Updates Archives
Monthly updates for January 2021
Public preview: Azure Log Analytics in UAE Central & Japan West
Azure Log Analytics is now in public preview for customers to start collecting telemetry and analyzing their services for health and usage in UAE Central & Japan West.
Public preview: Application Insight in Japan West
Application Insight is now in public preview for customers to start collecting telemetry and analyzing their services for health in Japan West.
Public preview: Prevent Shared Key authorization on Azure Storage accounts
Target availability: Q2 2021
Enhance secure access to Azure Storage accounts with Prevent Shared Key authorization.
Azure Automation is now available in Switzerland West
Automate tasks across Azure & Non-Azure environment using PowerShell and Python based scripts.
General availability: Azure Log Analytics in Germany West Central, UAE North, & Switzerland West
Log Analytics, a feature of Azure Monitor, is now generally available for customers to start collecting telemetry and analyzing their services for health and usage in Germany West Central, UAE North, & Switzerland West .
General availability: Application Insight in Germany West Central, UAE North, & Switzerland West
Application Insight, a part of Azure Monitor, is now generally available in Germany West Central, UAE North, & Switzerland West regions for customers to collect telemetry and analyze their service health in production environments.
App Service Authentication portal experience is now in public preview
A new version of the App Service Authentication/Authorization portal experience is now in preview.
Azure Monitor Network Insights is now generally available
Customers now have a single console for all their network monitoring requirements with Azure Monitor Network Insights
Changes in Azure Monitor Logs for the AzureDiagnostics table is now available
Azure Monitor Logs will now allow more than 500 dimensions to be collected to the AzureDiagnostics table by introducing an "overflow" column.
Automatic tracking of click events with Application Insights is now available
Azure Monitor Application Insights JavaScript SDK Click Analytics Plugin provides automatic tracking of click events on web pages.
Public preview of Linux Diagnostics Agent 4.0
A new major version release of the Linux Diagnostic Extension is now available in public preview.
General availability: Optional Uptime SLA for Azure Kubernetes Service private clusters
Financially backed uptime SLA for AKS private clusters is now available.
Azure Cosmos DB: Multiple region Availability Zones support with single-region write now generally available
The general availability of Availability Zone support for Azure Cosmos DB accounts configured for two or more regions with single-region writes may lower pricing and includes increased availability SLA.
LIKE keyword support now generally available in Azure Cosmos DB
Announcing support for LIKE keyword, a popular SQL keyword for doing text search in Azure Cosmos DB.
Azure Cosmos DB Management with PowerShell cmdlets is now generally available
Manage Azure Cosmos DB resources using PowerShell cmdlets in the Az.CosmosDB Powershell module—providing full support for all features in general availability for Azure Cosmos DB and across all API’s.
Confidential computing using Always Encrypted with secure enclaves now in public preview
Always Encrypted with secure enclaves enables in-place encryption and rich confidential queries on sensitive data by leveraging Intel SGX secure enclaves, available in the new DC-series hardware configuration.
Azure IoT Edge for Linux on Windows available for public preview
Azure IoT Edge for Linux on Windows provides the ability to run Linux containers on Windows under the Azure IoT Edge context. This allows you to connect your Azure IoT Edge for Linux instance to your Azure IoT Hub subscription and deploy your custom Linux Edge Modules to Windows devices.
Azure Site Recovery update rollup 53 is now available - January 2021
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.
The Azure Quota REST API to manage service limits (quotas) is now generally available
Use Azure REST Quota APIs to manage the service limits (quota) of Azure Virtual Machines (cores/vCPU) and Azure Machine Learning. Take advantage of this capability to query current usage and quotas for the supported resources and update these limits.
Azure Monitor ITSM Connector for ServiceNow ITOM with Secure Export
Introducing a public preview of Secure Export as a new version of Azure Monitor ITSM Connector, providing integration with ServiceNow ITOM.
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