Updates Archives
Monthly updates for March 2018
General availability: Azure Network Watcher Connection Monitor in all public regions
Use Azure Network Watcher Connection Monitor to monitor and troubleshoot connectivity from an Azure virtual machine to anywhere.
General availability: Application security groups in all Azure regions
Application security groups are generally available in all Azure public cloud regions. This feature provides security micro-segmentation for your virtual networks in Azure.
General availability: Zone-redundant storage
Simplify development of highly available applications by storing three replicas of your data in different Availability Zones with zone-redundant storage.
General availability: Azure Availability Zones in select regions
Build highly available applications with a 99.99% virtual machine SLA on Azure Availability Zones, now generally available in select regions in the US and Europe.
March update for Azure IoT Edge
The March update for Azure IoT Edge contains improvements to the runtime, documentation, and tooling.
Public preview: Event Hubs for Go
You can now integrate Azure Event Hubs in your Go applications by using the new Event Hubs package for Go.
Azure SDK for Go v15 is available
Version 15.0.0 of the Azure SDK for Go has been tagged.
Public preview: Soft delete for Azure Storage blobs
Soft delete for Azure Storage Blobs is in public preview. The feature is one part of a complete data protection strategy and can help prevent inadvertent data loss.
Get community-driven Docker images for Web App for Containers
On GitHub, you can now find community-driven Docker images to try out on Web App for Containers.
Public preview: Virtual machine serial console
Virtual machine serial console is now in public preview. This feature allows bidirectional serial console access to your virtual machine.
Power BI Embedded Query Parameters API
The Query Parameters API for Power BI Embedded enables developers to dynamically change the values of parameters and automate the process of working with them.
Data Factory supports Azure AD authentication for SQL Database and SQL Data Warehouse
Azure Data Factory V2 supports Azure AD authentication for Azure SQL Database and SQL Data Warehouse, as an alternative to SQL Server authentication.
Azure France Central and France South regions now generally available
Azure regions in France Central and France South are now generally available.
Azure Database for MySQL and Azure Database for PostgreSQL are now generally available
Azure Database for PostgreSQL and Azure Database for MySQL are now generally available with an uptime SLA of 99.99 percent.
General availability: Azure Scheduled Events
Azure Scheduled Events helps you react to maintenance events...before they happen.
General availability: Standard Load Balancer
Azure Standard Load Balancer is now generally available in all regions.
General availability: Disable BGP route propagation for virtual network routes
If you're connecting your virtual network by using Azure ExpressRoute or VPN gateways, you can disable routing through BGP by simply adding a property in your route tables.
Public preview: Azure DNS Private Zones
Azure DNS Private Zones is in public preview. This feature enables customers to host DNS zones within their virtual networks, and it enables name resolution within and across virtual networks.
App Service BizTalk Hybrid Connections: end of life on May 31, 2018
BizTalk Hybrid Connections will reach end of life on May 31, 2018. To avoid problems, you should migrate from BizTalk Hybrid Connections to the new Azure Relay–based Hybrid Connections.
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