Updates Archives
Monthly updates for August 2019
Navigator now provides dependency mapping and change analysis in App Service Diagnostics
Navigator is now available in App Service Diagnostics for Windows web apps. Navigator provides a centralized view of an app and its dependencies along with changes made over time.
Custom roles for app registration management
Gain fine-grained control over what access your admins have for managing app registrations.
Azure Monitor for Containers with Prometheus support for AKS engines is now in preview
Prometheus integration with Azure Monitor for containers is now in preview and brings together the best of two worlds. Typically, to use Prometheus you need to set up and manage a Prometheus server with a database. With the Azure Monitor integration, no Prometheus server is needed—simply expose the Prometheus endpoint through your exporters or pods (application), and the containerized agent for Azure Monitor for containers can scrape the metrics for you. A seamless onboarding experience to collect Prometheus metrics with Azure Monitor is provided.
New budgets creation experience is now available
We are excited to announce the release of a new budgets creation experience for all customers.
New AMD-based Azure VMs for general purpose and memory intensive workloads in preview
New AMD-based Azure Dav3 and Eav3-series virtual machines – ideal for general purpose and memory intensive workloads – are now in Preview.
Azure API Management updates for August
This month's API Management service update includes improvements to the OpenAPI specification, metrics, and Azure portal.
Cognitive Services—Azure Active Directory authentication and custom subdomains are now in preview
Target availability: Q4 2019
Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) authentication allows you to authenticate to Cognitive Services using Azure AD or user principals. This capability provides greater flexibility for managing access to Cognitive Services and makes it easier to use existing policies for credential rotation and to enforce custom password standards.
Audit logging in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is now generally available
Use audit logging to investigate suspicious API requests, collect statistics, or create monitoring alerts for unwanted API calls.
Create virtual machines (VMs) using an earlier shared image version
DevTest Labs now enables you to create virtual machines from a previous version within a shared image gallery.
Azure Cosmos DB Python SDK Version 4 is now in preview
Version 4 of the Azure Cosmos DB Python SDK is now available and includes usability updates to the object model for a better developer experience as well as the ability to use partition keys to scale non-partitioned containers.
Azure Cache for Redis 4.0 upgrade is now generally available
Redis version 4.0 will soon be rolled out to all Azure Cache for Redis instances. The update will be automatic and shouldn’t disrupt your cache’s availability.
Azure Files Active Directory (Azure AD) authentication with Azure AD domain services is now generally available
Azure Files offers fully managed file shares in the cloud that are accessible via the industry standard SMB protocol. Integration with Azure AD enables SMB access to Azure file shares using Azure AD credentials from Azure AD domain services domain joined Windows VMs.
Gantt Views for monitoring data factory pipelines are now available
Gantt views are now available for monitoring data factory pipelines.
Create dependencies among pipelines in your Azure Data Factories
Create dependent pipelines in your Azure Data Factories by adding dependencies among tumbling window triggers in your pipelines.
Azure IoT Hub Device Provisioning Service—June 2019 update
The Azure IoT Hub Device Provisioning Service June 2019 release is available. The focus is on a broader enhancement of the provisioning experience and reducing limitations.
Azure Cost Management updates—July 2019
Learn about how Azure Cost Management can help you achieve your goals. See what's coming for partners, learn about Marketplace usage for pay-as-you-go subscriptions, Cost Management Labs, saving and sharing views within cost analysis, and other updates.
Easy tables and easy APIs will be removed from Azure App Service on November 11, 2019
Target retirement date: November 11, 2019
Easy tables and easy APIs will be removed from the Azure portal on November 11, 2019.
Azure Dedicated Host in Preview
A new Azure service that provides physical servers that host one or more Azure virtual machines. The server is dedicated to your organization and workloads.
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