07 Sep September 2021 Azure Updates – Week 1
Get the latest updates on Azure products and features to meet your cloud investment needs.
Sep 1 Azure AD Graph is retiring on 30 June 2022
Update your apps to use Microsoft Graph before 30 June 2022.
Sep 1 Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus): Germany West Central region generally available
Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus) is now available in the Germany West Central region to distribute your Postgres database to horizontally scale queries across multiple machines using sharding.
Sep 1 Public preview: Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server automated intelligent tuning
Intelligent tuning, an automated tuning service, is now available on Flexible Server for Azure Database for PostgreSQL, a managed service running the open-source Postgres database on Azure.
Sep 1 Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus) now supports PostgreSQL 11.12 minor version
PostgreSQL 11.12 is now supported on Hyperscale (Citus) for Azure Database for PostgreSQL, a managed service running the open source Postgres database on Azure.
Sep 1 Azure SQL – Public preview updates for early September 2021
Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL Managed Instance in early September 2021.
Sep 1 Azure SQL – General availability updates for early September 2021
General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL Managed Instance in early September 2021.
Sep 1 General availability: Cross service queries between Azure Monitor and Azure Data Explorer
You can now write cross service queries between Azure Monitor and Azure Data Explorer, to access relevant data where you need it.
Sep 1 Generally available: Azure Monitor support for Availability Zones
Azure Monitor support for Availability Zones (AZ) is now available on West US 2 and East US 2. Currently, only workspaces created on dedicated clusters can have AZ support, by selecting to use Availability Zones when creating the cluster.
Sep 1 General availability: Automatic key rotation of customer-managed keys for encrypting Azure disks
Azure Disk Storage now enables you to automatically rotate keys for encryption of your data.
Sep 1 General availability: Change performance tiers for Azure Premium SSDs with no downtime
Azure Premium SSDs now enables you to change performance tiers without any downtime to your applications.
Sep 1 General availability: Azure App Configuration now offers increased hourly request limit
The limit has increased to 30,000 requests per hour in the Standard tier
Sep 1 Public preview: Monitor Spring Boot applications end-to-end using Dynatrace
Dynatrace OneAgent performance monitoring is now integrated in Azure Spring Cloud in collaboration with Dynatrace for end-to-end observability of Spring Boot applications.
Sep 1 General availability: Enabling Load Balancing for IBM WebSphere on Azure Virtual Machines
IBM WebSphere Application Server (Traditional) Network Deployment on Azure Linux Virtual Machines now includes added load balancing.
Sep 1 Windows Server IoT 2022 now generally available
Get all the latest capabilities including hybrid capabilities with Azure, advanced multilayer security and faster innovation for applications.
Sep 1 Azure SQL Migration extension in Azure Data Studio in public preview
Migrate SQL Server to Azure SQL using Azure Data Studio (preview) for a modern open-source, cross-platform, and hybrid unifying tooling experience for data operations across SQL Server and Azure databases.
Sep 1 Azure Machine Learning now generally available in Japan West
Azure Machine learning, bringing AI to everyone with an end-to-end, scalable, trusted platform available in Japan West.
Sep 1 Private preview: Azure Spring Cloud Enterprise
Azure Spring Cloud Enterprise (preview) is a new managed service for Spring Boot that is optimized for the needs of enterprise developers running applications at scale.
Sep 1 Custom AKS policy support – now public preview
Azure Policy and AKS teams announce the public preview of custom policy support for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters. With this feature is enabled, you can create and assign custom policy definitions and constraint templates to their AKS clusters, see enhanced error state information for troubleshooting, use embedded constraint template inside policy definitions, and more.
Sep 1 General availability: Update in policy compliance for Azure Kubernetes Policies
Azure Kubernetes policies now surface error states to you, providing important information about potential errors in your environment.
Sep 1 General availability: Azure API Management updates – August 2021
The availability zones feature in Azure API Management has been updated to provide better support in four new regions, in addition to other API Management updates.
Sep 2 Upgrade to the latest version of Azure AD Connect before 31 August 2022
All 1.x versions of Azure AD Connect will be retired next year.
Sep 2 General availability: Azure DevOps August 2021 updates
With August updates, we added support for environment variables in Linux scale set agents. Now you can change the working directory of a Linux agent to use a faster drive than the OS drive. In addition, you can set a proxy to be used by the agent.
Sep 2 General availability: Azure Route Server
Azure Route Server enables network appliances to exchange route information with Azure virtual networks dynamically.
Sep 2 Public preview of Private Link Network Security Group Support
Network Security Group support on Private Endpoint (PE) will allow you to improve granular security requirements for traffic destined to a private endpoint. This will assist in meeting specific compliance and security requirements for managing your PE powered workloads.
Sep 2 Public preview of Private Link UDR Support
User Defined Routes support on Private Endpoint will make configuring custom routes to traffic destined to a Private Endpoint easier for your large workloads. Learn more about how to use this feature in select regions.
Sep 3 General availability: Azure Files supports storage capacity reservations for premium, hot, and cool tiers
Storage capacity reservations for Azure Files enable you to significantly reduce the total cost of ownership of storage by pre-committing to storage utilization. To achieve the lowest costs in Azure, you should consider reserving capacity for all production workloads.
Sep 3 SMB Multichannel for Azure Files is generally available
Server Message Block (SMB) Multichannel enables you to improve the IO performance of your SMB client 2-4x, increasing performance and decreasing total cost of ownership.
Sep 3 General availability: Azure Files now supports SMB 3.1.1
Server Message Block (SMB) 3.1.1 is the most secure and highly performant version of SMB. With SMB 3.1.1 support for Azure Files, you now can require AES-256-GCM for Windows 10, version 21H1 and newer clients.
Sep 3 Azure App Service support for Availability Zones reaches general availability
This new feature provides high availability for web applications to enhance business continuity and support disaster recovery strategies.
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