Updates Archives
Monthly updates for July 2020
Azure Data Box Disk is now available in China
Target availability: Q3 2020
Azure Data Box Disk is now available for preview in the China East, China East 2, China North, and China North 2 regions.
Azure Private Link support for Azure Automation is now available in preview
You can now use Azure Private Link to securely connect virtual networks to Azure Automation using private endpoints (in preview).
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) now supports confidential workloads through DCSv2 SKUs (private preview)
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) now supports confidential workloads through integration with DCSv2 SKU node pools powered by Intel SGX.
Azure Digital Twins enhanced features are now in preview
Create new generation IoT connected solutions that model the real world
Text Analytics for health is now available in preview
The health feature of Text Analytics uses natural language processing techniques to find and label valuable information in unstructured clinical documents such as doctor’s notes, discharge summaries, clinical documents, and electronic health records.
Preview support for Azure Shared Disks for SQL Server failover cluster instance on Azure IaaS is now available
Preview support is now available for Azure Shared Disks for SQL Server failover cluster instance (SQL FCI) on Azure IaaS with SQL Server 2019 on Windows Server 2019 and higher.
Azure Load Balancer support for IP-based backend pool management is in preview
Azure Load Balancer now supports adding and removing resources from a backend pool via an IPv4 or IPv6 addresses and virtual network ID. This will enable you to easily manage the containers, virtual machines, and virtual machine scale sets associated with their load balancer. It will also allow IP addresses to be reserved as part of a backend pool before the associated resources are created.
Upcoming changes to JSON flattening and storage for new Azure Time Series Insights deployments
Azure Time Series Insights is making changes to JSON telemetry data flattening and storage. These changes will go into effect 10 July 2020 for new deployments only.
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