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Azure Shared Disks for clustered applications preview now available
Azure Shared Disks is a shared block storage offering, enabling customers to run latency-sensitive workloads without compromising on well-known deployment patterns for fast failover and high availability.
December 2019
Azure Australia Central Region Changes
Effective 1 February 2020 , the pricing promotion for the Azure Australia Central regions will end and all services in Australia Central and Australia Central 2 will be price-matched to Australia East.
November 2019
Azure Logic Apps updates for September and October 2019
The Azure Logic Apps updates for September and October 2019 include features, connector updates and announcements about regional deployments.
Azure Stream Analytics – Real-time scoring with custom machine learning models
Azure Stream Analytics now supports high-performance, real-time scoring by taking advantage of custom pre-trained machine learning models that are managed by Azure Machine Learning service and hosted in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) or Azure Container Instances, using a workflow that doesn’t require users to write any code.
Threat Protection for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Support in Security Center
Security Center is expanding its support in the container space to one of the fastest growing services in Azure – Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
October 2019
Updates to Azure Monitor for virtual machines (preview) before general availability release
Updates to Azure Monitor for virtual machines (preview) will be launched in mid-November, 2019, ahead of the general availability (GA) release.
August 2019
Announcing pricing decrease for Azure App Service on the Premium plan
We are happy to announce a price reduction of an average of 35% for Linux App Service on the Premium v2 plan (pricing may vary by regional meters). This price reduction makes the decision point between hosting on a Standard App Service plan or a Premium v2 App Service plan a much simpler one.
July 2019
Linux support on Azure Functions Premium plan
The Azure Functions Premium plan preview is now expanded to Linux hosting and custom Docker containers.
May 2019
Java on App Service: Updates and improvements available
Target availability: Q2 2019
Improvements, bug fixes and runtime version updates for the Java images on App Service Linux are now available
Azure Container Instances Windows Server 2019 container support is now in preview
Azure Container Instances (ACI) now supports Windows Server 2019-based containers in public preview
Azure Container Registry virtual network and firewall rules support is now in preview
Virtual network and firewall rules support is now available in Azure Container Registry in preview.
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) virtual node is now available
AKS virtual node, now available to the public, allows you to elastically provision additional pods inside Container Instances that start in seconds.
Visual Studio Code Remote Development extensions
Developers now can use Remote Development extensions for Visual Studio Code to edit and debug code running inside Docker containers, in Windows Subsystem for Linux or on a remote environment such as another machine or a virtual machine over Secure Shell. <br> <a href="" data-event="area-build-announcements-clicked-announcement">Read blog</a>
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) virtual nodes
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) virtual nodes allow users to elastically provision additional pods in seconds in response to a spike in demand. With a few clicks in the Azure portal, users can turn on the virtual node feature and get the flexibility and portability of a serverless container experience in an AKS environment – and there’s no need to manage additional compute resources. <br> <a href="https://aka.ms/Build2019_AKS-Serverless" data-event="area-build-announcements-clicked-announcement">Read blog</a>
April 2019
Price reductions for Azure Container Instances are now available
Azure Container Instances overall price reductions of anywhere between 35% and 50% depending on region and usage pattern.
February 2019
Azure Container Registry firewall rules and Virtual Network (in preview)
Azure Container Registry now supports container registries that can be placed within a Virtual Network , eliminating the public endpoint and enabling firewall rules for specific external resources access.
CVE-2019-5736 fix for Azure IoT Edge
A fix to CVE-2019-5736 is available for Azure IoT Edge.
January 2019
Azure Container Instances Memory Duration and vCPU Duration GUID migration
From 1 March 2019, the resource GUIDs for Azure Container Instances Memory Duration and vCPU Duration will change.
Azure portal January 2019 update
Learn about updates made to the Azure portal for January 2019.
December 2018
Now available: Azure Service Fabric Mesh autumn refresh
The serverless Azure Service Fabric Mesh autumn refresh is under development and will be released soon with improvements such as auto-scale and network and gateway resources, in addition to storage improvements and fixes.
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