from new cloud region in Sweden

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure is now available from our newest sustainable datacenter region Sweden Central.

  • Regions & Datacenters
15 Nov

Azure VMware Solution is now generally available in Japan West Azure Region

NOW AVAILABLE

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).

  • Azure VMware Solution
  • Services
11 Nov

Hardware-accelerated pools now in public preview for Apache Spark on Azure Synapse Analytics

IN PREVIEW

Speed up big data processing in Azure Synapse with hardware-accelerated Spark pools.

  • Azure Synapse Analytics
  • Microsoft Ignite
10 Nov

General availability: Azure Archive rehydration priority update

NOW AVAILABLE

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.

  • Storage Accounts
  • Archive Storage
  • Services
  • Management
  • Features
10 Nov

Azure Cosmos DB: Names indexes for Cassandra API now in general availability

NOW AVAILABLE

Create and drop named indexes while defining a new index or on existing data using the Cassandra API within Azure Cosmos DB.

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Features

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