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Monthly updates for November 2020

Nov 30

Azure Site Recovery update rollup 52 - November 2020

NOW AVAILABLE

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 Site Recovery
  • Features
Nov 25

Azure Databricks Achieves FedRAMP High Authorization on Microsoft Azure Government

NOW AVAILABLE

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 Databricks
  • Compliance
Nov 25

Azure Resource Manager template support for Azure file share backup

NOW AVAILABLE

You can now leverage Azure Resource Manager (ARM) template to configure backup for Azure file shares.

  • Azure Backup
  • Management
  • Features
Nov 24

More IOPS at no additional cost for Azure Files premium tier

NOW AVAILABLE

All premium shares get additional baseline and burst input/output per second (IOPS) at zero cost, providing better performance and lower cost of deployment.

  • Premium Files Storage
  • Azure Files
  • Services
  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Features
Nov 24

Unified Connection Monitor in Network Watcher is now generally available

NOW 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).

  • Network Watcher
  • Azure Monitor
  • Services
  • Features
Nov 23

Azure portal November 2020 update

NOW AVAILABLE

Updates include moving resources from a resource group to another region and a filter pills update.

  • Management
  • Features
Nov 23

The Azure Cloud Shell image has been updated

NOW AVAILABLE

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.

  • Cloud Shell
  • Management
  • SDK and Tools
Nov 20

Azure Data Factory adds cached lookups and enhanced zoom design to data flows

NOW AVAILABLE

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.

  • Azure Data Factory
  • Features
Nov 20

Multiple new features for Azure VPN Gateway are now generally available

NOW AVAILABLE

Take advantage of multiple new enhancements and features that are now generally available in Azure VPN Gateway.

  • VPN Gateway
  • Security
  • Features
Nov 20

Azure Shared Image Gallery--New features are now generally available

NOW 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.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Management
  • Features
Nov 19

Azure Site Recovery - Support for increased disk size (32 TB) in Azure VM disaster recovery is now generally available

NOW AVAILABLE

Protect Azure VMs with increased disk sizes.

  • Azure Site Recovery
  • Features
Nov 19

Performance tiers for Premium SSDs is now generally available

NOW AVAILABLE

Achieve higher performance and cost savings on Azure Disk Storage with performance tiers.

  • Managed Disks
  • Azure Disk Storage
  • Features
Nov 17

HDInsight HBase Accelerated Writes with Premium Data Lake Storage Gen2 is now generally available

NOW 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.

  • HDInsight
  • Features
Nov 17

Azure Backup for SAP HANA backup - User management improvements

NOW AVAILABLE

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 Backup
  • Services
  • Management
Nov 17

Azure Kubernetes Service updates for November 2020

NOW AVAILABLE

AKS updates in general availability include ephemeral OS disk support, AKS containerd support, maxSurge support, Kubernetes 1.19 support, and more.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Security
  • Features
Nov 16

General availability: VPN over ExpressRoute private peering

NOW AVAILABLE

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.

  • VPN Gateway
  • Azure ExpressRoute
  • Security
  • Features
Nov 16

General availability: Application Insight in Australia Central, Brazil Southeast, and Norway East

NOW AVAILABLE

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.

  • Application Insights
  • Azure Monitor
  • Regions & Datacenters
Nov 16

General availability: Azure Log Analytics in Brazil Southeast and Norway East

NOW AVAILABLE

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.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Log Analytics
  • Regions & Datacenters
Nov 12

Custom Translator V2 upgrade (full trainability) is generally available

NOW 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.

  • Azure AI Translator
  • Services
Nov 12

New SAP HANA Certified Memory-Optimized Virtual Machines now available

NOW AVAILABLE

We are expanding our SAP HANA certifications, enabling you to run production SAP HANA workloads on the Edsv4 virtual machines sizes.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Features

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