Updates Archives
Monthly updates for March 2021
New Norway East region added to Azure HDInsight
HDInsight is now generally available for Norway East customers.
Azure Storage — Routing Preferences now generally available
Routing Preference for Azure Storage provide the flexibility to optimise traffic between clients external to Azure and your storage account for premium network reliability and performance over the Microsoft global network or for cost efficiency using the transit ISP network. You can now also publish route-specific endpoints for your storage account.
Python Durable Functions support in Azure Functions is now generally available
Python developers can now create serverless workflows to orchestrate complex data processing and data science workloads in Azure Functions.
General availability: Azure Functions supports .NET 5 in production
Azure Functions now supports running production applications in .NET 5, the latest version of .NET.
Node.js 14 in Azure Functions is now generally available
Azure Functions support for the Node.js 14 runtime is now in general availability.
HDInsight Apache Kafka REST Proxy is now generally available
Azure HDInsight Kafka REST proxy greatly simplifies messaging architecture patterns by allowing Kafka producers and consumers to be located outside the virtual network and enables working with unsupported languages.
New Brazil Southeast region added to Azure HDInsight
HDInsight is now available for Brazil South customers requiring scenario-based in-country disaster recovery.
Token lifecycle management is now in private preview
With this sprint update, we're announcing Azure DevOps REST API support for personal access tokens that's available now in private preview.
Azure Routing Preference is now generally available
Choice matters when it comes to cloud. Routing preference enables network service tiers for internet bound traffic, letting you to optimise for performance or cost.
General availability: Azure monitor for containers now supports Pods & Replica set live logs in AKS resource view
View live logs of your pods & replica-sets in Azure Kubernetes Service(AKS) resource view. Filter, search, and troubleshoot your pods and replica-sets.
Azure VMware Solution now generally available in the Southeast Asia region
The new Azure VMware Solution has expanded availability to Southeast Asia (Singapore). This update is in addition to the existing availability in US East, US West, West Europe, Australia, Japan East, UK South, Canada Central, North US, and North Europe (Dublin) regions.
Azure Sphere version 21.02 is now available
The 21.02 release includes new features in the Azure Sphere CLI v2 and promotion from Beta to release.
Public preview: Azure Purview Bulk Edit enhancements
Azure Purview's bulk editing capability for data assets now supports classifications and contacts along with glossary terms.
General availability: New Simplified NSX networking experience for Azure VMware Solution
Azure VMware Solution helps simplify migration to the cloud by running VMware environments natively on Azure. With the new simplified NSX networking experience, it is now easier for VMware administrators to execute networking operations for Azure VMware Solution from the Azure portal.
Azure trusted launch for Virtual Machines now in public preview
Azure offers trusted launch as a seamless way to bolster the security of Generation 2 VMs. Designed to protect against boot kits, rootkits, and kernel-level malware, trusted launch is comprised of secure boot, virtual trusted platform module (vTPM), and boot integrity monitoring.
Automatic VM guest patching is now in public preview for Linux VMs
Automatic VM guest patching provides safe and automatic patching for virtual machines to simplify update management and maintain security compliance.
Public preview: Azure Purview Resource Set configuration enhancements
You can now customize how Azure Purview Data Catalog assets are grouped into resource sets and are named as well.
New orchestration mode for Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets now in public preview
Increase the availability at scale of business-critical applications with new Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets features. Simplify workload deployment, management, and scalability with Virtual Machine Scale Sets flexible orchestration mode, now in public preview.
Public preview: Register Azure subscriptions and Resource Groups with Azure Purview
Manage your data with greater ease by using Azure Purview to register multiple sources at the same time.
Improve Azure Spot Virtual Machines runtime and simulate evictions with new features in public preview
New Azure Spot Virtual Machines capabilities – ‘try & restore’ and REST APIs to simulate VM evictions - are now in public preview.
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