Updates Archives
Monthly updates for July 2021
Public preview: API Management and Event Grid integration
Azure API Management has now been updated to publish events to Event Grid.
Azure SQL enabled by Azure Arc generally available on July 30, 2021
Bring cloud data management to data workloads on-premises, at the edge, and in multicloud environments.
Public preview: Azure Spring Cloud New Relic One integration and additional feature updates
Azure Spring Cloud now supports New Relic One for performance monitoring (in preview), reduced minimum app instance sizes, automated app deployments with Terraform and Azure Pipelines, and Azure Virtual Network in Azure China.
General availability: Application Insights integration with App Services for Java & Node.js apps
Integration of Azure Monitor application insights with App Services now enables you to monitor your Java & Node.js apps directly from Azure portal, without making any changes to your code, with just a click of a button.
Azure Machine Learning public preview announcements July 2021
New features Custom Containers in Managed Online Endpoints and Job Creation UI are now available in preview in Azure Machine Learning.
Confidential computing using Always Encrypted with secure enclaves for Azure SQL Database in general availability
Always Encrypted with secure enclaves helps prevent malicious admins and malware from exfiltrating sensitive data, while enabling in-place encryption and rich confidential computations, including pattern matching, range comparisons, and sorting.
Call recording in public preview for Azure Communication Services
Call recording for Azure Communication Services helps to simplify and improve the recording process during calls.
Insights and workbooks for Azure Cosmos DB now in general availability
Now generally available, Azure Monitor insights and Azure Monitor workbooks make it easier to visualize and customize metrics for dynamic monitoring of your Azure Cosmos DB resource.
Azure AD authentication for Application Insights
Azure Monitor application insights now supports Azure Active Directory authentication. helping you ensure that only authenticated telemetry is ingested.
Public preview: New Application Insights standard test for synthetic monitoring
Azure Monitor Application Insights is introducing a new availability test to handle most of your single request test scenarios.
Public preview: Create AKS clusters without local user accounts
You can now disable local user accounts when creating Azure Active Directory integrated Azure Kubernetes Service clusters.
General availability: New Azure Monitor built-in policy for Log Analytics workspace and linked automation account
A new Azure Monitor built-in policy gives you control to provision central Log Analytics workspaces and linked automation account across your subscriptions consistently.
Public preview: Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) smart defaults
Use scenario-specific cluster configurations to get going quickly and easily, while retaining the ability to customize to meet your unique needs as needed.
Public preview: Event Grid integration with AKS
Automate AKS operations by subscribing to events and handling them.
Now available: Azure Purview product glossary
The Azure Purview product glossary provides comprehensive set of product terms and definitions used in Azure Purview features and functionality.
Disk pool for Azure VMware Solution now in public preview
With disk pool, Azure VMware Solution customers can now access Azure Disk Storage for high-performance, durable block storage. Customer can scale their storage independent of compute and handle their growing data needs more cost-effectively.
General availability: Azure API Management updates - July 2021
Azure API Management service has been updated to provide better support to customers through policy expressions and Power platform.
General availability: Azure Automation Customer Managed Keys
Encrypt your Automation account assests using Customer-managed keys.
Azure Blob storage - Container Soft Delete generally available
Administrators can set a retention policy and recover data from a deletion of a blob container without contacting support
Azure Bastion Standard SKU public preview
Azure Bastion Standard SKU offers key capabilities for enterprises, unblocking critical customer scenarios.
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