Azure updates

Understand Kubernetes cluster health with Azure Monitor for containers

Azure Monitor for containers can now monitor and report health status of Kubernetes cluster infrastructure components and all nodes running on any Kubernetes cluster.

• Azure Monitor

Monitor Azure Red Hat OpenShift Kubernetes clusters with Azure Monitor for containers

We are now supporting in public preview monitoring for Azure Red Hat OpenShift Kubernetes clusters in Azure Monitor for containers.

• Azure Monitor

HPC Specialized VMs (GPU) - NVv4-Series in preview

NVv4-Series VMs are now available in preview in South Central US and West Europe regions

• Virtual Machines

Azure Media Services now supports Live Transcription in preview

Azure Media Services provides a platform which you can use to ingest, transcode, and dynamically package and encrypt your live video for delivery. Live Transcriptions is a new feature in the Azure Media Services v3 APIs, wherein you can enhance the streams delivered to your viewers with machine-generated text that is transcribed from spoken words in the audio feed.

• Media Services
• Video Indexer

Enhanced observability for event-driven applications with Azure Event Grid now in preview

Azure Event Grid now integrates with Azure Monitor alerts.

• Event Grid
• Azure Monitor

Publish to Azure Active Directory protected endpoints from Azure Event Grid now in preview

Azure Event Grid can now publish events to AAD protected endpoints

• Event Grid
• Azure Active Directory
• Security

Batch delivery in Azure Event Grid for high-throughput scenarios now in preview

Azure Event Grid subscriptions can now be configured to publish events to your endpoints in batches (and not only individually) in order to handle more efficiently high-throughput scenarios.

• Event Grid

HPC Specialized VMs - HB and HC-series

Azure HB & HC Virtual Machines expand to new regions

• Virtual Machines

New Azure policies to manage certificates across your organization, currently in preview

Large organizations have thousands of certificates in key vaults distributed across thousands of applications and subscriptions.

• Key Vault
• Security

Extension of Customer Lockbox for Microsoft Azure beyond virtual machines

Customer Lockbox provides customers the capability to control Azure support engineers' access to workloads that contain customer data This expanded support now provides customers control over access to their data for a larger set of Azure offerings.

• Security Center
• Security

Threat Protection for Azure Key Vault in Public Preview in North America Regions

Azure Key Vault is an essential service for protecting data and improving performance of cloud applications by offering the ability to centrally manage keys, secrets, cryptographic keys and policies in the cloud.

• Security Center
• Security

Threat Protection for Azure Storage includes Malware Reputation Screening

You can now view detected malware across storage accounts using Azure Security Center.

• Security Center
• Security

Azure Container Registry repository-scoped RBAC permissions are now in preview

Announcing the public preview of repository-scoped RBAC permissions for Azure Container Registry (ACR).

• Container Registry

Azure Container Registry—Diagnostic logs are now in preview

Diagnostic logs for Azure Container Registry are now in preview.

• Container Registry

Migrate SQL Server databases for Windows users to SQL managed instance

Support is now available in preview for T-SQL Data Definition Language (DDL) for Windows users and groups migrating from SQL Server databases to SQL managed instance with Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) authentication.

• Azure SQL Database

Azure CDN Standard Rules Engine preview update

Portal support for Azure CDN Standard rules engine is now available as part of the preview.

• Content Delivery Network

Enforce artifact policies for Azure Pipelines - Preview

Azure Pipelines allows the creation and enforcement of artifact policies that will help tracing an artifact from source control to production. Available in preview.

• Azure DevOps

Azure Shared Image Gallery now supports specialized images in preview

Azure Shared Image Gallery now supports specialized images in preview. This feature enables you to create specialized image versions using multiple snapshots (OS disk and data disks).

• Virtual Machines

Native Azure Active Directory authentication support in point-to-site VPN

Target availability: Q4 2019

Native Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) authentication support for OpenVPN protocol, and Azure VPN Client for Windows are now available.

• VPN Gateway
• Security