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Monthly updates for February 2021
Microsoft plans to establish first datacenter region in Indonesia
Microsoft increases its investment in Indonesia’s digital economy, with plans to establish its first datacenter region in the country.
Web Application Firewall Integration with Azure Front Door Standard and Premium SKU
Azure Front Door Premium SKU with built-in Web Application Firewall, protects your public and private web applications, combines protection with application acceleration and content caching.
Datadog integration with Azure: Public Preview
Datadog and Microsoft Azure have worked together to create an integrated Datadog SaaS solution. Built on Azure and available via the Azure Marketplace, this solution provides a seamless and first party like experience for Datadog’s cloud monitoring solution. Azure is the first cloud platform to offer this integrated experience with third-party solutions.
Azure Front Door Standard and Premium now in public preview
Azure Front Door Standard and Premium, enables Azure customers to securely deliver and manage their global applications and content, migrate to cloud and modern microservice architectures and improve their users’ experience.
Azure Purview available in public preview in South Central US and Canada Central
Azure Purview is now available in the South Central US and Canada Central Azure regions. You can now provision Azure Purview accounts in these regions as a public preview offering.
Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus) audit logging via pgAudit now in public preview
Now in preview, audit logging of database activities in Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Hyperscale (Citus) is available through the PostgreSQL audit extension pgAudit, providing detailed session and/or object audit logging.
Azure NetApp Files | Volume hard quota change
The Azure NetApp Files behavior of volume and capacity pool provisioning will change to a manual and controllable mechanism beginning March 15th, 2021. This means that application users will have more control over provisioned capacity pool space and associated cost.
Public preview: Application Insights work item integration for Azure DevOps & GitHub
Azure Monitor Application Insights has released a new way to create work items based on application insights telemetry.
Public preview: Application Insights auto-instrumentation for .NET5 App Services
Azure Monitor application insights now offers auto-instrumentation for .NET5 based Windows App Services.
Additional IOPS feature for MySQL - Flexible Server in preview
MySQL – Flexible Server supports the provisioning of additional IOPS (preview) so you can provision more IOPS above the complimentary IOPS limit and can increase or decrease the number of IOPS based on workload requirements.
API Management Diagnostics now available in public preview
API Management Diagnostics provides an intelligent and interactive experience to help customers troubleshoot their API , with no configuration required.
Log Replay Service for Azure SQL Managed Instance in public preview
Log replay service enables continuous replication of SQL Server data to SQL Managed Instance in the cloud, the easier orchestration of workload functions, and pre-migration performance testing through a fully customizable experience.
Automatic Azure VM extension upgrade capabilities now in public preview
Automatic extension upgrade provides safe and automatic upgrades for extensions on Azure virtual machines and virtual machine scale sets, keeping your environments more secure and up to date.
Azure Firewall Premium now in public preview
Azure Firewall Premium provides next generation firewall capabilities that are required for highly sensitive and regulated environments.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Azure Event Grid is now in public preview for Azure Cache for Redis
Azure Cache for Redis integration with Azure Event Grid is in public preview. This integration allows service manage routing of Redis events like patching, scaling, and import/export(RDB) to any destination.
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