Updates Archives
Monthly updates for May 2022
General availability: Azure Bastion IP based connection
You can now use Azure Bastion to connect to on-premises resources over ExpressRoute and Site-to-Site VPN
General availability: New portal experience for Microsoft Artifact Registry
You can now browse for Microsoft artifacts and container images on the Microsoft Artifact Registry website.
Generally available: Switzerland North Availability Zones
Three new zones provide you with options for additional resiliency and tolerance to infrastructure impact.
Generally available: Budget alert supports action groups with common alert schema
Azure cost management budget alert now supports action groups with common alert schema.
General availability: Enhanced IPv6 functionality for MultiValue profiles in Azure Traffic Manager
Azure Traffic Manager now enables you to specify minimum children property separately for IPv4 and IPv6 endpoints for MultiValue profiles.
Public preview: Automate scheduled emails of your saved cost views via API
Automate the creation and management of Azure Cost Management scheduled emails with the ScheduledActions API.
Generally available Azure Ebsv5 now available in 13 additional regions
Azure Virtual Machines Ebsv5 and Ebdsv5 are now available in 13 additional regions.
Public preview: JavaScript and Python support in Azure SQL bindings
You can connect Azure SQL to Azure Functions more easily with input and output bindings, now available in public preview for C#, JavaScript, and Python.
Public preview: Autoscale Stream Analytics jobs
Autoscaling allows you to define the minimum and maximum streaming units. Stream Analytics will automatically take care of dynamically optimising the number of streaming units needed for your workload.
Public preview: Azure Digital Twins 3D Scenes Studio
3D Scenes Studio allows you to build lightweight 3D visualisation with contextual data visualisations that can be consumed easily from web browsers.
General availability: Azure Backup supports backup of Write Accelerator enabled disks
Target availability: Q2 2022
Azure Virtual Machine backup protects Write Accelerator enabled disks
IoT Hub IP address change notification
IoT Hub will be updating the underlying infrastructure and will go through an internal service update. The update will change the underlying DNS record for IoT Hub, resulting in a change of the IP address.
Generally available: Stream Analytics query development improvements
See improvements to the Stream Analytics query development experience on the Azure portal to increase productivity.
Generally available: Increased size of Stream Analytics jobs and cluster
Maximum size of a Stream Analytics job and a cluster is increased from 192 SUs to 396 SUs.
Public preview: Stream Analytics no code editor
Stream Analytics no code editor provides a rich, no code, drag and drop experience for you to build you streaming pipeline within minutes.
Public preview: NGINX for Azure
Natively integrate SaaS solution for advanced traffic management and monitoring on Azure.
In development: Dynatrace for Azure
Target availability: Q2 2022
Natively integrated SaaS solution that provides deep cloud observability, advanced AIOps, and continuous runtime application security capabilities on Azure.
Generally available: Microsoft Purview Data Estate Insights
Microsoft Purview Data Estate Insights (in GA July 1, 2022) provides a bird's eye view of your data estate's health.
Public preview: Microsoft Purview Data Policy for SQL dev ops roles
Microsoft Purview Data Policy enables policies for data access, now including SQL dev ops roles.
Public preview: Azure Applied AI Services enhancements
Enhancements in preview include Power Virtual Agents to enable sophisticated conversational flows; Azure Form Recognizer helps to streamline patient check-in and verification; Azure Metrics Advisor has simplified service customization.
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