Updates Archives
Monthly updates for February 2022
General availability: Azure tags support in AKS
You can now specify a tag, create or update of AKS cluster to track resource usage.
General availability: Azure Sphere version 22.02 expected on Feb 28, 2022
Participate in the retail evaluation now to ensure full compatibility. The OS evaluation period for 22.02 provides 14 days for backward compatibility testing.
Generally available: Find developer resources easily with the IoT Central GitHub repository
Easily find developer resources and sample code for building Azure IoT Central solutions at the new Azure IoT Central GitHub repository.
Generally available: Improved getting started material in Azure IoT Central documentation
New FAQ articles and a re-organized landing page and table of contents improves your ability to find the information you need about Azure IoT Central.
Generally Available: Search results page improvements in Azure IoT Central
Filtering and highlighting matched values have been added to IoT Central search results allowing for richer search experience.
Generally available: Azure Site Recovery update rollup 60 - January 2022
Review the improvements and fixes provided in Update Rollup 60.
Generally Available: Recovery points extended to 15 days with Azure Site Recovery
The extended recovery points give you flexibility in how you want to manage recovery points and the ability to recover older recovery points if you missed detecting them.
Generally available: Regional deployments for all new and existing IoT Central applications
All previously created IoT Central applications in a geography are now mapped to standard Azure region.
Generally available: Azure IoT Edge supports Ubuntu Server 20.04 and ARM64
The latest Azure IoT Edge releases provide official packages for Ubuntu Server 20.04 on AMD64 and ARM64 devices.
Microsoft Defender for Cloud: General availability updates for January 2022
Target availability: Q1 2022
New enhancements and updates released for general availability in Microsoft Defender for Cloud in January 2022.
General Availability: IoT Edge monitoring with Azure Monitor
Use the latest IoT Edge Metrics collector module to send metrics to Azure Monitor and leverage updated visualizations to monitor and troubleshoot your IoT Edge devices.
General availability: Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus): Private access support
Private access is now generally available for Hyperscale (Citus) on Azure Database for PostgreSQL, a managed service running the open-source Postgres database on Azure.
General availability: Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus) new certifications
New compliance certifications are now available on Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus), a managed service running the open-source Postgres database on Azure.
General availability: Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Hyperscale (Citus) supports PostgreSQL minor versions
Use PostgreSQL 11.14, 12.9, 13.5, and 14.1 minor versions with Hyperscale (Citus) for Azure Database for PostgreSQL, a managed service running the open source Postgres database on Azure.
General availability: Enhanced storage configuration with tempdb
Manage your SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machine storage configuration with tempdb directly from the SQL virtual machine blade in the Azure portal.
General availability: Deployment enhancements for SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines
Deploy SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines with a setup-like experience where configuration of the instance is done during deployment of the Azure Marketplace image.
General availability: Automated backup enhancements for SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines
The Automated backup feature on SQL Server for Azure Virtual Machines blade comes with the ability for increased retention and better manageability with your choice of storage container per instance.
General availability: Azure SQL updates for early February 2022
Generally available enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL.
General availability: Azure Cache for Redis active geo-replication in enterprise tiers
Link cached data across regions for multi-primary writes and higher availability with active geo-replication in enterprise tiers for Azure Cache for Redis.
Generally available: PowerShell on Linux OS in Azure Functions
Azure Functions now supports PowerShell on Linux.
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