Updates Archives
Monthly updates for July 2019
The latest update to Azure Sphere (in preview) is now available in the retail feed
The latest Azure Sphere preview quality release is now available via the Retail feed. This update fixes a bug that prevented the deletion of production-signed temporary images. Important—Update your development devices to the latest release no later than August 5, 2019.
Azure Site Recovery update rollup 38 (July 2019)
The latest update rollup for Azure Site Recovery is now available.
Azure DevOps Roadmap update for Q3 of 2019
The engineering team behind Azure DevOps is constantly at work delivering enhancements and new features across our services. We recently added new capabilities at an unprecedented pace for Azure DevOps. The highlights listed below are just a few of the new features coming in the next few months. Visit the DevOps feature timeline for a complete list.
Managed Instance enhances security with network traffic containment within Azure cloud
The network traffic of Azure SQL Database managed instance is now contained within Azure cloud by default. This update enhances the security and prevents exfiltration of data via Internet.
GPU Optimized Visualization VMs now available in South Central US, West US, West Europe and North Europe Azure Regions
NVv3-Series VMs are now available in South Central US, West US, West Europe and North Europe Azure regions.
New features added to Data Factory Mapping Data Flows making schema drift handling easy
New features added to the ADF service this week make handling flexible schemas and schema drift scenarios super easy when construction Mapping Data Flows for data transformation at scale
Azure marketplace charges are now available in Azure Cost Management for Pay-As-You-Go customers!
We are excited to announce a preview release of Azure marketplace charges within our Cost Analysis tool for Pay-As-You-Go customers. As a part of this preview you can now analyze your marketplace charges alongside your Azure service charges within Cost Analysis and reconcile your Azure marketplace invoice using both Cost Analysis and a new usage csv download API.
Azure Security Center launched new SQL recommendations
New SQL related recommendations are now available
Network security group improvements—ICMP support and override default Azure platform considerations
New improvements have been added to network security group (NSG), which filters network traffic to and from various Azure resources—Specify ICMP as the protocol in your NSG rules and override the default Azure platform considerations.
Azure Security Center for IoT now available
Azure Security Center allows you to protect your end-to-end IoT deployment with threat protection that identifies emerging threats and provides you with steps for remediation.
Cognitive Services Form Recognizer Name Changes
Effective September 1, 2019, the meter names of Cognitive Services Form Recognizer Pre-built and Custom will change.
New Analytics reports and Azure Boards app available for Slack
In the Sprint 155 Update of Azure DevOps, we are introducing new Azure Boards reports to make it easier for you to track important team metrics. You will see the new reports under the Analytics tab in the Boards, Backlog and Sprint hubs.
Azure Blob lifecycle management is now available in all Azure regions
Azure Blob lifecycle management is now enhanced with expanded regional availability and intuitive portal experience.
The recommendation for storage access restriction has been retired
The following recommendation has been disabled: Access to storage accounts with firewall and virtual network configurations should be restricted (Preview)
VNet Gateway Standard and High Performance Resource GUID changes
Effective September 1, 2019, the resource GUIDs (also known as meter IDs) for Virtual Network Gateway standard and high performance will change.
Azure Search is now integrated with the Azure Government cloud
Azure Search is now integrated with the Azure Government cloud, enabling U.S. public sector customers to create sophisticated search solutions.
Azure Database for MySQL support for MySQL 8.0 is in preview
Azure Database for MySQL now provides preview support for the latest major version of MySQL, version 8.0.
Azure Mv2-series virtual machines (VMs) offering up to 6 TB of memory are now available for the US West 2 region
Azure Mv2-series virtual machines offering up to 208 vCPU in 3 TB and 6 TB memory configurations are now generally available for the US West 2 region. Mv2 VMs are certified by SAP for SAP HANA OLTP and OLAP production workloads.
Azure Monitor for containers—Prometheus integration is now in preview
Prometheus integration with Azure Monitor for containers is now available in preview.
Azure Lab Services now has a new instance size available—Medium (nested virtualization)
Azure Lab Services now has a new instance size available—Medium (nested virtualization) that’s priced at USD0.55 per hour across all regions (55 lab units per hour).
Updates by date
Get answers to your questions from Microsoft and Community experts.
Community supportRead commonly asked questions on Azure updates.
FAQTell us what you think of Azure and what you want to see in the future.
Provide feedbackAzure is available in more regions than any other cloud provider.
Check product availability in your region