Updates Archives
Monthly updates for August 2020
Azure Container Registry now available in Switzerland West region
Target availability: Q3 2020
Azure Container Registry is now generally available in the Switzerland West region, bringing the total number of Azure regions in which it’s available to 35. See the list of all regions where Azure Container Registry is available and where it’s coming next.
Immersive Reader is now generally available
Immersive Reader is an Azure Cognitive Service for developers who want to embed inclusive capabilities into their apps for enhancing text reading and comprehension for users regardless of age or ability.
Azure Certified for Plug and Play is now available
IoT Plug and Play device certification is now available from Microsoft as a part of the Azure Certified device programme.
Ingestion data isolation in Log Analytics
To provide you with additional service stability, we have added the ingestion volume rate limit to additional Log Analytics data sources, including Diagnostic Settings, agents and data collector API.
AzCopy v10.6 released with updated sync features and larger blob size support
AzCopy v10.6 sync now supports access control lists (ACLs) and properties as well as larger block blob size and blob versioning.
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.
Release of new Azure CDN (Microsoft Standard) capability
The Azure CDN service, a distributed network of servers that can efficiently deliver web content to users, now supports multiple origins.
Simplified Chinese language support now available in Azure Cognitive Services Computer Vision public preview
Computer Vision Read API v3.1, part of Cognitive Services, announces its public preview with support for Simplified Chinese language.
Azure SQL Database gateways changes effective September 15, 2020
Beginning September 15, 2020, new & existing Azure SQL Database gateways in multiple regions will start accepting traffic
Cost optimisation enhancements now available in Azure Advisor
New Advisor cost optimisation enhancements help you optimise and reduce your overall Azure spend.
New Azure IoT Central app template – Video Analytics is now available
Microsoft and Intel have collaborated to build end-to-end video analytics solutions using Azure IoT Central & Live Video Analytics. IoT Central application template is removing the complexity and challenges related to Video Analytics solution development and deployment.
Azure Data Share in-place sharing for Azure Data Explorer now generally available
Share big data in-place easily, securely, and at no additional cost.
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.
Data Factory managed virtual network support is now in public preview
Run your data integration pipelines in an isolated and highly secure environment.
Azure Data Box Disk is now generally available in South Africa and China
The Microsoft Azure Data Box Disk solution lets you send terabytes of on-premises data to Azure in a quick, inexpensive and reliable way.
New GPU NCas T4 v3 VMs are in public preview
NCas T4 v3 Series VMs are now available for preview in US West 2.
Additional Azure SQL Database gateways changes effective September 10, 2020
Additional SQL Gateways are being added for Azure SQL Database in West Central US and South Africa North effective 10 September 2020.
Azure Monitor for containers with Azure Portal now supports Kubernetes resource view
Azure monitor for containers with Azure portal now supports new Kubernetes resource view. In this new view you can diagnose the issue by drilling down to resource types including deployments, pods, and replica sets & see historical data trend and overall usage over time.
Simplify and Modernize your Java and Spring workloads with Azure Service Bus
In order to provide Azure Service Bus to more customers irrespective of their application stack and application ecosystem, and in keeping with that vision, we’re announcing feature parity with Java Message Service (JMS) 2.0 over AMQP.
Azure Advisor Quick Fix is now available
Remediate Advisor recommendations at scale more quickly and easily using Advisors new Quick Fix feature.
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