Updates Archives
Monthly updates for April 2021
Microsoft Azure Web PubSub service now in public preview
Easily build large-scale real-time messaging applications with WebSockets without the need to manage backend infrastructure.
Azure Site Recovery now supports Azure Policy in public preview
Leverage Azure Policy to enable Azure Site Recovery for your VMs at scale and ensure organizational standards.
Public preview: Application Insight in South India and West Central US
Application Insight is now in public preview for customers to start collecting telemetry and analyzing their services for health in the following list of regions South India West Central US.
Public preview: Azure Log Analytics in South India
Azure Log Analytics is now in public preview for customers to start collecting telemetry and analyzing their services for health and usage in South India.
Public preview: Forced failover now available with zone redundant high availability for Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server
Flexible Server forced failover capability is now available in all zone redundant regions.
Public preview: Stateful and 1-minute frequency log alerts in Azure Monitor
Log search based alerts can now be automatically resolved, and query can be evaluated every minute for faster time to fire.
Azure SQL—public preview updates for April 2021
Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in April 2021.
The public preview of Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server is available in two new regions
France Central and Brazil South regions are now available deployment options for the public preview of Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server.
Public preview: Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server intelligent performance
The latest preview release of intelligent performance on Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server on Postgres 11 and 12 is now available.
New Azure VMs for general purpose and memory intensive workloads now in public preview
New Dv5, Dsv5, Ddv5, Ddsv5, and Ev5, Edv5 series Azure Virtual Machines deliver increased scalability and an upgraded CPU architecture, including better price to performance compared to the prior generation. The new VMs - now in public preview - run on the 3rd Generation Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8370C (Ice Lake) processor in a hyper-threaded configuration. This custom processor can reach an all-core Turbo clock speed of up to 3.5GHz and features Intel® Turbo Boost Technology 2.0, Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (Intel® AVX-512) and Intel® Deep Learning Boost.
Public preview: Enhancements to encryption using customer managed keys for Azure Backup
Encryption of backup data in Recovery Services vaults using customer managed keys has enhancements in public preview.
Public preview: Azure Purview is now available in the UK South and Australia East region
Azure Purview is now available in public preview in the Australia East and UK South region. You can now provision Azure Purview accounts in these regions as a public preview offering.
Azure Purview resource set pattern rules available in public preview
Azure Purview is announcing the public preview of resource set pattern rules. A resource set is a single object in the data catalog that represents a large number of assets in storage. Resource set pattern rules allow you to customize or override how Azure Purview detects which assets are grouped as resource sets and how they are displayed within the catalog.
Azure Virtual Machines DCsv2-series now available in public preview in Azure Government
Azure Government customers can build secure, enclave-based applications to protect code and data while it’s in use, in a dedicated cloud that meets stringent government security and compliance requirements.
Azure Automation support for System Assigned Managed Identities is now in public preview
Use managed identities now to authenticate runbooks to any Azure service that supports Azure AD authentication.
Apache Spark 3.0 is now available for public preview in HDInsight 4.0.
Apache Spark 3.0 public preview in HDInsight 4.0 is a major update to Apache Spark and brings significant improvements including better performance and better support for ANSI SQL.
Public preview - Support for multiple currencies on Retail Rates API for all Azure products/services
An unauthenticated experience to get retail prices in different currencies for all Azure products/services (including Reserved Instances).
Public preview: Functions upgrade in Azure Monitor log analytics
We have upgraded the functions experience in log analytics, providing new UI and capabilities to allow you to do more with functions.
Public preview: Cognitive Services- Anomaly Detector now supports multivariate anomaly detection
Enable organizations to identify anomalies across multiple variables with multivariate Anomaly Detector.
Reduce dataflow execution time with cluster reuse public preview in Azure Data Factory
Azure Data Factory (ADF) has released a “quick re-use” option as public preview to the Azure Integration Runtime TTL to reduce data flow execution to from 2 mins to under 20 seconds.
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