Updates Archives
Monthly updates for September 2019
M-series virtual machines (VMs) are now available in the Germany West region
Azure M-series VMs are now available in the Germany West region. M-series VMs offer configurations with memory from 192 GB to 3.8 TiB (4 TB) RAM and are certified for SAP HANA.
M-series virtual machines VMs are now available in the Switzerland West and Switzerland North regions
Azure M-series VMs are now available in the Switzerland West and Switzerland North regions. M-series VMs offer configurations with memory from 192 GB to 3.8 TiB (4 TB) RAM and are certified for SAP HANA.
Azure HPC Cache is now in preview
Azure HPC Cache, a high-performance file cache with an aggregated namespace that reduces latency between storage and Azure compute for heavy read workloads, is now in preview.
M-series virtual machines (VMs) are now available in the Germany North region
Azure M-series VMs are now available in the Germany North region. M-series VMs offer configurations with memory from 192 GB to 3.8 TiB (4 TB) RAM and are certified for SAP HANA.
Auto-failover for managed instances in Azure SQL Database is now available
Now generally available, auto-failover groups enable business continuity after a catastrophic failure or other unplanned event by creating and managing a geographically redundant copy of a managed instance.
Improved query replica synchronization in Azure Analysis Services is in development
Target availability: Q3 2019
A new Azure Analysis Services setting now in development will improve performance and consistency of query-replica synchronization in scale-out environments.
Azure Analysis Services diagnostic logging improvements for scale-out
Target availability: Q3 2019
Get targeted log analysis with improvements to the Diagnostic Logs extension of Azure Analysis Services. Diagnostic Logs now allow you to access and break out server metrics for each query replica with the scale-out feature.
Azure Analysis Services scale-out improvement
Target availability: Q3 2019
Synchronization of query replicas in Azure Analysis Services scale-out environments now uses an optimized copy API, which significantly reduces synchronization time on average.
Azure Site Recovery Update Rollup 40 (September 2019)
Learn about recent updates to Azure Site Recovery components.
Azure Firewall updates—September 2019
Here are the Azure Firewall updates for September 2019. - Azure Firewall is now generally available in China. - Azure Firewall is now ISO compliant.
Azure Private Link is now available in preview
Target availability: Q3 2019
Connect to services in your Azure virtual networks more securely and privately with Azure Private Link, now available in preview.
Data transfer from Azure Origins to Azure CDN from Microsoft is now free of charge
Data transfer from Azure services, such as Azure Storage, Azure Media Services, Azure Application Gateway, and more, to Azure CDN from Microsoft will be free of charge starting October 2019.
Cloud backup and recovery for the Microsoft Authenticator app on Android
Android users can now back up their account credentials to the cloud, and then easily and securely transfer them to a new device when needed.
Azure Backup support for large disks up to 30 TB is now in public preview
Announcing the public preview support for larger and more powerful Azure Managed Disks of up to 30 TB size.
New Azure ExpressRoute sites now available
Announcing three new ExpressRoute meet-me sites in Europe.
Azure CDN feature updates
Announcing Bring your own SSL Certificate [BYOC] functionality for Azure CDN from Verizon, as well as CDN managed SSL Certificates for Azure CDN from Akamai.
Azure Cognitive Services Text Analytics—New sentiment analysis capability is now available
Cognitive Services Text Analytics has a new sentiment analysis capability supporting Japanese and Simplified Chinese languages in addition to the previously announced English language model.
Microsoft Azure available from new cloud regions in Germany
Deutsche Bank, Deutsche Telekom, SAP, and others trust Microsoft for their digital transformations
Copy data from Netezza to Azure with Azure Data Factory
Azure Data Factory now provides built-in data partitioning to copy data from Netezza.
Monthly payment options are now available for Azure reservations
Lower your upfront payment by selecting monthly payment options—at no additional cost—when purchasing Azure reservations.
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