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Monthly updates for July 2019

Jul 30

GPU Optimized Visualization VMs now available in South Central US, West US, West Europe and North Europe Azure Regions

NOW AVAILABLE

NVv3-Series VMs are now available in South Central US, West US, West Europe and North Europe Azure regions.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Services
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Features
Jul 26

Cognitive Services Form Recognizer Name Changes

Effective September 1, 2019, the meter names of Cognitive Services Form Recognizer Pre-built and Custom will change.

  • Azure AI services
  • Services
Jul 25

Azure Blob lifecycle management is now available in all Azure regions

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Blob lifecycle management is now enhanced with expanded regional availability and intuitive portal experience.

  • Azure Blob Storage
  • Storage Accounts
  • Services
  • Features
Jul 24

VNet Gateway Standard and High Performance Resource GUID changes

Effective September 1, 2019, the resource GUIDs (also known as meter IDs) for Virtual Network Gateway standard and high performance will change.

  • Azure ExpressRoute
  • Services
Jul 24

Azure Mv2-series virtual machines (VMs) offering up to 6 TB of memory are now available for the US West 2 region

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Mv2-series virtual machines offering up to 208 vCPU in 3 TB and 6 TB memory configurations are now generally available for the US West 2 region. Mv2 VMs are certified by SAP for SAP HANA OLTP and OLAP production workloads.

  • Virtual Machines
  • M-series
  • Services
Jul 24

Linux support on Azure Functions Premium plan

IN PREVIEW

The Azure Functions Premium plan preview is now expanded to Linux hosting and custom Docker containers.

  • Azure Functions
  • Services
  • Features
  • Open Source
Jul 23

Cognitive Services Speech US Gov Resource GUID Change

Effective September 2, 2019, the Resource GUIDs (also known as Meter IDs) of Custom Speech endpoint hosting in Speech Services for US Gov region will change.

  • Azure AI services
  • Services
Jul 23

Azure Site Recovery: Support released for large disks (up to 8 TB)

NOW AVAILABLE

You can now protect large data disks of up to 8 TB in size with Azure Site Recovery.

  • Azure Site Recovery
  • Services
  • Features
Jul 18

Microsoft adds new features to IPv6 support for Azure VNets

IN PREVIEW

IPv6 for Azure VNETs enables you to expand into the growing mobile and IoT markets with your Azure-based applications and to address IPv4 depletion in your own networks.

  • Virtual Network
  • Services
Jul 15

New 48vCPUs Azure Virtual Machine sizes are now available

NOW AVAILABLE

New 48vCPUs sizes for the Dv3, Dsv3, Ev3, Esv3, Fsv2, and Lsv2 Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) are now available so you can better match your workload requirements.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Virtual Machine Scale Sets
  • Services
  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Features
Jul 15

Azure Stream Analytics now offers native support for Apache Parquet format

NOW AVAILABLE

Stream Analytics now offers native support for Apache Parquet format when writing to Azure Blob storage.

  • Azure Stream Analytics
  • Services
  • Features
Jul 15

Driver extension for Cassandra in Azure Cosmos DB is now in preview

IN PREVIEW

Azure Cosmos DB now offers a preview driver extension for Azure Cosmos DB Cassandra API for Java SDK.

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Services
  • Features
Jul 15

Public preview: Azure Data Share

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q3 2019

Share data with other organizations using Azure Data Share, now in preview.

  • Azure Data Share
  • Services
Jul 12

Network Watcher is now Generally Available in South Africa North

NOW AVAILABLE

Network Watcher is available in South Africa North region.

  • Network Watcher
  • Services
  • Management
Jul 12

Application Insights is Available in South Africa North

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Application Insights is now generally available in South Africa North

  • Azure Monitor
  • Application Insights
  • Services
  • Regions & Datacenters
Jul 11

Azure SQL Database published the first in the industry business continuity SLA for a relational database service

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure SQL database service has updated its service level agreement (SLA) offering guarantees for common disaster recovery metrics.

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Services
  • Pricing & Offerings
Jul 11

Azure Ephemeral OS Disk is now Generally Available

NOW AVAILABLE

Announcing the general availability of Ephemeral OS disk which enables faster reimage of your VMs to its original state as well as enabling you to create thousands of VMs at scale with Shared Image Gallery.

  • Services
  • Features
Jul 11

Azure Migrate is now a central hub to start, execute and track your migration journey

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Migrate is now enhanced and can help you discover, assess, and migrate applications, infrastructure, and data from your on-premises environments to Azure. You can centrally track progress of your migration journey across multiple Microsoft and Independent Software Vendor (ISV) tools in Azure Migrate.

  • Azure Migrate
  • Services
  • Features
Jul 10

Cognitive Services Text Analytics sentiment v3 available in public preview

IN PREVIEW

The latest release of the Text Analytics API's sentiment capability (v3) provides a significant improvement in detecting positive, neutral, and negative sentiment of text documents. It is available in public preview Central Canada, East Asia, and Central US.

  • Azure AI services
  • Language service
  • Services
  • Features
Jul 8

General Availability: Non-Azure Groups for Azure Update Management

NOW AVAILABLE

Today we’re happy to announce the general availability of Non-Azure group targeting for Azure Update Management. This feature enables dynamic targeting of patch deployments to non-Azure…

  • Services
  • Management
  • Features

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