Updates Archives
Monthly updates for April 2019
Azure Application Gateway Standard v2 and WAF v2 SKUs generally available
Azure Application Gateway Standard v2 and WAF v2 SKUs are now generally available and fully supported with a 99.95 SLA.
General availability: Azure Log Analytics in CENTRAL US, EAST US 2, EAST ASIA, WEST US and SOUTH CENTRAL US
CENTRAL US, EAST US 2, EAST ASIA, WEST US, & SOUTH Central US regions are now GA for customers to start collecting telemetry and analyze their services for health and usage by using Azure Log Analytics.
General availability: Azure Kubernetes Service in North Central US and Japan West
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is now generally available in North Central US and Japan West.
General availability: AzCopy v10
AzCopy v10, the next-generation data movement utility, is now generally available to all of our customers.
Azure Kubernetes Service: Kubernetes 1.9 end-of-life notice
On April 24, 2019, AKS released Kubernetes 1.13 support in GA. Per our supported-versions policy, this means that Kubernetes 1.9 support is reaching end of life.
Azure Site Recovery: Update Rollup 35 (March 2019)
Update Rollup 35 for Azure Site Recovery is now available.
Azure Site Recovery: Update Rollup 34 (Feb 2019)
Update Rollup 34 for Azure Site Recovery is now available.
Azure Site Recovery: Update Rollup 33 (February 2019)
Update Rollup 33 for Site Recovery is now available.
New governance setting for cache refreshes from Azure Analysis Services
The new ClientCacheRefreshPolicy property allows IT or the Analysis Services practitioner to disable automatic cache refreshes.
.NET for Apache Spark™ is now available
Apache Spark is now accessible to the .NET developer ecosystem with .NET for Apache Spark.
Managed MLflow and Managed Delta Lake on Azure Databricks are now available
Managed MLflow is now generally available on Azure Databricks and will use Azure Machine Learning to track the full ML lifecycle.
Changes to HDInsight cluster configuration access
We are introducing some important changes to support more fine-grained role-based access to sensitive configuration information from HDInsight clusters. As part of these changes, some user action may be required.
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.
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.
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 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.
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