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Azure App Service on Azure Stack Hub Update 8 Released
Azure App Service on Azure Stack Hub Update 8 released today.
November 2019
Azure Stack and Azure Data Box Edge meter name changes
Effective January 1, 2020, the meter names of Azure Stack and Data Box Edge will change.
September 2019
Diagnostic log collection is now generally available for Azure Stack
The Azure Stack diagnostic log collection service provides a simplified way for Azure Stack operators to collect and share diagnostic logs with Microsoft Customer Support Services (CSS).
Azure Stack integration with Azure Government Secret cloud
Work is currently in progress to allow Azure Stack operators in government organizations to connect their Azure Stacks to the Azure Government Secret cloud for identity, Pay-As-You-Go billing, marketplace syndication, and hybrid scenarios.
Retail solution patterns for hybrid applications
Work is in progress to develop an Azure Stack solution pattern that will provide solution architects and developers with guidance and examples on how to enable scenarios that require AI inferencing on video streams at the edge.
November 2018
Azure Stack security—drift detection
New and updated features are being developed to ensure customers can determine that their Azure Stack system has not been tampered with and can remediate if configuration has drifted.
Azure Government cloud integration for Azure Stack
Azure Stack is now integrated with the Azure Government cloud, enabling connections to Azure Government identity, subscription, registration, billing, backup/DR, and Azure Marketplace.
Enterprise backup for SQL Servers in Azure Virtual Machines
Users can backup their SQL Servers running in Azure Virtual Machines (VMs). This workload backup capability is built as an infrastructure-less, pay-as-you-go service that uses native SQL backup and restore APIs to provide a comprehensive solution to backup SQL servers running in Azure IaaS VMs.
Kubernetes on Azure Stack in preview
We now support Kubernetes cluster deployment on Azure Stack, a certified Kubernetes Cloud Provider. Install Kubernetes using Azure Resource Manager templates generated by ACS-Engine on Azure Stack.
Azure Stack support for Azure Backup
Azure Stack operators can now backup and recover guest OS, data disks, and volumes using Azure Backup.
Azure Site Recovery support for Azure Stack
Azure Stack operators or tenants can now replicate and failover Windows Server and Linux guest OS based application deployed in IaaS VMs on Azure Stack to Azure.
Azure Stack—FedRAMP High documentation now available
FedRAMP High documentation is now available for Azure Stack customers.
Azure China cloud integration for Azure Stack
Azure Stack is integrated with the Azure China cloud, enabling connections to identity, subscription, registration, billing, backup/DR, and Azure Marketplace.
Ability to incrementally add capacity to Azure Stack
Azure Stack operators can now add a node to an existing Azure Stack scale unit within the supported scale unit limits.
Azure Stack Infrastructure—compliance certification guidance
We have created documentation to describe how Azure Stack infrastructure satisfies regulatory technical controls for PCI-DSS and CSA-CCM.
Azure Storage API version 2017-04-17 updated in Azure Stack
The 2017-04-17 version of the Azure Storage API is now available to use in Azure Stack.
Azure Stack integrated systems support for multiple scale units
For customers who want larger Azure Stack integrated systems, we're working on adding support to have multiple scale units in an Azure Stack integrated system.
Azure Stack infrastructure backup and cloud recovery
We're developing enhancements for Azure Stack that will simplify infrastructure backup by eliminating the need for manual operator intervention.
Azure Stack security—updated audit collection
Azure Stack operators will be happy to hear that new and updated features are being developed to ensure Azure Stack integrated systems are "hardened by default."
Service Fabric now available on Azure Stack
Service Fabric, a distributed systems platform that makes it easy to package, deploy, and manage scalable and reliable microservices and containers, is now available on Azure Stack.
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