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Monthly updates for August 2021
Run Commands for Azure VMware Solution now in public preview
Run commands are a collection of PowerShell packages available in the Azure VMware Solution portal that simplify the execution of certain operations on vCenter. With this announcement, your cloud administrator can now more easily run management tasks that require elevated privileges.
Azure Security Center: Public preview updates for August 2021
Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure Security Center in August 2021.
Public preview: Simplified disaster recovery for VMware machines using Azure Site Recovery
A new and more reliable way to protect VMware machines using simplified ASR replication appliance
Public preview: Apply settings inside machines using Azure Policy’s guest configuration
Azure Policy can audit or configure settings inside a machine, both for machines running in Azure and Arc-enabled hybrid machines.
Windows 11 public preview is now available on Azure Virtual Desktop
You can now run Windows 11 preview images on Azure Virtual Desktop.
Azure Static Web Apps adds public preview support for Private Endpoints
Secure your static web apps with Private Endpoints by limiting exposure to the public internet.
Public preview: Application Insights auto-instrumentation of .NET apps on Linux
Application Insights, an Application Performance Management (APM) observability feature of Azure Monitor, is announcing the release of several key features including .NET on Linux auto-instrumentation for the preview of .NET6, including support for self-contained and framework-dependent deployments.
Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server: New regions now available in public preview
You can now provision Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server in five new regions
Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server: Standby Zone selection in public preview
Choose your standby server zone location for Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server.
Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server: Burstable credit metrics in public preview
Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server enables users to monitor burstable credits using Azure monitor.
Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server: Burstable credit metrics in public preview
Flexible Server enables users to monitor burstable credits using Azure monitor on Azure Database for PostgreSQL, a managed service running the open source Postgres database.
Placement polices now in public preview for Azure VMware Solution
Placement policies enable admins to specify constraints or rules when allocating Virtual Machines within an Azure VMware Solution private cloud. With this update the creation and assignment of vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) rules for running Virtual Machines in an Azure VMware Solution SDDC has been simplified and is now executable directly from the Azure Portal for cloud admin roles.
Public preview: Address changes on an Azure virtual network that has active peerings
You can now update your virtual network address space without needing to remove the peering links on their virtual networking and incurring any downtime.
Azure Machine Learning public preview announcements – August 2021
New features Cross Location Compute, Hierarchical Time Series and Compute Instance auto-shutdown and auto-start capabilities are now available in preview in Azure Machine Learning.
Public preview: Discovery and assessment for ASP.NET web apps with Azure Migrate
Secure your connection to Azure Migrate services with Azure Migrate Private Link
Public preview: Containerize apps and migrate to AKS and Azure App Service with Azure Migrate
Azure Migrate: App Containerization helps you containerize and migrate ASP.NET and Java web applications to Azure Kubernetes Service and Azure App Service.
Public preview: Azure Monitor Scheduled Query Rules API 2021-02-01-preview
Target retirement date: October 31, 2021
Scheduled Query Rules API version 2021-02-01-preview is now available and is replacing API version 2020-05-01-preview.
Azure SQL – public preview updates for early August 2021
Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL Managed Instance in early August 2021.
Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus) support for PostgreSQL versions 13.3 and 12.7 in public preview
Hyperscale (Citus) now supports the latest PostgreSQL minor versions 13.3 and 12.7 for Azure Database for PostgreSQL, a managed service running the open-source Postgres database on Azure.
Private DNS zone integration for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server in public preview
Private DNS zone integration is now available for Flexible Server on Azure Database for PostgreSQL, a managed service running the open source Postgres database.
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