Updates Archives
Monthly updates for February 2022
General availability: Azure Sphere version 22.02
The 22.02 release includes new and changed features in the OS and the SDK.
General availability: Asset certification in Azure Purview data catalog
Data stewards can now certify assets that meet their organization's quality standards in the Azure Purview data catalog
General availability: Azure Cosmos DB API for MongoDB supports version 4.2
Target availability: Q1 2022
Utilize new aggregation pipeline functionality and client-side field encryption with Azure Cosmos DB API for MongoDB version 4.2.
General availability: Azure Red Hat OpenShift support for OpenShift 4.9
Benefit from new features and enhancements in OpenShift release 4.9.
Generally available: Updated navigation menu in Azure IoT Central
The Azure IoT Central navigation menu has been updated to make it easier to find product capabilities. Pages have been re-ordered, re-grouped, and re-named to align with common tasks.
Generally available: Utilize multiple backups per day for Azure Files in Azure Backup
Target availability: Q1 2022
The feature that allows you to configure multiple backups per day for Azure Files via backup policy is now generally available.
Public preview: Azure Spring Cloud Enterprise
Azure Spring Cloud Enterprise includes fully managed VMware Tanzu components to help you ship faster as well as long term support for Spring projects to unlock Spring’s full potential.
Public preview: Elastic and Azure Spring Cloud integration
Monitor every step of your cloud journey with the integration of Azure Spring Cloud logs and metrics into Elastic and instrument Spring Boot applications.
Generally available: Azure NetApp Files new region and cross-region replication
Azure NetApp Files is now available in an additional Australia region and supports a new cross-region replication pair.
Public preview: Azure NetApp Files - application consistent snapshot tool v5.1
Application consistent snapshot tool is a command-line tool for simplifying data protection for third-party databases in Linux environments.
Public preview: WordPress enhancements for App Service
Improvements include a new image, multiple hosting plans, better performance, and simplified configuration.
Generally available: Direct enterprise agreement on Azure Cost Management and Billing
Manage your enrollment hierarchy, view account usage, and monitor costs directly from the Azure Cost Management and Billing menu on the Azure portal (for direct enterprise agreement customers on commercial cloud).
Generally available: Log Analytics data export in Azure Monitor
Log Analytics data export is ready for production deployments, supporting most tables in Log Analytics workspaces.
General availability: Custom retention for AzureActivity and Usage data tables
Set specific retention periods on AzureActivity and Usage data tables in Log Analytics workspaces, keeping such data for a longer time, while maintaining the workspace retention as low as needed.
Public preview: New capabilities for Azure Monitor logs
Add value and increase cost effectiveness with Azure Monitor logs
Public preview: Cost Management anomaly detection for subscriptions
Azure Cost Management offers subscription cost anomaly detection within the cost analysis preview to raise awareness and help identify unexpected changes in cost.
General availability: Application Gateway mutual authentication
Enable frontend mutual authentication and listener specific SSL policies on Application Gateway, now generally available.
General availability: Localization available in Azure Purview
The Azure Purview UX team has localized Azure Purview studio to 18 languages.
Public preview: Resource configuration changes
Resource configuration changes, a feature enabling the querying of changes to Azure resource configurations across subscriptions, management groups, and tenant, is now in public preview.
Public preview: Cross region virtual machine restore points
Create restore points in any region and copy restore points from one region to another.
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