Updates Archives
Monthly updates for August 2020
Windows Virtual Desktop is now available in the Azure Government cloud (in preview)
Get started today with Windows Virtual Desktop in public preview in US Government regions. Deploy and scale Windows desktops and apps on Azure in minutes.
Azure Virtual Machines DCsv2-series are now available in Canada East
Confidential computing DCsv2-series virtual machines (VMs) are now available in East US, Canada Central, Canada East, UK South, West Europe and West US 2.
Azure Machine Learning announces output dataset (Preview)
With the new output datasets capability, write back to cloud storage and configure and register output data.
Azure Sphere OS version 20.08 is now available
The Azure Sphere 20.08 OS quality release is now available in the Retail feed. This update includes enhancements and bug fixes in the Azure Sphere OS including a security update that represents a critical update to the OS.
Azure Backup for SAP HANA databases running on RHEL is now generally available
On August 1, 2020, Azure Backups support for HANA databases running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) became generally available. This offering is available across all Azure regions except for Germany Northeast, Germany Central, France South, and US Gov IOWA.
Cost optimisation enhancements now available in Azure Advisor
New Advisor cost optimisation enhancements help you optimise and reduce your overall Azure spend.
Azure Virtual Machines DCsv2-series is now available in West US 2
Confidential computing DCsv2-series virtual machines (VMs) are now available in East US, Canada Central, UK South, West Europe and West US 2.
Azure Sphere OS update 20.08 is now available for compatibility testing
The Azure Sphere 20.08 OS quality update is now available for evaluation via the Retail Eval feed.
Data Factory managed virtual network support is now in public preview
Run your data integration pipelines in an isolated and highly secure environment.
Improvements to Azure VM backups are now available
Azure Backup now supports restoring unmanaged VMs/Disks as Managed Disks, backup for Virtual Machine Scale Sets, and allows replacing existing disks for VMs with Managed Service Identity
Azure Cloud Shell can now run in an isolated virtual network (public preview)
Cloud Shell now supports virtual networks.
Selective disks backup for Azure Virtual Machine is in public preview
Optimize your costs and enjoy faster backup and restore operations by selectively backing up a subset of the data disks in a VM.
SQL Server FCI on shared disks for SQL Server on virtual machines
Azure shared disks for SQL Server failover cluster instance (SQL FCI) on Azure IaaS is now in general availability.
Custom Translator upgrade and Regional data residency
Custom Translator team is being upgraded to V2 phase-1 to take advantage of the state-of-the-art neural machine translation (NMT) architecture available in Microsoft Translator. This architecture powers translation for Microsoft services such as Office 365, Teams, Speech Services, Bing.com and Translator, along with other services. Data residency support is also being enabled to meet corporate data security, data privacy and regulatory requirements to keep customer data in the Europe region.
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