Updates Archives

Azure geo-zone-redundant storage is now generally available

Target availability: Q2 2020

Geo-zone-redundant storage (GZRS) and read-access geo-zone-redundant storage (RA-GZRS) are now generally available, offering intra-regional and inter-regional high availability and disaster protection for your applications.

• Storage Accounts
• Azure Blob Storage
• Azure Files
• Services
• Management
• Features

Azure Storage account failover is now generally available

Customer-initiated Storage account failover is now generally available, allowing you to determine when to initiate a failover instead of waiting for Microsoft to do so.

• Storage Accounts
• Management
• Features

Web Application Firewall for Azure Front Door service logging enhancements

Azure Web Application Firewall for Azure Front Door now has a match details field in the logs to provide insights on why a request triggered a Web Application Firewall rule.

• Web Application Firewall
• Azure Front Door (classic)
• Services
• Security
• Management
• Features

Azure Migrate—Assessment of imported servers is now generally available

Assessment of imported servers in Azure Migrate is now generally available.

• Azure Migrate
• Management
• Features

Budgets in Cost Management now accounts threshold edits and alert limits above 100%

Budget evaluations in Azure Cost Management now re-fire alerts for the same period after you edit a budget. Additionally, now Budgets will also allow you to set a threshold above 100%

• Microsoft Cost Management
• Management

Azure Shared Image Gallery features are now available

New features in Azure Shared Image Gallery are now generally available.

• Virtual Machines
• Management
• Features

Azure Shared Image Gallery—New features are now available in preview

New preview features now available in Azure Shared Image Gallery.

• Virtual Machines
• Management
• Features

Azure Lighthouse updates—April 2020

Several critical updates have been made to Azure Lighthouse, including FEDRAMP certification, delegation opt-out, and Azure Backup reports.

• Azure Lighthouse
• Management