Updates Archives
Monthly updates for July 2022
General availability: Citus 11 support for Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Hyperscale (Citus)
Support of Citus 11 is now included in Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus), a managed service running the distributed open source PostgreSQL database on Azure.
General Availability: Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server - On demand backups
Initiate on demand backups of your production workloads and store them based on your server’s backup retention policy.
Generally available: Basic tier updates for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus)
Hyperscale (Citus) Basic tier now supports 16, 32, and 64 vCores and 1 TiB and 2 TiB storage.
Generally available: vCore compute options for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus)
Run memory-intensive enterprise applications with higher concurrency and no throttling on the new 96 and 104 vCore compute options.
Generally available: New extensions for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server
Install the new extensions and use this functionality for development with Javascript and geographic routing logic with Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server.
Generally available: PostgreSQL 14 with Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server
Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server now supports the latest Postgres version 14.
Generally available: Same-zone high availability for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server
Deploy high availability within the same zone for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server.
Generally available: Virtual machine restore points
For customers and Azure partners who are looking to build business continuity and disaster recovery solutions, VM restore points provide a feature rich building blocks available natively on Azure platform.
Responsible AI investments and safeguards for Facial Recognition
Target retirement date: July 01, 2023
The Cognitive Services team has updated our approach to facial recognition including adding a new Limited Access policy, removing AI classifiers of sensitive attributes and bolstering our investments in fairness and transparency.
Generally available: Azure Site Recovery update rollup 62 - July 2022
Azure update for Azure Site Recovery update rollup 62.
Generally available: Exporting device customizations and cloud properties in Azure IoT Central
Device capability customizations and cloud properties are now included in exported device templates in Azure IoT Central.
Generally available: Azure Gateway Load Balancer
Gateway Load Balancer enables you to deploy, scale, and enhance the availability of third party network virtual appliances (NVAs) in Azure with ease.
Generally available: Azure IoT Edge 1.3.0 release
The Azure IoT Edge release 1.3 is available with support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 and requires that inbound/outbound communication use TLS 1.2 by default.
General availability: Azure Archive Storage now available in South Africa North
Reduce spending by storing rarely accessed data to Azure Archive Storage, now in new regions.
General availability: Azure Database for PostgreSQL—Hyperscale (Citus) supports PostgreSQL minor versions
Benefit from the latest PostgreSQL minor versions for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus).
Generally available: Azure Functions retry policy for Event Hubs and timer triggers
Azure Functions now supports setting a retry policy for Azure Event Hubs and timer triggers.
Generally available: Azure Digital Twins Data history
Data history is an integration feature of Azure Digital Twins.
General availability: Azure Active Directory authentication for Application Insights
Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) authentication for Azure Monitor Application helps ensure that only authenticated telemetry is ingested in your Application Insights resources.
General availability: Application Insights standard test for synthetic monitoring
Standard tests are a single request test which also includes SSL certificate validity, proactive lifetime check, HTTP request verb, custom headers, and custom data associated with your HTTP request.
Generally available: Enabling JBoss EAP on Azure Red Hat OpenShift
You can now use jointly developed guidance from Red Hat and Microsoft to get JBoss EAP applications up and running quickly on Azure Red Hat OpenShift.
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