Updates Archives
Monthly updates for April 2018
Egress to Azure Functions from Azure Stream Analytics
Azure Stream Analytics now supports egress to Azure Functions.
Anomaly detection in Stream Analytics
Stream Analytics offers built-in anomaly detection.
Stream Analytics available in new regions
Azure Stream Analytics is available in three additional regions: UK West, Canada Central, and Canada East.
Public preview: Integration of Stream Analytics with Azure Monitor
Integration of Azure Stream Analytics with Azure Monitoring is in preview.
Stream Analytics offers streaming dashboards in Power BI
Azure Stream Analytics jobs can output to Power BI streaming datasets.
General availability: Stream Analytics tools for Visual Studio
Azure Stream Analytics tools for Visual Studio include support for local testing on client machines.
JavaScript UDFs in Azure Stream Analytics
With Azure Stream Analytics, customers can combine the power of JavaScript with the simplicity and pervasiveness of SQL.
Native support for geospatial functions in Stream Analytics
Stream Analytics now supports geospatial functions natively.
New purchasing model for Azure SQL Database
We're pleased to announce the preview of a new vCore-based purchasing model for Azure SQL Database elastic pools and single databases.
Azure SQL Database—preview of read scale-out support in premium service
Following the recent announcement of zone-redundant database support, we're further expanding the power of premium databases and elastic pools by including the read scale-out support.
Azure Cosmos DB Data Explorer now generally available
Azure Cosmos DB Data Explorer provides a rich and unified developer experience for inserting, querying, and managing Azure Cosmos DB data within the Azure portal and the emulator.
Azure Service Health now generally available
We recently announced the general availability of Azure Service Health. Unlike the Azure Status page, which provides general status information, Azure Service Health provides tailored information for your resources.
Standard Load Balancer now generally available
Azure Standard Load Balancer is now generally available in all public regions. Standard Load Balancer enables you to scale your applications and create high availability for small scale deployments to large and complex multi-zone architectures. You can create resiliency for all your virtual machine resources inside a virtual network. It supports inbound as well as outbound connections, provides low latency and high throughput, and scales up to millions of flows for all TCP and UDP applications.
Integration of Azure Backup into VM create experience
You can now enable backup of virtual machines while creating them from the Azure portal.
Azure Backup now supports BEK encrypted Azure virtual machines
Azure Backup now supports backup and restore of Azure virtual machines encrypted using Bitlocker Encryption Key(BEK) for managed or unmanaged disks.
OMS Monitoring solution for Azure Backup using Azure Log Analytics
Now you can use your Operations Management Suite (OMS) workspace and Azure Log Analytics to monitor backups across Recovery Services Vaults and Subscriptions.
IoT Hub integration to Event Grid now in preview
Azure IoT Hub integration to Event Grid is currently in preview.
Azure DevTest Labs available in Azure Government
Azure DevTest Labs is available in Azure Government.
PHP minor version update for May 2018 in App Service
In May 2018, Azure App Service will update the PHP stacks to the latest available versions (including MSSQL Drivers for PHP 7.2).
Support for operationalizing Azure Databricks notebooks
Operationalize your Azure Databricks notebooks by using Azure Data Factory.
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