Updates Archives
Monthly updates for May 2020
Azure Advisor recommendation digests now available
Receive a periodic, customizable notification of your available Advisor recommendations to help you stay current on Azure best practices.
Azure Content Delivery Network from Verizon Rules Engine is upgrading to V4
Azure Content Delivery Network from Verizon is upgrading from version 3 (V3) to version 4 (v4). No downtime or end user impact is anticipated.
Azure Ultra Disk Storage is now available in more regions
Azure Ultra Disk Storage is now available in Central US, West US, South Central US, US Gov Virginia, France Central, and Japan East.
Azure server-side encryption with customer-managed keys now available for Azure Ultra Disks
Server-side encryption (SSE) with customer-managed keys (CMK) is now available for Azure Ultra Disks in all regions that support Ultra Disks.
Azure Synapse Analytics meter ID changes effective as of July 1, 2020
Effective July 1, 2020, the meter IDs of Azure Synapse Analytics will change.
Improved Azure Monitor Logs workspace delete and recovery experiences
Workspace soft-delete functionality has been added to help you recover your workspace if necessary. In that situation, the workspace goes into a soft-delete state to allow its recovery, including data and connected agents within 14 days. It’s also possible to override the soft-delete behavior and permanently delete your workspace.
Azure Private Link for Azure Monitor is now available
Azure Private Link now supports multiple new Azure services in general availability and preview.
Azure Media Services is now available in Switzerland and Germany
Announcing the general availability of Media Services in Switzerland (North and West) and Germany (North, West Central) regions.
Static Web Apps single page hosting option available in App Service now in preview
Static Web Apps is a simplified hosting option for developers building modern web apps with static front-ends and dynamic back-ends powered by serverless APIs.
New portal experience for Azure Functions
New portal experience for Azure Functions – improving performance, accessibility, and consistency with the rest of the Azure portal.
Azure Event Grid partner topics are now in preview
Use partner topics to connect third-party event sources directly to Event Grid and subscribe to events as you would with any other source. Our partner Auth0 is now integrated with Event Grid partner topics. Connect your Auth0 and Azure accounts in order to react to, log, and monitor Auth0 events in real time.
Azure Event Grid support for System Assigned Managed Identities is now in preview
Event Grid now supports system assigned managed identities
New network tier with routing preference is now available in preview
Choose how your traffic routes between Azure and the internet using Azure routing preference, now available in preview. Choose either “routing via Microsoft Global Network” or “routing via ISP network (public internet)”. Egress data transfer pricing will vary based on the routing selection.
Azure Peering Service is now generally available
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 Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) mal configurations.
Azure Policy for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) in preview
Audit and enforce configurations on your resources at scale across all your Azure resources with Azure Policy. Use Azure Policy for AKS to set policies on pods, namespaces, and ingress in between others.
New Cognitive Services capabilities are now available in preview
New Cognitive Services capabilities are now available in preview.
New Cognitive Services capabilities are now generally available
New Cognitive Services capabilities are now generally available.
New Azure Resource Manager templates capabilities released
Azure Resource Manager templates are widely used to manage deployments on Azure. It’s a way to intuitively describe your entire Azure environment using our template language. New capabilities that address key challenges at the time of doing deployments with Resource Manager templates are now available.
Azure Monitor enhancements are now available
New enhancements to Azure Monitor maximize performance and provide full stack observability for apps and infrastructure across Azure and hybrid environments.
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