Updates Archives
Monthly updates for October 2022
Generally available: SFTP support for Azure Blob Storage
Azure Blob Storage now supports provisioning an SFTP endpoint with just one click.
General availability: Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage
Premium SSD v2 is the next generation Azure Premium SSD Disk Storage. It offers the most advanced general-purpose block storage solution with the best price-performance.
General availability: OpenTelemetry exporter for Azure Data Explorer
Azure Data Explorer now supports ingestion of data from many receivers via the OpenTelemetry exporter.
General availability: Stream Analytics no-code editor in Event Hubs
Stream Analytics no-code editor enables you to develop a Stream Analytics job in minutes with drag and drop experience. Now, it is generally available with several new capabilities added.
Generally available: Auto Extension upgrade for Arc-enabled Servers
Target availability: Q4 2022
Azure Arc can now provide high availability and automatic protection against zero-day or critical vulnerabilities in Azure extensions to your Arc-enabled Servers
General availability: Azure savings plan for compute
Today, we’re officially announcing the general availability for Azure savings plan for compute.
General availability: Zone-redundant storage support by Azure Backup
Target availability: Q4 2022
Azure Backup enables you to configure cost-efficient backups while meeting your data residency requirements.
Public preview: Exactly once delivery for Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2
Stream Analytics now supports end-to-end exactly once semantics when writing to Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2.
Generally available: Azure Stream Analytics in one new region
Azure Stream Analytics is a fully managed, real-time analytics service designed to help you analyse and process fast-moving streams of data.
Generally available: Kusto Trender
Kusto Trender is a new JavaScript client library for Kusto focused on IoT scenarios. It is now available on GitHub.
Public preview: Enhanced soft delete for Azure Backup
Enhanced soft delete helps you recover your backup data after it has been deleted, giving you protection against data loss scenarios like ransomwares, malicious actors, and accidental deletes.
Public preview: Multi-user authorisation for Backup vaults
Multi-user authorisation provides enhanced protection for your backup data against unauthorised critical operations.
Public preview: Immutable vaults for Azure Backup
Immutable vaults helps you protect your backups against threats such as ransomware attacks and malicious actors by ensuring that your backup data cannot be deleted before its intended expiry time.
General availability: Azure NetApp Files application volume group for SAP HANA
With Azure NetApp Files application volume group (AVG) for SAP HANA, you are able to deploy all volumes required to install and operate an SAP HANA system according to best practices.
Generally available: Windows Admin Center for Azure Virtual Machines
Target availability: Q4 2022
Windows Admin Center for Azure Virtual Machines is now generally available for you to manage the Operating System of your Windows Server infrastructure in Azure.
General availability: Static IP configurations of private endpoints
Azure private endpoint support of statically defined IP addresses is now generally available allowing you to provide static IP addresses when configuring your private endpoints.
General availability: Azure Sphere OS version 22.10 expected on 25 October
Participate in the retail evaluation now to ensure full compatibility. The OS evaluation period provides 14 days for backwards compatibility testing.
General availability: Custom network interface name configurations of private endpoints
Azure private endpoint (PE) support of custom network interface (NIC) names is now generally available. With this feature you can now deploy PE NICs without the GUID suffix.
General availability: Azure Monitor predictive autoscale for Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets
Predictive autoscale manages and scales your virtual machine scale sets by observing and learning from historical CPU usage patterns.
Generally available: Azure Site Recovery update rollup 64 – October 2022
This update provides the improvements for the latest version of Azure Site Recovery components.
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