Updates Archives
Monthly updates for November 2020
SMB Multichannel preview is now available on Azure Files premium tier
Lower your deployment cost and increase you Server Message Block (SMB) 3.x client’s performance with Azure Files SMB Multichannel.
HDInsight HBase Accelerated Writes with Premium Data Lake Storage Gen2 is now generally available
With Premium Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 support for accelerated writes HDInsight HBase cluster, customers can now have increased read performance compared to standard storage and also take advantage of Hierarchical namespace feature of Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2.
Azure Backup for SAP HANA backup - User management improvements
The permissions required by a Azure Backup user for SAP HANA backup is now much simpler and automatically handled by a simple script from Azure Backup.
Cognitive Services Speech adds new Neural TTS voices and general availability of Neural TTS in containers
Speech service adds 10 new neural Text to Speech (TTS) voices and announces general availability of Neural TTS in containers.
Azure Backup for SAP HANA databases now supports Incremental backups – Public preview
Azure Backup for SAP HANA now supports HANA incremental backups which allows you to have faster and more cost-effective backups.
Azure Kubernetes Service updates for November 2020
AKS updates in general availability include ephemeral OS disk support, AKS containerd support, maxSurge support, Kubernetes 1.19 support, and more.
General availability: VPN over ExpressRoute private peering
VPN over ExpressRoute allows customers to encrypt all traffic going over their ExpressRoute circuit. VPN over ExpressRoute, combined with site-to-site and point-to-site VPN provides end-to-end encryption between data centers, branch offices and remote users.
Public preview: Application Insight in UAE North
UAE North is 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 Germany West Central, UAE North, and Switzerland West
Germany West Central, UAE North, and Switzerland West are now in public preview for customers to start collecting telemetry and analyze their services for health and usage using Azure Log Analytics.
General availability: Application Insight in Australia Central, Brazil Southeast, and Norway East
Application Insight, a part of Azure Monitor, is now generally available in Australia Central, Brazil Southeast, and Norway East regions for customers to collect telemetry and analyze their service health in production environments.
General availability: Azure Log Analytics in Brazil Southeast and Norway East
Log Analytics, a feature of Azure Monitor, is now generally available for customers to start collecting telemetry and analyze their services for health and usage in Brazil Southeast and Norway East.
Custom Translator V2 upgrade (full trainability) is generally available
Custom Translator completed the full V2 platform upgrade to deliver an even bigger translation quality gain than before. Customers can now build custom models with all document types (Training, Testing, Tuning, Phrase Dictionary, and Sentence Dictionary) using full text documents, like Office documents, PDFs, HTML, and plain text.
New SAP HANA Certified Memory-Optimized Virtual Machines now available
We are expanding our SAP HANA certifications, enabling you to run production SAP HANA workloads on the Edsv4 virtual machines sizes.
Azure IoT Central new and updated features—October 2020
October updates job scheduling, enhanced IoT Edge support, dashboard improvements, and documentation updates.
New version of SSMS and ADS tools for serverless SQL pools in Azure Synapse Analytics
Serverless SQL pool released a new version of SSMS and ADS which improves scripting in object explorer and increases stability.
Azure achieves Service Organization Controls compliance for 14 additional services
Azure gives you some of the industry’s broadest certifications for the critical SOC 1, 2, and 3 compliance offering, which is widely used around the world.
Service Fabric release 7.2 is now available
This release brings new features, bug fixes, and performance enhancements.
Support for Oracle WebLogic Server on Azure Kubernetes Service is now available
This initial release of solutions jointly developed between Microsoft and Oracle enables you to bring your WebLogic workloads to a managed Kubernetes service on Azure.
.NET 5 now available in App Service
App Service support for .NET 5 applications is available across all public regions and scenarios on both Windows and Linux App Service plans.
Redis 6.0 is now in preview for Azure Cache for Redis
Redis 6.0 (preview) for Azure Cache for Redis brings several new features enhancing developer productivity including Redis Streams (new list data type), new commands, improved HyperLogLog performance, and more.
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