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January 2020

27 Jan

Azure App Service on Azure Stack Hub Update 8 Released

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure App Service on Azure Stack Hub Update 8 released today.

  • App Service
  • Azure Stack
  • Services

November 2019

20 Nov

Azure Stack and Azure Data Box Edge meter name changes

Effective 1st January, 2020, the meter names of Azure Stack and Data Box Edge will change.

  • Azure Stack
  • Azure Stack Edge
  • Services

September 2019

4 Sep

Diagnostic log collection is now generally available for Azure Stack

NOW AVAILABLE

The Azure Stack diagnostic log collection service provides a simplified way for Azure Stack operators to collect and share diagnostic logs with Microsoft Customer Support Services (CSS).

  • Azure Stack
  • Features
4 Sep

Azure Stack integration with Azure Government Secret cloud

IN DEVELOPMENT

Work is currently in progress to allow Azure Stack operators in government organizations to connect their Azure Stacks to the Azure Government Secret cloud for identity, Pay-As-You-Go billing, marketplace syndication and hybrid scenarios.

  • Azure Stack
  • Features
4 Sep

Retail solution patterns for hybrid applications

IN DEVELOPMENT

Work is in progress to develop an Azure Stack solution pattern that will provide solution architects and developers with guidance and examples on how to enable scenarios that require AI inferencing on video streams at the edge.

  • Azure Stack
  • Features

November 2018

1 Nov

Azure Stack security—drift detection

IN DEVELOPMENT

New and updated features are being developed to ensure customers can determine that their Azure Stack system has not been tampered with and can remediate if configuration has drifted.

  • Azure Stack
  • Features
1 Nov

Azure Government cloud integration for Azure Stack

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Stack is now integrated with the Azure Government cloud, enabling connections to Azure Government identity, subscription, registration, billing, backup/DR and Azure Marketplace.

  • Azure Stack
  • Features
1 Nov

Enterprise backup for SQL Servers in Azure Virtual Machines

IN PREVIEW

Users can backup their SQL Servers running in Azure Virtual Machines (VMs). This workload backup capability is built as an infrastructure-less, pay-as-you-go service that uses native SQL backup and restore APIs to provide a comprehensive solution to backup SQL servers running in Azure IaaS VMs.

  • Azure Stack
  • Azure Backup
  • Services
1 Nov

Kubernetes on Azure Stack in preview

IN PREVIEW

We now support Kubernetes cluster deployment on Azure Stack, a certified Kubernetes Cloud Provider. Install Kubernetes using Azure Resource Manager templates generated by ACS-Engine on Azure Stack.

  • Azure Stack
  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Services
1 Nov

Azure Stack support for Azure Backup

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Stack operators can now backup and recover guest OS, data disks and volumes using Azure Backup.

  • Azure Stack
  • Features
1 Nov

Azure Site Recovery support for Azure Stack

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Stack operators or tenants can now replicate and failover Windows Server and Linux guest OS based application deployed in IaaS VMs on Azure Stack to Azure.

  • Azure Stack
  • Features
1 Nov

Azure Stack—FedRAMP High documentation now available

NOW AVAILABLE

FedRAMP High documentation is now available for Azure Stack customers.

  • Azure Stack
  • Compliance
  • Services
1 Nov

Azure China cloud integration for Azure Stack

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Stack is integrated with the Azure China cloud, enabling connections to identity, subscription, registration, billing, backup/DR and Azure Marketplace.

  • Azure Stack
  • Features
1 Nov

Ability to incrementally add capacity to Azure Stack

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Stack operators can now add a node to an existing Azure Stack scale unit within the supported scale unit limits.

  • Azure Stack
  • Features
1 Nov

Azure Stack Infrastructure—compliance certification guidance

NOW AVAILABLE

We have created documentation to describe how Azure Stack infrastructure satisfies regulatory technical controls for PCI-DSS and CSA-CCM.

  • Azure Stack
  • Features
1 Nov

Azure Stack integrated systems support for multiple scale units

IN DEVELOPMENT

For customers who want larger Azure Stack integrated systems, we are working on adding support to have multiple scale units in an Azure Stack integrated system.

  • Azure Stack
  • Features
1 Nov

Azure Stack infrastructure backup and cloud recovery

IN DEVELOPMENT

We are developing enhancements for Azure Stack that will simplify infrastructure backup by eliminating the need for manual operator intervention.

  • Azure Stack
  • Features
1 Nov

Azure Storage API version 2017-04-17 updated in Azure Stack

NOW AVAILABLE

The 2017-04-17 version of the Azure Storage API is now available to use in Azure Stack.

  • Azure Stack
  • Features
1 Nov

Service Fabric now available on Azure Stack

NOW AVAILABLE

Service Fabric, a distributed systems platform that makes it easy to package, deploy and manage scalable and reliable microservices and containers, is now available on Azure Stack.

  • Azure Service Fabric
  • Azure Stack
  • Services
1 Nov

Event Hubs on Azure Stack

IN PREVIEW

Azure Event Hubs is a big data streaming platform and event ingestion service, capable of receiving and processing millions of events per second, that can now run on Azure Stack.

  • Event Hubs
  • Azure Stack
  • Services

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