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Monthly updates for May 2019

31 May

Web Application Firewall (WAF) for Azure Front Door service is now generally available

NOW AVAILABLE

Web Application Firewall (WAF) for Azure Front Door service is now generally available. Customers can use WAF to define security policies that allow, block, forward or rate limit access to their web applications delivered through Azure Front Door.

  • Azure Front Door (classic)
  • Services
  • Features
  • Security
29 May

Advanced filtering generally available in Event Grid

NOW AVAILABLE

Event Grid advanced filters are now GA with no restriction on the number of nested keys (e.g. Data.Key1.Key2…KeyN).

  • Event Grid
  • Services
  • Features
29 May

IoT Hub device telemetry events in Event Grid – public preview

IN PREVIEW

IoT Hub expands its capabilities as an event source in Event Grid by enabling subscribing to device telemetry events.

  • Event Grid
  • Azure IoT Hub
  • Services
  • Features
29 May

Events up to 1 MB in Event Grid – public preview

IN PREVIEW

Public preview of support for larger events, now up to 1 MB.

  • Event Grid
  • Services
  • Features
29 May

Event Grid can now publish events to Service Bus

IN PREVIEW

Service Bus is now available as an event handler in Event Grid.

  • Event Grid
  • Service Bus
  • Services
  • Features
29 May

Geo-disaster recovery available in Event Grid

NOW AVAILABLE

Automatic server-side geo-disaster recovery of metadata in Event Grid is now available on the service.

  • Event Grid
  • Services
  • Management
  • Features
  • Security
29 May

Event Domains generally available in Event Grid

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Domains are now generally available with 100,000 topics per domain.

  • Event Grid
  • Services
29 May

Azure Mv2 Virtual Machines offering up to 6 TB memory are now generally available

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Mv2-series Virtual Machines offering up to 208 vCPU in 3TB and 6 TB memory configurations are now available in US East and US East 2 regions. Mv2 VMs are certified by SAP for SAP HANA OLTP and OLAP production workloads.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Services
29 May

Azure NetApp Files is now generally available

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure NetApp Files, an Azure first-party service, is a powerful file-storage service to run your most demanding file workloads in Azure, without the need for any code modification.

  • Azure Migrate
  • SAP HANA on Azure Large Instances
  • Azure Files
  • Services
  • Features
29 May

Azure App Configuration is now available in preview

IN PREVIEW

Azure App Configuration provides a service to centrally manage application settings and helps secure their accesses. In addition, it helps developers to send code faster by being able to easily “flight” their features in production using feature flags.

  • App Service
  • Virtual Machines
  • App Configuration
  • Services
  • Security
28 May

General availability: Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) in South Africa North

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q2 2019

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is now generally available in South Africa North.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Services
28 May

Application Change Analysis for Azure Monitor is now in public preview

IN PREVIEW

Change Analysis public preview with integration into App Services Diagnose and solve problems tool.

  • Azure Monitor
  • App Service
  • Services
  • Features
24 May

Application Insights Availability in US West Region

NOW AVAILABLE

Application Insights is now available in US West region.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Application Insights
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Services
24 May

General availability: Zone-redundant SQL databases and elastic pools are now generally available in three additional regions

NOW AVAILABLE

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.

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Services
24 May

Java on App Service: Updates and improvements available

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q2 2019

Improvements, bug fixes and runtime version updates for the Java images on App Service Linux are now available

  • App Service (Linux)
  • Services
  • Features
23 May

GPU and HPC VM Price Promotion now available

Announcing newly discounted promotional pricing for the NCv1, NVv1 and Hv1-series VM families.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Services
  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Features
22 May

General availability: Azure DDoS Protection Standard introduces DDoS Alert integration with Azure Security Center

NOW AVAILABLE

We are announcing the ability for DDoS Protection Standard customers to view DDoS Alerts in Azure Security Center (ASC) and this capability is generally available for all ASC and DDoS Standard customers.

  • Azure DDoS Protection
  • Security Center
  • Services
  • Features
  • Security
22 May

Now available: PowerShell cmdlets for Azure Monitor metric and log alerts

NOW AVAILABLE

PowerShell cmdlets for new metric alerts and log alerts are now available. This release improves the management of alert rules by providing cmdlets to create, update, delete and list new metric alerts. Similarly, new cmdlets are available for creating, updating, deleting and listing log alerts for both Log Analytics and Application Insights.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Application Insights
  • Alerts
  • Services
  • Management
  • Features
19 May

Azure Security Center new analytics agent for Linux

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Security Center is beginning roll-out of a new Azure Linux analytics agent to improve the onboarding of Linux VMs and servers to Security Center

  • Security Center
  • Services
  • Features
  • Security
18 May

Azure Monitor Dynamic Threshold meter name change

From 1 July 2019, the meter name for Dynamic Threshold feature in Azure Monitor will change.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Services

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