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Monthly updates for May 2022

May 31

General availability: Azure Bastion IP based connection

NOW AVAILABLE

You can now use Azure Bastion to connect to on-premises resources over ExpressRoute and Site-to-Site VPN

  • Azure Bastion
  • Security
  • Features
May 31

General availability: New portal experience for Microsoft Artifact Registry

NOW AVAILABLE

You can now browse for Microsoft artifacts and container images on the Microsoft Artifact Registry website.

  • Azure Container Registry
  • Features
May 31

Generally available: Switzerland North Availability Zones

NOW AVAILABLE

Three new zones provide you with options for additional resiliency and tolerance to infrastructure impact.

  • Regions & Datacenters
May 30

Generally available: Budget alert supports action groups with common alert schema

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure cost management budget alert now supports action groups with common alert schema.

  • Microsoft Cost Management
  • Management
  • Features
May 26

General availability: Enhanced IPv6 functionality for MultiValue profiles in Azure Traffic Manager

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Traffic Manager now enables you to specify minimum children property separately for IPv4 and IPv6 endpoints for MultiValue profiles.

  • Traffic Manager
  • Features
May 25

Public preview: Automate scheduled emails of your saved cost views via API

IN PREVIEW

Automate the creation and management of Azure Cost Management scheduled emails with the ScheduledActions API.

  • Microsoft Cost Management
  • Management
May 25

Generally available Azure Ebsv5 now available in 13 additional regions

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Virtual Machines Ebsv5 and Ebdsv5 are now available in 13 additional regions.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Regions & Datacenters
May 25

Public preview: JavaScript and Python support in Azure SQL bindings

IN PREVIEW

You can connect Azure SQL to Azure Functions more easily with input and output bindings, now available in public preview for C#, JavaScript, and Python.

  • Azure Functions
  • Azure SQL
  • SDK and Tools
  • Open Source
May 24

Public preview: Autoscale Stream Analytics jobs

IN PREVIEW

Autoscaling allows you to define the minimum and maximum streaming units. Stream Analytics will automatically take care of dynamically optimizing the number of streaming units needed for your workload.

  • Azure Stream Analytics
  • AutoScale
  • Microsoft Build
  • Features
May 24

Public preview: Azure Digital Twins 3D Scenes Studio

IN PREVIEW

3D Scenes Studio allows you to build lightweight 3D visualization with contextual data visualizations that can be consumed easily from web browsers.

  • Azure Digital Twins
  • Microsoft Build
  • Features
May 24

General availability: Azure Backup supports backup of Write Accelerator enabled disks

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q2 2022

Azure Virtual Machine backup protects Write Accelerator enabled disks

  • Azure Backup
  • Azure Disk Storage
  • Management
May 24

IoT Hub IP address change notification

IoT Hub will be updating the underlying infrastructure and will go through an internal service update. The update will change the underlying DNS record for IoT Hub, resulting in a change of the IP address.

  • Azure IoT Hub
  • Services
May 24

Generally available: Stream Analytics query development improvements

NOW AVAILABLE

See improvements to the Stream Analytics query development experience on the Azure portal to increase productivity.

  • Azure Stream Analytics
  • Microsoft Build
  • Features
May 24

Generally available: Increased size of Stream Analytics jobs and cluster

NOW AVAILABLE

Maximum size of a Stream Analytics job and a cluster is increased from 192 SUs to 396 SUs.

  • Azure Stream Analytics
  • Microsoft Build
  • Features
May 24

Public preview: Stream Analytics no code editor

IN PREVIEW

Stream Analytics no code editor provides a rich, no code, drag and drop experience for you to build you streaming pipeline within minutes.

  • Azure Stream Analytics
  • Event Hubs
  • Microsoft Build
  • Features
May 24

Public preview: NGINX for Azure

IN PREVIEW

Natively integrate SaaS solution for advanced traffic management and monitoring on Azure.

  • Microsoft Build
  • Features
May 24

In development: Dynatrace for Azure

IN DEVELOPMENT

Target availability: Q2 2022

Natively integrated SaaS solution that provides deep cloud observability, advanced AIOps, and continuous runtime application security capabilities on Azure.

  • Microsoft Build
  • Features
May 24

Generally available: Microsoft Purview Data Estate Insights

NOW AVAILABLE

Microsoft Purview Data Estate Insights (in GA July 1, 2022) provides a bird's eye view of your data estate's health.

  • Microsoft Purview
  • Microsoft Build
May 24

Public preview: Microsoft Purview Data Policy for SQL dev ops roles

IN PREVIEW

Microsoft Purview Data Policy enables policies for data access, now including SQL dev ops roles.

  • Microsoft Purview
  • Microsoft Build
May 24

Public preview: Azure Applied AI Services enhancements

IN PREVIEW

Enhancements in preview include Power Virtual Agents to enable sophisticated conversational flows; Azure Form Recognizer helps to streamline patient check-in and verification; Azure Metrics Advisor has simplified service customization.

  • Azure AI services
  • Services
  • Microsoft Build

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