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August 2019
Azure Site Recovery update rollup 39—August 2019
This update provides information on recent fixes as well as download links to the latest versions of Site Recovery components.
Global trace flags are now available in Azure SQL Database Managed Instance
You can now enable trace flags on Azure SQL Database Managed Instance to increase compatibility of your Managed Instance Database Engine and SQL Server Database Engine.
Azure Function Consumption plan for Linux is now available
The Azure Functions Consumption hosting plan is now generally available for Linux-based applications.
Python support in Azure Functions is now available
Python support in Azure Functions is now generally available and ready for production workloads.
Just-in-time (JIT) VM access for Azure Firewall is now generally available
Secure your Azure Firewall protected environments, in addition to your NSG protected environments, with just-in-time VM access.
SQL data discovery and classification for Azure SQL Database is now available
SQL data discovery and classification, which provides advanced capabilities built into Azure SQL Database for discovering, classifying, labeling, and protecting sensitive data, is now available.
Same region read replica is now available for Azure Database for MariaDB
Azure Database for MariaDB now supports asynchronous replication of data from one Azure Database for MariaDB server (the ‘master’) to up to five Azure Database for MariaDB servers (the ‘replicas’) in the same region.
New Azure Blockchain SDK updates with Truffle
Work more efficiently with the updated Azure Blockchain Development Kit by using our new interactive debugger.
Help protect large data disks Azure Site Recovery
Protect large data disks of up to 8 TB in size with Azure Site Recovery.
Announcing new lower pricing for Azure Archive Storage
Effective August 1, Azure Archive Storage dropped prices by up to 50% in some regions.
New Copy APIs for efficient data copy in Azure Blob Storage
Introducing a new set of copy APIs to enable efficient data transfer to Azure or inside Azure datacenters.
Azure portal August 2019 feature update
This month, Azure portal has updates to Azure Security Center and a new experience for Azure Migrate.
General availability of Managed Identity for Linux in App Service and Functions
Managed identity support for App Service on Linux and the Azure Functions Linux Consumption Plan is now generally available.
General availability of user-assigned managed identities for App Service and Azure Functions
App Service and Azure Functions support for user-assigned managed identities is now generally available.
Update to Azure SQL Database serverless increases compute scale limits by 4x
We are now announcing the max vcore limit has increased by 4x to 16 vcores and provides greater compute scaling headroom for serverless databases with more demanding workloads.
Microsoft Azure Ultra Disks now generally available
Microsoft Azure Ultra Disks is the new managed disks offering which is now generally available for running data intensive business critical workloads on cloud requiring high IO performance and low latency
New enhancements to Azure Boards are now available
Azure Boards has new items that can help enhance your experience. For example, you can now customize system picklist values such as severity, activity, and priority. In addition, rule support is now available for setting fields to read-only or required based on group membership. Finally, there’s a new extension that will allow you to create cascading picklists on your work item form.
Azure Service Fabric 6.5 Second Refresh Release is Now Available
Azure Service Fabric 6.5 Second Refresh Release rolled out last month with key announcements, along with bug fixes, and performance enhancements.
Service Fabric Azure Resource Manager (ARM) application and service deployment is now generally available
The deployment of Service Fabric applications as resources via Azure Resource Manager is now generally available.
Visual Authoring API for Power BI Embedded now available
The new Power BI Report Authoring SDK extension allows programmatic creation of visuals, binding them to columns, measures, hierarchies, and personalizing them by setting properties like axis visibility and titles.
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