Updates Archives
Monthly updates for February 2021
General availability: Application Insight in UAE Central & Japan West
Application Insight, a part of Azure Monitor, is now generally available in UAE Central & Japan West regions for customers to collect telemetry and analyze their service health in production environments.
General Availability: Custom Neural Voice, a Text-to-Speech capability within Speech Service
Improve user experiences responsibly with Custom Neural Voice, a limited access capability within Speech Service. Custom Neural voice allows you to build a custom voice font consistent with your brand and use case.
Azure Event Grid is now in public preview for Azure Cache for Redis
Azure Cache for Redis integration with Azure Event Grid is in public preview. This integration allows service manage routing of Redis events like patching, scaling, and import/export(RDB) to any destination.
General availability: Azure Log Analytics in UAE Central & Japan West
Log Analytics, a feature of Azure Monitor, is now generally available for customers to start collecting telemetry and analyzing their services for health and usage in UAE Central & Japan West.
New Azure Monitor Agent available on latest Linux distros and new regions
The new Azure Monitor Agent now supports the latest Linux distros and can be installed on additional new regions using Data Collection Rules.
Public preview: Azure Log Analytics in Australia Central 2
Azure Log Analytics is now in public preview for customers to start collecting telemetry and analyzing their services for health and usage in Australia Central 2.
Public preview: Azure Machine Learning - Responsible ML updates
Azure Machine Learning Enhanced Responsible ML Dashboard updates now in public review
General availability: Stop/start functionality for Azure Database for MySQL
With stop/start functionality support for Azure Database for MySQL, you can stop a database server when not in use (non-work hours) and start it when it’s back online.
Support for SAP application (NetWeaver) and operating system (Linux) telemetry in Azure Monitor for SAP Solutions
Azure Monitor for SAP Solutions (AMS) now supports SAP application (NetWeaver) in private preview and operating system (Linux) provider in public preview. Both providers are available in the following Azure regions – West Europe, US East, US East 2 and US West 2.
Support for Azure API Management certificates in Azure Key Vault has reached general availability.
You can now enhance security by storing, managing, and referencing API Management’s certificates in Azure Key Vault.
Additional IOPS feature for MySQL - Flexible Server in public preview
MySQL - Flexible Server supports the provisioning of additional IOPS (preview) so you can provision more IOPS above the complimentary IOPS limit and can increase or decrease the number of IOPS based on workload requirements.
Microsoft Azure Attestation is now generally available
Verify the identity and security posture of a platform before you interact with it.
Support for more workloads, tag based policies now in Backup Center public preview
Target availability: Q1 2021
Backup Center now supports SQL in Azure VMs, SAP HANA in Azure VMs and Azure Files. New Azure Policies allow you to deploy backup at scale based on resource group and tag information.
Azure Security Center – Public preview updates for January 2021
New preview enhancements and updates made to Azure Security Center in January 2021.
Azure Security Center – General availability updates for January 2021
New general availability enhancements and updates made to Azure Security Center in January 2021.
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