Updates Archives
Monthly updates for January 2019
HDInsight Tooling has new capabilities
The Azure HDInsight Tools for VSCode are now generally available (GA). They provide you with best-in-class authoring experiences for Apache Hive batch jobs, interactive Hive queries and PySpark jobs.
Azure API Management update January 25
Learn about the latest regular update to Azure API Management.
Public preview: Azure Monitor for containers support for AKS-engine
Azure Monitor for containers support for AKS-engine is available in public preview.
Azure Monitor for containers: January updates
We are updating the Azure Monitor for containers agent to enhance reliability and performance for the agent.
General availability: Azure Guest OS Family 6 (Windows Server 2019)
The Azure Guest OS Family 6 is now generally available.
Workday to Azure AD inbound user provisioning is now available
Securely tap into the rich workforce identity and organisation data present in Workday and automate inbound user provisioning into Active Directory and Azure AD.
Service Bus and Event Hubs Availability Zones now generally available (GA)
Availability Zones support is now generally available for Azure Service Bus premium and Azure Event Hubs standard in every Azure region that has zone redundant datacenters.
Support for Amazon RDS for SQL Server to Azure SQL Database online migrations
Migrate Amazon RDS for SQL Server to Azure SQL Database with minimal downtime by using generally available functionality in the Azure Database Migration Service.
Support for Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL to Azure Database for PostgreSQL online migrations
Access generally available functionality in the Azure Database Migration Service to migrate Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL to Azure Database for PostgreSQL while the source database remains online during migration.
Support for Amazon RDS for MySQL to Azure Database for MySQL online migrations
Access generally available functionality in Azure Database Migration Service to migrate Amazon RDS for MySQL to Azure Database for MySQL while the source database remains online during migration.
Azure FXT Edge Filer (Avere Update)
An updated Avere FXT Edge Filer appliance is in development. This redesigned hardware will take advantage of Avere software technology to accelerate network-attached storage environments and expand access to Azure Blob. General availability is expected in May 2019.
M-series virtual machines (VMs) are now available in Australia Central region.
M-series virtual machines (VMs) offer configurations with memory from 192 GB to 3.8 TiB (4 TB) RAM and are certified for SAP HANA.
Public preview: Azure API Management support for OpenAPI Specification v3
Azure API Management introduces preview support of OpenAPI Specification v3, the latest version of the broadly used open-source standard of describing APIs.
Preview refresh: Azure Backup supports PowerShell and ACLs for Azure Files
You can now retain your backup of Azure Files shares for 10 years by using Azure Backup and PowerShell.
Public preview: Read replicas in Azure Database for PostgreSQL
You can now create same-region read replicas in Azure Database for PostgreSQL to scale out your read workloads.
Azure Container Instances Memory Duration and vCPU Duration GUID migration
Effective 1st March 2019, the resource GUIDs for Azure Container Instances Memory Duration and vCPU Duration will change.
Azure Cognitive Services Custom Speech Model Hosting resource GUID change
Effective 1st April 2019, the resource GUIDs and the unit of measure for Azure Cognitive Services Custom Speech Model Hosting will change.
Azure SQL Database: Upgraded infrastructure for monitoring and alerts
Azure SQL Database is upgrading the infrastructure for monitoring and alerts from 22nd January 2019 to 28th January 2019.
Power BI Embedded Status API tracks workspace assignment to capacities
The Status API checks the current assignment status of a workspace to a capacity (for example, CompletedSuccessfully).
Public preview: Token-based identity for Azure AD users in SQL Database
Customers with data in Azure SQL Database can now manage users and their access to data in SQL Database when integrating with Power BI Embedded.
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