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Monthly updates for February 2021

Feb 16

Azure Firewall Premium now in public preview

IN PREVIEW

Azure Firewall Premium provides next generation firewall capabilities that are required for highly sensitive and regulated environments.

  • Azure Firewall Manager
  • Security
Feb 16

Azure role-based access control (RBAC) for Azure Key Vault data plane authorization is now generally available

NOW AVAILABLE

Achieve unified management and access control across Azure resources, Azure Key Vault and keys, certificates, and secrets.

  • Key Vault
  • Security
  • Features
Feb 15

Standard Load Balancer and IP addresses metadata now available through Azure Instance Metadata Service (IMDS)

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Instance Metadata Service (IMDS) is a mature REST API which offers metadata information regarding Networking, Storage, SKU and etc. We are now adding Load Balancer related information to the list of metadata IMDS covers.

  • Load Balancer
  • Features
Feb 12

Azure Cost Management now available for Azure Government Pay-As-You-Go subscriptions

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Cost Management capabilities to view and analyze costs, be notified when exceeding cost thresholds using budgets, and export usage and charges data is now supported for Azure Government Pay-As-You-Go subscriptions.

  • Microsoft Cost Management
  • Management
Feb 12

Public preview: Azure Cost Management + Billing’s cost allocation now available in Azure Government

IN PREVIEW

Simplify your cost reporting in Azure government using Azure Cost Management + Billing’s cost allocation.

  • Microsoft Cost Management
  • Management
Feb 11

Azure Backup for SAP HANA: Soft limit increased from 2 TB to 8 TB

NOW AVAILABLE

Now you can protect larger SAP HANA DBs (such as Mv2 – 12 TB RAM machines) with the enhanced data transfer capabilities from Azure Backup.

  • Azure Backup
  • Services
  • Management
  • Features
Feb 11

New planned datacenter region in Georgia (East US 3)

IN DEVELOPMENT

Microsoft has announced plans to bring a new datacenter region, East US 3, to Georgia, including Availability Zones.

  • Regions & Datacenters
Feb 11

Azure Databricks Achieves DoD Impact Level 5 (IL5) on Microsoft Azure Government

NOW AVAILABLE

DoD Impact Level 5 (IL5) on Azure Government further validates security and compliance for Azure Databricks.

  • Azure Databricks
  • Compliance
Feb 10

Versions no longer required for Key Vault references in App Service and Azure Functions

NOW AVAILABLE

Version pinning is no longer required for Key Vault references in App Service and Azure Functions.

  • App Service
  • Azure Functions
  • Security
  • Features
Feb 9

General availability: Azure mobile app now supports Azure Government

NOW AVAILABLE

You can now manage and monitor you Azure Government subscriptions with the Azure mobile app.

  • Azure mobile app
  • Services
  • Management
  • Features
Feb 9

General availability: Ingest up to 10 files and blobs with the new Azure Data Explorer intuitive UX

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Data Explorer ingestion wizard allows you to automatically create a table and ingest data from up to 10 files or blobs.

  • Azure Data Explorer
  • Features
Feb 9

Azure Automation is now available in Japan West

NOW AVAILABLE

Automate tasks across Azure & Non-Azure environment using PowerShell and Python based scripts.

  • Automation
  • Regions & Datacenters
Feb 9

Announcing Power BI Embedded Generation 2 public preview

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q3 2021

We are announcing the second generation of Power BI Embedded, referred to as Embedded Gen 2, is available for its Azure subscribers to use during the public preview period. All of the Power BI Embedded Gen 1 capabilities such as pausing and resuming the capacity, are preserved in Gen 2 and the price per SKU remains the same, however the Gen 2 capacity resource provides substantial improvements in performance, scale and much more.

  • Power BI Embedded
  • Features
Feb 9

OCR support for 73 languages in the Cognitive Services Computer Vision public preview

IN PREVIEW

Computer Vision Read 3.2 API for Optical Character Recognition (OCR), part of Cognitive Services, announces its public preview with support for Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, and several Latin languages, with option to use the cloud service or deploy the Docker container on premise.

  • Azure AI services
  • Azure AI Vision
  • Services
  • Features
Feb 8

General availability: Soft delete for Azure file shares is now on by default for new storage accounts

NOW AVAILABLE

Soft delete, which protects Azure file shares from accidental deletion, is now on by default for new storage accounts created after January 31st.

  • Azure Files
  • Features
Feb 5

Azure IoT Central new and updated features—January 2021

NOW AVAILABLE

January updates include jobs improvements, new API features, new data export features, and documentation enhancements.

  • Azure IoT Central
  • Features
Feb 5

Append blob support for Azure Data Lake Storage is now in limited public preview

IN PREVIEW

Applications can now create append blobs in addition to block blobs in Azure Data Lake Storage accounts and append to them using Append Block operations. Applications that need to add information to existing files efficiently and continuously can leverage append blobs.

  • Azure Data Lake Storage
  • Services
Feb 3

172 Azure offerings achieve HITRUST certification

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure expands its depth of offerings to Azure customers with its latest independent HITRUST assessment.

  • Compliance
Feb 3

Azure achieves its first PCI 3DS certification

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure’s PCI 3DS Attestation of Compliance, PCI 3DS Shared Responsibility Matrix, and PCI 3DS whitepaper are now available.

  • Compliance
Feb 3

IT Service Management Connector (ITSMC) is now certified with ServiceNow Paris version

NOW AVAILABLE

The ITSM connector provides a bi-directional connection between Azure and ITSM tools to help track and resolve issues faster.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Services
  • Compliance

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