Updates Archives
Monthly updates for November 2019
Weather Services, Power Bi Integration, Azure Government Cloud are now in preview
Weather Services (in partnership with Accuweather), the integration of Azure Maps into Power BI, and the availability of Azure Maps on Gov Cloud for Government customers are all now in preview.
Introducing Azure Synapse Analytics: A limitless analytics service with unmatched time to insight
Today, we are announcing Azure Synapse Analytics, a limitless analytics service, that brings together enterprise data warehousing and Big Data analytics. It gives you the freedom to query data on your terms, using either serverless on-demand or provisioned resources, at scale.
Azure Red Hat OpenShift hourly prices
Announcing the possibility to use hourly pay as you go prices right away for Azure Red Hat OpenShift without the need to pre-purchase reserved instances.
Generally available: Azure Data Share
Azure Data Share is now generally available. Azure Data Share enables organizations to easily and securely share data with other organizations to expand analytics datasets for enhanced insights.
New virtual machine scale sets capabilities are now in preview
New virtual machine scale sets features simplify the management of virtual machines while improving their runtime and performance capabilities.
SQL Server 2019 is now generally available
Microsoft SQL Server 2019 is now generally available for purchase.
Azure Bastion is now generally available
At Ignite 2019, Microsoft announced the general availability (GA) of Azure Bastion, a fully managed platform as a service (PaaS) service that provides more secure and seamless RDP and SSH access to virtual machines directly through the Azure portal.
Azure Spring Cloud service is now in private preview
Simplify Spring Boot based microservices development and application lifestyle management.
Azure HPC Cache is now available
High-performance workloads that require file access can now use Azure HPC Cache to minimize latency, improve availability, and increase throughput.
Azure Peering Service is now in managed preview
Azure Peering Service is a partnership with service providers to provide highly reliable and optimized internet connectivity to Microsoft services. It also provides internet latency telemetry and route monitoring with alerting against hijacks, leaks, and any other BGP mal configurations.
Web apps migration experience now available in Azure Migrate
Azure Migrate now provides a dedicated experience for migrating .NET web applications to Azure App Service
.NET Core 3 support in Azure Functions, now in preview
Azure Functions now supports .NET Core 3 as an official language in preview.
PowerShell support in Azure Functions is now generally available
Azure Functions now supports PowerShell for serverless automation tasks in production.
Azure Functions Premium plan is now generally available
Announcing the general availability of the Azure Functions Premium plan. It brings together dynamic, serverless scale with all the benefits of our dedicated hosting plans. Your functions run with no cold start, can run for up to an hour, can connect to virtual networks, and can run on customizable, more powerful resources.
Streamline data analytics processes with ADLS Gen2 events in Azure Event Grid
Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 can now publish events about individual changes to files and directories to Azure Event Grid.
Event-driven secrets management with Azure Key Vault events now in Event Grid
Azure Key Vault becomes a first party event publisher for Azure Event Grid, publishing events about keys and secrets management.
Simplify ML workloads with Azure Machine Learning events now in Event Grid
Azure Machine Learning becomes a first party event publisher for Azure Event Grid, publishing events about model training run, model registration, model deployment and data drift detection
Azure Blob Storage on IoT Edge integration with Event Grid in preview
Blob Storage module now provides integration with Event Grid on IoT Edge
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