Updates Archives
Monthly updates for November 2021
Public preview: Azure Container Apps
Today we're announcing the public preview of Azure Container Apps. Run and scale modern apps using a fully managed serverless container service built for microservices.
Azure Synapse Link for Azure Cosmos DB: Custom partitioning support in public preview
Partition your data in analytical store using keys that are critical for your business logic to achieve better query and data load performance.
Azure Machine Learning public preview announcement Ignite, November 2021
New feature Azure Arc-enabled machine learning inference and data labeling with text classification using ML Assist capabilities are now available in preview in Azure Machine Learning.
Public preview: gMSAv2 security policy support for Kubernetes workloads on Windows
AKS will now take care of GMSA configuration, as well as maintaining trust during scale operations in the Windows nodepool.
Public preview updates to Azure SQL Managed Instance boosts performance, scale, and flexibility
New investments in Azure SQL Managed Instance bring more performance, scale, and flexibility to your SQL workloads in this latest significant update to the service.
Azure Cognitive Service for Language now generally available
Azure Cognitive Service for Language provides high-quality natural language capabilities, from sentiment analysis and entity extraction to automated question answering.
General availability: New troubleshooting experiences in Network Insights for VPN Gateway & Azure Firewall
Rich insights for additional networking resources in Azure Monitor.
General availability: Event Hubs Premium
Event Hubs Premium comes with reserved compute, memory, and storage resources, which increases the performance and minimizes cross-tenant interference in a managed multi-tenant PaaS environment.
General availability: Log Analytics Workspace Insights in Azure Monitor
Log Analytics Workspace Insights provides rich insights on usage, performance, health, agents, queries, and a change log.
Public preview: Manage your Log Analytics data export rules in Azure portal
Data export rules in Azure Monitor log analytics can now be configured and managed directly via Azure Portal with ease.
Cost saving recommendations in Azure Advisor for Azure Cosmos DB now generally available
Refer to the Azure Advisor recommendations for possible cost savings in Azure Cosmos DB, which are calculated based on historical usage patterns.
Azure Cosmos DB: Server side retries for Cassandra API in public preview
Enable server-side retries for the Cassandra API with Azure Cosmos DB to enjoy a better experience when ingesting data.
General availability: EventHub action in Azure Monitor action groups
The new EventHub action enhances your alert configuration capabilities.
Azure Cosmos DB Logic Apps Standard Connector in public preview
Use the new built-in Azure Cosmos DB Logic Apps Standard Connector with a trigger for the change feed and several actions to enable high throughput data processing with low latency.
Public preview: Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Exporters
Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Exporters provide a vendor-neutral way to instrument your application and send telemetry to Application Insights.
Azure Cosmos DB: Partial document update now in general availability
Send update requests and only pass the data that has changed for an item with partial document update in Azure Cosmos DB.
Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra service now generally available
With Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra, scale on-premises Cassandra data to the cloud with automated deployment, scaling, and management operations for open-source Apache Cassandra datacenters.
Provisioned throughput spending limit for Azure Cosmos DB in general availability
You can now set a hard limit on the total throughput provisioned across a single account in Azure Cosmos DB.
Link feature in Azure SQL Managed Instance now in limited public preview
The link feature in SQL Managed Instance reimagines SQL Server database replication to enable application migration with minimal downtime and offloading read-only workloads to secondaries in the cloud.
On-demand disk bursting for Azure Premium SSDs now generally available
On-demand disk bursting is now generally available for Premium SSDs, allowing you to scale performance to meet demand whenever needed and optimize costs.
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