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Export and manage Azure Policy as code with GitHub
New integrations in between Azure Policy and GitHub are now in public preview.
Azure Databricks Achieves FedRAMP High Authorization on Microsoft Azure Government
With this certification, customers can now use Azure Databricks to process the U.S. government’s most sensitive, unclassified data in cloud computing environments, including data that involves the protection of life and financial assets.
Azure Resource Manager template support for Azure file share backup
You can now leverage Azure Resource Manager (ARM) template to configure backup for Azure file shares.
Microsoft to establish its first datacenter region in Sweden
The new region is anticipated to include Microsoft Azure, with Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, and Power Platform to follow.
More IOPS at no additional cost for Azure Files premium tier
All premium shares get additional baseline and burst input/output per second (IOPS) at zero cost, providing better performance and lower cost of deployment.
Unified Connection Monitor in Network Watcher is now generally available
Connection monitor provides unified end-to-end connection monitoring capabilities for hybrid and Azure deployments. It brings together the best of Network Performance Monitor and Connection Monitor (classic).
Azure portal November 2020 update
Updates include moving resources from a resource group to another region and a filter pills update.
The Azure Cloud Shell image has been updated
Azure Cloud Shell has been updated to use a new base image. This will provide updates to some of the most common tools and commands.
Azure Boards - Delivery Plans 2.0 is now in preview
With this release, we're announcing the public preview release of Delivery Plans 2.0 and other improvements.
Azure Data Factory adds cached lookups and enhanced zoom design to data flows
Azure Data Factory (ADF) has made it easier to view and manage large, complex ETL patterns with new zoom controls for complex graph design. ADF has also added cached lookups to data flows for more efficient and faster design patterns.
Multiple new features for Azure VPN Gateway are now generally available
Take advantage of multiple new enhancements and features that are now generally available in Azure VPN Gateway.
Azure Shared Image Gallery--New features are now generally available
Shared Image Gallery introduces new features to copy image versions, use disks or VMs to create image versions, and export a managed from an image version.
Azure Site Recovery - Support for increased disk size in Azure VM disaster recovery is now generally available
Protect Azure VMs with increased disk sizes.
Azure Monitor for Virtual Machines Guest Health is in public preview
Announcing the Public Preview of the Guest Health feature of Azure Monitor for Virtual Machines, that monitors the health of your virtual machines and fires an alert when any of the parameters being monitored are outside the acceptable range.
A new version of Text Analytics is now in public preview
Text Analytics new API version supports batch processing and healthcare scenarios.
Performance tiers for Premium SSDs is now generally available
Achieve higher performance and cost savings on Azure Disk Storage with performance tiers.
Node.js 14 for Azure Functions is now available in public preview
Developers can now build and publish Azure Functions Apps using Node.js 14.
SMB Multichannel preview is now available on Azure Files premium tier
Lower your deployment cost and increase you Server Message Block (SMB) 3.x client’s performance with Azure Files SMB Multichannel.
HDInsight HBase Accelerated Writes with Premium Data Lake Storage Gen2 is now generally available
With Premium Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 support for accelerated writes HDInsight HBase cluster, customers can now have increased read performance compared to standard storage and also take advantage of Hierarchical namespace feature of Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2.
Azure Backup for SAP HANA backup - User management improvements
The permissions required by a Azure Backup user for SAP HANA backup is now much simpler and automatically handled by a simple script from Azure Backup.
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