Updates Archives
Monthly updates for May 2019
Azure Monitor for VMs is now available in West US 2
Azure Monitor for VMs is now available in West US 2. Around the world, it's available in seven public regions.
Azure Monitor for VMs has a new data set for bound ports
The VMBoundPort data set is now available for Azure Monitor for VMs customers in all supported Log Analytics workspace regions, including East US and West Europe.
Azure Mv2 Virtual Machines offering up to 6 TB memory are now generally available
Azure Mv2-series virtual machines offering up to 208 vCPU in 3TB and 6 TB memory configurations are now available in US East and US East 2 regions. Mv2 VMs are certified by SAP for SAP HANA OLTP and OLAP production workloads.
Azure App Configuration is now available in preview
Azure App Configuration provides a service to centrally manage application settings and helps secure their accesses. In addition, it helps developers to ship code faster by being able to easily “flight” their features in production using feature flags.
General availability: Azure Kubernetes Service in South Africa North
Target availability: Q2 2019
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is now generally available in South Africa North.
Application Change Analysis for Azure Monitor is now in public preview
Change Analysis public preview with integration into App Services Diagnose and solve problems tool.
GPU and HPC VM Price Promotion now available
Announcing newly discounted promotional pricing for the NCv1, NVv1, and Hv1-series VM families.
Generation 2 virtual machines in Azure – Public Preview
Generation 2 (UEFI Boot) Virtual Machines available in Azure for public preview
Azure App Service Basic, Standard, Premium v2 Plans Resource GUID change
On July 1, 2019, some resource GUIDs for Azure App Service Basic, Standard, and Premium v2 Plans will change as the global region resource GUIDs will break out into regional resource GUIDs.
Azure Virtual Machines NVv2 meter name change
Effective July 1, 2019, the meter names for Azure Virtual Machines NVv2 will change.
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) now supports Windows Server containers
Use managed Kubernetes for all of your workloads whether they’re in Windows, Linux or both.
High-Performance Computing Virtual Machines are now available in South Central US, Western Europe
HB-Series VMs are now available in South Central US, Western Europe
General Availability: Azure Dev Spaces
Azure Dev Spaces is now available in the East US, East US 2, Central US, West US 2, North Europe, West Europe, UK South, Southeast Asia, Australia East, Canada Central, and Canada East regions.
Azure Virtual Machine PowerOff now available with fast shutdown
You can now quickly and forcefully power off (stop) your Azure VM with the new skipShutdown flag.
Corrected billing for Azure SQL Data Warehouse and other Azure services
We’ve corrected billing for Azure SQL Data Warehouse and other Azure services that impacted EA customers only.
New networking features for App Service Linux are now in preview
New networking capabilities to enable Linux apps to access resources securely are now available in preview.
Perpetual free tier offering for Linux-based applications on App Service
There’s a new, free tier offering for Linux app developers.
App Service support for Java 11 (Linux and Windows) is now available
App Service now supports Java 11 for both Linux and Windows
Azure App Service new full screen experience is now available
App Service is offering a new, full screen experience that simplifies the application creation and publishing workflow.
Durable Functions now supports a new stateful entities pattern
Durable Functions now supports a new stateful entities pattern, enabling you to build stateful Azure Functions that map to an actor.
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