Updates Archives
Monthly updates for April 2021
Azure Active Directory B2C in Australia is available in public preview
Provide a customized digital experience to all your customer and consumers with Azure Active Directory B2C now in public preview in Australia.
Azure Automation is now generally available in South India
Automate tasks across Azure and non-Azure environment using PowerShell and Python-based scripts.
Public preview: Azure Purview is now available in the Central India region
Azure Purview is now available in public preview in the Central India region. You can now provision Azure Purview accounts in these regions as a public preview offering.
Public preview: Start VM on connect feature for Azure Virtual Desktop
You can now keep your VMs deallocated to save costs, and have it automatically start up when a user connects.
Public preview: Azure Monitor container insights support for Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes extension model
Azure Monitor for Containers is updating use of the Arc extension model for Kubernetes clusters hosted on Azure Arc. This support is currently in public preview.
New Azure Cloud Services deployment model now generally available
Use Azure Cloud Services (extended support), now generally available, to increase regional resiliency and gain access to new capabilities that the Azure Resource Manager-based deployment model provides.
Public preview: Announcing platform support migration of Azure Cloud Services (classic) to Azure Resource Manager
Seamless, fully orchestrated, no downtime for most scenarios and minimal effort migration path for your existing Cloud Services (classic) deployments.
Continued region expansion: Azure Data Factory just became generally available in two more regions
Azure Data Factory is now available in two new regions: Norway East and UAE North
AMD-based Eav4-series virtual machines are now generally available in Azure HDInsight
The Eav4-series virtual machines are ideal for memory intensive workloads, and offer great performance for large in-memory business critical workloads at competitive price points on Azure HDInsight.
Updated App Service Authentication portal experience is now generally available
The new Authentication portal experience for App Service and Azure Functions, improving usability, initial setup, and increased security, is now available.”
Azure Security Center: Public preview updates for March 2021
Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure Security Center in March 2021.
Azure Security Center: General availability updates for March 2021
New enhancements and updates released for general availability in Azure Security Center in March 2021.
General availability: Azure Monitor for Azure Virtual Desktop
Azure Monitor for Azure Virtual Desktop provides a centralised view of the health of your Azure Virtual Desktop environment and enables you to optimise your deployment and quickly troubleshoot issues.
Public preview: Backup and restore of Azure VM scale sets with flexible orchestration is now supported
Azure virtual machine scale sets provide the management capabilities for applications that run across many VMs, automatic scaling of resources and load balancing of traffic. Scale set orchestration modes allow you to have greater control over how virtual machine instances are managed by the scale set.
General availability: Azure Backup supports backup and restore of Azure Dedicated Host
To protect your valuable resources, Azure Backup now supports backup & restore of Azure Virtual Machines with dedicated host.
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