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May 2019
Azure Sphere 19.05 release unlocks new features in the MT3620
Update 19.05 for Azure Sphere public preview is now available in Retail feed
Azure Monitor for VMs is now available in West US 2
Azure Monitor for VMs is now available in West US 2. Around the world, it’s available in seven public regions.
Log Analytics agent for Linux 1.10 now available
The Log Analytics agent for Linux v1.10 release is available, and contains important stability and reliability improvements.
Azure Monitor for VMs has a new data set for bound ports
The VMBoundPort data set is now available for Azure Monitor for VMs customers in all supported Log Analytics workspace regions, including East US and West Europe.
Azure Monitor AIOps alerts with Dynamic Thresholds is now generally available
With Dynamic Thresholds, you no longer need to manually identify and set thresholds for alerts. The alert rule leverages advanced Machine Learning (ML) capabilities to learn metrics’ historical behaviour, identify patterns and anomalies that indicate possible service issues.
Advanced filtering generally available in Event Grid
Event Grid advanced filters are now GA with no restriction on the number of nested keys (e.g. Data.Key1.Key2…KeyN).
IoT Hub device telemetry events in Event Grid – public preview
IoT Hub expands its capabilities as an event source in Event Grid by enabling subscribing to device telemetry events.
Events up to 1 MB in Event Grid – public preview
Public preview of support for larger events, now up to 1 MB.
Event Grid can now publish events to Service Bus
Service Bus is now available as an event handler in Event Grid.
Geo-disaster recovery available in Event Grid
Automatic server-side geo-disaster recovery of metadata in Event Grid is now available on the service.
Event Domains generally available in Event Grid
Azure Domains are now generally available with 100,000 topics per domain.
Azure Container Registry—Helm 3 support is now in preview
Helm 3 support is now in preview. This update brings support for storing Helm 3 charts, the next version of Helm, which brings an improved security model, and a new Lua-based scripting engine.
Azure Container Registry – Open Container Initiative (OCI) new artifact registry types supported (in preview)
Azure Container Registry –OCI new artifact registry types support is now in preview.
Azure Mv2 Virtual Machines offering up to 6 TB memory are now generally available
Azure Mv2-series Virtual Machines offering up to 208 vCPU in 3TB and 6 TB memory configurations are now available in US East and US East 2 regions. Mv2 VMs are certified by SAP for SAP HANA OLTP and OLAP production workloads.
Adaptive network hardening in Azure Security Center is now available
With the adaptive network hardening feature, Security Center learns the network traffic and connectivity patterns of your Azure workloads and provides you with NSG rule recommendations for your Internet-facing virtual machines.
Azure NetApp Files is now generally available
Azure NetApp Files, an Azure first-party service, is a powerful file-storage service to run your most demanding file workloads in Azure, without the need for any code modification.
Azure API Management consumption tier is now generally available
Starting on 29 May 2019, the consumption tier of Azure API Management, will be generally available in the same six regions as it was during the preview.
Integration service environments (ISE) are now generally available
With the general availability of integration service environments, we’ve made several improvements from preview to give your Logic Apps more power when running in an ISE.
Azure App Configuration is now available in preview
Azure App Configuration provides a service to centrally manage application settings and helps secure their accesses. In addition, it helps developers to send code faster by being able to easily “flight” their features in production using feature flags.
General availability: Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) in South Africa North
Target availability: Q2 2019
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is now generally available in South Africa North.
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