Updates Archives
Monthly updates for September 2019
Introducing promotional pricing for data transfer to Azure Front Door
Promotional pricing for data transfer to Azure Front Door is now available.
Azure CDN from Verizon - enforcement of strict SNI connections
We are deprecating support for non-SNI connections when using Azure CDN from Verizon.
Windows Virtual Desktop is now generally available worldwide
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 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.
Azure portal September 2019 feature update
The Azure portal has updates to Azure Data Explorer and to Azure SQL.
Azure Analysis Services—Two new higher compute SKUs are 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 Premium SSD managed disks meter ID changes
Starting 1st November 2019, the meter IDs for snapshots of Azure Premium SSD managed disks will change.
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 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.
Public Preview: Computer Vision releasing 'Read' text extraction feature in containers
We are releasing our latest text understanding feature , 'Read', in Docker containers for customers to run locally.
Azure SQL Database—Auto-failover groups feature now available in all regions
The Auto-failover groups feature of Azure SQL Database is now available for managed instance deployments in all regions.
Public Preview - Video Indexer Multilingual identification and transcription
Automatic spoken language identification leverages machine learning technology to identify the different languages used in a media asset.
Public Preview - Video Indexer Animated Character Detection
Azure Media Services Video Indexer supports detection, grouping and recognition of characters in animated content.
Azure Advisor alerts are now 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 HPC Cache is now 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.
Improved query replica synchronisation in Azure Analysis Services is 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 diagnostic logging improvements for scale-out
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 scale-out improvement
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 Firewall updates—September 2019
Here are the Azure Firewall updates for September 2019. - Azure Firewall is now generally available in China. - Azure Firewall is now ISO compliant.
Azure Private Link is now available 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.
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