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October 2019
Cost Management Preview Features October 2019
Please find a table below outlining the Cost Management features that are currently in preview.
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.
Service-aided subnet configuration for managed instance in Azure SQL Database is now in preview
Managed instance, a deployment capability of Azure SQL Database, is transitioning from a manual to service-aided subnet configuration, now in preview.
Introducing new Azure Resource Graph functionality – Track changes to your resource properties
An update to the Azure Resource Graph API allows you to see the type of change to the resource (Create, Update or Delete) and the breakdown of the properties that changed, including their before and after values.
Azure Sphere 19.09 release adds new use cases for enterprise customers
Update 19.09 for Azure Sphere public preview now available in Retail feed
Private Preview – Azure Spring Cloud service
Simplify Spring Boot-based microservices development and application lifestyle management.
New Canada Federal PBMM Azure Blueprint is now available
Azure built-in blueprints help you be compliant in an easier way by providing Microsoft-vetted blueprints that you can easily apply on your subscriptions.
Azure DB for PostgreSQL: Hyperscale (Citus) cluster connectivity functionality is in preview
Support for ‘Allow Azure services and resources to access this server group’ functionality in Hyperscale (Citus) clusters is now in preview.
Azure DB for PostgreSQL – Cluster scalability for Hyperscale (Citus) is now in preview
The first scalability feature for Hyperscale (Citus) is now available in preview. It’s now possible to add nodes to existing Hyperscale (Citus) clusters by using the Azure portal.
Private Link for Azure SQL Database and Data Warehouse is now in preview
Private Link enables you to connect to Azure SQL Database and Data Warehouse via a private endpoint.
Managed identities integration in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is now in preview
Create and use system-managed identities instead of service principals in AKS.
September 2019
Azure Sphere preview – Update 19.09 is now available for evaluation
The Azure Sphere preview 19.09 feature 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.
Public preview: Computer Vision releasing “Read” text extraction feature in containers
We are releasing our latest text understanding feature, “Read”, in Docker containers for customers to run locally.
Azure provides at-scale tags management through Azure Policy
Azure Policy now supports remediation for tagging so you can bring 100% of your resources back to compliance.
Public preview – Video Indexer multilingual identification and transcription
Automatic spoken language identification leverages machine learning technology to identify the different languages used in a media asset.
Public preview – Video Indexer animated character detection
Azure Media Services Video Indexer supports detection, grouping and recognition of characters in animated content.
Azure Advisor alerts are now in preview
Get your Azure best practice recommendations as soon as they become available with Azure Advisor user-configured alerts, now available in preview.
A preview upgrade for Azure DevTest Labs Tasks extension is now available
We recently released a preview upgrade for the Azure DevTest Labs Tasks.
Audit logging on Azure Database for PostgreSQL is now in preview
Audit logging on Azure SQL Database for PostgreSQL via PGAudit is now available in preview. Produce audit logs of events including writes, reads, role changes and DDL with the audit extension.
Azure HPC Cache is now in preview
Azure HPC Cache, a high-performance file cache with an aggregated namespace that reduces latency between storage and Azure compute for heavy read workloads, is now in preview.
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