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April 2019
Reserved Capacity Pricing for Azure SQL Data Warehouse is now generally available
Starting today, you can now use the Azure SQL Data Warehouse Reserved Capacity pricing to reserve compute power for existing and future clusters. This option provides you savings up to 65% cDWU capacity.
Azure API Management update April 19
Learn about the latest regular update in Azure API Management update.
Service Fabric Mesh preview - spring update for features in development
Service Fabric Mesh preview is being updated with some new features, and improvements based on feedback we’ve received.
Azure Traffic Manager will stop automatically enabling, disabling, or deleting endpoints for Azure Cloud Services on May 1, 2019
Target availability: Q2 2019
Currently, Azure Traffic Manager can automatically enable, disable, or delete endpoints when starting, stopping, or deleting the corresponding cloud service. However, this option will be retired on May 1, 2019, and you’ll need to manually enable, disable, or delete profile endpoints in Traffic Manager when starting, stopping, or deleting a cloud service. You’ll continue to be billed for the endpoints unless they are manually disabled or deleted.
General availability: Azure DNS in China regions
Azure DNS is now generally available in Azure China regions.
General Availability: Application Insights is now available in East Asia and East US 2
Azure Application Insights is now available in East Asia and East US 2.
Azure Automation Service Management REST APIs are being retired April 30, 2019.
Migrate any Azure Automation Service Management REST APIs and PowerShell cmdlets for Azure Automation to Resource Manager REST APIs or the latest PowerShell cmdlets by April 30, 2019.
Server-level collations in Managed Instance are globally available
Azure SQL Database Managed Instance now brings even more application compatibility by offering a choice of server-level collation to meet the needs of the existing applications that should be migrated to azure cloud. This eliminates need for changes in the existing applications that are not using SQL Server instances with default server-level collation when they are migrated to Azure cloud
Azure Container Registry singularity image files (SIF) support is now in preview
Support for storing singularity image files (SIF) in Azure Container Registry based on the OCI distribution-based container registries specification is now available in preview.
Azure Front Door Service is now available
Azure Front Door Service has entered general availability and is now fully supported with a 99.99 percent SLA.
Web Application Firewall for Azure Front Door is in preview
With web application firewall (in preview), you can define security policies that allow, block, or rate limit access to your web applications delivered through Front Door.
ExpressRoute Global Reach is now available
Azure ExpressRoute Global Reach allows customers to connect their on-premises networks via the ExpressRoute service through the Microsoft global network.
ExpressRoute Direct is now available
ExpressRoute Direct lets you use the functionality of ExpressRoute and connect directly to the global Microsoft backbone at 100 Gbps.
New features and network expansion for Azure Content Delivery Network
Azure Content Delivery Network has added new security and usability features as well as additional capacity.
Apache Hadoop 3 on Azure HDInsight 4.0 is now available
New features in Hadoop 3 provide significant improvements to performance, stability, and availability, helping reduce total cost of ownership and accelerating time-to-value.
Pod security policy for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is now available in preview
Pod Security Policy enables customers to control sensitive aspects of a pod specification by defining a set of conditions that a pod must run with in order to be accepted.
Azure Logic Apps Tools for Visual Studio 2019
Azure Logic Apps Tools for Visual Studio 2019 is now available.
Azure Database for PostgreSQL Read Replica is now generally available
Azure Database for PostgreSQL now supports asynchronous replication of data from one Azure Database for PostgreSQL server to up to five servers in the same region.
Azure Database for MariaDB: New compute options are now generally available
Azure Database for MariaDB now supports even larger workloads and helps you to accommodate future growth.
Announcing Azure Backup support to move Recovery Services vaults across subscriptions and resource groups
Announcing the GA support for move functionality for recovery services vaults where you can migrate a vault between subscriptions and resource groups with a few steps, in minimal downtime and without any data-loss of old backups. You can move RS vault and retain recovery points of protected VMs to restore to any point in time later.
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