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November 2019
Scan container images for vulnerabilities in Azure Security Center
Azure Security Center can now scan container images in Azure Container Registry for vulnerabilities. The image scanning works by parsing the container image file, then checking to see whether there are any known vulnerabilities (powered by Qualys).
Threat Protection for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Support in Security Center
Security Center is expanding its support in the container space to one of the fastest growing services in Azure - Azure Kubernetes Service.
Vulnerability assessment in Azure Security Center
Applications that are installed in virtual machines could often have vulnerabilities that could lead to a breach of the virtual machine. We are announcing that the Security Center Standard tier includes built-in vulnerability assessment for virtual machines for no additional fee.
Extending Azure Security Center coverage with platform for community and partners
To support Security Center’s fast growth in the marketplace and meet our customers’ demands around threat protection, cloud security posture and enterprise scale deployment and automation, our team delivered on many new capabilities, as well as worked with some new partners that are part of the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association.
Advanced data security for SQL servers on Azure Virtual Machines
Azure Security Center’s support for threat protection and vulnerability assessment for SQL DBs running on IaaS virtual machines (VMs) is now in preview
Azure Security Center—Support for custom policies
Azure Security Center now supports custom policies (in preview). Our customers have been wanting to extend their current security assessments coverage in Security Center with their own security assessments based on policies that they create in Azure Policy. With support for custom policies, this is now possible.
Azure Security Center—Advanced integrations with export of recommendations and alerts
In order to enable enterprise level scenarios on top of Security Center, it’s now possible to consume Security Center alerts and recommendations in additional places except the Azure portal or API.
Serial Console for Azure Government Cloud is coming
Azure Serial Console is coming to Government Cloud, with the same functionality and same GUI.
Azure Monitor Logs—Stream every type of activity log for your subscription
Using the new subscription diagnostic settings, it’s now possible to stream every type of activity log for your subscription to Azure Monitor Logs, Event Hub, and Azure Storage.
Azure Monitor—Application change analysis updates
A number of new capabilities for Azure Monitor application change analysis have been added, including at scale onboarding, richer diagnostics, impact analysis and more new features.
Updates to profiler and tracing capabilities in Azure Monitor Application Insights
The ability to specify CPU and memory thresholds for the Application Insights Profiler is now available, so you now have better control of when to collect traces.
New Azure Monitor Application Insights agent is now available
For customers who have ASP.NET applications hosted on Azure Virtual Machines running IIS, we’re adding a new “codeless” onboarding method that uses an agent and doesn’t require access to the code.
Troubleshoot network issues faster with Azure Monitor
The network insights feature (in preview) in Azure Monitor provides a single dashboard that gives you visibility into network topology, dependencies, health, and other key metrics for related network resources.
Live performance metrics and live deployments in Azure Monitor for containers
The ability to see live performance metrics and live deployments in Azure Monitor for containers for your Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster is now available. Together with the live events and live logs features, you can get a near real-time performance and health view of your AKS cluster and troubleshoot issues faster.
Easily test pull request changes in the context of broader applications
With the Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Dev Spaces, and GitHub Actions pull request flow, you can easily test your pull request changes in the context of a broader application. Automatically create review apps before any changes are merged into the repo's main branch.
Dev Spaces connect for Azure Kubernetes Service is now in preview
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) now enables you to use Dev Spaces to run and debug a service(s) locally, while still being able to connect to the other services and resources it depends on in the cloud as if it was running in the Kubernetes cluster.
Azure Arc enabled API Management is now available in preview
Azure Arc enabled API Management allows customers to leverage a self-hosted API gateway, that expands API Management support for hybrid and multi-cloud environments and enables Azure customers to efficiently and securely manage APIs hosted on-premises and across clouds from a single API Management service in Azure.
Azure Internet Analyzer is now in preview
Internet Analyzer is now available in preview. It delivers data-driven performance reporting across multiple endpoints for internet app and content migration and delivery.
Azure Time Series Insights—New capabilities to derive more insights from IoT data
Azure Time Series Insights has new capabilities that will help organizations to derive insights from their IoT data. Building upon our extensive analytic capabilities and rich visualizations, the new features in Time Series Insights will help companies detect and diagnose anomalies and drive operational efficiency with IoT data.
Easier diagnostics and logging with Azure Kubernetes Service is now in preview
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)diagnostics help you troubleshoot and diagnose problems with your AKS clusters.
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