Updates Archives
Monthly updates for October 2022
Public preview: Exactly once delivery for Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2
Stream Analytics now supports end-to-end exactly once semantics when writing to Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2.
Public preview: Enhanced soft delete for Azure Backup
Enhanced soft delete helps you recover your backup data after it has been deleted, giving you protection against data loss scenarios like ransomwares, malicious actors, and accidental deletes.
Public preview: Multi-user authorization for Backup vaults
Multi-user authorization provides enhanced protection for your backup data against unauthorized critical operations.
Public preview: Immutable vaults for Azure Backup
Immutable vaults helps you protect your backups against threats like ransomware attacks and malicious actors by ensuring that your backup data cannot be deleted before its intended expiry time.
Public preview: Computer Vision Image Analysis 4.0
Get results from all Image Analysis visual features including Read (OCR) with only need one API call.
Public preview: Microsoft Azure Deployment Environments
Azure Deployment Environments has entered public preview and helps dev teams create and manage all types of environments throughout the application lifecycle.
Public preview: Support for HANA System Replication in Azure Backup for HANA
Now, if a HANA database fails over with HANA System Replication, backups are automatically continued from the new primary, with Azure Backup for HANA.
Public preview: Job diagram simulator in VS Code
The job diagram simulator provides a capability to visualize your Stream Analytics job’s topology and help you improve the query’s parallelism as you develop your streaming query.
Public preview: Oracle to Azure migration with Database Migration Assessment for Oracle
Migrate from Oracle to Azure Database for PostgreSQL with the Database Migration Assessment for Oracle extension available in Azure Data Studio.
Public preview: Azure Active Directory for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server
Use Azure Active Directory-based authentication methods using Azure Active Directory principals, managed identities, and groups to connect and access Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server.
Azure Machine Learning—Public preview updates for October 2022/Ignite
Features include functionality to promote pipelines and models across workspaces, perform data wrangling at scale, shorten training times, and lower set-up costs with Azure Container for PyTorch.
Public preview: MySQL extension for Azure Data Studio
Connect to, query, and develop for MySQL hosted on-premises or in the cloud with the MySQL extension for Azure Data Studio.
Public preview: Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server auto scale IO
Use auto scale IO to automatically scale the IO on an instance of Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server to efficiently adapt for workload needs without manual intervention.
Public preview: Infrastructure encryption using customer managed key for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server
Infrastructure encryption with customer managed keys adds a second layer of encryption for your data at rest using customer managed keys.
Public preview: Azure resource topology
Enhancing network and resource health visualization with unified and dynamic topology across subscriptions, regions, and resource groups.
Public preview: ExpressRoute Traffic Collector
ExpressRoute Traffic Collector enables sampling of network flows sent over ExpressRoute Direct circuits.
Public preview: Integration of Azure Monitor Agent with Connection Monitor
Integration of Azure Monitor Agent support in Connection Monitor for monitoring connectivity to ARC enabled endpoints.
Public preview: Azure Migrate - SQL Server migration assessment for migration or modernization
Save cost in Azure for your SQL estate through the new unified discovery and assessment feature in Azure Migrate.
Public preview: New Azure Virtual Machine Scale Set and Spot Virtual Machines capabilities
You can now include standard VMs and Spot VMs in the same Azure Virtual Machine Scale Set. New VM-series are now supported with Virtual Machine Scale Sets flexible orchestration mode.
Public preview: Azure Monitor application insights Java profiling, using Java Flight Recorder
Java application profiling using Java Flight Recorder (JFR) is now in preview in Azure Monitor application insights.
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