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Monthly updates for March 2019

29 Mar

General availability: Read scale-out support for Azure SQL Database

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure SQL Database's read scale-out support in the Premium and Business Critical service tiers are now generally available.

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Services
29 Mar

Update 19.03 for Azure Sphere public preview now available in Retail feed

IN PREVIEW

The 19.03 release marks the beginning of a planned release schedule of one major feature release and two minor quality releases per quarter.

  • Azure Sphere
  • Operating System
29 Mar

REST based Client library and PowerShell module in preview

IN PREVIEW

REST based Client library and PowerShell module for Service Fabric is currently in preview. This HTTP REST based client enables running PowerShell and Azure CLI to manage your cluster(s) without installing the Service Fabric SDK.

  • Azure Service Fabric
  • Features
29 Mar

Azure Resource Manager (ARM) application and service deployment

IN PREVIEW

Azure Resource Manager (ARM) application and service deployment is currently in preview. This feature https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/service-fabric/service-fabric-application-arm-resource will be Generally Available in the v6.5 runtime release of Service Fabric.

  • Azure Service Fabric
  • Features
29 Mar

Azure File volume disk plugin is currently in preview

IN PREVIEW

Azure File volume disk is currently in preview. Using Azure Files for remote state storage for containers. For more details see https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/service-fabric/service-fabric-containers-volume-logging-drivers

  • Azure Service Fabric
  • Features
29 Mar

Service Fabric node-by-node cluster upgrades are now in development

IN DEVELOPMENT

Enable more granular upgrades than just standard five Upgrade Domain (UDs), so that individual nodes or UDs of different sizes can be chosen when performing application and cluster upgrades.

  • Azure Service Fabric
  • Features
29 Mar

Availability Zones support for Service Fabric clusters

IN DEVELOPMENT

Achieve higher reliability and resiliency by using Availability Zones (AZ)

  • Azure Service Fabric
  • Features
29 Mar

Support for Managed Identities (MI) for applications and services is in development

IN DEVELOPMENT

Service Fabric applications and services running in a Service Fabric cluster have then own first-class identity in Azure Active Directory so that they can securely communicate with Azure services.

  • Azure Service Fabric
  • Features
29 Mar

Service Fabric control plane audit logging in development

IN DEVELOPMENT

Investigate suspicious requests, collect statistics, monitoring alerts and track who initiated and applied changes to the Service Fabric cluster via Azure AD accounts

  • Azure Service Fabric
  • Features
29 Mar

Low Priority VM support is now in development

IN DEVELOPMENT

Low Priority VM Scale Sets have no SLA, so are suitable only for scenarios where workloads can handle virtual machines being removed from the cluster with short/no notice at the benefit of reduced costs.

  • Azure Service Fabric
  • Features
28 Mar

Public preview: Data Discovery & Classification for Azure SQL Data Warehouse

IN PREVIEW

Data Discovery & Classification is now available in public preview for Azure SQL Data Warehouse.

  • Azure Synapse Analytics
  • Features
  • Security
28 Mar

New tool available to migrate from classic monitoring alerts

Target retirement date: June 30, 2019

Classic alerts are scheduled to retire, and now you can automatically migrate them to the new Azure Monitor platform.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Alerts (Classic)
  • Application Insights
  • Compliance
  • Services
  • Management
  • Retirements
27 Mar

Greater storage capacity and performance with new Azure Disks SKU

NOW AVAILABLE

New Azure managed disks SKUs for Premium SSDs, Standard SSDs and Standard HDDs will reach up to 32TiB (32,767 GB). Performance will now reach up to 20,000 IOPS and 900 MBps on Premium SSD Disks

  • Pricing & Offerings
27 Mar

Azure Security Center change from monthly to hourly unit of measure

On May 1, 2019, the unit of measure for Azure Security Center Standard Node will change.

  • Microsoft Defender for Cloud
  • Services
  • Security
27 Mar

Event Hubs resource GUID changes

On May 1, 2019, the global region resource GUIDs for Event Hubs will break out into new US Government region resource GUIDs.

  • Event Hubs
  • Services
27 Mar

Public preview: Windows Server container support in Azure App Service

IN PREVIEW

Windows Server containers in Azure App Service are now available in public preview.

  • App Service
  • Services
26 Mar

App Service updating PHP to latest versions

Azure App Service is updating PHP stacks to the latest versions.

  • Services
26 Mar

Azure Site Recovery: Firewall support for replication of on-premises machines

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Site Recovery supports data replication from VMware/physical servers to Azure storage accounts that are configured with firewalls for virtual networks.

  • Azure Site Recovery
  • Services
  • Features
26 Mar

Azure API Management roundup of features and fixes

NOW AVAILABLE

This month's API Management service update includes improvements to JWT token validation and request forwarding.

  • API Management
  • Features
26 Mar

Video Indexer is now ISO, SOC, HiTRUST, FedRAMP, HIPAA, PCI certified

NOW AVAILABLE

Video Indexer has received new certifications to fit with enterprise certification requirements.

  • Video Indexer
  • Compliance

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