Updates Archives
Monthly updates for December 2019
Azure Data Box Disk is now available in East Asia
Azure Data Box Disk is now available in the East Asia (Hong Kong) region. This is in addition to the other Azure regions where Data Box Disk is already available—US, EU, Canada, Australia, Japan, Korea, Singapore, and Azure Government (US).
Azure SQL Database Gen 4 hardware approaching end of life in 2020
Target retirement date: December 18, 2019
Azure SQL Database is beginning the decommissioning process of Gen 4 Intel E5-2673 v3 (Haswell)-based CPUs and is transitioning to Intel E5-2673 v4 (Broadwell) 2.3 GHz and Intel SP8160 (Skylake) processors for all new deployments.
Easily monitor backup storage costs for Azure SQL databases and elastic pools
Easily monitor backup storage costs for your single databases and elastic pools directly from the Azure portal.
Azure Spot VMs now in Preview
Buy unused compute capacity at deep discounts and run interruptible workloads at scale with Azure Spot VMs now in Preview.
Azure Cost Management updates—November 2019
New updates to Azure Cost Management help you manage costs for cloud solution provider (CSP) subscriptions, build better dashboards by customizing tile names, save money with Azure reservations for 16 different services, along with additional enhancements.
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