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Monthly updates for October 2019

Oct 29

The unique identifier for your Azure billing account has changed

NOW AVAILABLE

Your billing account’s unique identifier, which is used to identify your billing relationship with Microsoft, has changed. This change only affects accounts under the Microsoft Customer Agreement with Microsoft—it doesn’t impact other agreements like Enterprise Agreement.

  • SDK and Tools
  • Features
Oct 28

Azure API Management update—October 2019, #2

NOW AVAILABLE

A regular Azure API Management service update started on October 25, 2019, and included the following new features, bug fixes, changes, and improvements. We deploy updates gradually and it takes over a week for every active API Management service instance to receive them.

  • API Management
  • Features
Oct 28

Azure Monitor's Service Map is now available in South Central US, West US, Central US, North Central US, East Asia, and Central India

NOW AVAILABLE

The Service Map feature of Azure Monitor is now available in South Central US, West US, Central US, North Central US, East Asia, and Central India, so it's now available in eighteen public regions around the world.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Virtual Machines
  • Virtual Machine Scale Sets
  • Azure Service Fabric
  • Cloud Services
  • Regions & Datacenters
Oct 28

Azure Monitor for VMs is now available in South Central US, West US, Central US, North Central US, East Asia, and Central India regions

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Monitor for VMs is now available in South Central US, West US, Central US, North Central US, East Asia, and Central India. It's available around the world in eighteen public regions.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Virtual Machines
  • Virtual Machine Scale Sets
  • Azure Service Fabric
  • Cloud Services
  • Regions & Datacenters
Oct 28

New Azure IoT Central features available

NOW AVAILABLE

At IoT Solutions World Congress, we are excited to announce several new Azure IoT Central features designed to help solution builders take their IoT projects from proof of concept to production level.

  • Azure IoT Central
  • Features
Oct 28

Event Grid on IoT Edge is now available in preview

IN PREVIEW

Azure Event Grid is now available on Azure IoT Edge

  • Event Grid
  • Azure IoT Edge
  • Services
  • Features
Oct 25

Azure Mv2-series VMs with 12TB memory now GA in US West 2, US East & US East 2 regions

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Mv2-series Virtual Machines offering 416 vCPU and 12TB memory configurations are now generally available in the US West 2, US East and US East 2 regions. Mv2-series VMs are certified by SAP for SAP HANA OLTP and OLAP production workloads.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Services
Oct 25

Azure Mv2-series VMs offering up to 12TB memory are now GA in the Southeast Asia Region

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Mv2-series Virtual Machines offering up to 416 vCPU in 3TB, 6TB and 12TB memory configurations are now generally available in the Southeast Asia region. Mv2-series VMs are certified by SAP for SAP HANA OLTP and OLAP production workloads.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Services
Oct 25

Azure Mv2-series VMs offering up to 12TB memory are now GA in EU West and EU North regions

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Mv2-series Virtual Machines offering up to 416 vCPU in 3TB, 6TB and 12TB memory configurations are now generally available In the EU West and EU North regions. Mv2-series VMs are certified by SAP for SAP HANA OLTP and OLAP production workloads.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Services
Oct 24

Azure API for FHIR and Our Growing Ecosystem of Partners

NOW AVAILABLE

When building an end-to-end solution around Azure API for FHIR you may need the help of a partner. A list of partners with unique IP or with experience building with Azure API for FHIR has been curated for you.

  • Features
Oct 24

IoT Hub device streams new preview regions

IN PREVIEW

IoT Hub device streams is now also available in North Europe and Southeast Asia in preview

  • Azure IoT Hub
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Services
Oct 23

Update 19.10 for Azure Sphere public preview now available for evaluation

IN PREVIEW

The Azure Sphere public preview 19.10 quality release is now available via the retail evaluation feed. The retail evaluation is meant for backwards compatibility testing. Use the retail evaluation feed to verify production-signed applications against the new release before we deploy it broadly on the retail feed.

  • Azure Sphere
  • Operating System
Oct 23

Azure Service Fabric 6.5 fifth refresh release

NOW AVAILABLE

The Azure Service Fabric 6.5 fifth refresh release includes bug fixes and performance enhancements.

  • Management
  • SDK and Tools
  • Features
Oct 23

Azure Cost Management features in development—October 2019

IN DEVELOPMENT

New Azure Cost Management features are currently in development and should be available in the next few months.

  • Features
Oct 23

Changes are coming to the Azure Sphere SDK in the next release

IN PREVIEW

The next release of the Azure Sphere SDK will bring significant enhancements in response to great feedback from the community.

  • Azure Sphere
  • SDK and Tools
  • Features
Oct 23

Azure Monitor meter name changes

NOW AVAILABLE

Effective December 1, 2019, the meter names of Azure Monitor custom metrics will change.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Services
  • Pricing & Offerings
Oct 23

Batch API for Blob Storage

Batch API for Azure Blob Storage preview simplifies development of your applications that make several concurrent API requests to Blob storage. Batch API reduces the number of connections a client has to open, manage and distribute the requests to by allowing multiple API calls to be embedded into a single HTTP request. Currently the API supports two types of sub-requests: SetBlobTier for Block Blobs and DeleteBlob, with more requests to follow. This API is available starting version 2018-11-09.

  • Azure Blob Storage
  • SDK and Tools
Oct 21

Virtual Machines Dav3 Eav3 meter name changes

Starting December 1, 2019, some meter names of the Virtual Machines Eav3/Easv3 and Dav3/Dasv3 series will change.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Services
Oct 21

Process Automation Watcher meter ID changes

NOW AVAILABLE

Starting December 1, 2019, the meter IDs for Process Automation Watcher will change.

  • Automation
  • Services
  • Pricing & Offerings
Oct 21

VNet Gateway meter name changes

NOW AVAILABLE

Effective December 1, 2019, the meter names of VNet Gateway standard, high performance, and ultra high performance will change. There won't be a pricing impact from this change, but you will need to modify billing routines that rely on names.

  • VPN Gateway
  • Security
  • Services
  • Pricing & Offerings

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