Updates Archives
Monthly updates for April 2021
Azure Sphere version 21.04 is now generally available
The latest release of Azure Sphere brings enhancements and features to the OS, SDKs, and Visual Studio extensions.
General availability: Azure Site Recovery now supports cross-continental disaster recovery for 3 region pairs
Protect your applications from outages by replicating your virtual machines across continents.
General availability: Set up Azure Site Recovery with proximity placement groups across hybrid and cloud disaster recovery scenarios
Azure Site Recovery now provides a portal experience to failover VMs or physical servers inside a proximity placement group in the target Azure region.
Azure Ultra Disk is now generally available in North Central US
Azure Ultra Disk, which offers high performance along with sub-millisecond latency for your data-intensive and transaction-heavy workloads, is now available in North Central US.
General availability: Application Insights work item integration in Azure Monitor
You can now create work items in Azure DevOps or GitHub based on Application Insights telemetry.
Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server: Zone redundant high availability now generally available in new regions
Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server zone redundant high availability is now available in two new regions: UK South and Japan East.
Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server now supports 8.0.21
MySQL 8.0.21 is now in general availability with Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server deployment option in all major Azure regions.
General availability: Azure Hybrid Benefit for Linux with RI and VMSS Support
You can now add Azure Hybrid Benefit to their Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) VMSS instances as well as RI’s, helping to significantly reduce the costs of running your workloads in the cloud.
Azure Event Grid for Azure Cache for Redis now in general availability
Azure Cache for Redis integration with Azure Event Grid allows service manage routing of Redis events like patching, scaling, and import/export (RDB) to your event handler.
Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus) is generally available in new regions
Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus) includes new Brazil South, France Central, and Switzerland North regions to distribute your Postgres database to horizontally scale queries across multiple machines using sharding.
Azure Container Registry now generally available in Korea South region
Azure Container Registry handles private Docker container images as well as related content formats, such as Helm charts, OCI artifacts, and images built to the OCI image format specification.
Action required: upgrade your AML cluster to Ubuntu 18.04 LTS by 30 April 2021
Target retirement date: April 30, 2021
Ubuntu 16.04 community support ends on 30 April 2021 – Transition to 18.04 immediately
General availability: Application Gateway URL Rewrite
Application Gateway now supports hosting friendly URLs and routing based on query string values.
Azure Data Factory announces Data Flow general availability in two new Azure regions
Azure Data Factory has released Mapping Data Flows for 2 new Azure regions: US Virgina Gov & US Arizona Gov
Announcing general availability of new M-series Msv2/Mdsv2 Medium Memory VMs for memory-optimized workloads
Azure Msv2/Mdsv2 Medium Memory Series offering up to 192vCPU and 4TB memory configurations and running on Cascade Lake processor are now generally available.
Open source API Portal now generally available
API Portal is a no-code option to create, manage, and publish API documentation - for free.
General availability: Azure Sphere version 21.04 expected on April 29, 2021
Participate in the retail evaluation now to ensure full compatibility. The OS evaluation period provides 14 days for backward compatibility testing.
General availability: Event source start options in Azure Time Series Insights Gen2
The new event source start options feature in Azure Time Series Insights Gen2 gives you flexibility when configuring an event source.
User data through Azure Instance Metadata Service now generally available
Leverage user data to customize your VM instance provision and configuration.
Cognitive Services - New Computer Vision API v3.2 now generally available
Updated Computer Vision API now generally available to improve image tagging, content moderation, OCR language expansion, and more.
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