Updates Archives
Monthly updates for March 2022
Generally available: Azure Stream Analytics in 10 new regions
Azure Stream Analytics is a fully managed, real-time analytics service designed to help you analyze and process fast moving streams of data.
General availability: Bring your own IP ranges to Azure
Bring your own public IP ranges to Azure to retain existing reputation or to prevent your customers from needing to modify dependencies (e.g. firewalls or other hardcoding) on their network.
General availability: Azure Data Explorer supports Conditional Access
Azure Data Explorer launches support for Azure Active Directory Conditional Access.
General availability: Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Hyperscale (Citus) now FedRAMP High compliant
Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus), a managed service running the open-source Postgres database on Azure is now compliant with FedRAMP High.
General availability: Always Encrypted for Azure Cosmos DB
The Always Encrypted feature brings client-side encryption capabilities to Azure Cosmos DB and allows you to put an extra level of protection on your sensitive data.
General availability: Azure Cognitive Search implements debug sessions
Streamline your Cognitive Search operations with debug sessions for building, testing, and modifying skillsets.
Generally available: Cross-region snapshot copy for Azure Disk Storage
Cross-region snapshot copy allows you to copy disk snapshots to any region for disaster recovery.
General availability: Azure Ultra Disk Storage in Sweden Central
Azure Ultra Disk Storage provides high-performance along with sub-millisecond latency for your most-demanding workloads.
Generally available: Node.js 16 in Azure Functions
Azure Functions support for Node.js 16.x is now generally available in Azure Functions runtime 4.0 on all hosting plans.
Generally available: Access time-based lifecycle management rules for Data Lake Storage Gen2
Access time tracking for objects and lifecycle management policies based on last accessed time in Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2.
Generally available: The new Azure Front Door – a modern cloud CDN service
Azure Front Door is a modern cloud CDN that enables you to accelerate the delivery of applications, APIs, and content on Azure or anywhere at scale.
Generally available: Copy data directly to Archive Storage with Data Box
You can now use Data Box to copy data directly to Archive tier by indicating this when ordering and then copying to the corresponding share on the Data Box.
Generally available: On-demand capacity reservation with Azure Site Recovery safeguards VMs failover
Integrating Site Recovery with capacity reservation to reserve compute capacity in the disaster recovery region and use that for failover.
General availability: Azure Bastion native client support
Azure Bastion native client support brings you the ability to connect to target VMs from the command line and log in using your Azure Active Directory credentials.
General availability: On-demand capacity reservations
On-demand capacity reservations let you reserve compute capacity for one or more VM size(s) in an Azure region or availability zone for any length of time.
Generally available: Azure Batch supports Spot Virtual Machines
Target availability: Q1 2022
Azure Batch supports Spot Virtual Machine's in user-subscription mode and is offered at a significantly reduced price compared with dedicated virtual machines.
Generally available: Azure Data Explorer supports multiple databases per data connection
Target availability: Q1 2022
Dynamically route Azure Data Explorer data to an alternate database
General availability: Azure Machine Learning user-defined functions in Azure Stream Analytics
Target availability: Q1 2022
Machine Learning user-defined function in Stream Analytics allows you to perform high throughput, low latency, real-time predictions, allowing you to act on insights which have a very short shelf-life.
General availability: Inbound NAT rule now supports port management for backend pools
You can now specify target backend pool in inbound NAT rule for less management overhead when configuring port forwarding.
Generally available: Connect and manage devices in Azure IoT Central without models
You now have the ability to connect your devices, send data, run commands, and create relationships without having to first create a model for them in Azure IoT Central.
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