Azure Updates – October 11-15, 2021

Get the latest updates on Azure products and features to meet your cloud investment needs.

Oct 11 General availability: Azure Translator now supports more than 100 languages and dialects

Translator now supports more than 100 languages and dialects to help you streamline your translation workflows.

Oct 12 Generally available: Service Tag Discovery API

Utilize the Service Tag Discovery API to retrieve a list of Service Tags and corresponding IP ranges to easily configure on-premises firewalls and Azure resources.

Oct 12 Azure Firewall Premium now generally available in five new Azure regions

New zone options for additional resiliency and tolerance to infrastructure impact.

Oct 13 Azure Machine Learning announcements – Oct 2021 public preview capabilities

New features now available in public preview include compute instance and cluster No Public IP, Hashicorp Tarraform configuration templates, and AutoML for images.

Oct 13 Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server: Geo-redundant backup and restore in public preview

Strengthen your business continuity and disaster recovery plan with geo backup and restore, now available on Flexible Server for Azure Database for MySQL.

Oct 13 Azure Machine Learning announcements – Oct 2021 generally available capabilities

New features now generally available include authenticate with Managed Identities, simplify data upload with dataset uploads, parallel run step with partitioned dataset, and create and edit environments using Environments UI.

Oct 13 Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus): Azure Private Link support in public preview

Private Link is now available in preview for Hyperscale (Citus) on Azure Database for PostgreSQL, a managed service running the open-source Postgres database on Azure.

Oct 13 Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server: Ddsv4 and Edsv4 SKUs in public preview

Support for Ddsv4 and Edsv4 compute tiers is now supported for Flexible Server on Azure Database for PostgreSQL, a managed service running the open-source Postgres database on Azure.

Oct 13 New centralized management experience for Azure Hybrid Benefit for SQL Server in public preview

Introducing a new way to manage Azure Hybrid Benefit for SQL Server centrally at an Azure subscription or account level, providing better control and optimized cost savings.

Oct 13 Azure SQL—Public preview updates for October 2021 

Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL Managed Instance for 2021.

Oct 13 Public preview: HTTPS proxy configuration support

You can now specify HTTPS proxy configuration when creating your AKS clusters and node pools.

Oct 13 Public preview: AKS support for Kubernetes 1.22

You can now take advantage of the latest features of Kubernetes 1.22 including a new PodSecurity admission feature and more.

Oct 13 Public preview: AKS support for WebAssembly System Interface (WASI) workloads

Deploy WebAssembly System Interface (WASI) workloads in Kubernetes using Krustlets

Oct 13 Public preview: AKS out of tree cloud provider controller manager

Cloud provider controller manager enables AKS releases independent of Kubernetes release cadence.

Oct 13 Public preview: IPv6 for Kubenet

AKS now supports dual stack IPv6 overlay networking

Oct 13 Public preview: Customize Azure Static Web Apps authentication with a serverless function

Azure Static Web Apps adds support for programmatically assigning custom user roles using Azure Functions.

Oct 13 Generally available: IP-based website protection for Azure Static Web Apps

Azure Static Web Apps adds support for access restrictions by IP addresses and service tags

Oct 13 General availability: Azure Monitor application insights in Azure Spring Cloud

Azure is making it easier to observe Java Spring Boot workloads running on Azure Spring Cloud with application insights.

Oct 13 Azure Machine Learning now generally available in West US 3

Azure Machine learning, bringing AI to everyone with an end-to-end, scalable, trusted platform available in West US 3.

Oct 13 Azure Maps iOS SDK is now in public preview

Develop integrated immersive mapping solutions for mobile applications with Azure Maps iOS SDK

Oct 14 Announcing Azure Synapse Analytics pre-purchase plans, now generally available

You can now save up to 28 percent on Azure Synapse workloads without sacrificing flexibility with Azure Synapse pre-purchase plans.

Oct 15 Azure HDInsight support for Azure Private Link is generally available

Enhance your security posture by leveraging Azure Private Link to connect to your HDInsight cluster privately across networks over Microsoft backbone network

Oct 15 Azure HDInsight support for Restricted Public Connectivity is generally available

You can now create Azure HDInsight with restricted public connectivity resulting in a more secure networking infrastructure.

Oct 15 General availability: Azure IoT Central new and updated features—September 2021

September updates include dashboard and analytics enhancements, improvements to device registration, and support for bring your own device keys.

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