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Azure Sphere update 19.11 is now available via retail feed
The Azure Sphere preview, OS version 19.11, is now available via the retail feed. This release includes a quality release of the OS along with two new features for application development—an SDK for Linux and a Visual Studio Code extension.
Azure Spot VMs now in preview
Buy unused compute capacity at deep discounts and run interruptible workloads at scale with Azure Spot VMs now in Preview.
Update 19.11 for Azure Sphere public preview now available for evaluation
The Azure Sphere public preview 19.11 quality release is now available via the retail evaluation feed. The retail evaluation is meant for backwards compatibility testing. Use the retail evaluation feed to verify production-signed applications against the new release before we deploy it broadly on the retail feed.
Application discovery with Server Assessment in Azure Migrate is now in preview
Discover installed applications, roles and features with server assessment in Azure Migrate.
November 2019
Azure private endpoint support for Azure Cosmos DB is now in preview
Azure private endpoint for Azure Cosmos DB is a network interface that connects you privately and securely to a service powered by Azure Private Link.
Azure Migrate – Assessment of imported servers is now supported in preview
Target availability: Q4 2019
Azure Migrate now supports the assessment of server inventories imported using a CSV file.
Azure Database for MySQL – Service health notifications in East US and UK South
Now in preview for East US and UK South regions only, Azure Database for MySQL provides support for service health notifications for planned maintenance.
Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Service notifications in East US and UK South
Now in preview for East US and UK South regions only, Azure Database for PostgreSQL Single Server provides support for service health notifications for planned maintenance.
Azure Database for MariaDB – Service health notifications in East US and UK South
Now in preview for the East US and UK South regions only, Azure Database for MariaDB provides support for service health notifications for planned maintenance.
Change feed support now available in preview for Azure Blob Storage
Change feed support for Microsoft Azure Blob storage is now available in preview.
Understand Kubernetes cluster health with Azure Monitor for containers
Azure Monitor for containers can now monitor and report the health status of Kubernetes cluster infrastructure components and all nodes running on any Kubernetes cluster.
Monitor Azure Red Hat OpenShift Kubernetes clusters with Azure Monitor for containers
We are now supporting in public preview monitoring for Azure Red Hat OpenShift Kubernetes clusters in Azure Monitor for containers.
HPC Specialized VMs (GPU) - NVv4-Series in preview
NVv4-Series VMs are now available in preview in South Central US and West Europe regions
Azure Media Services now supports live transcription in preview
Azure Media Services provides a platform which you can use to ingest, transcode, and dynamically package and encrypt your live video for delivery. Live transcriptions is a new feature in the Azure Media Services v3 APIs, wherein you can enhance the streams delivered to your viewers with machine-generated text that is transcribed from spoken words in the audio feed.
Enhanced observability for event-driven applications with Azure Event Grid now in preview
Azure Event Grid now integrates with Azure Monitor alerts.
Publish to Azure Active Directory protected endpoints from Azure Event Grid now in preview
Azure Event Grid can now publish events to AAD-protected endpoints
Batch delivery in Azure Event Grid for high-throughput scenarios now in preview
Azure Event Grid subscriptions can now be configured to publish events to your endpoints in batches (and not only individually) in order to handle more efficiently high-throughput scenarios.
HPC Specialized VMs - HB and HC-series
Azure HB and HC Virtual Machines expand to new regions
New Azure policies to manage certificates across your organisation, currently in preview
Large organisations have thousands of certificates in key vaults distributed across thousands of applications and subscriptions.
Extension of Customer Lockbox for Microsoft Azure beyond virtual machines
Customer Lockbox provides customers with the capability to control Azure support engineers’ access to workloads that contain customer data. This expanded support now provides customers control over access to their data for a larger set of Azure offerings.
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