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Azure NetApp Files | Regional Capacity Quota
We're changing the regional capacity quota for Azure NetApp files at no additional cost to you.
General availability: Azure Digital Twins plugin for Azure Data Explorer
Adding context to IoT data just became easier. Azure Digital Twins and Azure Data Explorer now seamlessly integrate, allowing you to allow you to contextualize time-series IoT data.
General availability: Azure DevOps updates for June 2021
With this update, we've added a new set of policies which can be used to restrict the scope and lifespan of your organization’s Azure DevOps personal access tokens.
General availability: Turn your phone into an IoT device with the new IoT Plug and Play mobile app
Use the IoT Plug and Play phone app as an IoT device to get started quickly with IoT Central or IoT Hub.
General availability: Azure Cognitive Services Text Analytics for Health
Now generally available, use Text Analytics for Health to detect words and phrases mentioned in unstructured text as entities in the healthcare and biomedical domain.
Azure Container Registry is now available in West US 3
Azure Container Registry is now generally available in West US 3 region. Azure Container Registry handles private Docker container images as well as related content formats, such as Helm charts, OCI artifacts, and images built to the OCI image format specification.
Azure Sphere OS version 21.06 is now generally available
This quality release of the OS includes bug fixes for apps using SPI Flash.
Azure Maps Mobility Services Preview will be retired on 5 October 2021
Target retirement date: October 05, 2021
Transition to Bing Maps Routes API and/or Moovit Public Transit API’s by 5 October 2021
Azure Data Lake Storage Gen1: Account creation will be blocked for new customers starting July 5, 2021
Target retirement date: July 05, 2021
Take advantage of Azure Data Lake Storage Gen 2 for all of your analytic needs after July 5, 2021.
Azure Blob storage—NFS 3.0 protocol support generally available
Target availability: Q1 1980
Azure Blob Storage is the only storage platform that supports NFS 3.0 protocol over object storage natively (no gateway or data copying required), with object storage economics. With multi-protocol support, customers can run their applications on a single storage platform with no application rewrites necessary, therefore eliminating data silos.
Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus) now offers server group restart feature in public preview
The restart server group capability is now available in preview for Hyperscale (Citus) on Azure Database for PostgreSQL, a managed service running the Postgres open-source database on Azure.
General availability: Expansion of credit-based disk bursting to Azure Standard SSDs E30 and smaller
Credit-based disk bursting, which allows you to handle unexpected disk traffic and batch jobs smoothly without the need to overprovision your disk, is now available on Azure Standard SSDs E30 and smaller.
Azure SQL—general availability updates for late June 2021
General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in late June 2021
Azure SQL—public preview updates for late June 2021
Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in late June 2021.
Azure Machine Learning public preview announcements for June 2021.
New features include data scientist built-in role, text classification labeling, and environments UI.
Full text query in diagnostics logs for Azure Cosmos DB in general availability
Use self-serve to enable/disable full text query to deobfuscate your queries in diagnostic logs with the full-text query for Azure Cosmos DB feature.
Azure IoT Edge for Linux now generally available
Leverage existing Windows expertise and seamlessly connect Azure IoT Edge for Linux on Windows devices to Microsoft Azure and quickly bring cloud intelligence to your edge.
Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server: Forced failover in public preview
Forced failover capability is available in preview in all zone redundant regions on Flexible Server for Azure Database for PostgreSQL, a managed service running the open-source Postgres database on Azure.
Azure Key Vault Managed HSM is generally available
Azure Key Vault Managed HSM (hardware security module) is now generally available. Managed HSM offers a fully managed, highly available, single-tenant, high-throughput, standards-compliant cloud service to safeguard cryptographic keys for your cloud applications, using FIPS 140-2 Level 3 validated HSMs.
Public preview of Default Rule Set 2.0 for Azure Web Application Firewall
Increase your security posture and reduce false positives with the Default Rule Set 2.0, now in public preview for Azure Web Application Firewall.
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