Updates Archives
Monthly updates for June 2021
Azure Maps Android SDK is now generally available
Get started with Android map control using vector map libraries, now generally available with Azure Maps Android SDK.
Azure Image Builder Service now generally available
Use Azure Image Builder to streamline your image building pipeline and integrate your DevOps application life-cycle with the cloud native tools.
Generally available: Azure HPC – CycleCloud 7.9.10
New release for Azure CycleCloud 7-9-10
Introducing the Ingestion Client for Azure Speech
Ingestion Client in conjunction with Azure Speech allows customers to transcribe audio files without any development effort. Whether you have few or millions of file Azure will transcribe those securely and quickly.
Azure NetApp Files | Regional Capacity Quota
We're changing the regional capacity quota for Azure NetApp files at no additional cost to you.
General availability: Azure Digital Twins plugin for Azure Data Explorer
Adding context to IoT data just became easier. Azure Digital Twins and Azure Data Explorer now seamlessly integrate, allowing you to allow you to contextualize time-series IoT data.
General availability: Turn your phone into an IoT device with the new IoT Plug and Play mobile app
Use the IoT Plug and Play phone app as an IoT device to get started quickly with IoT Central or IoT Hub.
General availability: Azure DevOps updates for June 2021
With this update, we've added a new set of policies which can be used to restrict the scope and lifespan of your organization’s Azure DevOps personal access tokens.
General availability: Azure Cognitive Services Text Analytics for Health
Now generally available, use Text Analytics for Health to detect words and phrases mentioned in unstructured text as entities in the healthcare and biomedical domain.
Azure Container Registry is now available in West US 3
Azure Container Registry is now generally available in West US 3 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.
Azure Sphere OS version 21.06 is now generally available
This quality release of the OS includes bug fixes for apps using SPI Flash.
Azure Data Lake Storage Gen1: Account creation will be blocked for new customers starting July 5, 2021
Target retirement date: July 05, 2021
Take advantage of Azure Data Lake Storage Gen 2 for all of your analytic needs after July 5, 2021.
Azure Blob storage—NFS 3.0 protocol support generally available
Target availability: Q1 1980
Azure Blob Storage is the only storage platform that supports NFS 3.0 protocol over object storage natively (no gateway or data copying required), with object storage economics. With multi-protocol support, customers can run their applications on a single storage platform with no application rewrites necessary, therefore eliminating data silos.
General availability: Expansion of credit-based disk bursting to Azure Standard SSDs E30 and smaller
Credit-based disk bursting, which allows you to handle unexpected disk traffic and batch jobs smoothly without the need to overprovision your disk, is now available on Azure Standard SSDs E30 and smaller.
Azure SQL—general availability updates for late June 2021
General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in late June 2021
Full text query in diagnostics logs for Azure Cosmos DB in general availability
Use self-serve to enable/disable full text query to deobfuscate your queries in diagnostic logs with the full-text query for Azure Cosmos DB feature.
Azure IoT Edge for Linux now generally available
Leverage existing Windows expertise and seamlessly connect Azure IoT Edge for Linux on Windows devices to Microsoft Azure and quickly bring cloud intelligence to your edge.
Azure Key Vault Managed HSM is generally available
Azure Key Vault Managed HSM (hardware security module) is now generally available. Managed HSM offers a fully managed, highly available, single-tenant, high-throughput, standards-compliant cloud service to safeguard cryptographic keys for your cloud applications, using FIPS 140-2 Level 3 validated HSMs.
General availability: Azure Data Explorer adds new geospatial capabilities
The new support for H3 based geospatial clustering in KQL enables users to visualize and explore spatial data stored in Azure Data Explorer.
Azure Blob index tags now generally available
Azure Blob index tags now generally available. Blob index tags allows developers and IT Pros to first tag specific blobs (for example, StoreID = "1234") and then filter or query for all blobs to more easily find or use them.
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