Azure updates

Web Application Firewall—New bot protection rule now in preview

A new bot protection ruleset (Microsoft_BotManagerRuleSet_1.0) is now in preview for Azure Web Application Firewall with Azure Front Door service.

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 Sphere

Use GitHub Actions to trigger a run in Azure Pipelines

GitHub Actions for Azure Pipelines is now available in the sprint 161 update of Azure DevOps. Use GitHub Actions to trigger an Azure Pipelines run directly from your GitHub Actions workflow.

• Azure DevOps

Custom Translator—November 2019 improvements and language models update

Target availability: Q4 2019

Here are the updates on Microsoft Custom Translator bug fixes, improvements, and new/refreshed models for November 2019.

Azure API Management Consumption tier is now available in 13 new regions

Azure API Management Consumption tier is now available in 13 more regions (19 in total).

• API Management

HC-Series High Performance Computing VMs now available in South Central US

HC-Series VMs are now available in South Central US

• Virtual Machines

Azure Active Directory B2C is deprecating login.microsoftonline.com

Target availability: Q4 2019

On 4th December 2020, the login.microsoftonline.com endpoint will be deprecated for accessing B2C tenants. Existing tenants will need to move onto B2Clogin.com before that date and all functionality will remain the same on the B2Clogin.com endpoint.

• Azure Active Directory B2C

Easily monitor backup storage costs for Azure SQL databases and elastic pools

Easily monitor backup storage costs for your single databases and elastic pools directly from the Azure portal.

• Azure SQL Database

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.

• Virtual Machines
• Virtual Machine Scale Sets

Azure Dedicated Hosts now generally available

A new Azure service that provides physical servers capable of hosting one or more Azure virtual machines. The server is dedicated to your organization and workloads.

• Virtual Machines

Azure Monitor Application Insights now available in Switzerland North and Australia Southeast

Target availability: Q4 2019

Azure Application Insights is now generally available in the Switzerland North and the Australia Southeast regions.

• Azure Monitor

Azure Cost Management updates—November 2019

New updates to Azure Cost Management help you manage costs for cloud solution provider (CSP) subscriptions, build better dashboards by customising tile names, save money with Azure reservations for 16 different services, along with additional enhancements.

• Cost Management + Billing

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.

• Azure Sphere

Application discovery with Server Assessment in Azure Migrate is now in preview

Discover installed applications, roles and features with server assessment in Azure Migrate.

• Azure Migrate

Azure SQL Database—Extensions for index resumable online operations

Now in general availability, a new configuration option, PAUSED_RESUMABLE_INDEX_ABORT_DURATION_MINUTES, has been added to ALTER DATABASE SCOPED CONFIGURATION (Transact-SQL) for resumable online index operations.

• Azure SQL Database

Azure Active Directory server principals (logins) for SQL managed instance

Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) server principals (also known as Azure AD logins) for managed instance are now in general availability.

• Azure SQL Database

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 Cosmos DB

Azure Cosmos DB supports GROUP BY for queries for SQL (Core) API

Now in general availability, Azure Cosmos DB supports GROUP BY for queries for SQL (Core) API. This is one of our top asks from users and we are excited to release this capability.

• Azure Cosmos DB