Azure updates

November 2019

Nov 20

IoT Hub new features now available for device and module twins

NOW AVAILABLE

Announcing several feature improvements for Azure IoT Hub device and module twins, namely the support for deep property nesting, and increases to the twin document max size and key/value lengths.

Azure IoT Hub

Nov 19

Understand Kubernetes cluster health with Azure Monitor for containers

IN PREVIEW

Azure Monitor for containers can now monitor and report health status of Kubernetes cluster infrastructure components and all nodes running on any Kubernetes cluster.

Azure Monitor

Nov 19

Monitor Azure Red Hat OpenShift Kubernetes clusters with Azure Monitor for containers

IN PREVIEW

We are now supporting in public preview monitoring for Azure Red Hat OpenShift Kubernetes clusters in Azure Monitor for containers.

Azure Monitor

Nov 19

Azure Database for PostgreSQL single server is now available in Switzerland regions

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Database for PostgreSQL is now generally available in the recently announced regions of Switzerland.

Azure Database for PostgreSQL

Nov 19

Azure Database for MariaDB server is now available in Switzerland regions

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Database for MariaDB is now generally available in the recently announced regions of Switzerland.

Azure Database for MariaDB

Nov 19

Azure Database for MySQL is now available in Switzerland regions

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Database for MySQL is now generally available in the recently announced regions of Switzerland.

Azure Database for MySQL

Nov 19

Azure Site Recovery is now available in new Azure regions

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Site Recovery is now available in Norway East and Norway West Azure regions.

Azure Site Recovery

Nov 19

Microsoft cloud in Norway opens with availability of Microsoft Azure

NOW AVAILABLE

Microsoft announces the availability of Microsoft Azure from our new cloud datacenter regions in Norway, marking a major milestone as the first global cloud provider to deliver enterprise-grade services in country.

Nov 18

Azure App Service—Increased scale out limits for Premium v2 plans

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure App Service has increased the maximum scale out limit for PremiumV2 app service plans to 30 instances in select regions around the world.

Nov 18

HPC Specialized VMs (GPU) - NVv4-Series in preview

IN PREVIEW

NVv4-Series VMs are now available in preview in South Central US and West Europe regions

Virtual Machines

Nov 18

Azure Media Services now supports Live Transcription in preview

IN PREVIEW

Azure Media Services provides a platform which you can use to ingest, transcode, and dynamically package and encrypt your live video for delivery. Live Transcriptions is a new feature in the Azure Media Services v3 APIs, wherein you can enhance the streams delivered to your viewers with machine-generated text that is transcribed from spoken words in the audio feed.

Media Services
Video Indexer

Nov 18

Enhanced observability for event-driven applications with Azure Event Grid now in preview

IN PREVIEW

Azure Event Grid now integrates with Azure Monitor alerts.

Event Grid
Azure Monitor

Nov 18

Publish to Azure Active Directory protected endpoints from Azure Event Grid now in preview

IN PREVIEW

Azure Event Grid can now publish events to AAD protected endpoints

Event Grid
Azure Active Directory
Security

Nov 18

Batch delivery in Azure Event Grid for high-throughput scenarios now in preview

IN PREVIEW

Azure Event Grid subscriptions can now be configured to publish events to your endpoints in batches (and not only individually) in order to handle more efficiently high-throughput scenarios.

Event Grid

Nov 18

Azure Event Grid now supports CloudEvents v1.0 for greater interoperability

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Event Grid now supports CloudEvents v1.0, the open standard event format incubated at the Cloud Native Compute Foundation and built by several collaborators, including Microsoft

Event Grid

Nov 15

Azure DevTest Labs : Azure managed identities to deploy lab environments

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure managed identities to deploy lab environments As a lab owner, you can now use a user assigned managed identity to deploy environments in a lab. This feature is helpful in scenarios where the environment contains or has references to Azure resources such as key vaults, shared image galleries, and networks that are external to the environment’s resource group. It enables creation of sandbox environments that aren't limited to the resource group of that environment only.