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Monthly updates for August 2019

29 Aug

Soft delete for virtual machines in Azure Backup

NOW AVAILABLE

We now provide soft delete capability to help protect cloud backups for IaaS virtual machines from accidental as well as malicious deletion.

  • Azure Backup
  • Features
28 Aug

Azure Data Factory Mapping Data Flows Adds SQL Scripts to Sink Transformation

NOW AVAILABLE

Data Factory has added the ability to execute custom SQL scripts from your SQL Sink transformation in Mapping Data Flows. Now you can easily perform options such as disabling indexes, allows identity inserts and other DDL/DML operations from Data Flows.

  • Data Factory
  • Features
26 Aug

Service Fabric Azure Files Volume Driver is now generally available

NOW AVAILABLE

Service Fabric Azure Files Volume Driver is now generally available The Azure Files volume plugin is a Docker volume plugin that provides Azure Files based volumes for Docker containers.

  • Azure Service Fabric
  • Features
26 Aug

Azure Site Recovery update rollup 39—August 2019

NOW AVAILABLE

This update provides information on recent fixes as well as download links to the latest versions of Site Recovery components.

  • Azure Site Recovery
  • Features
21 Aug

Global trace flags are now available in Azure SQL Database Managed Instance

NOW AVAILABLE

You can now enable trace flags on Azure SQL Database Managed Instance to increase compatibility of your Managed Instance Database Engine and SQL Server Database Engine.

  • Features
21 Aug

Azure IoT Hub manual failover now available

NOW AVAILABLE

This feature is part of IoT Hub cloud service and allows customers to failover an IoT hub instance from its primary Azure region to its corresponding geo-paired region.

  • Azure IoT Hub
  • Services
  • Features
21 Aug

Azure Function Consumption plan for Linux is now available

NOW AVAILABLE

The Azure Functions Consumption hosting plan is now generally available for Linux-based applications.

  • Azure Functions
  • Services
  • Features
  • Open Source
21 Aug

Python support in Azure Functions is now available

NOW AVAILABLE

Python support in Azure Functions is now generally available and ready for production workloads.

  • Azure Functions
  • Services
  • Features
  • Open Source
21 Aug

Azure SQL provides a unified management experience

IN PREVIEW

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.

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Features
21 Aug

SQL data discovery and classification for Azure SQL Database is now available

NOW AVAILABLE

SQL data discovery and classification, which provides advanced capabilities built into Azure SQL Database for discovering, classifying, labeling, and protecting sensitive data, is now available.

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Features
21 Aug

Same region read replica is now available for Azure Database for MariaDB

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Database for MariaDB now provides preview support for asynchronous replication of data from one Azure Database for MariaDB server (the ‘master’) to up to five Azure Database for MariaDB servers (the ‘replicas’) in the same region.

  • Azure Database for MariaDB
  • Features
21 Aug

New Azure Blockchain SDK updates with Truffle

NOW AVAILABLE

Work more efficiently with the updated Azure Blockchain Development Kit by using our new interactive debugger.

  • Azure Blockchain Service
  • Features
20 Aug

Azure Archive Expanded Capabilities now in Public Preview

IN PREVIEW

Azure Archive Storage follows-up price drop with 3 new feature enhancements in public preview.

  • Services
  • Features
20 Aug

Announcing new lower pricing for Azure Archive Storage

NOW AVAILABLE

Effective 1st August Azure Archive Storage dropped prices by up to 50% in some regions.

  • Archive Storage
  • Azure Blob Storage
  • Services
  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Features
20 Aug

New Copy APIs for efficient data copy in Azure Blob Storage

NOW AVAILABLE

Introducing a new set of copy APIs to enable efficient data transfer to Azure or inside Azure datacenters.

  • Storage Accounts
  • Azure Blob Storage
  • Features
20 Aug

Azure portal August 2019 feature update

NOW AVAILABLE

This month, Azure portal has updates to Azure Security Center and a new experience for Azure Migrate.

  • Microsoft Azure portal
  • Services
  • Features
19 Aug

General availablility of Managed Identity for Linux in App Service and Functions

NOW AVAILABLE

Managed identity support for App Service on Linux and the Azure Functions Linux Consumption Plan is now generally available.

  • App Service (Linux)
  • Azure Functions
  • Security
  • Features
19 Aug

General availability of user-assigned managed identities for App Service and Azure Functions

NOW AVAILABLE

App Service and Azure Functions support for user-assigned managed identities is now generally available.

  • App Service
  • App Service (Linux)
  • Azure Functions
  • Security
  • Features
16 Aug

New Quick Action Transformations Added to Data Factory Mapping Data Flows

IN PREVIEW

Data Factory Mapping Data Flows has added a new "Quick Actions" feature to automate the creation of data transformations.

  • Data Factory V2
  • Features
15 Aug

Update to Azure SQL Database serverless increases compute scale limits by 4x

NOW AVAILABLE

We are now announcing the max vcore limit has increased by 4x to 16 vcores and provides greater compute scaling headroom for serverless databases with more demanding workloads.

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Features

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