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Azure Storage — Attribute-based Access Control (ABAC) now available for preview
Attribute-based Access Control (ABAC) is an authorization mechanism that defines access levels based on attributes associated with security principals, resources, requests or the environment. You can now use ABAC in Azure Storage for Blobs and ADLS Gen2 by defining conditions on role-assignments based on resource and request attributes.
Prevent Shared Key authorization for an Azure Storage account
Target availability: Q2 2021
Enhance secure access to Azure Storage accounts with Prevent Shared Key authorization.
Append blob support in Azure Data Lake Storage is now generally available
Applications can now create append blobs in addition to block blobs in Azure Data Lake Storage accounts and append to them using Append Block operations. Applications that need to add information to existing files efficiently and continuously can leverage append blobs.
General availability: Multiple features for Azure VPN Gateway
Take advantage of multiple new enhancements and features that are now generally available in Azure VPN Gateway.
General availability: Custom Translator—May new features, improvements and bug fixes
Review the Microsoft Custom Translator new features, improvements, bug fixes, and new/refreshed models for May 2021.
Azure Backup: Operational backup for Azure Blobs is now generally available
Operational backup for Azure Blobs gives you a managed data protection solution for block blobs in your storage accounts.
General availability: Azure Log Analytics UI updates May 2021
Azure Log Analytics for May 2021 include a new and updated experience for custom logs management and pinned parts filter integration.
Azure Data Share Preview API versions will no longer be supported starting August 1, 2021
Target retirement date: August 01, 2021
Beginning August 1, 2021, you will no longer be able to access Azure Data Share preview API versions (2018-11-01-preview, 2020-06-01-preview) through REST API or SDK.
New NPv1 virtual machines are now generally available
New Xilinx Alveo U250 FPGA NPv1 VMs are now generally available in West US 2, East US, West Europe, and Southeast Asia.
Public preview: AKS support for Secrets Store Container Storage Interface
Access your secrets securely via the container's file system.
General availability: Azure Maps- new Gen2 pricing model available
Get new Azure Maps features and potential cost savings with Gen2 pricing.
Azure Security Center: General availability updates for April 2021
New enhancements and updates released for general availability (GA) in Azure Security Center in April 2021.
Azure Security Center: Public preview updates for April 2021
Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure Security Center in April 2021.
April 2021
Azure Sphere version 21.04 is now generally available
The latest release of Azure Sphere brings enhancements and features to the OS, SDKs, and Visual Studio extensions.
Microsoft Azure Web PubSub service now in public preview
Easily build large-scale real-time messaging applications with WebSockets without the need to manage backend infrastructure.
Azure Site Recovery now supports Azure Policy in public preview
Leverage Azure Policy to enable Azure Site Recovery for your VMs at scale and ensure organizational standards.
General availability: Azure Site Recovery now supports cross-continental disaster recovery for 3 region pairs
Protect your applications from outages by replicating your virtual machines across continents.
General availability: Set up Azure Site Recovery with proximity placement groups across hybrid and cloud disaster recovery scenarios
Azure Site Recovery now provides a portal experience to failover VMs or physical servers inside a proximity placement group in the target Azure region.
Public preview: Application Insight in South India and West Central US
Application Insight is now in public preview for customers to start collecting telemetry and analyzing their services for health in the following list of regions South India West Central US.
Public preview: Azure Log Analytics in South India
Azure Log Analytics is now in public preview for customers to start collecting telemetry and analyzing their services for health and usage in South India.
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