Updates Archives
Monthly updates for October 2020
Azure Automation is now available in Switzerland North region
Create, monitor, deploy, and maintain resources in your Azure, on-premises, and third-party hybrid cloud environments using highly scalable and reliable process automation and state configuration engines.
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.
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.
Azure Databricks now available in Switzerland North
Azure Databricks is now available in the Swiss Azure datacenters which marks another milestone on the way to digitize Switzerland
Microsoft to establish its first datacenter region in Taiwan
The new region is anticipated to include Microsoft Azure, with Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365 and Power Platform to follow.
Microsoft plans to establish new cloud datacenter region in Austria
The new region is anticipated to include Microsoft Azure, with Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365 and Power Platform to follow.
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.
Azure Virtual Machines DCsv2-series expanding within Europe, United Kingdom and United States
Confidential computing DCsv2-series virtual machines (VMs) are now available in North Europe, UK West, US West.
HPC Cache new namespace page and region expansion
New HPC Cache namespace lets clients see all storage as a single file system.
Azure Files premium tier is now available in more regions with LRS, ZRS, and NFS support
More Azure Files premium tier regions - more premium files regions with locally redundant storage (LRS), zone redundant storage (ZRS) support, and Network File System (NFS 4.1) public preview support.
Microsoft plans to establish new cloud datacenter region in Greece
The new region is anticipated to include Microsoft Azure, with Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365 and Power Platform to follow.
Action required: Review your applications to avoid service disruption during Azure changes
Certificate authority changes are currently in progress for most applications. Update your application to avoid service disruption.
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