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Monthly updates for May 2019
General availability: Zone-redundant SQL databases and elastic pools are now generally available in three additional regions
Target availability: Q2 2019
Zone-redundant SQL databases and elastic pools are now generally available in these additional regions: UK South, East US and East US 2.
Filter by target branch in pull requests
In the Sprint 152 Update of Azure DevOps, we added the option to filter pull requests by target branch, several new command line commands and an extensibility point to allow extensions to add syntax highlighting and autocomplete to the file explorer and pull request views.
Generation 2 virtual machines in Azure - Public Preview
Generation 2 (UEFI Boot) Virtual Machines available in Azure for public preview
Kubernetes integration with Azure pipelines is now available
You can now use GitHub identity to login into the Azure DevOps portal. In addition, you can take your GitHub repo all the way to Kubernetes using a YAML-based multistage pipeline.
High-performance Computing Virtual Machines are now available in South Central US, Western Europe
HB-Series VMs are now available in South Central US, Western Europe
Ordered Clustered Columnstore Indexes for Azure SQL Data Warehouse is now in preview
Columnstore is a key enabler for storing and efficiently querying large amounts of data.
Announcing Ephemeral OS Disk in public preview
We are happy to announce Ephemeral OS disk in public preview. Ephemeral OS disks work well for stateless workloads, where applications are tolerant of individual VM failures and are more concerned about the time it takes to deploy at scale or to reimage the individual VMs.
Azure Pipelines app for Teams, improved GitHub and Azure Boards integration: Sprint 151 update
In the Sprint 151 Update of Azure DevOps, we improved GitHub integration with Azure Boards by adding a GitHub Marketplace app to streamline the acquisition and configuration with your GitHub repositories.
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