Updates Archives
Monthly updates for November 2020
Azure Site Recovery update rollup 52 - November 2020
The latest Azure Site Recovery update provides provides fixes, updated Linux support for disaster recovery of Azure VMs, VMware VMs, and physical servers, and download links for Site Recovery components.
Azure Databricks Achieves FedRAMP High Authorization on Microsoft Azure Government
With this certification, customers can now use Azure Databricks to process the U.S. government’s most sensitive, unclassified data in cloud computing environments, including data that involves the protection of life and financial assets.
Azure Resource Manager template support for Azure file share backup
You can now leverage Azure Resource Manager (ARM) template to configure backup for Azure file shares.
More IOPS at no additional cost for Azure Files premium tier
All premium shares get additional baseline and burst input/output per second (IOPS) at zero cost, providing better performance and lower cost of deployment.
Unified Connection Monitor in Network Watcher is now generally available
Connection monitor provides unified end-to-end connection monitoring capabilities for hybrid and Azure deployments. It brings together the best of Network Performance Monitor and Connection Monitor (classic).
Azure portal November 2020 update
Updates include moving resources from a resource group to another region and a filter pills update.
The Azure Cloud Shell image has been updated
Azure Cloud Shell has been updated to use a new base image. This will provide updates to some of the most common tools and commands.
Azure Data Factory adds cached lookups and enhanced zoom design to data flows
Azure Data Factory (ADF) has made it easier to view and manage large, complex ETL patterns with new zoom controls for complex graph design. ADF has also added cached lookups to data flows for more efficient and faster design patterns.
Multiple new features for Azure VPN Gateway are now generally available
Take advantage of multiple new enhancements and features that are now generally available in Azure VPN Gateway.
Azure Shared Image Gallery--New features are now generally available
Shared Image Gallery introduces new features to copy image versions, use disks or VMs to create image versions, and export a managed from an image version.
Azure Site Recovery - Support for increased disk size (32 TB) in Azure VM disaster recovery is now generally available
Protect Azure VMs with increased disk sizes.
Performance tiers for Premium SSDs is now generally available
Achieve higher performance and cost savings on Azure Disk Storage with performance tiers.
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.
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.
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.
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