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Monthly updates for November 2021
New orchestration mode for Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets now generally available
Increase the availability at scale of business-critical applications with new Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets features. Simplify workload deployment, management, and scalability with Virtual Machine Scale Sets flexible orchestration mode, now generally available.
Limited preview: New Azure Virtual Machines deliver increased storage throughput for data-intensive workloads
Microsoft is announcing the upcoming preview of Ebs v5 and Ebds v5 Azure VMs, a new memory optimized VM series that delivers up to 300% increase in remote storage performance compared to prior generation VMs. The increased storage throughput is ideal for data-intensive workloads, such as large relational databases, high-performance OLTP scenarios, and data analytics applications.
General availability: New Azure Virtual Machines deliver increased performance for a broad range of workloads
The new Dv5 and Ev5 Azure Virtual Machines feature 3rd Generation Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8370C (Ice Lake) processors and deliver better price-performance compared to prior VM generations. The latest Dasv5 and Easv5 VMs - based on the 3rd Generation AMD EPYCTM 7763v (Milan) processor - now include options without local disk storage for lower-cost entry points. All these new VMs are now generally available and target general-purpose and memory-intensive workloads.
Azure App Service Environment v3 support for Windows Containers is now generally available
Migrate on-premise apps that require custom configuration to App Service Environment v3.
Azure App Service - Diagnostic settings feature reaches general availability
Send web app and platform logs on App Service to Azure Monitor, enabling new observability scenarios.
General availability: Version updates for Azure App Configuration libraries
Push refresh and feature management among new capabilities for Java Spring Boot applications.
Azure Service Bus large message support reaches general availability
This new capability removes need for workarounds and enables migration of legacy payloads to Azure
General availability: Provisioned throughput increase for Azure Ultra Disk Storage
The provisioned throughput for Azure Ultra Disk Storage has been increased to 4,000 MB/s per disk.
General availability: Centralized management of keys for encrypting Azure disks
Centralized management of keys for encrypting Azure disks is now generally available, allowing you to manage encryption keys centrally in a subscription and encrypt disks and snapshots in other subscriptions in your organization.
New capabilities introduced for disk pool (public preview) for Azure VMware Solution
Disk pool enables you to access Azure Disk Storage for high-performance, durable block storage for your Azure VMware Solution workloads. We are introducing new enhancements to disk pool to improve availability, cost-efficiency, and management.
Public preview: Cross-region snapshot copy for Azure Disk Storage
Cross-region snapshot copy is now in preview, allowing you to copy disk snapshots to any region for disaster recovery scenarios.
Live resize of Azure Disk Storage in public preview
With live resize of Azure Disk Storage in preview, you can dynamically increase your disk size without any downtime to your application.
Open Service Mesh add-on for AKS is now generally available
Use the service mesh capabilities from Open Service Mesh (OSM) integrated natively with the AKS managed service offering.
Azure SQL: Public preview updates for early November 2021
Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL Managed Instance in mid-September 2021.
General availability: AKS support for Secrets Store CSI driver
Easily integrate secrets stores into your Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) so you can securely access your secrets via the container’s file system.
Public preview: Industry-aware analytics with database templates in Azure Synapse
Database templates in Azure Synapse enable you to integrate and shape data from across multiple internal and external sources. This helps you eliminate data silos and accelerate building analytics-infused applications for your specific industry.
Public preview: Simplified provisioning of access to data lake assets
Azure Purview will enable data owners to use a simple intuitive experience to centrally manage access to data in Azure Storage
Azure Service Operator v2 release is now available
Use Azure Service Operator to provision resources within Kubernetes and implement self-service resource provisioning for your application developers.
Public preview: Azure Container Registry connected registry for IoT Edge
You can now synchronize container images from your cloud registry and serve them on-premises for use by IoT devices and use the connected registry in an disconnected setting up to 90 days.
Public preview: Explore your Amazon RDS data in Azure Purview
Azure Purview, the unified data governance solution, expands its multi-cloud coverage with support for Amazon RDS.
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