Updates Archives
Monthly updates for August 2019
Soft delete for virtual machines in Azure Backup
We now provide soft delete capability to help protect cloud backups for IaaS virtual machines from accidental as well as malicious deletion.
Microsoft Azure available from new cloud regions in Switzerland
The new datacenter regions meet critical data residency, security, and compliance requirements critical to leading Swiss organizations in regulated industries.
Azure Data Factory mapping data flows adds SQL scripts to sink transformation
Azure Data Factory has added the ability to execute custom SQL scripts from your SQL sink transformation in mapping data flows. Now you can easily perform options such as disabling indexes, allows identity inserts, and other DDL/DML operations from data flows.
It’s now easier to share customized views in Azure Cost Management
There’s a new, more convenient way to share customized views in Azure Cost Management—directly from cost analysis.
Service Fabric Azure Files Volume Driver is now generally available
Service Fabric Azure Files Volume Driver is now generally available. The Azure Files volume plugin is a Docker volume plugin that provides Azure Files based volumes for Docker containers.
Azure Cost Management – Save and share customized views
Customizing a view in Azure Cost Management is easy. Pick the date range you need, group the data to see a breakdown, choose the right visualization, and you're good to go. See how to pin your view to a dashboard, share links, and to save and share customized views.
Azure Site Recovery update rollup 39—August 2019
This update provides information on recent fixes as well as download links to the latest versions of Site Recovery components.
Azure Service Fabric 6.5 third refresh release is now available
The Azure Service Fabric 6.5 third refresh release, which includes bug fixes and performance enhancements, has started rolling out to various Azure regions. The updates for .NET SDK, Java SDK, and Service Fabric Runtime will soon be available for all regions through Web Platform Installer, NuGet packages, and Maven repositories.
Global trace flags are now available in Azure SQL Database Managed Instance
You can now enable trace flags on Azure SQL Database Managed Instance to increase compatibility of your Managed Instance Database Engine and SQL Server Database Engine.
Azure IoT Hub manual failover now available
This feature is part of IoT Hub cloud service and allows customers to failover an IoT hub instance from its primary Azure region to its corresponding geo-paired region.
Azure Function Consumption plan for Linux is now available
The Azure Functions Consumption hosting plan is now generally available for Linux-based applications.
Python support in Azure Functions is now available
Python support in Azure Functions is now generally available and ready for production workloads.
Just-in-time (JIT) VM access for Azure Firewall is now generally available
Secure your Azure Firewall protected environments, in addition to your NSG protected environments, with just-in-time VM access.
SQL data discovery and classification for Azure SQL Database is now available
SQL data discovery and classification, which provides advanced capabilities built into Azure SQL Database for discovering, classifying, labeling, and protecting sensitive data, is now available.
Same region read replica is now available for Azure Database for MariaDB
Azure Database for MariaDB now supports asynchronous replication of data from one Azure Database for MariaDB server (the ‘master’) to up to five Azure Database for MariaDB servers (the ‘replicas’) in the same region.
New Azure Blockchain SDK updates with Truffle
Work more efficiently with the updated Azure Blockchain Development Kit by using our new interactive debugger.
Help protect large data disks Azure Site Recovery
Protect large data disks of up to 8 TB in size with Azure Site Recovery.
Announcing new lower pricing for Azure Archive Storage
Effective August 1, Azure Archive Storage dropped prices by up to 50% in some regions.
New Copy APIs for efficient data copy in Azure Blob Storage
Introducing a new set of copy APIs to enable efficient data transfer to Azure or inside Azure datacenters.
Azure portal August 2019 feature update
This month, Azure portal has updates to Azure Security Center and a new experience for Azure Migrate.
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