Updates Archives
Monthly updates for March 2021
Public preview: Azure Event Grid now provides support for delivery headers and additional advanced filters among other updates
Azure Event Grid now supports as a public preview release additional advanced filters, setting customer headers on requests delivering events, configuring TTL on messages delivered to Azure Storage Queues and setting system-assigned managed identities on regional System Topics.
Public preview: Azure Static Web Apps now supports deployment with Azure DevOps
Azure Static Web Apps, currently in public preview, now supports building and deploying apps with Azure DevOps.
Public preview: Open Service Mesh (OSM) add-on for AKS
Service Mesh capabilities to be natively integrated with AKS via the Open Service Mesh add-on.
Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server (public preview) available in new regions
With new regions announced for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server, you can control multiple configuration parameters for fine-grained database tuning with a simpler developer experience to accelerate end-to-end deployment.
Public preview: Zone redundant configuration for Azure SQL Database serverless compute tier
Make your serverless Azure SQL databases resilient to a much larger set of failures, including catastrophic datacentre outages, without any changes of the application logic by selecting zone redundancy.
Insights and workbooks for Azure Cosmos DB now in public preview
Now available in preview support, Azure Monitor insights and Azure Monitor workbooks makes it easier to visualize and customize metrics for dynamic monitoring of your Azure Cosmos DB resource.
Azure Container Service (AKS) now supports node image autoupgrade in public preview
You can now opt-in to have your node image auto-upgraded when a new AKS node image becomes available
Public preview of Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) run-command feature
You can now invoke commands in an AKS cluster for just-in-time access when you are not on the cluster private network.
Public preview: Cognitive Services - Form Recogniser new features
Support for 73 languages, prebuilt ID model, invoice line item extraction, tagging as table and lots more - Now in Azure Form Recogniser public preview, part of Azure Cognitive Services
Public preview: Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server now connects with Azure CLI
Now in public preview, use the 'connect' command for Azure CLI for Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server to test connections and run basic queries.
Public preview: Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server now connects with Azure CLI
Now in public preview, use the 'connect' command for Azure CLI for Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server to test connections and run basic queries.
Public preview: Service Tags for User Defined Routing
Simplify route creation and management by using Service Tags to represent multiple IP ranges in a single route. Utilise over 60 tags representing ranges for Microsoft and Azure service.
Public preview: Announcing the new Power BI embedded analytics playground
Check out the new Power BI embedded analytics playground (public preview). You can find in the new playground experiences for developer and non-developers to get first-hand experience of Power BI embedded analytics.
AzCopy v10.9.0 now in public preview: import from GCP to Azure Block Blobs
AzCopy v10.9.0 now in preview supports Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to Microsoft Azure Storage Block Blob imports. This version also includes scanning logs which can help in debugging.
Public preview: IPv6 Support for ExpressRoute Private Peering
This support will unlock hybrid connectivity for you as you expand into new, IPv6-dependent markets or transition to IPv6 in your own networks.
Public preview: App Service Managed Certificates now supports apex domains
Create apex domains on your Linux and Windows web app at no additional cost.
Service Broker message exchange for Azure SQL Managed Instance in public preview
Service Broker message exchange between Azure SQL Managed Instances (public preview) allows you to build reliable distributed applications with asynchronous message processing functionality by leveraging SQL Server engine’s native support for messaging/queuing.
Azure Monitor SQL insights for Azure SQL in public preview
Get a single monitoring experience for all your cloud-based SQL deployments with Azure Monitor SQL insights
Long-term backup retention (LTR) for Azure SQL Managed Instance in public preview
Configure long-term backup retention for SQL Managed Instance databases and retain database backups beyond the 35 days provided by Azure SQL Managed Instance automated backups, for up to 10 years.
Limited preview: Make workloads on AMD-backed virtual machines confidential without recompiling code
Azure and AMD announce landmark in confidential computing evolution -- it is now even easier to extend your protection of data at rest and data in transit to protect data in use.
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