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In development: New planned datacenter region in India (India South Central)
Microsoft has announced plans to bring a new datacenter region to India, including availability zones.
In development: New planned datacenter region in Finland (Finland Central)
Microsoft has announced plans to bring a new datacenter region to Finland, including availability zones.
February 2022
In development: Price sheet download as a zip file
Price sheet download experience update for using Azure in a small business environment.
November 2021
In development: New planned datacenter region in Belgium (Belgium Central)
Microsoft has announced plans to bring a new datacenter region to Belgium, including Availability Zones.
October 2021
Azure NetApp Files Datastores for Azure VMware Solution is coming soon
Azure VMware Solution NFS datastores on Azure NetApp Files is currently in private preview and is coming soon. The solution provides more choice to optimize and scale storage for Azure VMware Solution environments.
July 2021
Free Extended Security Updates only on Azure for Windows Server 2012 /R2and SQL Server 2012
Learn how you can take advantage of free Extended Security only Azure for workloads running on Windows Server 2012/R2 and SQL Server 2012 releases.
June 2021
Call recording for Azure Communication Services coming soon
Call recording for Azure Communication Services helps to simplify and improve the recording process during calls.
Direct routing for Azure Communication Services coming soon
Developers will be able to use or extend their existing telephony infrastructure to the calling capabilities they build with Azure Communication Services.
May 2021
Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server: Azure Free offer coming soon
Beginning in June 2021, enjoy the Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server B1ms compute SKU and 32GB storage free offer for the first 12 months.
Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server: Azure Free offer coming soon
Utilize the B1ms compute SKU and 32GB storage free offer (coming June 2021) on Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server, a managed service running the open source Postgres database.
April 2021
Microsoft announces plans to establish first datacenter region in Malaysia
The new datacenter region is part of the “Bersama Malaysia” initiative to support inclusive economic growth in Malaysia.
March 2021
Azure SQL Managed Instance - A performance optimization change to default settings is coming soon
Target availability: Q2 2021
Upcoming changes to Azure SQL Managed Instance will improve workload performance and reduce unnecessary resource utilization.
New planned datacenter region in China (China North 3)
The new data center region China north 3 will be launched in China in 2022. The new region will have Availability Zones to improve the high availability and tolerance to datacenter failures.
February 2021
Microsoft plans to establish first datacenter region in Indonesia
Microsoft increases its investment in Indonesia’s digital economy, with plans to establish its first datacenter region in the country.
Azure NetApp Files | Volume hard quota change
The Azure NetApp Files behavior of volume and capacity pool provisioning will change to a manual and controllable mechanism beginning March 15th, 2021. This means that application users will have more control over provisioned capacity pool space and associated cost.
New planned datacenter region in Georgia (East US 3)
Microsoft has announced plans to bring a new datacenter region, East US 3, to Georgia, including Availability Zones.
January 2021
99.99% uptime for Azure Active Directory Premium customers is coming April 1st, 2021
SLA for Azure AD is increasing the up-time commitment to 99.99% for Azure AD Premium customers to support the need for an Identity service with high resilience and low interruptions.
Activity Log Alerts - Change in "Description" property in the alert payload now in development
Target availability: Q2 2020
Starting April 1, 2021, the fired alert property "Description“ will contain the alert rule description. A new property “Activity Log Event Description“ added to the Activity Log fired Alert payload that will replace the old property "Description“.
Microsoft to establish new datacenter region in Chile
The new region is anticipated to include Microsoft Azure, with Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365 and Power Platform to follow.
December 2020
Microsoft to establish new datacenter region in Denmark
The new region is anticipated to include Microsoft Azure, with Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365 and Power Platform to follow.
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