Updates Archives
Monthly updates for July 2021
Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server Auto-grow storage in public preview
With auto-grow storage enabled, your storage automatically grows when storage consumed on the Flexible Server is nearing its provisioned limit.
Public preview: Azure App Service Migration Assistant PowerShell-based experience
The PowerShell-based experience for the Azure App Service Migration Assistant is now in public preview.
The public preview of Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server now supported in new regions
Provision new Flexible Server deployments in new regions for Azure Database for PostgreSQL, a managed service running the open source Postgres database on Azure.
Azure VMware Solution now generally available in the Canada East region
Azure VMware Solution has expanded availability to Canada East. With this release Canada East is now the second region within the Canadian sovereign area to become available (joining Canada Central).
Public preview: IoT Edge Metrics Collector module 1.0.1 release
This update provides security and reliability improvements, and support for government and regional clouds.
Announcing the Azure Firewall Premium general availability
Utilize next-generation firewall capabilities in Azure Firewall Premium
Public preview: Scan and view lineage of data stored in Erwin Mart, Google BigQuery and Looker using Azure Purview
Azure Purview now supports automated scanning from Erwin, BigQuery and Looker soureces to extract schema and lineage between data.
Shared disks on Azure Disk Storage are now generally available on all Premium SSD and Standard SSD sizes
Shared disks can now be leveraged on smaller Premium SSDs from 4GiB to 128 GiB and all Standard SSDs from 4 GiB to 32 TiB. This expands shared disk support to Ultra Disk, Premium SSD, and Standard SSD enabling you to optimize for different price and performance options based on your workload needs.
Public preview: Alerts, Pacemaker cluster (RHEL OS) and data-size for SAP HANA
SAP on Azure customers can now set threshold-based alerts on SAP application, databases and clusters though Azur portal with few clicks.
Private preview: New telemetry for SAP Application (NetWeaver) in Azure portal
SAP on Azure customers can now view SAP Application telemetry like short dumps, SDF/SMON and STO3 in Azure portal.
Azure VMware Solution now generally available in the Australia Southeast region
Azure VMware Solution has expanded availability to Australia Southeast. With this release Australia Southeast is now the second region within the Australian sovereign area to become available (joining Australia East).
Azure Automation support for User Assigned Managed Identities is now in public preview
Use user-assigned identities for Azure Automation runbook jobs.
General availability: Azure IoT Central new and updated features—June 2021
June updates include dashboard enhancements, the IoT Plug and Play smartphone app including updated quickstarts, rule condition enhancements, a new responsive UI, and a new Learn module.
Session and cache provider using Azure Cosmos DB in general availability
Use Azure Cosmos DB as a session state and cache provider through Microsoft.Extensions.Caching.Cosmos extension package for global scaling and low latency.
Limited preview: Migrate your Azure Data Lake Storage from Gen1 to Gen2 using the Azure Portal
Use this simple experience to migrate your data from Azure Data Lake Storage Gen1 to Gen2 to speed up your time to insights.
Azure Maps Creator v1 preview will be retired on 6 September 2021
Target retirement date: September 06, 2021
Transition to Azure Maps Creator v2 by 6 September 2021
Public preview: Azure Service Bus support for large messages
You can now send and receive message payloads of up to 100MB in Azure Service Bus premium tier namespaces.
General availability: Deliver a secure hybrid workplace with Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365
Learn about our new announcements and product updates for Azure Virtual Desktop at Microsoft Inspire 2021.
General availability: Azure Spring Cloud Pricing Model Change
Upcoming changes to base units in Azure Spring Cloud Basic and Standard will result in lower costs for many customers.
Public preview: API Management and Event Grid integration
Azure API Management has now been updated to publish events to Event Grid.
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