Updates Archives
Monthly updates for October 2020
New Azure Batch capabilities available in preview
A number of new security-related features are now available in preview.
Azure Monitor for containers now support monitoring of Network configurations with Network Policy Manager (Preview)
For your AKS cluster network configurations using Network Policy Manager (NPM), Azure monitor for containers will start collecting NPM Prometheus metrics allowing you to visualize Network performance and Network configuration anomalies.
Public Preview: Application Insight in Australia Central, Brazil Southeast and Norway East
Australia Central, Brazil Southeast, and Norway East are now in public preview for customers to start collecting telemetry and analyze their services for health using Application Insight.
Public Preview: Azure Log Analytics in Brazil Southeast and Norway East
Brazil Southeast and Norway East are now in public preview for customers to start collecting telemetry and analyze their services for health and usage using Azure Log Analytics.
Public preview: Up to 10 read replicas for MySQL - Flexible Server
Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server enables read-heavy workloads to scale out and be balanced across replica servers according to preferences.
New region for MySQL - Single Server in Brazil Southeast
Preview support of Azure Database for MySQL - Single Server is now available in the Brazil Southeast region, adding additional flexibility in deploying solutions to help accelerate innovation.
Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Single Server now available in Brazil Southeast
The preview support in the Brazil Southeast region provides additional flexibility in deploying solutions to help accelerate innovation.
Public preview: Auditing of Microsoft support operations in Azure SQL DB and Azure SQL MI
The auditing of Microsoft support operations capability enables the audit of Microsoft support operations when accessing servers and/or databases during a support request to an audit logs destination. The use of this capability, along with auditing, enables more transparency into the workforce and allows for anomaly detection, trend visualization, and data loss prevention.
Generate a new function app from an OpenAPI specification
Create a function app from an Open API Definition using VS Code
Preview: Azure Monitor for containers now support capacity monitoring of Persistent Volume (PV)
In this preview support you can monitor the capacity of the PVs. You can visualize, query and enable fast alert on the PV capacity & inventory metrics.
Schema Registry for Azure Event Hubs public preview
Utilize the Schema Registry in Azure Event Hubs to provide data governance and operational efficiencies for message delivery.
Public preview: Zone redundant configuration for Azure SQL DB general purpose tier
Make your general purpose databases and elastic pools resilient to a much larger set of failures, including catastrophic datacenter outages, without any changes of the application logic by selecting zone redundancy.
Multiple new features for Azure VPN Gateway in public preview
Take advantage of multiple new enhancements and features that are now available in Azure VPN Gateway.
Azure Policy for Key Vault now supports keys, secrets, and certificates
Get a deeper view into your organization's security posture, configure daily automated audits, and start enforcing best practices in under 5 minutes.
Fluent Bit connector for Azure Storage to support Azure Data Explorer streaming
In collaboration with Fluent Bit, we are releasing a new output plugin for Azure Blob Storage. The connector can output both block blobs and append blobs to an Azure storage account.
Azure role-based access control (RBAC) for Azure Key Vault data plane authorization is now in preview
Achieve unified management and access control across Azure resources, Azure Key Vault and keys, certificates, and secrets.
Azure Monitor Log Analytics data export is in public preview
You can now enable continuous data export from your Log Analytics workspaces to an Azure Storage Account or Azure Event Hubs.
Distributed database transactions spanning multiple Azure SQL Managed Instances
Utilize distributed transactions (now in preview) and save time when migrating existing applications that require this capability as it eliminates the need to change application code and to perform extensive testing.
Zone Redundancy in preview for Azure Cache for Redis
Increase reliability in the Azure Cache for Redis premium tier even further with up to four nodes for redundancy; a primary and three replicas that can be distributed across multiple availability zones. This setup protects you against a datacenter-level outage, increasing availability up to a 99.95 percent level.
Public preview: Service Fabric managed clusters
Service Fabric managed clusters reduce complexity and issues associated with managing a cluster made up of multiple resources.
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