Updates Archives
Monthly updates for September 2018
Azure Managed Disks GUID migration and name changes
Names and resource GUIDs for Azure Managed Disks are changing November 1, 2018.
Public preview: Azure Cost Management
Azure Cost Management is in preview. It can help you understand how and where you're accruing costs in the cloud, and how to keep costs down.
Preview of AzureRM.Automation cmdlets
We have released a preview version of the AzureRM.Automation cmdlets. This version contains new cmdlets for the Update Management and Source Control features.
Public preview: Virtual network service endpoint policies for Azure Storage
Virtual network service endpoint policies for Azure Storage are now in preview.
Azure IoT Edge 1.0.2 release
The 1.0.2 update for Azure IoT Edge contains extended offline and proxy support.
Stream Analytics: User-defined custom repartition count
We are extending our SQL language to optionally enable users to specify the number of partitions of a stream when performing repartitioning.
Stream Analytics: Live data testing in Visual Studio
Visual Studio tooling for Azure Stream Analytics further enhances the local testing capability to help users test their queries against live data or event streams from cloud sources.
Stream Analytics: Output partitioning to Blob storage by custom date and time formats
Azure Stream Analytics users can now partition output to Azure Blob storage based on custom date and time formats.
Stream Analytics: Query extensibility with C# UDF on Azure IoT Edge
Developers who create Stream Analytics modules for Azure IoT Edge can now write custom C# functions and invoke them right in the query through user-defined functions.
Stream Analytics: Parallel SQL write operations
To achieve fully parallel topologies, Azure Stream Analytics will transition SQL writes from serial to parallel operations while simultaneously allowing for batch size customizations.
Public preview: Read replicas for Azure Database for MySQL
Azure Database for MySQL supports up to five read-only replicas within the same Azure region (public preview).
General availability: Automatic OS image upgrade in virtual machine scale sets
It is easy to enable automatic OS image updates in Virtual machine scale sets for the most popular images.
Azure Virtual Machine Image Builder available in private preview
Azure Virtual Machine (VM) Image Builder, now available in private preview, allows you to migrate your image building pipeline to Azure.
Azure Security Center innovations now available in preview
Azure Security Center Secure Score, which provides visibility and recommendations to improve your security posture for Azure resources, is now available in preview.
Staged user rollout to Azure AD cloud authentication is in development
Migrate users from federated authentication to Azure AD cloud authentication in groups or phases and manage from the Azure AD portal.
Now available: Azure Media Services' Video Indexer
Azure Media Services’ AI-based media metadata extraction service is now generally available.
Linux preview support of custom virtual networks on Azure Container Instances
You can now provision Linux containers into new or existing virtual networks with Azure Container Instances. This support is in preview for Linux in two regions: West US and West Europe.
Azure Data Box is now available
Azure Data Box is now available. Use Azure Data Box service when you want to transfer large amounts of data to Azure but are limited by time, network availability or costs.
Ultra SSD, a new Azure Managed Disks offering, now available in preview.
Ultra SSD, a new Azure Managed Disks offering for your most demanding data-intensive workloads, is now available in preview.
Azure Data Box Edge now available
Azure Data Box Edge is a physical network appliance, shipped by Microsoft, that sends data in and out of Azure. Data Box Edge is additionally equipped with AI-enabled edge computing capabilities that help you analyze, process, and transform the on-premises data before uploading it to the cloud.
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