08 Nov Azure Updates – November 01-05 2021
Get the latest updates on Azure products and features to meet your cloud investment needs.
Nov 2 Gateway Load Balancer now in public preview
Gateway Load Balancer enables you to deploy, scale, and enhance the availability of third party network virtual appliances (NVAs) in Azure with ease
Nov 2 Public preview: Metrics and Metric alerts for Azure Backup
Azure Backup now provides built-in metrics to enable you to monitor the health of your backups and write custom alert rules on these metrics.
Nov 2 General availability: Stream Analytics now offers support for Availability Zones with Dedicated Cluster
Azure Availability Zones enabled Stream Analytics allows you to run mission-critical applications with higher availability and fault tolerance to datacenter failures.
Nov 2 Azure Backup: Multi-user authorization for Backup is now in public preview
Multi-user authorization for Backup provides enhanced protection for your Recovery Services vaults against unauthorized critical operations.
Nov 2 Public preview: NAT gateway integration with AKS
Provision a NAT gateway is now easier with AKS clusters.
Nov 2 New indexing metrics for Azure Cosmos DB in general availability
Identify which indexes your queries utilized and then view the recommended new indexes in Azure Cosmos DB.
Nov 2 Install Azure Service Operator via Visual Studio Code extension for AKS
You can now quickly install Azure Service Operator for your AKS clusters using Visual Studio Code extension for AKS by passing on Service Principal credentials.
Nov 2 Public preview: AKS node pool user start/stop feature
Easily stop node pools and restart with a single command.
Nov 2 Azure Cache for Redis: Redis 6.0 supported in general availability
Azure Cache for Redis now supports Redis 6.0, which includes several new features and commands that enhance developer productivity and ease of use.
Nov 2 Public preview: Dapr extension for AKS
You can now easily provision Dapr on AKS clusters. No need to download Dapr tooling and manually installing and managing the runtime on AKS clusters.
Nov 2 Public preview: Azure Container Apps
Today we’re announcing the public preview of Azure Container Apps. Run and scale modern apps using a fully managed serverless container service built for microservices.
Nov 2 Azure Synapse Link for Azure Cosmos DB: Custom partitioning support in public preview
Partition your data in analytical store using keys that are critical for your business logic to achieve better query and data load performance.
Nov 2 Azure Machine Learning public preview announcement Ignite, November 2021
New feature Azure Arc-enabled machine learning inference and data labeling with text classification using ML Assist capabilities are now available in preview in Azure Machine Learning.
Nov 2 Public preview: gMSAv2 security policy support for Kubernetes workloads on Windows
AKS will now take care of GMSA configuration, as well as maintaining trust during scale operations in the Windows nodepool.
Nov 2 Public preview updates to Azure SQL Managed Instance boosts performance, scale, and flexibility
New investments in Azure SQL Managed Instance bring more performance, scale, and flexibility to your SQL workloads in this latest significant update to the service.
Nov 2 Azure Cognitive Service for Language now generally available
Azure Cognitive Service for Language provides high-quality natural language capabilities, from sentiment analysis and entity extraction to automated question answering.
Nov 2 General availability: New troubleshooting experiences in Network Insights for VPN Gateway & Azure Firewall
Rich insights for additional networking resources in Azure Monitor.
Nov 2 General availability: Event Hubs Premium
Event Hubs Premium comes with reserved compute, memory, and storage resources, which increases the performance and minimizes cross-tenant interference in a managed multi-tenant PaaS environment.
Nov 2 Public preview: Manage your Log Analytics data export rules in Azure portal
Data export rules in Azure Monitor log analytics can now be configured and managed directly via Azure Portal with ease.
Nov 2 General availability: Log Analytics Workspace Insights in Azure Monitor
Log Analytics Workspace Insights provides rich insights on usage, performance, health, agents, queries, and a change log.
Nov 2 Cost saving recommendations in Azure Advisor for Azure Cosmos DB now generally available
Refer to the Azure Advisor recommendations for possible cost savings in Azure Cosmos DB, which are calculated based on historical usage patterns.
Nov 2 Azure Cosmos DB: Server side retries for Cassandra API in public preview
Enable server-side retries for the Cassandra API with Azure Cosmos DB to enjoy a better experience when ingesting data.
Nov 2 General availability: EventHub action in Azure Monitor action groups
The new EventHub action enhances your alert configuration capabilities.
Nov 2 Public preview: Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Exporters
Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Exporters provide a vendor-neutral way to instrument your application and send telemetry to Application Insights.
Nov 2 Azure Cosmos DB Logic Apps Standard Connector in public preview
Use the new built-in Azure Cosmos DB Logic Apps Standard Connector with a trigger for the change feed and several actions to enable high throughput data processing with low latency.
Nov 2 Azure Cosmos DB: Partial document update now in general availability
Send update requests and only pass the data that has changed for an item with partial document update in Azure Cosmos DB.
Nov 2 Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra service now generally available
With Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra, scale on-premises Cassandra data to the cloud with automated deployment, scaling, and management operations for open-source Apache Cassandra datacenters.
Nov 2 Provisioned throughput spending limit for Azure Cosmos DB in general availability
You can now set a hard limit on the total throughput provisioned across a single account in Azure Cosmos DB.
Nov 2 Link feature in Azure SQL Managed Instance now in limited public preview
The link feature in SQL Managed Instance reimagines SQL Server database replication to enable application migration with minimal downtime and offloading read-only workloads to secondaries in the cloud.
Nov 2 On-demand disk bursting for Azure Premium SSDs now generally available
On-demand disk bursting is now generally available for Premium SSDs, allowing you to scale performance to meet demand whenever needed and optimize costs.
Nov 2 New orchestration mode for Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets now generally available
Increase the availability at scale of business-critical applications with new Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets features. Simplify workload deployment, management, and scalability with Virtual Machine Scale Sets flexible orchestration mode, now generally available.
Nov 2 Limited preview: New Azure Virtual Machines deliver increased storage throughput for data-intensive workloads
Microsoft is announcing the upcoming preview of Ebs v5 and Ebds v5 Azure VMs, a new memory optimized VM series that delivers up to 300% increase in remote storage performance compared to prior generation VMs. The increased storage throughput is ideal for data-intensive workloads, such as large relational databases, high-performance OLTP scenarios, and data analytics applications.
Nov 2 General availability: New Azure Virtual Machines deliver increased performance for a broad range of workloads
The new Dv5 and Ev5 Azure Virtual Machines feature 3rd Generation Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8370C (Ice Lake) processors and deliver better price-performance compared to prior VM generations. The latest Dasv5 and Easv5 VMs – based on the 3rd Generation AMD EPYCTM 7763v (Milan) processor – now include options without local disk storage for lower-cost entry points. All these new VMs are now generally available and target general-purpose and memory-intensive workloads.
Nov 2 Azure App Service Environment v3 support for Windows Containers is now generally available
Migrate on-premise apps that require custom configuration to App Service Environment v3.
Nov 2 Azure App Service – Diagnostic settings feature reaches general availability
Send web app and platform logs on App Service to Azure Monitor, enabling new observability scenarios.
Nov 2 General availability: Version updates for Azure App Configuration libraries
Push refresh and feature management among new capabilities for Java Spring Boot applications.
Nov 2 Azure Service Bus large message support reaches general availability
This new capability removes need for workarounds and enables migration of legacy payloads to Azure
Nov 2 General availability: Provisioned throughput increase for Azure Ultra Disk Storage
The provisioned throughput for Azure Ultra Disk Storage has been increased to 4,000 MB/s per disk.
Nov 2 General availability: Centralized management of keys for encrypting Azure disks
Centralized management of keys for encrypting Azure disks is now generally available, allowing you to manage encryption keys centrally in a subscription and encrypt disks and snapshots in other subscriptions in your organization.
Nov 2 New capabilities introduced for disk pool (public preview) for Azure VMware Solution
Disk pool enables you to access Azure Disk Storage for high-performance, durable block storage for your Azure VMware Solution workloads. We are introducing new enhancements to disk pool to improve availability, cost-efficiency, and management.
Nov 2 Public preview: Cross-region snapshot copy for Azure Disk Storage
Cross-region snapshot copy is now in preview, allowing you to copy disk snapshots to any region for disaster recovery scenarios.
Nov 2 Live resize of Azure Disk Storage in public preview
With live resize of Azure Disk Storage in preview, you can dynamically increase your disk size without any downtime to your application.
Nov 2 Open Service Mesh add-on for AKS is now generally available
Use the service mesh capabilities from Open Service Mesh (OSM) integrated natively with the AKS managed service offering.
Nov 2 Azure SQL: Public preview updates for early November 2021
Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL Managed Instance in mid-September 2021.
Nov 2 General availability: AKS support for Secrets Store CSI driver
Easily integrate secrets stores into your Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) so you can securely access your secrets via the container’s file system.
Nov 2 Public preview: Industry-aware analytics with database templates in Azure Synapse
Database templates in Azure Synapse enable you to integrate and shape data from across multiple internal and external sources. This helps you eliminate data silos and accelerate building analytics-infused applications for your specific industry.
Nov 2 Azure Service Operator v2 release is now generally available
Use Azure Service Operator to provision resources within Kubernetes and implement self-service resource provisioning for your application developers.
Nov 2 Public preview: Self-service Access Management in Azure Purview
Azure Purview will enable data consumers to initiate access requests to data stored in Azure Storage or Azure SQL DB.
Nov 2 Public preview: Azure Container Registry connected registry for IoT Edge
You can now synchronize container images from your cloud registry and serve them on-premises for use by IoT devices and use the connected registry in an disconnected setting up to 90 days.
Nov 2 Public preview: Explore your Amazon RDS data in Azure Purview
Azure Purview, the unified data governance solution, expands its multi-cloud coverage with support for Amazon RDS.
Nov 2 Public preview: ExpressRoute FastPath improvements
ExpressRoute FastPath now supports more network scenarios, enabling customers with more complex Azure environments to unlock the benefits of FastPath.
Nov 2 Automatic VM guest patching is now generally available
Automatic VM guest patching provides safe and automatic patching for virtual machines to simplify update management and maintain security compliance.
Nov 2 Logic Apps Standard Plan updates in general availability
Logic Apps Standard was released at Ignite 2020 and since then we have added a lot of features to enable better enterprise integration between mission critical systems on cloud, on premises, and in a hybrid way with runtime available on Azure, Azure Arc and locally. This post includes capabilities that are now generally available.
Nov 2 General availability: Native support for WebSocket APIs
Native support for WebSocket APIs is now available across all pricing plans of Azure API Management except Consumption. This will help you manage WebSocket APIs along with REST APIs in Azure API Management.
Nov 2 Public preview: GraphQL passthrough support in Azure API Management
GraphQL is increasingly seen as more efficient, flexible, and powerful way of working with APIs, as they have tremendous benefits such as faster performance, longer API call limit threshold, and lesser time retrieving data.
Nov 2 Public preview: Azure Virtual Machines DCsv3 and DCdsv3-series now available
New DCsv3 and DCdsv3-series Azure Virtual Machines transform the state-of-the-art for confidential workloads
Nov 2 Public preview: New Azure Arc capabilities in November 2021
Azure Arc is announcing new functionality, which includes improved machine learning capabilities, and new features for Azure Arc-enabled data services.
Nov 2 General availability: Azure Monitor container insights for Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes
Azure Monitor container insights for Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes is now generally available. You can now monitor all Kubernetes, AKS or non-AKS through container insights.
Nov 2 Azure SQL—general availability updates for early November 2021
General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL Managed Instance in early November 2021.
Nov 2 Private preview: New Azure Arc capabilities in November 2021
Azure Arc is announcing new functionality, which includes enhanced lifecycle management on VMware and Azure Stack HCI virtual machines.
Nov 2 Azure Applied AI Services | Azure Cognitive Search updates now generally available
Azure Cognitive Search has expanded language and regional availability.
Nov 2 Azure Applied AI Services | Azure Video Analyzer updates in public preview
Azure Video Analyzer now has new cloud-based capabilities that deliver low-latency available in preview.
Nov 2 Public preview: Near real-time analytics for telemetry, time series, and log data on Azure Synapse
Azure Synapse data explorer is optimized for efficient log analytics, using powerful indexing technology to automatically index structured, semi-structured, and free-text data commonly found in telemetry data.
Nov 2 Additional ML options for Spark on Azure Synapse now in public preview
Save time and reduce risk when batch scoring in Azure Synapse Analytics with the new PREDICT keyword.
Nov 2 Public preview: Azure Chaos Studio – Systematically improve resilience with controlled chaos
Improve the resilience of your applications by deliberately introducing faults that simulate real-world outages. See how your Azure apps respond to different failures through controlled chaos engineering experimentation – in testing or production – to understand and ultimately mitigate resilience gaps.
Nov 2 General availability: IoT Central – Organizations
IoT solution builders can now build an IoT solution once and onboard multiple tenants into it – keeping cost down and reducing management overhead.
Nov 2 Public preview: OpenID Connect integration between Azure AD and GitHub Actions
Developers can secure their deployments to Azure through OpenID Connect integration between Azure AD and GitHub Actions
Nov 2 Autoscale public preview is now available for Azure Virtual Desktop
Azure Virtual Desktop now supports autoscale for pooled host pools to help you optimize costs.
Nov 2 Azure Virtual Desktop for Azure Stack HCI public preview is now available
With Azure Virtual Desktop for Azure Stack HCI, you can maintain full control over your infrastructure and enjoy the advantages of Azure Virtual Desktop in your own datacenter, including a full Windows 10 and 11 desktop experience for users with multi-session or single session support to optimize cost and performance.
Nov 2 Public preview: Azure Purview’s Integration with Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Prioritize sensitive data in cloud workloads using Azure Purview’s Integration with Microsoft Defender for Cloud.
Nov 2 Public preview: Azure Virtual Network Manager
Azure Virtual Network Manager (AVNM) is a one-stop shop solution for centralized network management across regions and subscriptions. AVNM allows you to easily create network topologies and high-priority security rules at scale in the public preview.
Nov 2 General availability: Run IBM WebSphere Liberty and Open Liberty on ARO and AKS
Automated solution templates to run IBM WebSphere Liberty and Open Liberty on Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO) and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), jointly developed with IBM, are now available in the Azure Marketplace.
Nov 2 General availability: Run Oracle WebLogic Server on Azure Kubernetes Service
An automated solution template to run Oracle WebLogic Server (WLS) on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), jointly developed with Oracle, is now available in the Azure Marketplace.
Nov 2 General availability: API Management and Event Grid Integration
General availability of Azure API Management to publish events in Event Grid.
Nov 2 Azure trusted launch for Virtual Machines now generally available
Azure offers trusted launch as a seamless way to bolster the security of Generation 2 VMs. Designed to protect against boot kits, rootkits, and kernel-level malware, trusted launch is comprised of secure boot, virtual trusted platform module (vTPM), and boot integrity monitoring.
Nov 2 Azure Machine Learning – Ignite, November 2021 public preview announcements
New feature Azure Arc-enabled machine learning inference and data labeling with text classification using ML Assist capabilities are now available in preview in Azure Machine Learning
Nov 2 General availability: Bastion Standard SKU
Azure Bastion Standard SKU offers key capabilities for enterprises, unblocking critical customer scenarios.
Nov 2 Public preview: ExpressRoute private peering support for BGP communities
This support for BGP community tags on traffic sent from Azure to on-premises over ExpressRoute enables customers to set routing preferences and pursue a greater variety of hybrid network designs.
Nov 3 Azure VMware Solution now generally available in the Germany West Central Azure region
Azure VMware Solution has now expanded availability to Germany West Central, this update is in addition to the existing availability multiple Azure regions in US, Europe, Australia, Japan, UK, Canada, Brazil and Southeast Asia (Singapore).
Nov 3 General availability: New Azure Data Explorer output plugin for Telegraf
This new output plugin allows you to write telemetry collected by any of the input plugins of Telegraf directly into Azure Data Explorer e.g. it makes SQL monitoring at scale better and affordable.
Nov 3 Private preview: Azure OpenAI Service combines access to powerful GPT-3 language models with Azure’s enterprise capabilities
Apply advanced language models to a variety of use cases with Azure OpenAI Service.
Nov 3 PowerShell 7.1 runbook support in Azure Automation available in public preview
Use PowerShell 7.1 for infrastructure automation & orchestration scenarios across Azure & non-Azure environment through Azure Automation runbooks.
Nov 3 Azure Automation support for Managed Identities is now generally available
Use Managed Identities to authenticate runbooks to any Azure service that supports Azure AD authentication.
Nov 5 Public preview: Azure Data Explorer is now supported as an output for Azure Stream Analytics job
We are announcing that Azure Stream Analytics can directly output data to Azure Data Explorer, simplifying architecture where you need both hot and warm path analytics on streaming data. This feature will be added to all Stream Analytics regions progressively.
Nov 5 General availability: Azure Site Recovery now supports failover of multiple IP configurations
You can configure the failover and test failover settings of your secondary IP configuration for a seamless site recovery experience.
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