Updates Archives
Monthly updates for September 2019
Azure Analysis Services—Two new higher compute SKUs are now available
Target availability: Q3 2019
Two new SKUs for Azure Analysis Services, S8V2 and S9V2, are now available. These SKUs are based on next-generation hardware and have double the QPU (abstraction of CPU) of the existing S8/S9 SKUs.
Azure Premium SSD managed disks meter ID changes
Starting November 1, 2019, the meter IDs for snapshots of Azure Premium SSD managed disks will change.
Azure Maps Standard S1 transactions meter ID changes
Starting November 1, 2019, some meter IDs for Azure Maps Standard S1 transactions will change
Azure Maps Standard Transactions meter name changes
Starting November 1, 2019, some meter names of Azure Maps Standard IP-to-country transactions and Standard S1 IP-to-country transactions will change.
Public Preview: Computer Vision releasing 'Read' text extraction feature in containers
We are releasing our latest text understanding feature , 'Read', in Docker containers for customers to run locally.
Azure provides at-scale tags management through Azure Policy
Azure Policy now supports remediation for tagging so you can bring 100% of your resources back to compliance.
Monitor bandwidth usage for all peered Azure virtual networks with ExpressRoute
Monitor bandwidth use for all peered Azure virtual networks with an improvement to ExpressRoute, a capability of Network Performance Monitor.
Azure SQL Database—Auto-failover groups feature now available in all regions
The Auto-failover groups feature of Azure SQL Database is now available for managed instance deployments in all regions.
Azure Monitor for Azure Virtual Machines is now available in additional regions
Azure Monitor for Azure Virtual Machines is now available in Japan East, North Europe, and East US2.
Service Map feature of Azure Monitor is now available in additional regions
The Service Map feature of Azure Monitor is now available in Japan East, North Europe, and East US2.
Copy Activity in Azure Data Factory supports creating a destination table automatically
Load data faster with new support from the Copy Activity feature in Azure Data Factory. Now, if you’re trying to copy data from any supported source into SQL database/data warehouse and find that the destination table doesn’t exist, Copy Activity will create it automatically.
Azure Data Factory now supports copying data into Azure Database for MySQL
Azure Data Factory now supports copying data into Azure Database for MySQL. Use the Copy Activity feature to load data into Azure Database for MySQL from any supported data sources.
Public Preview - Video Indexer Multilingual identification and transcription
Automatic spoken language identification leverages machine learning technology to identify the different languages used in a media asset.
Public Preview - Video Indexer Animated Character Detection
Azure Media Services Video Indexer supports detection, grouping, and recognition of characters in animated content.
Egress lockdown in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is now generally available
Achieve additional security by restricting outbound (egress) traffic for cluster nodes to a limited number of ports and addresses.
Azure Lab Services now supports new GPU Virtual Machine sizes
Azure Lab Services now supports two new 6-core GPU Virtual Machine sizes.
Azure Kubernetes Service is now available in Azure Government
Azure Governments customers can now build Kubernetes applications on Azure Kubernetes Service in a dedicated cloud that meets stringent government security and compliance requirements.
Azure Advisor alerts are now in preview
Get your Azure best practice recommendations as soon as they become available with Azure Advisor user-configured alerts, now available in preview.
A preview upgrade for Azure DevTest Labs Tasks extension is now available
We recently released a preview upgrade for the Azure DevTest Labs Tasks.
Audit logging on Azure Database for PostgreSQL is now in preview
Audit logging on Azure SQL Database for PostgreSQL via PGAudit is now available in preview. Produce audit logs of events including writes, reads, role changes, and DDL with the audit extension.
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