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August 2019
Security Center now has single-click remediation to boost your security posture (in preview)
Remediate recommendations on a bulk of resources in a single click by using secure score, a tool that helps you assess your workload security posture.
Azure SQL provides a unified management experience
Azure SQL is a modern SQL platform that serves developers and enterprises by offering a rich selection of deployment options, powered by an industry-leading SQL Server engine.
IoT Plug and Play Preview is now available
With IoT Plug and Play Preview, solution developers can start using Azure IoT Central to build solutions that integrate seamlessly with IoT devices enabled with IoT Plug and Play.
Azure Archive Expanded Capabilities now in public preview
Azure Archive Storage follows up price drop with three new feature enhancements in public preview.
New Quick Action transformations added to Data Factory Mapping Data Flows
Data Factory Mapping Data Flows has added a new “Quick Actions” feature to automate the creation of data transformations.
Public preview of Managed Identity for Azure Service Fabric applications
Azure Service Fabric applications now support user-assigned and system-assigned managed identities.
Announcing Azure Backup limited public preview support for large disks up to 30 TB size
Today, we are announcing the limited public preview of larger and more powerful Azure Managed Disks of up to 30 TiB size. This preview provides production-level support for managed virtual machines.
Service Tag Discovery API is now available in preview
Service Tag Discovery API is in preview. It’s now possible to programmatically retrieve global IP address information for Azure and its services using the Discovery API.
New AMD-based Azure VMs for general purpose and memory intensive workloads in preview
New AMD-based Azure Dav3 and Eav3-series virtual machines – ideal for general purpose and memory intensive workloads – are now in Preview.
Cognitive Services - Azure Active Directory authentication and custom subdomains are now in preview
Target availability: Q4 2019
Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) authentication allows you to authenticate to Cognitive Services using Azure AD or user principals. This capability provides greater flexibility for managing access to Cognitive Services and makes it easier to use existing policies for credential rotation and to enforce custom password standards.
Azure Government support is now available for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) in preview
The Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) service is now available for preview in US Gov Virginia.
Azure Geo and Zone Redundant Storage in public preview
Azure Geo and Zone Redundant Storage (GZRS) helps customers achieve higher data resiliency by synchronously writing three replicas of your data across multiple Availability Zones and Asynchronously replicating the data to another region within the same geo into a single zone (such as LRS today) protecting from a regional outage.
Azure Cosmos DB Python SDK Version 4 is now in preview
Version 4 of the Azure Cosmos DB Python SDK is now available and includes usability updates to the object model for a better developer experience as well as the ability to use partition keys to scale non-partitioned containers.
Azure Dedicated Host in preview
A new Azure service that provides physical servers that host one or more Azure virtual machines. The server is dedicated to your organisation and workloads.
July 2019
The latest update to Azure Sphere (in preview) is now available in the retail feed
The latest Azure Sphere preview quality release is now available via the Retail feed. This update fixes a bug that prevented the deletion of production-signed temporary images. Important – Update your development devices to the latest release no later than 5 August 2019.
New features added to Data Factory Mapping Data Flows making schema drift handling easy
New features added to the ADF service this week make handling flexible schemas and schema drift scenarios super easy when construction Mapping Data Flows for data transformation at scale
Azure marketplace charges are now available in Azure Cost Management for pay-as-you-go customers!
We are excited to announce a preview release of Azure marketplace charges within our Cost Analysis tool for pay-as-you-go customers. As part of this preview, you can now analyse your marketplace charges alongside your Azure service charges within Cost Analysis and reconcile your Azure marketplace invoice using both Cost Analysis and a new usage csv download API.
Azure Database for MySQL support for MySQL 8.0 is in preview
Azure Database for MySQL now provides preview support for the latest major version of MySQL, version 8.0.
Azure Monitor for containers - Prometheus integration is now in preview
Prometheus integration with Azure Monitor for containers is now available in preview.
Linux support on Azure Functions Premium plan
The Azure Functions Premium plan preview is now expanded to Linux hosting and custom Docker containers.
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