Updates Archives
Monthly updates for October 2018
M-Series VMs are now available in East Asia regions
Azure M-Series virtual machines are now available in the East Asia regions.
M-Series VMs are now available in Canada Central and Canada East regions
Azure M-Series virtual machines are now available in the Canada Central and Canada East regions.
Now available: Azure Media Services v3 API
Several enhancements have been made to Media Services, including the availability of the new Azure Media Services API and updates to Azure Media Player.
Power BI service update
The latest update to the Power BI service includes new and exciting capabilities including the public preview of petabyte-scale aggregations built on composite models.
What's new for PowerShell in Azure Cloud Shell
The new release of PowerShell in Cloud Shell is fast, portable, and offers open-source capabilities.
Power BI Desktop October update
The October 2018 update for Power BI Desktop includes support in the Power BI service for both our composite model and aggregation previews.
Approve and audit support access requests to VMs using Customer Lockbox for Azure
Customer Lockbox for Microsoft Azure helps customers control and audit a Microsoft support engineer’s access to compute workloads on Azure that may contain customer data.
Apache Spark jobs gain up to nine times speed improvement with HDInsight IO Cache
Achieve up to a nine times performance improvement in the speed of Apache Spark jobs with Azure HDInsight IO Cache, now in preview.
Azure App Service Deployment Center now available
Azure App Service Deployment Center is now available. The Deployment Center is a centralized overview for all the deployment methods supported by your app and a guided experience for configuring Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment.
Archive Storage is now available in three new regions
Archive Storage is now available in three additional Azure regions including US Gov VA, US Gov TX, and US Gov AZ.
Azure App Service new Virtual Network Integration capability is in preview
VNet Integration capability with Azure App Service is in preview.
Azure Container Instances custom Virtual Network support is in preview
With Virtual Network support, Azure Container Instances now supports deploying containers to new or existing Azure virtual networks. Azure Container Instances containers can have secure communication with other resources, such as Azure Kubernetes Service clusters, residing in the same virtual network.
Azure SignalR Service is now available
Azure SignalR Service is now Generally Available. Build real-time web experiences without worrying about hosting, scalability, load balancing, or authentication.
Azure SQL Database managed instance business critical tier
The business-critical performance tier will be generally available for Azure SQL Database Managed Instance on December 1, 2018. Save up to 80 percent off the license-included full price when you apply Azure Hybrid Benefit for SQL Server and reserved capacity pricing.
Azure Event Grid, Advanced filtering - Public Preview
Data payload attributes filtering is now available on Event Grid, so you can do events filtering before processing them.
App Service sites running Python 3.4.1 being updated to Python 3.6.6
Starting on November 12 and running through December 15, Azure App Service hosted on Windows will upgrade all Python sites running Python 3.4.1 to instead run Python 3.6.6.
General availability: Azure Kubernetes Service in UK West
Azure Kubernetes Service is now generally available in the UK West region, bringing the number of regions for the service to 14.
Azure API Management update October 24
Learn about the latest regular update to Azure API Management.
US Government Bandwidth Data Transfer In and Out GUID migration
Effective December 1, 2018, the resource GUIDs for Azure Bandwidth Data Transfer In and Out US Government will change.
SQL Database Managed Instance Business Critical GUID changes
Effective December 1, 2018, resource GUIDs for Azure SQL Database Managed Instance Business Critical will change to simplify billing practices.
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