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.
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).
IoT Hub device telemetry events in Event Grid - public preview
IoT Hub expands its capabilities as an event source in Event Grid by enabling subscribing to device telemetry events.
Events up to 1MB in Event Grid - public preview
Public preview of support for larger events, now up to 1MB.
Event Grid can now publish events to Service Bus
Service Bus is now available as an event handler in Event Grid.
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.
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.
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.
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
GPU and HPC VM Price Promotion now available
Announcing newly discounted promotional pricing for the NCv1, NVv1, and Hv1-series VM families.
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.
Azure Security Center new analytics agent for Linux
Azure Security Center is beginning roll out of a new Azure Linux analytics agent to improve the onboarding of Linux VMs and servers to Security Center
Azure Monitor Dynamic Threshold meter name change
Effective July 1, 2019, the meter name for Dynamic Threshold feature in Azure Monitor will change.
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