Azure updates

PostgreSQL and MySQL and MariaDB General Purpose Large Scale Storage Meter ID and Name Changes

Effective January 1, 2020, the meter IDs and names of Azure Database for PostgreSQL and MySQL and MariaDB General Purpose -Large Scale Storage will change.

• Azure Database for PostgreSQL
• Azure Database for MySQL
• Azure Database for MariaDB

Azure Data Share dataset movement meter name changes

Effective January 1, 2020, the meter names for Azure Data Share dataset movement—vCore will change.

• Azure Data Share

Azure Data Box Edge (now Azure Stack Edge) meter name changes

Azure Data Box Edge is now Azure Stack Edge. Starting on January 1, 2020, meter names in US Gov regions will change when the service becomes generally available.

• Azure Stack Edge

Azure Stack and Azure Data Box Edge meter name changes

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

• Azure Stack
• Azure Stack Edge

Azure Functions premium plan meter ID changes

Starting on January 1, 2020, Azure Functions premium plan meter ID names will change.

• Azure Functions

New Dashboard with Cost Estimator

Azure Lab Services added a dashboard view enabling instructors to view the summary of the lab

• Azure Lab Services

IoT Hub new features now available for device and module twins

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

Understand Kubernetes cluster health with Azure Monitor for containers

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

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

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

• Azure Monitor

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

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

• Azure Database for PostgreSQL

Azure Database for MariaDB server is now available in Switzerland regions

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

• Azure Database for MariaDB

Azure Database for MySQL is now available in Switzerland regions

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

• Azure Database for MySQL

Azure Site Recovery is now available in new Azure regions

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

• Azure Site Recovery

Microsoft cloud in Norway opens with availability of Microsoft Azure

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.

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

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

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

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

• Virtual Machines

Azure Media Services now supports Live Transcription 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

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

Azure Event Grid now integrates with Azure Monitor alerts.

• Event Grid
• Azure Monitor

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

Azure Event Grid can now publish events to AAD protected endpoints

• Event Grid
• Azure Active Directory
• Security