Updates Archives
Monthly updates for May 2019
Web Application Firewall (WAF) for Azure Front Door service is now generally available
Web Application Firewall (WAF) for Azure Front Door service is now generally available. Customers can use WAF to define security policies that allow, block, forward or rate limit access to their web applications delivered through Azure Front Door.
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.
Log Analytics Agent for Linux 1.10 now available
The Log Analytics Agent for Linux v1.10 release is available, and contains important stability and reliability improvements.
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 Monitor AIOps alerts with Dynamic Thresholds is now generally available
With Dynamic Thresholds you no longer need to manually identify and set thresholds for alerts. The alert rule leverages advanced Machine Learning (ML) capabilities to learn metrics' historical behavior, identify patterns and anomalies that indicate possible service issues.
Advanced filtering generally available in Event Grid
Event Grid advanced filters are now GA with no restriction on the number of nested keys (e.g. Data.Key1.Key2…KeyN).
Geo Disaster Recovery available in Event Grid
Automatic server-side geo disaster recovery of metadata in Event Grid is now available on the service.
Event Domains generally available in Event Grid
Azure Domains are now generally available with 100,000 topics per domain.
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.
Adaptive network hardening in Azure Security Center is now available
With the adaptive network hardening feature, Security Center learns the network traffic and connectivity patterns of your Azure workloads and provides you with NSG rule recommendations for your internet facing virtual machines.
Azure API Management Consumption Tier is now generally available
Starting on May 29, 2019, the Consumption Tier of Azure API Management, will be generally available in the same six regions as it was during the preview.
Azure NetApp Files is now generally available
Azure NetApp Files, an Azure first-party service, is a powerful file-storage service to run your most demanding file workloads in Azure, without the need for any code modification.
Integration service environments (ISE) are now generally available
With the general availability of integration service environments, we’ve made several improvements from preview to give your Logic Apps more power when running in an ISE.
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 Insights Availability in US West Region
Application Insights is now available in US West region.
General availability: Zone-redundant SQL databases and elastic pools are now generally available in three additional regions
Target availability: Q2 2019
Zone-redundant SQL databases and elastic pools are now generally available in these additional regions: UK South, East US and East US 2.
Java on App Service: Updates and Improvements available
Target availability: Q2 2019
Improvements, bug fixes, and runtime version updates for the Java images on App Service Linux are now available
Filter by target branch in pull requests
In the Sprint 152 Update of Azure DevOps, we added the option to filter pull requests by target branch, several new command line commands and an extensibility point to allow extensions to add syntax highlighting and autocomplete to the file explorer and pull request views.
General Availability: Azure DDoS Protection Standard introduces DDoS Alert integration with Azure Security Center
We are announcing the ability for DDoS Protection Standard customers to view DDoS Alerts in Azure Security Center (ASC) and this capability is generally available for all ASC and DDoS Standard customers.
Now available: PowerShell cmdlets for Azure Monitor metric and log alerts
PowerShell cmdlets for new metric alerts and log alerts are now available. This release improves the management of alert rules by providing cmdlets to create, update, delete and list new metric alerts. Similarly, new cmdlets are available for creating, updating, deleting and listing log alerts for both Log Analytics and Application Insights.
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