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Monthly updates for March 2021

31 Mar

Public preview: Azure Event Grid now provides support for delivery headers and additional advanced filters among other updates

IN PREVIEW

Azure Event Grid now supports as a public preview release additional advanced filters, setting customer headers on requests delivering events, configuring TTL on messages delivered to Azure Storage Queues, and setting system-assigned managed identities on regional System Topics.

  • Event Grid
  • Services
  • Features
31 Mar

Public preview: Azure Static Web Apps now supports deployment with Azure DevOps

IN PREVIEW

Azure Static Web Apps, currently in public preview, now supports building and deploying apps with Azure DevOps.

  • App Service
  • Azure functions
  • Features
31 Mar

Public preview: Open Service Mesh (OSM) add-on for AKS

IN PREVIEW

Service Mesh capabilities to be natively integrated with AKS via the Open Service Mesh add-on.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Open Source
31 Mar

Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server (public preview) available in new regions

IN PREVIEW

With new regions announced for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server, you can control multiple configuration parameters for fine-grained database tuning with a simpler developer experience to accelerate end-to-end deployment.

  • Azure Database for PostgreSQL
  • Regions & Datacenters
31 Mar

Public preview: Zone-redundant configuration for Azure SQL Database serverless compute tier

IN PREVIEW

Make your serverless Azure SQL databases resilient to a much larger set of failures, including catastrophic data centre outages, without any changes of the application logic by selecting zone redundancy.

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Management
  • Features
31 Mar

Insights and workbooks for Azure Cosmos DB now in public preview

IN PREVIEW

Now available in preview support, Azure Monitor insights and Azure Monitor workbooks makes it easier to visualize and customize metrics for dynamic monitoring of your Azure Cosmos DB resource.

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Management
  • Features
31 Mar

Azure Container Service (AKS) now supports node image auto-upgrade in public preview

IN PREVIEW

You can now opt in to have your node image auto-upgraded when a new AKS node image becomes available

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Features
31 Mar

Public preview of Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) run-command feature

IN PREVIEW

You can now invoke commands in an AKS cluster for just-in-time access when you are not on the cluster private network.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Features
31 Mar

Public preview: Cognitive Services – Form Recognizer new features

IN PREVIEW

Support for 73 languages, prebuilt ID model, invoice line item extraction, tagging as table and lots more – Now in Azure Form Recognizer public preview, part of Azure Cognitive Services

  • Azure AI services
  • Features
31 Mar

Public preview: Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server now connects with Azure CLI

IN PREVIEW

Now in public preview, use the 'connect' command for Azure CLI for Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server to test connections and run basic queries.

  • Azure Database for MySQL
  • Management
  • Features
  • Open Source
31 Mar

Public preview: Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server now connects with Azure CLI

IN PREVIEW

Now in public preview, use the ‘connect’ command for Azure CLI for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server to test connections and run basic queries.

  • Azure Database for PostgreSQL
  • Management
  • Features
  • Open Source
26 Mar

Public preview: Service Tags for user-defined routing

IN PREVIEW

Simplify route creation and management by using Service Tags to represent multiple IP ranges in a single route. Utilise over 60 tags representing ranges for Microsoft and Azure service.

  • Virtual Network
  • Features
25 Mar

Public preview: Announcing the new Power BI embedded analytics playground

IN PREVIEW

Check out the new Power BI embedded analytics playground (public preview). You can find in the new playground experiences for developer and non-developers to get first-hand experience of Power BI embedded analytics.

  • Power BI Embedded
  • SDK and Tools
  • Features
  • Open Source
24 Mar

AzCopy v10.9.0 now in public preview: import from GCP to Azure Block Blobs

IN PREVIEW

AzCopy v10.9.0 now in preview supports Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to Microsoft Azure Storage Block Blob imports. This version also includes scanning logs which can help in debugging. 

  • Storage Accounts
  • Azure Blob Storage
  • Services
  • SDK and Tools
  • Features
24 Mar

Public preview: IPv6 support for ExpressRoute private peering

IN PREVIEW

This support will unlock hybrid connectivity for you as you expand into new, IPv6-dependent markets or transition to IPv6 in your own networks.

  • Azure ExpressRoute
  • ExpressRoute Circuits
  • ExpressRoute Gateways
  • Features
17 Mar

Public preview: App Service Managed Certificates now supports apex domains

IN PREVIEW

Create apex domains on your Linux and Windows web app at no additional cost.

  • App Service
  • Services
17 Mar

Service Broker message exchange for Azure SQL Managed Instance in public preview

IN PREVIEW

Service Broker message exchange between Azure SQL Managed Instances (public preview) allows you to build reliable distributed applications with asynchronous message processing functionality by leveraging SQL Server engine’s native support for messaging/queuing.

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Management
  • Features
17 Mar

Azure Monitor SQL insights for Azure SQL in public preview

IN PREVIEW

Get a single monitoring experience for all your cloud-based SQL deployments with Azure Monitor SQL insights

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Azure Monitor
  • Management
17 Mar

Long-term backup retention (LTR) for Azure SQL Managed Instance in public preview

IN PREVIEW

Configure long-term backup retention for SQL Managed Instance databases and retain database backups beyond the 35 days provided by Azure SQL Managed Instance automated backups, for up to 10 years.

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Management
  • Features
17 Mar

Limited preview: Make workloads on AMD-backed virtual machines confidential without recompiling code

IN PREVIEW

Azure and AMD announce landmark in confidential computing evolution -- it is now even easier to extend your protection of data at rest and data in transit to protect data in use.

  • Security

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