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Juli 2019
Cognitive Services Speech US Gov Resource GUID Change
Effective September 2, 2019, the Resource GUIDs (also known as Meter IDs) of Custom Speech endpoint hosting in Speech Services for US Gov region will change.
Azure portal July 2019 feature update
This month, Azure portal updates include updates to Azure Security Center, the ability to use ephemeral OS disks on Azure VMs, sending Windows diagnostics data to Azure Monitor and more.
Premium Blob now supports Blob Lifecycle Management
Premium Blob now supports policy-based object deletion.
Azure Monitor Log Analytics UI updates – June 2019
We are excited and happy to share with you our latest updates and improvements to the Log Analytics UI!1. Log Analytics dashboard picker Log Analytics dashboards can visualize all of your saved log…
Azure Site Recovery: Support released for large disks (up to 8 TB)
You can now protect large data disks of up to 8 TB in size with Azure Site Recovery.
Location telemetry support in IoT Central is now available
We have added support for location telemetry that lights up scenarios such as asset track and trace, connected logistics, and more!
The recommendation and policy to enable encryption of storage account have been removed
Azure Storage is encrypted by default and cannot be un-encrypted, therefore the recommendation and policy has been removed.
Azure Security Center launched new network recommendations
There are new and updated Azure Security Center networking recommendations.
Introducing promotional pricing for the Basic Linux App Service Plan
We’re excited to introduce a promotional price on the Basic app service plan for Linux, which depending on regional meters in your datacenter of choice, leads to a 66 percent price drop! In addition, we are also now offering a free App Service Plan for Linux, making starting out on App Service easier than ever!
Microsoft adds new features to IPv6 support for Azure VNets
IPv6 for Azure VNETs enables you to expand into the growing mobile and IoT markets with your Azure-based applications and to address IPv4 depletion in your own networks.
Update 19.07 for Azure Sphere public preview now available for evaluation
The Azure Sphere public preview 19.07 quality release is now available via the Retail Evaluation feed. The Retail Evaluation feed will provide the new OS for 14 days before we release it to the Retail feed. It is meant for backwards compatibility testing.
One Click Integration with Stream Analytics from Event Hubs
With just 1 click, Event Hubs customers can easily visualize incoming streaming data and start writing Stream Analytics query from the Event Hubs portal.
Pattern Matching Function is now available in Stream Analytics
With the new MATCH_RECOGNIZE function, developers can easily define event patterns using regular expressions and aggregate methods to verify and extract values from the match.
Stream Analytics supports output to Azure Data Lake Storage Gen 2
Azure Stream Analytics now offers output adapter for egress to Azure Data Lake Storage Gen 2.
Stream Analytics offers native support for Parquet format
Azure Stream Analytics now offers native support for Apache Parquet format when writing to Azure Blob storage or Azure Data Lake Storage Gen 2.
Analytics as aggregates is now available in Stream Analytics
Developers can now use aggregates such as SUM, COUNT, AVG, MIN and MAX directly with the OVER clause, without having to define a window.
Authenticate Stream Analytics egress to Azure Blob Storage using managed identities
Now you can authenticate Stream Analytics egress to Azure Blob Storage using managed identities.
Network Performance Monitor is Generally Available in Central India
Network Performance Monitor is now available in Central India region.
Azure Resource Graph is now generally available
Azure Resource Graph, which enables exploration of your resources at scale, is now generally available for all Azure customers.
Introducing the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure
The Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure provides end-to-end guidance, best practices, documentation, and tools that cloud architects, IT professionals, and business decision makers need to successfully achieve their objectives.
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