Updates Archives
Monthly updates for February 2021
Azure Site Recovery update rollup 54 is now generally available - February 2021
The latest Azure Site Recovery update provides provides fixes, updated replication support, and download links for Site Recovery components.
Power BI Connector for Azure Databricks is now generally available
Announcing the general availability of the Power BI connector for Azure Databricks, for Power BI Service and Power BI Desktop 2.85.681.0.
General availability: Enabling IBM WebSphere on Azure Kubernetes Service
You can now leverage guidance jointly developed with IBM to run WebSphere Liberty and Open Liberty on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
Azure Automation is now available in UAE Central
Automate tasks across Azure & Non-Azure environment using PowerShell and Python based scripts.
General availability: Data flows in Azure Data Factory and Azure Synapse now support Reserved Instances
Azure Data Factory (ADF) and Azure Synapse Analytics (Synapse) now offer discounted pricing on data flows based on 1-year and 3-year reservations.
General availability: Web Application Firewall for Azure Front Door managed ruleset refresh
Use Microsoft_DefaultRuleSet_1.1 to protect your web applications from OWASP top 10 vulnerabilities.
General availability support for Java Message Service (JMS) 2.0 API on Azure Service Bus Premium
Use existing applications that leverage JMS 2.0 API to talk to Service Bus without any code changes. Only configuration changes are required.
Azure Sphere OS version 21.02 is now available for evaluation
This Azure Sphere quality update of the OS includes bug fixes as well as recent CVE mitigations.
General Availability: Azure Red Hat OpenShift support for OpenShift 4.6
Benefit from new features and enhancements in OpenShift release 4.6.
General availability: Azure Machine Learning updates for native terminal
Users can now perform any CLI operation directly in the Azure ML Studio.
Azure Dav4-series VMs are available in Azure HDInsight
Adopt Dav4-series VMs in HDInsight to get great performance at a competitive price.
Generally available: Application Insights synthetic monitoring SLA report template
Azure Monitor Application Insights has released a new report template to enable easy reporting of your web tests across Application Insights resources that includes several key features like total application downtime, maintenance data exclusion, and end to end outage identification.
Application Insights availability troubleshooting report for URL tests
Azure Monitor Application Insights has released a troubleshooting report for URL ping web tests to help quickly identify the root cause behind a test failure.
Cross Region Restore of Azure VMs now generally available
Today we're announcing the general availability of Cross Region Restore (CRR) for Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) support using Microsoft Azure Backup.
New disk bursting metrics
New disk bursting metrics that help you gain insight into your disks IO and bandwidth limits for your provisioned and bursting performance and inform you of how much of your bursting credit have been used. These allow you to see your disk's limits for performance as well as see how you have been using your bursting capabilities in the past.
More ways to use composite indexes in Azure Cosmos DB now generally available
You can now use composite indexes in Azure Cosmos DB to optimize even more types of queries, including queries with aggregates and system functions.
Azure IoT Edge 1.1.0 release is now generally available
Azure IoT Edge 1.1.0 is our first long term servicing (LTS) release.
.NET Core support for Analysis Services client libraries is generally available
Today, we are announcing general availability (GA) of Analysis Services client libraries for .NET Core, along with several enhancements.
US Gov Virginia Availability Zones now generally available
Availability Zones are now generally available from the US Gov Virginia datacenter region, offering US government customers more options for their most demanding mission-critical applications.
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.
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