Updates Archives
Monthly updates for May 2019
Durable Functions now supports a new stateful entities pattern
Durable Functions now supports a new stateful entities pattern, enabling you to build stateful Azure Functions that map to an actor.
Azure Cosmos DB API for etcd in preview
With a wire-protocol compatible API for etcd on top of Azure Cosmos DB, developers will automatically get highly reliable, globally distributed and highly available Kubernetes and K8 tools with no code changes or management required.
IoT Plug and Play announcement at Build
Today, we’re announcing IoT Plug and Play, which is based on an open modelling language that allows developers to connect IoT devices to the cloud without having to write any code.
Azure Cost Management multi-cloud for AWS is in preview
Now you can manage your AWS spend along your Azure spend in Azure Cost Management
Azure AD admin roles for B2C are in public preview
Target availability: Q2 2019
Announcing the public preview of new B2C Azure AD administrator roles for B2C tenants.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux BYOS images now available
Red Hat Enterprise Linux images are now available as both BYOS and PAYG offers.
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.
Inline code for Azure Logic Apps is in preview
Committed to meet customers where they are, the new Inline code feature enables developers to write and execute simple ECMAScript (also known as JavaScript) from within Logic Apps.
RosettaNet connector and standard support is now in preview
Logic Apps provides the ability to send and receive RosettaNet-based messages through RosettaNet connector, which supports the operations to decode or receive and encode or send messages.
Adaptive network hardening – now in public preview
Adaptive network hardening is now in public preview
Azure Container Instances Windows Server 2019 container support is now in preview
Azure Container Instances (ACI) now supports Windows Server 2019-based containers in public preview
Public preview of Azure Data Explorer capabilities to integrate deeper with ADLS Gen 2
At Build, Azure Data Explorer will preview the capability for enterprises to query data from ADLS Gen 2 without ingesting data
Public preview of tighter integration of Azure Data Explorer with Python and Spark
Spark connector for Azure Data Explorer and ability to run inline Python and R as part of the query.
New features for Azure Machine Learning are now in preview
Features include: Open Datasets – Open Datasets is a collection of datasets from the public domain to accelerate the development of machine-learning models built in Azure. Open Datasets integrates with Machine Leaning Studio or can be accessed from Python notebooks in Azure Machine Learning Service.
Azure Policy for AKS is now in public preview
Azure Policy now has the capability of adding policy controls inside your AKS clusters including pods, namespaces and ingress
Built-in support for Apache Spark in Azure Cosmos DB now in preview
By using built-in support for Apache Spark and Jupyter notebooks, Azure Cosmos DB helps reduce time to insights by ingesting and serving data and running analytics against the local database replica in an Azure region.
Hyperscale (Citus) is now in preview on Azure Database for PostgreSQL
We’re pleased to announce the preview of Hyperscale (Citus), a new deployment option for Azure Database for PostgreSQL that scales out Postgres horizontally.
HBase accelerated writes in Azure HDInsight is now in preview
HBase accelerated writes significantly improves the value proposition for low-latency, high-throughput NoSQL workloads.
Azure SQL Database serverless compute tier is now in preview
Azure SQL Database serverless is a new compute tier that optimises price performance and simplifies performance management for databases with intermittent, unpredictable usage.
Group targeting for non-Azure Servers in Azure Update Management
Target availability: Q2 2019
Azure Update Management has released a new feature for public preview. Group targeting for non-Azure servers enables you to create dynamically resolved periodic update deployments for non-Azure servers.
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