Updates Archives
Monthly updates for December 2020
Public preview: Support of Azure Container Registry across Availability Zones
Announcing the public preview support of Azure Container Registry across Availability Zones
Azure Automation Python 3 runbook support is now available in public preview
Execute Python 3 runbooks in Cloud Sandbox and Hybrid Worker.
Five more free services now available in the Azure free account
Free amounts of Archive Storage, Container Registry, Load Balancer, Service Bus and VPN Gateway are now available for eligible Azure free account users, as well as increased free amounts of Cosmos DB.
Azure Digital Twins is now generally available
Azure Digital Twins is generally available and read for production deployments. Features include: Flexible modelling and general graph topology, richer compute, bring your own IoT Hub for easier integration, and improved scalability.
Azure VMware Solution now available in UK South and Japan East Azure regions
The new Azure VMware Solution has expanded availability to Japan East and UK South Azure regions in addition to the existing regions: US East, US West, West Europe and Australia.
Deprecation of webview sign-in support announcement from Google
Target retirement date: January 04, 2021
Google is deprecating webview support from 4 January 2021.
Private Link support for Azure Automation is now generally available
Ensure a secure channel to connect to your Automation Accounts resources with the help of Private Links in Automation.
HBv2-series VMs for HPC are now available in UAE North
Azure’s most powerful and scalable HPC VMs, the HBv2-series, are now available in the UAE North region. Customers in this region can now run scale-out MPI workloads to tens of thousands of CPU cores.
Event hubs on Azure Stack Hub is now generally available
The GA version of Event Hubs is now available on Azure Stack Hub. This will allow you to realise cloud and on-premises scenarios that use streaming and event-based architectures.
Intel SGX based confidential computing VMs now available on Azure Dedicated Hosts
The new DCsv2_Type1 Dedicated Host SKUs add confidential computing capabilities to Azure Dedicated Hosts. The DCsv2-series Azure Virtual Machines can help protect the confidentiality and integrity of your data and code while it’s processed in the public cloud. Dedicated hosts will provide further isolation from other tenants, further enhancing the isolation aspect of secure applications within confidential computing.
Azure Storage account recovery available via portal is now generally available
Recover you deleted storage account directly from the portal.
Azure Stack HCI is now generally available
Flexible HCI delivered as an Azure Hybrid Service
Microsoft Azure Purview provides unified data governance
Announcing the public preview of a unified data governance service to maximize business value of data.
Azure Data Factory is now available in five new regions
Azure Data Factory is now available in five new regions: Switzerland North, Japan West, Canada East, Germany West Central, and UK West.
Azure Data Share snapshot sharing for SQL Database and Synapse generally available
You can now share structured data stored in relational databases and data warehouse easily and securely between internal departments, with external partners, vendors or customers for collaboration.
Public preview: Azure Monitor for containers new Reports (tab) and deployment live logs
Now access all your Kubernetes related visualisations such as node-disk, node-network, workloads and persistent volume and many more in the new Reports tab. As a part of this update you can also view, search and filter pod live logs of AKS deployments for quick troubleshooting.
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