Updates Archives
Monthly updates for April 2021
New Azure VMs for general purpose and memory intensive workloads now in public preview
New Dv5, Dsv5, Ddv5, Ddsv5 and Ev5, Edv5 series Azure Virtual Machines deliver increased scalability and an upgraded CPU architecture, including better price to performance compared to the prior generation. The new VMs - now in public preview - run on the third Generation Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8370C (Ice Lake) processor in a hyper-threaded configuration. This custom processor can reach an all-core Turbo clock speed of up to 3.5GHz and features Intel® Turbo Boost Technology 2.0, Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (Intel® AVX-512) and Intel® Deep Learning Boost.
Public preview: Enhancements to encryption using customer managed keys for Azure Backup
Encryption of backup data in Recovery Services vaults using customer managed keys has enhancements in public preview.
Public preview: Azure Purview is now available in the UK South and Australia East region
Azure Purview is now available in public preview in the Australia East and UK South region. You can now provision Azure Purview accounts in these regions as a public preview offering.
Action required: upgrade your AML cluster to Ubuntu 18.04 LTS by 30th April 2021
Target retirement date: April 30, 2021
Ubuntu 16.04 community support ends on 30th April 2021 – Transition to 18.04 immediately
Azure Purview resource set pattern rules available in public preview
Azure Purview is announcing the public preview of resource set pattern rules. A resource set is a single object in the data catalog that represents a large number of assets in storage. Resource set pattern rules allow you to customize or override how Azure Purview detects which assets are grouped as resource sets and how they are displayed within the catalog.
General availability: Application Gateway URL Rewrite
Application Gateway now supports hosting friendly URLs and routing based on query string values.
Azure Data Factory announces Data Flow general availability in two new Azure regions
Azure Data Factory has released Mapping Data Flows for 2 new Azure regions: US Virgina Gov & US Arizona Gov
Azure Virtual Machines DCsv2-series now available in public preview in Azure Government
Azure Government customers can build secure, enclave-based applications to protect code and data while it is in use, in a dedicated cloud that meets stringent government security and compliance requirements.
Announcing general availability of new M-series Msv2/Mdsv2 Medium Memory VMs for memory-optimised workloads
Azure Msv2/Mdsv2 Medium Memory Series offering up to 192vCPU and 4TB memory configurations and running on Cascade Lake processor are now generally available.
Microsoft announces plans to establish first datacentre region in Malaysia
The new datacentre region is part of the “Bersama Malaysia” initiative to support inclusive economic growth in Malaysia.
Open source API Portal now generally available
API Portal is a no-code option to create, manage, and publish API documentation - for free.
General availability: Azure Sphere version 21.04 expected on April 29, 2021
Participate in the retail evaluation now to ensure full compatibility. The OS evaluation period provides 14 days for backward compatibility testing.
General availability: Event source start options in Azure Time Series Insights Gen2
The new event source start options feature in Azure Time Series Insights Gen2 gives you flexibility when configuring an event source.
User data through Azure Instance Metadata Service now generally available
Leverage user data to customize your VM instance provision and configuration.
Azure Automation support for System Assigned Managed Identities is now in public preview
Use managed identities now to authenticate runbooks to any Azure service that supports Azure AD authentication.
Apache Spark 3.0 is now available for public preview in HDInsight 4.0.
Apache Spark 3.0 public preview in HDInsight 4.0 is a major update to Apache Spark and brings significant improvements including better performance and better support for ANSI SQL.
Public preview - Support for multiple currencies on Retail Rates API for all Azure products/services
An unauthenticated experience to get retail prices in different currencies for all Azure products/services (including Reserved Instances).
Cognitive Services - New Computer Vision API v3.2 now generally available
Updated Computer Vision API now generally available to improve image tagging, content moderation, OCR language expansion, and more.
General availability: Log analytics workspace name uniqueness is now per resource group
You can now use the same workspace name in deployments across all your environment without a conflict. This is useful in template deployments when the same name can be used for every deployment for consistency.
General availability: New Azure Policy built-in definitions for data encryption in Azure Monitor
With Azure Monitor built-in policy definitions for data encryption, you can enforce organisational standards and assess compliance of data encryption settings in your environment.
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