Updates Archives
Monthly updates for April 2019
ExpressRoute Global Reach is now available
Azure ExpressRoute Global Reach allows customers to connect their on-premises networks via the ExpressRoute service through the Microsoft global network.
ExpressRoute Direct is now available
ExpressRoute Direct lets you use the functionality of ExpressRoute and connect directly to the global Microsoft backbone at 100 Gbps.
New features and network expansion for Azure Content Delivery Network
Azure Content Delivery Network has added new security and usability features as well as additional capacity.
Apache Hadoop 3 on Azure HDInsight 4.0 is now available
New features in Hadoop 3 provide significant improvements to performance, stability and availability, helping reduce total cost of ownership and accelerating time-to-value.
Pod Security Policy for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is now available in preview
Pod Security Policy enables customers to control sensitive aspects of a pod specification by defining a set of conditions that a pod must run with in order to be accepted.
Azure Logic Apps tools for Visual Studio 2019
Azure Logic Apps tools for Visual Studio 2019 is now available.
Azure Database for PostgreSQL Read Replica is now generally available
Azure Database for PostgreSQL now supports asynchronous replication of data from one Azure Database for PostgreSQL server to up to five servers in the same region.
Azure Database for MariaDB: New compute options are now generally available
Azure Database for MariaDB now supports even larger workloads and helps you to accommodate future growth.
Announcing Azure Backup support to move Recovery Services vaults across subscriptions and resource groups
Announcing the GA support for move functionality for recovery services vaults, where you can migrate a vault between subscriptions and resource groups in just a few steps, in minimal downtime and without any data loss of old backups. You can move the RS vault and retain recovery points of protected VMs to restore to at any time.
Rewrite HTTP headers with Azure Application Gateway
Azure Application Gateway now supports rewriting HTTP request and response headers.
Self-hosted API Management gateway is in development
Target availability: Q3 2019
We are currently working on an option for customers to self-host a containerised version of the API Management gateway component (fully equivalent to the gateway in the cloud, not a micro-gateway). This containerised version will be available on-premises or in other environments.
Service Fabric version 6.5 runtime and SDK are in development
Service Fabric version 6.5 runtime and SDK are in development with new features and improvements.
Service Fabric Version 6.4 CU5 refresh release
General availability of Azure Service Fabric version 6.4 CU5 with the corresponding SDK and tooling.
General availability: Gateway Transit support for Global VNet Peering
Global VNet Peering now supports Gateway Transit to simplify customer networks by allowing the use of a remote gateway in another region.
Price reductions for Azure Container Instances are now available
Azure Container Instances overall price reductions of anywhere between 35% and 50% depending on region and usage pattern.
Manage organisation billing in Azure DevOps: Sprint 150 Update
In the Sprint 150 Update of Azure DevOps, we added the ability to manage billing for your organisation within our portal.
Multi Geo is now generally available for Power BI Embedded
Power BI Embedded customers can now deploy data in multiple geographic regions.
Refresh Now API provides unlimited data refresh for Power BI Embedded
Using the Refresh Now API, the limitation on the number of refreshes you can schedule per day is removed and instead an unlimited number of refreshes can be triggered for each dataset.
TLS 1.2 Recommended for Power BI Embedded applications
TLS 1.2 is recommended for all Power BI Embedded applications to ensure that customers have control over the security of communications with Microsoft services.
Take action from ‘Button clicked’ in Power BI Embedded
Add custom buttons to Power BI Embedded reports so users can take immediate actions.
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