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September 2019
Azure SQL Database—Auto-failover groups feature now available in all regions
The Auto-failover groups feature of Azure SQL Database is now available for managed instance deployments in all regions.
Azure Monitor for Azure Virtual Machines is now available in additional regions
Azure Monitor for Azure Virtual Machines is now available in Japan East, North Europe, and East US2.
Service Map feature of Azure Monitor is now available in additional regions
The Service Map feature of Azure Monitor is now available in Japan East, North Europe, and East US2.
Copy Activity in Azure Data Factory supports creating a destination table automatically
Load data faster with new support from the Copy Activity feature in Azure Data Factory. Now, if you’re trying to copy data from an on-premises source into Azure and find that the destination table doesn’t exist, Copy Activity will create it automatically.
Azure Data Factory now supports copying data into Azure Database for MySQL
Azure Data Factory now supports copying data into Azure Database for MySQL. Use the Copy Activity feature to load data into Azure Database for MySQL from any supported data sources.
Public Preview - Video Indexer Multilingual identification and transcription
Automatic spoken language identification leverages machine learning technology to identify the different languages used in a media asset.
Public Preview - Video Indexer Animated Character Detection
Azure Media Services Video Indexer supports detection, grouping, and recognition of characters in animated content.
Egress lockdown in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is now generally available
Achieve additional security by restricting outbound (egress) traffic for cluster nodes to a limited number of ports and addresses.
Interface Endpoints For SQL DB
Interface endpoints for SQL Database is a new capability that enables customers to connect privately to Azure PaaS services within customer virtual networks, providing direct connectivity from their workloads using isolated traffic to specific resources.
Azure Lab Services now supports new GPU Virtual Machine sizes
Azure Lab Services now supports two new 6-core GPU Virtual Machine sizes.
Announcing Azure Private Link Preview
Azure Private Link is a secure and scalable way for Azure customers to consume 1st party Azure Services (e.g. Storage, SQL, Cosmos DB, etc.) or 3rd party services (e.g. Partner Service, BYOS, etc.) privately from within their VNet.
Azure Kubernetes Service is now available in Azure Government
Azure Governments customers can now build Kubernetes applications on Azure Kubernetes Service in a dedicated cloud that meets stringent government security and compliance requirements.
Azure Advisor alerts are now in preview
Get your Azure best practice recommendations as soon as they become available with Azure Advisor user-configured alerts, now available in preview.
A preview upgrade for Azure DevTest Labs Tasks extension is now available
We recently released a preview upgrade for the Azure DevTest Labs Tasks.
Audit logging on Azure Database for PostgreSQL is now in preview
Audit logging on Azure SQL Database for PostgreSQL via PGAudit is now available in preview. Produce audit logs of events including writes, reads, role changes, and DDL with the audit extension.
M-series virtual machines (VMs) are now available in the Germany West region
Azure M-series VMs are now available in the Germany West region. M-series VMs offer configurations with memory from 192 GB to 3.8 TiB (4 TB) RAM and are certified for SAP HANA.
M-series virtual machines VMs are now available in the Switzerland West and Switzerland North regions
Azure M-series VMs are now available in the Switzerland West and Switzerland North regions. M-series VMs offer configurations with memory from 192 GB to 3.8 TiB (4 TB) RAM and are certified for SAP HANA.
Azure HPC Cache is now in preview
Azure HPC Cache, a high-performance file cache with an aggregated namespace that reduces latency between storage and Azure compute for heavy read workloads, is now in preview.
M-series virtual machines (VMs) are now available in the Germany North region
Azure M-series VMs are now available in the Germany North region. M-series VMs offer configurations with memory from 192 GB to 3.8 TiB (4 TB) RAM and are certified for SAP HANA.
Auto-failover for managed instances in Azure SQL Database is now available
Now generally available, auto-failover groups enable business continuity after a catastrophic failure or other unplanned event by creating and managing a geographically redundant copy of a managed instance.
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