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Monthly updates for June 2021

23 Jun

Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus) now offers server group restart feature in public preview

IN PREVIEW

The restart server group capability is now available in preview for Hyperscale (Citus) on Azure Database for PostgreSQL, a managed service running the Postgres open-source database on Azure.

  • Azure Database for PostgreSQL
  • Management
  • Features
23 Jun

Azure SQL—public preview updates for late June 2021 

IN PREVIEW

Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in late June 2021.

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Compliance
  • Management
  • Features
23 Jun

Azure Machine Learning public preview announcements for June 2021

IN PREVIEW

New features include data scientist built-in role, text classification labeling, and environments UI.

  • Azure Machine Learning
  • Features
23 Jun

Azure SQL—general availability updates for late June 2021 

NOW AVAILABLE

General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in late June 2021

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Management
  • Features
23 Jun

Full text query in diagnostics logs for Azure Cosmos DB in general availability

NOW AVAILABLE

Use self-serve to enable/disable full text query to de-obfuscate your queries in diagnostic logs with the full-text query for Azure Cosmos DB feature.

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Management
  • Features
23 Jun

Azure IoT Edge for Linux now generally available

NOW AVAILABLE

Leverage existing Windows expertise and seamlessly connect Azure IoT Edge for Linux on Windows devices to Microsoft Azure and quickly bring cloud intelligence to your edge.

  • Azure IoT Edge
  • Azure SQL Edge
  • Services
  • Operating System
  • Features
23 Jun

Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server: Forced failover in public preview

IN PREVIEW

Forced failover capability is available in preview in all zone-redundant regions on Flexible Server for Azure Database for PostgreSQL, a managed service running the open-source Postgres database on Azure.

  • Azure Database for PostgreSQL
  • Management
  • Features
  • Open Source
21 Jun

Azure Key Vault Managed HSM is generally available

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Key Vault Managed HSM (hardware security module) is now generally available. Managed HSM offers a fully managed, highly available, single-tenant, high-throughput, standards-compliant cloud service to safeguard cryptographic keys for your cloud applications, using FIPS 140-2 Level 3 validated HSMs.

  • Key Vault
  • Azure Key Vault Managed HSM
  • Services
  • Compliance
  • Security
  • Features
18 Jun

Public preview of Default Rule Set 2.0 for Azure Web Application Firewall

IN PREVIEW

Increase your security posture and reduce false positives with the Default Rule Set 2.0, now in public preview for Azure Web Application Firewall.

  • Web Application Firewall
  • Azure Front Door
  • Security
  • Features
18 Jun

General availability: Azure Data Explorer adds new geospatial capabilities

NOW AVAILABLE

The new support for H3 based geospatial clustering in KQL enables users to visualise and explore spatial data stored in Azure Data Explorer.

  • Azure Data Explorer
  • Features
17 Jun

Azure Blob index tags now generally available

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Blob index tags now generally available. Blob index tags allows developers and IT Pros to first tag specific blobs (for example, StoreID = "1234") and then filter or query for all blobs to more easily find or use them.

  • Storage Accounts
  • Azure Blob Storage
  • Services
17 Jun

General availability: Cross region Restore of SQL/SAP HANA running in Azure VM

NOW AVAILABLE

General availability of Cross Region Restore of SQL/SAP HANA databases running in Azure VM allows to restore data in the secondary region for compliance/audit and outage scenarios.

  • Azure Backup
  • Features
17 Jun

General availability: Maintenance control for Virtual Machine Scale Sets OS image upgrades

NOW AVAILABLE

Take control of OS image upgrades on your virtual machine scale sets by using the new maintenance control feature. Now you can update at the time chosen by you with all the safety checks in place.

  • Virtual Machine Scale Sets
  • Management
  • Features
17 Jun

General availability: Azure Data Explorer and subnet delegation

NOW AVAILABLE

Injecting an Azure Data Explorer cluster into a virtual network has never been easier.

  • Azure Data Explorer
  • Features
16 Jun

Azure Data Lake Storage static website is now generally available

NOW AVAILABLE

Directly host static content from Azure Data Lake Storage and view that content from a browser by using the public URL of that website.

  • Azure Data Lake Storage
  • Features
16 Jun

Public preview: Alerts-based smart detection for Application Insights

IN PREVIEW

Get your anomaly detections as alerts, manage smart detection using alert rules and configure notifications for smart detection alerts using action groups.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Features
16 Jun

New Azure private MEC solution announced

IN PREVIEW

Azure private multi-access edge compute (MEC) enables operators and systems integrators to simplify the consumption of secure and private 5G networks, and to easily deliver ultra-low-latency networking, applications, and services at the enterprise edge.

  • Services
15 Jun

Azure Virtual Machines DCsv2-series are now available in Australia

NOW AVAILABLE

Confidential computing DCsv2-series virtual machines (VMs) are now available in Australia

  • Services
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Security
15 Jun

General availability: Azure IoT Central new and updated features—May 2021

NOW AVAILABLE

May updates include device template DTDL editing, displaying external content on dashboards, other UI and doc enhancements, and CDE parity with CDE v1.

  • Azure IoT Central
  • Features
15 Jun

Microsoft Azure available from new cloud regions in Arizona

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure is now available from our newest sustainable data centre region West US 3 in Arizona.

  • Regions & Datacenters

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