Updates Archives
Monthly updates for February 2021
Azure Firewall Premium now in public preview
Azure Firewall Premium provides next generation firewall capabilities that are required for highly sensitive and regulated environments.
Azure role-based access control (RBAC) for Azure Key Vault data plane authorization is now generally available
Achieve unified management and access control across Azure resources, Azure Key Vault and keys, certificates, and secrets.
Standard Load Balancer and IP addresses metadata now available through Azure Instance Metadata Service (IMDS)
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.
Azure Cost Management now available for Azure Government Pay-As-You-Go subscriptions
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.
Public preview: Azure Cost Management + Billing’s cost allocation now available in Azure Government
Simplify your cost reporting in Azure government using Azure Cost Management + Billing’s cost allocation.
Azure Backup for SAP HANA: Soft limit increased from 2 TB to 8 TB
Now you can protect larger SAP HANA DBs (such as Mv2 – 12 TB RAM machines) with the enhanced data transfer capabilities from Azure Backup.
New planned datacenter region in Georgia (East US 3)
Microsoft has announced plans to bring a new datacenter region, East US 3, to Georgia, including Availability Zones.
Azure Databricks Achieves DoD Impact Level 5 (IL5) on Microsoft Azure Government
DoD Impact Level 5 (IL5) on Azure Government further validates security and compliance for Azure Databricks.
Versions no longer required for Key Vault references in App Service and Azure Functions
Version pinning is no longer required for Key Vault references in App Service and Azure Functions.
General availability: Azure mobile app now supports Azure Government
You can now manage and monitor you Azure Government subscriptions with the Azure mobile app.
General availability: Ingest up to 10 files and blobs with the new Azure Data Explorer intuitive UX
Azure Data Explorer ingestion wizard allows you to automatically create a table and ingest data from up to 10 files or blobs.
Azure Automation is now available in Japan West
Automate tasks across Azure & Non-Azure environment using PowerShell and Python based scripts.
Announcing Power BI Embedded Generation 2 public 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.
OCR support for 73 languages in the Cognitive Services Computer Vision public 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.
General availability: Soft delete for Azure file shares is now on by default for new storage accounts
Soft delete, which protects Azure file shares from accidental deletion, is now on by default for new storage accounts created after January 31st.
Azure IoT Central new and updated features—January 2021
January updates include jobs improvements, new API features, new data export features, and documentation enhancements.
Append blob support for Azure Data Lake Storage is now in limited public 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.
172 Azure offerings achieve HITRUST certification
Azure expands its depth of offerings to Azure customers with its latest independent HITRUST assessment.
Azure achieves its first PCI 3DS certification
Azure’s PCI 3DS Attestation of Compliance, PCI 3DS Shared Responsibility Matrix, and PCI 3DS whitepaper are now available.
IT Service Management Connector (ITSMC) is now certified with ServiceNow Paris version
The ITSM connector provides a bi-directional connection between Azure and ITSM tools to help track and resolve issues faster.
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