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General availability: Web Application Firewall (WAF) bot protection on Application Gateway
Try the bot protection rule set alongside your OWASP core rule set (CRS), now generally available for Azure Web Application Firewall running on Application Gateway.
General availability: Web Application Firewall (WAF) geomatch custom rules on Application Gateway
Try geomatch custom rules to block or allow traffic based on geo-location, now generally available for Azure Web Application Firewall on Application Gateway.
Start VM on connect capability in Azure Virtual Desktop enters general availability
Start VM on Connect will help you optimize the costs of your deployment by offering a configuration setting in the service to start stopped or deallocated VMs when needed.
Immutable storage with versioning for Blob Storage is now in public preview
Set time-based policies or legal holds on data so that the data becomes non-erasable and non-modifiable and protect all versions of a blob.
Azure Sphere SDK version 21.07 Update 1 is now available
This SDK update fixes a bug in the 21.07 SDK that was released earlier this month.
VMware Site Recovery Manager is now generally available for Azure VMware Solution
Azure VMware Solution (AVS) customers are now be able to take advantage of VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) for disaster recovery scenarios including; On-premise VMware to AVS, and Primary AVS to Secondary AVS private cloud environments.
General availability: Azure ExpressRoute: 3 New Peering Locations Available
ExpressRoute lets you extend your on-premises networks into the Microsoft cloud over a private connection with the help of a connectivity provider. The service is now available in 3 new peering locations.
Azure Site Recovery update rollup 56 is now generally available - July 2021
The latest Azure Site Recovery update provides improvements, fixes, updated replication support, and download links for Site Recovery components.
General Availability: Azure Stream Analytics Tools for Visual Studio Code
Azure Stream Analytics Tools for Visual Studio Code is for developers to easily author, test, debug, and manage Azure Stream Analytics jobs.
Public preview: Azure Virtual Desktop is now available in the Azure China cloud
Get started today with Azure Virtual Desktop in public preview in Azure China cloud. Deploy and scale Windows desktops and apps on Azure in minutes.
Azure Active Directory support for Azure Relay now in public preview
Azure Relay now supports authentication and authorization via Azure AD as a public preview offering. With Azure AD, you don't need to store tokens in your code.
General availability: Azure Sphere version 21.07
The 21.07 update includes heap memory allocation tracking, time sync changes, and support for service principles.
General availability: New West US 3 region added to Azure HDInsight
HDInsight is now generally available for West US 3 customers.
General availability: Azure Monitor Agent and Data Collection Rules now support direct proxies and Log Analytics gateway
If you use a proxy server or Log Analytics gateway to communicate to Azure Monitor, you can now start using the new Azure Monitor Agent (AMA) and Data Collection Rules (DCR) in these network configurations.
General availability: Better integration between Azure Monitor and Grafana
Customers using Grafana for visualizing Azure Monitor metrics can now enable additional data sources and have easier authentication using managed identity.
General availability: Public IP information and inter-zone traffic among many new insights in Traffic Analytics
Azure Network Watcher Traffic Analytics solutions is used to monitor network traffic. It now provides WHOIS and Geographic data for all Public IPs interacting with your deployments and further adds DNS domain, threat type & threat description for Malicious IPs. Now, it also supports inter-zone traffic and VMSS level traffic insights.
General availability: Python Functions now support custom telemetry in Application Insights
Azure Monitor is releasing a new PyPI package that expands distributed tracing support in Application Insights for Python Functions.
General availability: Built-in Azure Policy support for Network Watcher Traffic Analytics
Traffic Analytics can now be enabled using Built-in Azure Policy, thus improving your deployment experience. Now organizations can enforce org wide standards and manage traffic monitoring at scale using these policies.
Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server Auto-grow storage in public preview
With auto-grow storage enabled, your storage automatically grows when storage consumed on the Flexible Server is nearing its provisioned limit.
Public preview: Azure App Service Migration Assistant PowerShell-based experience
The PowerShell-based experience for the Azure App Service Migration Assistant is now in public preview.
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