Azure updates

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) now supports Windows Server containers

Use managed Kubernetes for all of your workloads whether they’re in Windows, Linux or both.

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Features

Update 19.05 for Azure Sphere public preview now available for evaluation

The Azure Sphere public preview 19.05 feature release is available today via the Retail Evaluation feed. The regular Retail OS feed will continue to deliver version 19.04; we plan to upgrade it to 19.05 in two weeks.

• Azure Sphere
• Operating System

Read replica across regions for Azure database services for MySQL and PostgreSQL

Cross-region asynchronous replication is now in preview for Azure Database for MySQL and Azure Database for PostgreSQL.

• Azure Database for PostgreSQL
• Azure Database for MySQL
• Features

Azure Monitor BUILD 2019 updates

Azure Monitor is launching a number of exciting features including end to end AKS monitoring, granular RBAC for logs, intelligent and scalable alerts, a new application change analysis capability and more.

• Azure Monitor
• Features
• Microsoft Build

New networking features for App Service Linux are now in preview

New networking capabilities to enable Linux apps to access resources securely are now available in preview.

• App Service
• Features
• Microsoft Build

Durable Functions now supports a new stateful entities pattern

Durable Functions now supports a new stateful entities pattern, enabling you to build stateful Azure Functions that map to an actor.

• Azure Functions
• Features
• Microsoft Build
• Services

Azure Cosmos DB API for etcd in preview

With a wire-protocol compatible API for etcd on top of Azure Cosmos DB, developers will automatically get highly reliable, globally distributed and highly available Kubernetes and K8 tools with no code changes or management required.

• Azure Cosmos DB
• Features
• Microsoft Build

IoT Plug and Play announcement at Build

Today we’re announcing IoT Plug and Play, which is based on an open modeling language that allows developers to connect IoT devices to the cloud without having to write any code.

• Azure IoT Hub
• Azure IoT Edge
• Azure IoT Central
• Microsoft Build

Azure Cost Management multi-cloud for AWS is in preview

Now you can manage your AWS spend along your Azure spend in Azure Cost Management

• Cost Management
• Management
• Microsoft Build

Azure AD admin roles for B2C are in public preview

Target availability: Q2 2019

Announcing the public preview of new B2C Azure AD administrator roles for B2C tenants.

• Azure Active Directory B2C
• Management

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BYOS images now available

Red Hat Enterprise Linux images are now available as both BYOS and PAYG offers.

• Virtual Machines
• Red Hat Linux
• Linux Virtual Machines
• Microsoft Build
• Open Source
• Operating System
• Pricing & Offerings

Announcing Ephemeral OS Disk in Public Preview

We are happy to announce Ephemeral OS disk in Public Preview. Ephemeral OS disks work well for stateless workloads, where applications are tolerant of individual VM failures and are more concerned about the time it takes to deploy at scale or to reimage the individual VMs.

• Managed Disks
• Virtual Machines
• Virtual Machine Scale Sets
• Features

Inline Code for Azure Logic Apps is in preview

Committed to meet customers where they are, the new Inline code feature enables developers to write and execute simple ECMAScript (also known as JavaScript) right from within Logic Apps.

• Logic Apps
• Features
• Microsoft Build
• Services

RosettaNet connector and standard support is now in preview

Logic Apps provides the ability to send and receive RosettaNet based messages through RosettaNet connector, which supports the operations to decode or receive and encode or send messages.

• Features
• Microsoft Build
• Services

Adaptive network hardening - now in public preview

Adaptive network hardening is now in public preview

• Security Center
• Features
• Security
• Services

Azure Container Instances Windows Server 2019 container support is now in preview

Azure Container Instances (ACI) now supports Windows Server 2019 based containers in public preview

• Azure Container Service
• Features
• Microsoft Build

Public Preview of Azure Data Explorer capabilities to integrate deeper with ADLS Gen 2

At Build, Azure Data Explorer will preview the capability for enterprises to query data from ADLS Gen 2 without ingesting data

• Azure Data Explorer
• Features
• Microsoft Build
• Services

Public Preview of tighter integration of Azure Data Explorer with Python and Spark

Spark connector for Azure Data Explorer and ability to run inline Python and R as part of the query.

• Azure Data Explorer
• Microsoft Build
• Open Source

New series of Azure Bot Framework enhancements now available

Azure Bot Service, built on Microsoft Bot Framework, makes it easier to develop bots and intelligent agents. New enhancements include: Adaptive dialogs enable developers to create more sophisticated, dynamic conversations.

• Azure Bot Service
• Microsoft Build

New features for Azure Machine Learning are now in preview

Features include:​ Open Datasets - Open Datasets are a collection of datasets from the public domain to accelerate the development of machine learning models built in Azure. Open Datasets integrates with Machine Leaning Studio or can be accessed from python notebooks in Azure Machine Learning Service.

• Azure Machine Learning service
• Microsoft Build