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Monthly updates for September 2019

30 Sep

Introducing promotional pricing for data transfer to Azure Front Door

NOW AVAILABLE

Promotional pricing for data transfer to Azure Front Door is now available.

  • Azure Front Door
  • Services
  • Security
30 Sep

Azure CDN from Verizon - enforcement of strict SNI connections

NOW AVAILABLE

We are deprecating support for non-SNI connections when using Azure CDN from Verizon.

  • Content Delivery Network
  • Services
30 Sep

Windows Virtual Desktop is now generally available worldwide

NOW AVAILABLE

Today, we announce the worldwide general availability of Windows Virtual Desktop. It is the only service that delivers simplified management, a multi-session Windows 10 experience, optimisations for Office 365 ProPlus and support for Windows Server Remote Desktop Services (RDS) desktops and apps. With Windows Virtual Desktop, you can deploy and scale your Windows desktops and apps on Azure in minutes.

  • Azure Virtual Desktop
  • Services
30 Sep

Azure HDInsight G-series VMs deprecation—Migrate before 31st October 2019

Target retirement date: October 31, 2019

Azure HDInsight will deprecate G-series virtual machines (VMs) on 31st October 2019. After this date, you will not be able to create any new clusters using G-series VMs or to scale up clusters having G-series nodes.

  • HDInsight
  • Services
  • Retirements
  • Features
23 Sep

Azure portal September 2019 feature update

NOW AVAILABLE

The Azure portal has updates to Azure Data Explorer and to Azure SQL.

  • Microsoft Azure portal
  • Services
  • Features
20 Sep

Azure Analysis Services—Two new higher compute SKUs are now available

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q3 2019

Two new SKUs for Azure Analysis Services, S8V2 and S9V2, are now available. These SKUs are based on next-generation hardware and have double the QPU (abstraction of CPU) of the existing S8/S9 SKUs.

  • Azure Analysis Services
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Services
  • Management
20 Sep

Azure Premium SSD managed disks meter ID changes

Starting 1st November 2019, the meter IDs for snapshots of Azure Premium SSD managed disks will change.

  • Managed Disks
  • Services
20 Sep

Azure Maps Standard S1 transactions meter ID changes

Starting 1st November 2019, some meter IDs for Azure Maps Standard S1 transactions will change

  • Azure Maps
  • Services
20 Sep

Azure Maps Standard Transactions meter name changes

Starting 1st November 2019, some meter names of Azure Maps Standard IP-to-country transactions and Standard S1 IP-to-country transactions will change.

  • Azure Maps
  • Services
20 Sep

Public Preview: Computer Vision releasing 'Read' text extraction feature in containers

IN PREVIEW

We are releasing our latest text understanding feature , 'Read', in Docker containers for customers to run locally.

  • Azure AI services
  • Azure AI Vision
  • Services
18 Sep

Azure SQL Database—Auto-failover groups feature now available in all regions

NOW AVAILABLE

The Auto-failover groups feature of Azure SQL Database is now available for managed instance deployments in all regions.

  • Services
  • Features
18 Sep

Public Preview - Video Indexer Multilingual identification and transcription

IN PREVIEW

Automatic spoken language identification leverages machine learning technology to identify the different languages used in a media asset.

  • Media Services
  • Video Indexer
  • Services
  • Features
18 Sep

Public Preview - Video Indexer Animated Character Detection

IN PREVIEW

Azure Media Services Video Indexer supports detection, grouping and recognition of characters in animated content.

  • Media Services
  • Video Indexer
  • Services
  • Features
18 Sep

Azure Advisor alerts are now in preview

IN PREVIEW

Get your Azure best practice recommendations as soon as they become available with Azure Advisor user-configured alerts, now available in preview.

  • Azure Advisor
  • Services
  • Features
18 Sep

Azure HPC Cache is now in preview

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.

  • Avere vFXT for Azure
  • Azure HPC Cache
  • Services
17 Sep

Improved query replica synchronisation in Azure Analysis Services is in development

IN DEVELOPMENT

Target availability: Q3 2019

A new Azure Analysis Services setting now in development will improve performance and consistency of query-replica synchronisation in scale-out environments.

  • Azure Analysis Services
  • Services
  • Management
  • Features
17 Sep

Azure Analysis Services diagnostic logging improvements for scale-out

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q3 2019

Get targeted log analysis with improvements to the Diagnostic Logs extension of Azure Analysis Services. Diagnostic Logs now allow you to access and break out server metrics for each query replica with the scale-out feature.

  • Azure Analysis Services
  • Services
  • Management
  • Features
17 Sep

Azure Analysis Services scale-out improvement

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q3 2019

Synchronisation of query replicas in Azure Analysis Services scale-out environments now uses an optimised copy API, which significantly reduces synchronisation time on average.

  • Azure Analysis Services
  • Services
  • Management
  • Features
17 Sep

Azure Firewall updates—September 2019

NOW AVAILABLE

Here are the Azure Firewall updates for September 2019. - Azure Firewall is now generally available in China. - Azure Firewall is now ISO compliant.

  • Azure Firewall
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Compliance
  • Services
  • Security
16 Sep

Azure Private Link is now available in preview

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q3 2019

Connect to services in your Azure virtual networks more securely and privately with Azure Private Link, now available in preview.

  • Virtual Network
  • Storage Accounts
  • Azure Data Lake Storage
  • Azure SQL Database
  • Azure Synapse Analytics
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Compliance
  • Services
  • Features
  • Security

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