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Monthly updates for May 2019

May 31

Web Application Firewall (WAF) for Azure Front Door service is now generally available

NOW AVAILABLE

Web Application Firewall (WAF) for Azure Front Door service is now generally available. Customers can use WAF to define security policies that allow, block, forward or rate limit access to their web applications delivered through Azure Front Door.

  • Azure Front Door (classic)
  • Services
  • Security
  • Features
May 31

Azure Sphere 19.05 Release Unlocks new features in the MT3620

IN PREVIEW

Update 19.05 for Azure Sphere public preview now available in Retail feed

  • Azure Sphere
  • Operating System
  • SDK and Tools
May 31

Azure Monitor for VMs is now available in West US 2

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Monitor for VMs is now available in West US 2. Around the world, it's available in seven public regions.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Virtual Machines
  • Virtual Machine Scale Sets
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Compliance
  • Management
  • Features
May 31

Log Analytics Agent for Linux 1.10 now available

NOW AVAILABLE

The Log Analytics Agent for Linux v1.10 release is available, and contains important stability and reliability improvements.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Management
May 30

Azure Monitor for VMs has a new data set for bound ports

NOW AVAILABLE

The VMBoundPort data set is now available for Azure Monitor for VMs customers in all supported Log Analytics workspace regions, including East US and West Europe.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Virtual Machines
  • Virtual Machine Scale Sets
  • Security
  • Management
  • Features
May 29

Azure Monitor AIOps alerts with Dynamic Thresholds is now generally available

NOW AVAILABLE

With Dynamic Thresholds you no longer need to manually identify and set thresholds for alerts. The alert rule leverages advanced Machine Learning (ML) capabilities to learn metrics' historical behavior, identify patterns and anomalies that indicate possible service issues.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Management
  • Features
May 29

Advanced filtering generally available in Event Grid

NOW AVAILABLE

Event Grid advanced filters are now GA with no restriction on the number of nested keys (e.g. Data.Key1.Key2…KeyN).

  • Event Grid
  • Services
  • Features
May 29

IoT Hub device telemetry events in Event Grid - public preview

IN PREVIEW

IoT Hub expands its capabilities as an event source in Event Grid by enabling subscribing to device telemetry events.

  • Event Grid
  • Azure IoT Hub
  • Services
  • Features
May 29

Events up to 1MB in Event Grid - public preview

IN PREVIEW

Public preview of support for larger events, now up to 1MB.

  • Event Grid
  • Services
  • Features
May 29

Event Grid can now publish events to Service Bus

IN PREVIEW

Service Bus is now available as an event handler in Event Grid.

  • Event Grid
  • Service Bus
  • Services
  • Features
May 29

Geo Disaster Recovery available in Event Grid

NOW AVAILABLE

Automatic server-side geo disaster recovery of metadata in Event Grid is now available on the service.

  • Event Grid
  • Services
  • Security
  • Management
  • Features
May 29

Event Domains generally available in Event Grid

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Domains are now generally available with 100,000 topics per domain.

  • Event Grid
  • Services
May 29

Azure Container Registry—Helm 3 support is now in preview

IN PREVIEW

Helm 3 support is now in preview. This update brings support for storing Helm 3 charts, the next version of Helm, which brings an improved security model, and a new Lua based scripting engine.

  • Azure Container Registry
  • Features
May 29

Azure Container Registry—Open Container Initiative (OCI) new artifact registry types supported (in preview)

IN PREVIEW

Azure Container Registry –OCI new artifact registry types support is now in preview.

  • Azure Container Registry
  • Features
  • Open Source
May 29

Azure Mv2 Virtual Machines offering up to 6 TB memory are now generally available

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Mv2-series virtual machines offering up to 208 vCPU in 3TB and 6 TB memory configurations are now available in US East and US East 2 regions. Mv2 VMs are certified by SAP for SAP HANA OLTP and OLAP production workloads.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Services
May 29

Adaptive network hardening in Azure Security Center is now available

NOW AVAILABLE

With the adaptive network hardening feature, Security Center learns the network traffic and connectivity patterns of your Azure workloads and provides you with NSG rule recommendations for your internet facing virtual machines.

  • Microsoft Defender for Cloud
  • Security
May 29

Azure API Management Consumption Tier is now generally available

NOW AVAILABLE

Starting on May 29, 2019, the Consumption Tier of Azure API Management, will be generally available in the same six regions as it was during the preview.

  • API Management
  • Features
May 29

Azure NetApp Files is now generally available

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure NetApp Files, an Azure first-party service, is a powerful file-storage service to run your most demanding file workloads in Azure, without the need for any code modification.

  • Azure Migrate
  • SAP HANA on Azure Large Instances
  • Azure Files
  • Services
  • Features
May 29

Integration service environments (ISE) are now generally available

NOW AVAILABLE

With the general availability of integration service environments, we’ve made several improvements from preview to give your Logic Apps more power when running in an ISE.

  • Logic Apps
  • Features
May 29

Azure App Configuration is now available in preview

IN PREVIEW

Azure App Configuration provides a service to centrally manage application settings and helps secure their accesses. In addition, it helps developers to ship code faster by being able to easily “flight” their features in production using feature flags.

  • App Service
  • Virtual Machines
  • App Configuration
  • Services
  • Security

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