Updates Archives
Monthly updates for July 2019
GPU Optimized Visualization VMs now available in South Central US, West US, West Europe and North Europe Azure Regions
NVv3-Series VMs are now available in South Central US, West US, West Europe and North Europe Azure regions.
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 Blob lifecycle management is now available in all Azure regions
Azure Blob lifecycle management is now enhanced with expanded regional availability and intuitive portal experience.
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 Mv2-series virtual machines (VMs) offering up to 6 TB of memory are now available for the US West 2 region
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.
Linux support on Azure Functions Premium plan
The Azure Functions Premium plan preview is now expanded to Linux hosting and custom Docker containers.
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 Site Recovery: Support released for large disks (up to 8 TB)
You can now protect large data disks of up to 8 TB in size with Azure Site Recovery.
Microsoft adds new features to IPv6 support for Azure VNets
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.
New 48vCPUs Azure Virtual Machine sizes are 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.
Azure Stream Analytics now offers native support for Apache Parquet format
Stream Analytics now offers native support for Apache Parquet format when writing to Azure Blob storage.
Driver extension for Cassandra in Azure Cosmos DB is now in preview
Azure Cosmos DB now offers a preview driver extension for Azure Cosmos DB Cassandra API for Java SDK.
Public preview: Azure Data Share
Target availability: Q3 2019
Share data with other organizations using Azure Data Share, now in preview.
Network Watcher is now Generally Available in South Africa North
Network Watcher is available in South Africa North region.
Application Insights is Available in South Africa North
Azure Application Insights is now generally available in South Africa North
Azure SQL Database published the first in the industry business continuity SLA for a relational database service
Azure SQL database service has updated its service level agreement (SLA) offering guarantees for common disaster recovery metrics.
Azure Ephemeral OS Disk is now Generally 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.
Azure Migrate is now a central hub to start, execute and track your migration journey
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.
Cognitive Services Text Analytics sentiment v3 available in public 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.
General Availability: Non-Azure Groups for Azure Update Management
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…
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