Updates Archives
Monthly updates for June 2021
Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus) now offers server group restart feature in public 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 SQL—public preview updates for late June 2021
Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in late June 2021.
Azure Machine Learning public preview announcements for June 2021
New features include data scientist built-in role, text classification labeling, and environments UI.
Azure SQL—general availability updates for late June 2021
General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in late June 2021
Full text query in diagnostics logs for Azure Cosmos DB in general availability
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 IoT Edge for Linux now generally 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 Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server: Forced failover in public 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 Key Vault Managed HSM is generally 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.
Public preview of Default Rule Set 2.0 for Azure Web Application Firewall
Increase your security posture and reduce false positives with the Default Rule Set 2.0, now in public preview for Azure Web Application Firewall.
General availability: Azure Data Explorer adds new geospatial capabilities
The new support for H3 based geospatial clustering in KQL enables users to visualise and explore spatial data stored in Azure Data Explorer.
Azure Blob index tags now generally 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.
General availability: Cross region Restore of SQL/SAP HANA running in Azure VM
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.
General availability: Maintenance control for Virtual Machine Scale Sets OS image upgrades
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.
General availability: Azure Data Explorer and subnet delegation
Injecting an Azure Data Explorer cluster into a virtual network has never been easier.
Azure Data Lake Storage static website is now generally 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.
Public preview: Alerts-based smart detection for Application Insights
Get your anomaly detections as alerts, manage smart detection using alert rules and configure notifications for smart detection alerts using action groups.
New Azure private MEC solution announced
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.
Azure Virtual Machines DCsv2-series are now available in Australia
Confidential computing DCsv2-series virtual machines (VMs) are now available in Australia
General availability: Azure IoT Central new and updated features—May 2021
May updates include device template DTDL editing, displaying external content on dashboards, other UI and doc enhancements, and CDE parity with CDE v1.
Microsoft Azure available from new cloud regions in Arizona
Azure is now available from our newest sustainable data centre region West US 3 in Arizona.
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