Updates Archives
Monthly updates for April 2019
Public Preview: Resource Change History API
With the last 14 days of resource changes, the public preview of the new Change History capability within the Azure Resource Graph API enables you to find when changes were detected on an Azure Resource Manager property and see what properties changed as part of that change event.
Azure Active Directory activity logs integration with Diagnostics Logs for Azure Monitor and Log Analytics in Azure Monitor
Gain insights from Azure AD user activity logs stored in an Azure storage account and streamed to your preferred SIEM or custom environment, or integration with Log Analytics in Azure Monitor directly in the Azure portal.
Virtual WAN Scale Unit name changes
On June 1, 2019, the meter names for Virtual WAN Scale Unit will change.
Resource GUID changes for Event Hubs Dedicated Capacity Unit
On June 1, 2019, the meter IDs for Azure Event Hubs Dedicated will change.
Service Bus US Government resource GUID and naming impacts
On June 1, 2019, the meter IDs and meter names of Service Bus will change.
Service Bus Standard Base Unit name change
On June 1, 2019, the unit of measure for the Service Bus Standard Base Unit Germany resource GUID will change.
Azure Batch updates now available
Here are the latest new or enhanced capabilities for Azure Batch, available now.
General Availability: New Azure Monitor alerts experience available in Azure Government
New Azure Monitor alerts experience is now available in Azure Government.
General Availability: Azure Monitor for containers is now available in Azure China
Azure Monitor for containers is now general available in Azure China.
Azure reservations: New experience and APIs for purchasing reservations
Azure reservation updates include new purchase experience and APIs.
General availability: Azure Availability Zones in Japan East
Azure Availability Zones, a high-availability solution for mission-critical applications, is now generally available in Japan East.
Reserved Capacity Pricing for Azure SQL Data Warehouse is now generally available
Starting today, you can now use the Azure SQL Data Warehouse Reserved Capacity pricing to reserve compute power for existing and future clusters. This option provides you savings up to 65% cDWU capacity.
Azure API Management update April 19
Learn about the latest regular update in Azure API Management update.
Service Fabric Mesh preview - spring update for features in development
Service Fabric Mesh preview is being updated with some new features, and improvements based on feedback we’ve received.
Azure Traffic Manager will stop automatically enabling, disabling, or deleting endpoints for Azure Cloud Services on May 1, 2019
Target retirement date: May 01, 2019
Currently, Azure Traffic Manager can automatically enable, disable, or delete endpoints when starting, stopping, or deleting the corresponding cloud service. However, this option will be retired on May 1, 2019, and you’ll need to manually enable, disable, or delete profile endpoints in Traffic Manager when starting, stopping, or deleting a cloud service. You’ll continue to be billed for the endpoints unless they are manually disabled or deleted.
General availability: Azure DNS in China regions
Azure DNS is now generally available in Azure China regions.
General Availability: Application Insights is now available in East Asia and East US 2
Azure Application Insights is now available in East Asia and East US 2.
Server-level collations in Managed Instance are globally available
Azure SQL Database Managed Instance now brings even more application compatibility by offering a choice of server-level collation to meet the needs of the existing applications that should be migrated to azure cloud. This eliminates need for changes in the existing applications that are not using SQL Server instances with default server-level collation when they are migrated to Azure cloud
Azure Container Registry singularity image files (SIF) support is now in preview
Support for storing singularity image files (SIF) in Azure Container Registry based on the OCI distribution-based container registries specification is now available in preview.
Azure Front Door Service is now available
Azure Front Door Service has entered general availability and is now fully supported with a 99.99 percent SLA.
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