Ashish Sharma

Azure service updates Azure Container Registry now generally available in Korea South region Azure Container Registry handles private Docker container images as well as related content formats, such as Helm charts, OCI artifacts, and images built to the OCI image format specification. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Azure Sphere version 21.04 is now generally available The latest release of Azure Sphere brings enhancements and features to the OS, SDKs, and Visual Studio extensions. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Microsoft Azure Web PubSub service now in public preview Easily build large-scale real-time messaging applications with WebSockets without the need to manage backend infrastructure. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Azure Site Recovery now supports Azure Policy in public preview Leverage Azure Policy to enable Azure Site Recovery for your VMs at scale and ensure organizational standards. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates General availability: Azure Site Recovery now supports cross-continental disaster recovery for 3 region pairs Protect your applications from outages by replicating your virtual machines across continents. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates General availability: Set up Azure Site Recovery with proximity placement groups across hybrid and cloud disaster recovery scenarios Azure Site Recovery now provides a portal experience to failover VMs or physical servers inside a proximity placement group in the target Azure region. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Azure Container Registry now generally available in Korea South region Azure Container Registry handles private Docker container images as well as related content formats, such as Helm charts, OCI artifacts, and images built to the OCI image format specification. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Public preview: Application Insight in South India and West Central US Application Insight is now in public preview for customers to start collecting telemetry and analyzing their services for health in the following list of regions South India West Central US. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Public preview: Azure Log Analytics in South India Azure Log Analytics is now in public preview for customers to start collecting telemetry and analyzing their services for health and usage in South India. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Azure Ultra Disk is now generally available in North Central US Azure Ultra Disk, which offers high performance along with sub-millisecond latency for your data-intensive and transaction-heavy workloads, is now available in North Central US. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Public preview: Forced failover now available with zone redundant high availability for Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server Flexible Server forced failover capability is now available in all zone redundant regions. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates General availability: Application Insights work item integration in Azure Monitor You can now create work items in Azure DevOps or GitHub based on Application Insights telemetry. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Public preview: Stateful and 1-minute frequency log alerts in Azure Monitor Log search based alerts can now be automatically resolved, and query can be evaluated every minute for faster time to fire. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Azure SQL—public preview updates for April 2021 Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in April 2021. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server: Zone redundant high availability now generally available in new regions Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server zone redundant high availability is now available in two new regions: UK South and Japan East. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates The public preview of Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server is available in two new regions France Central and Brazil South regions are now available deployment options for the public preview of Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server now supports 8.0.21  MySQL 8.0.21 is now in general availability with Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server deployment option in all major Azure regions. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Public preview: Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server intelligent performance The latest preview release of intelligent performance on Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server on Postgres 11 and 12 is now available. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates General availability: Azure Hybrid Benefit for Linux with RI and VMSS Support You can now add Azure Hybrid Benefit to their Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) VMSS instances as well as RI’s, helping to significantly reduce the costs of running your workloads in the cloud. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Azure Event Grid for Azure Cache for Redis now in general availability Azure Cache for Redis integration with Azure Event Grid allows service manage routing of Redis events like patching, scaling, and import/export (RDB) to your event handler. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Microsoft Azure Web PubSub service now in public preview Easily build large-scale real-time messaging applications with WebSockets without the need to manage backend infrastructure. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server (public preview) managed PgBouncer in public preview PgBouncer, a popular connection pooler for Postgres, is now part of the Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server (preview) managed service. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates The public preview of Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus) is available in new regions With the addition of Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus) preview to France Central and Switzerland North regions, you can now distribute your Postgres database to horizontally scale queries across multiple machines using sharding. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Azure Container Registry now generally available in Korea South region Azure Container Registry handles private Docker container images as well as related content formats, such as Helm charts, OCI artifacts, and images built to the OCI image format specification. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates New Azure VMs for general purpose and memory intensive workloads now in public preview New Dv5, Dsv5, Ddv5, Ddsv5, and Ev5, Edv5 series Azure Virtual Machines deliver increased scalability and an upgraded CPU architecture, including better price to performance compared to the prior generation. The new VMs - now in public preview - run on the 3rd Generation Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8370C (Ice Lake) processor in a hyper-threaded configuration. This custom processor can reach an all-core Turbo clock speed of up to 3.5GHz and features Intel® Turbo Boost Technology 2.0, Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (Intel® AVX-512) and Intel® Deep Learning Boost. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Microsoft announces plans to establish first datacenter region in Malaysia The new datacenter region is part of the “Bersama Malaysia” initiative to support inclusive economic growth in Malaysia. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Public preview: Enhancements to encryption using customer managed keys for Azure Backup Encryption of backup data in Recovery Services vaults using customer managed keys has enhancements in public preview. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Public preview: Azure Purview is now available in the UK South and Australia East region Azure Purview is now available in public preview in the Australia East and UK South region. You can now provision Azure Purview accounts in these regions as a public preview offering. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Action required: upgrade your AML cluster to Ubuntu 18.04 LTS by 30 April 2021 Ubuntu 16.04 community support ends on 30 April 2021 – Transition to 18.04 immediately Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Azure Purview resource set pattern rules available in public preview Azure Purview is announcing the public preview of resource set pattern rules. A resource set is a single object in the data catalog that represents a large number of assets in storage.  Resource set pattern rules allow you to customize or override how Azure Purview detects which assets are grouped as resource sets and how they are displayed within the catalog. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Microsoft announces plans to establish first datacenter region in Malaysia The new datacenter region is part of the “Bersama Malaysia” initiative to support inclusive economic growth in Malaysia. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates General availability: Application Gateway URL Rewrite Application Gateway now supports hosting friendly URLs and routing based on query string values. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Azure Data Factory announces Data Flow general availability in two new Azure regions Azure Data Factory has released Mapping Data Flows for 2 new Azure regions: US Virgina Gov & US Arizona Gov Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Announcing general availability of new M-series Msv2/Mdsv2 Medium Memory VMs for memory-optimised workloads Azure Msv2/Mdsv2 Medium Memory Series offering up to 192vCPU and 4TB memory configurations and running on Cascade Lake processor are now generally available. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Azure Virtual Machines DCsv2-series now available in public preview in Azure Government Azure Government customers can build secure, enclave-based applications to protect code and data while it’s in use, in a dedicated cloud that meets stringent government security and compliance requirements.  Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Announcing general availability of new M-series Msv2/Mdsv2 Medium Memory VMs for memory-optimized workloads Azure Msv2/Mdsv2 Medium Memory Series offering up to 192vCPU and 4TB memory configurations and running on Cascade Lake processor are now generally available. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Microsoft announces plans to establish first datacenter region in Malaysia The new datacenter region is part of the “Bersama Malaysia” initiative to support inclusive economic growth in Malaysia. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Open source API Portal now generally available API Portal is a no-code option to create, manage, and publish API documentation - for free. Click here for more information.

Every year in the month of April, Azure communities around the world will gather to organize Global Azure event to learn, share the knowledge and latest information about cloud computing. We had hoped for an in-person event in 2021 but the coronavirus has had other ideas, and of course we take the health and wellbeing of everyone very seriously. Experience our full day virtual conference on April 17, 2021 (Saturday) from 10am – 6pm at the comfort of your choice. What to expect This year, we have a full lineup of community leaders speaking to you from countries across the Asia Pacific region. Experience this full day virtual conference from the comfort of your battle station. Join and learn about the latest technologies around Microsoft Azure from the best-in-class community leaders. Deep dives & technical content Meet with partners showcasing tools, middleware, audio solutions, and more Connect with industry and Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Join a community event and conver

Azure service updates General availability: Azure Sphere version 21.04 expected on April 29, 2021 Participate in the retail evaluation now to ensure full compatibility. The OS evaluation period provides 14 days for backward compatibility testing. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates User data through Azure Instance Metadata Service now generally available Leverage user data to customize your VM instance provision and configuration. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates General availability: Event source start options in Azure Time Series Insights Gen2 The new event source start options feature in Azure Time Series Insights Gen2 gives you flexibility when configuring an event source. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Azure Automation support for System Assigned Managed Identities is now in public preview Use managed identities now to authenticate runbooks to any Azure service that supports Azure AD authentication. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Apache Spark 3.0 is now available for public preview in HDInsight 4.0. Apache Spark 3.0 public preview in HDInsight 4.0 is a major update to Apache Spark and brings significant improvements including better performance and better support for ANSI SQL. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Public preview - Support for multiple currencies on Retail Rates API for all Azure products/services An unauthenticated experience to get retail prices in different currencies for all Azure products/services (including Reserved Instances). Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Cognitive Services - New Computer Vision API v3.2 now generally available Updated Computer Vision API now generally available to improve image tagging, content moderation, OCR language expansion, and more. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates General availability: Log analytics workspace name uniqueness is now per resource group You can now use the same workspace name in deployments across all your environment without a conflict. This is useful in template deployments when the same name can be used for every deployment for consistency. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates General availability: New Azure Policy built-in definitions for data encryption in Azure Monitor With Azure Monitor built-in policy definitions for data encryption, you can enforce organizational standards and assess compliance of data encryption settings in your environment. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Public preview: Functions upgrade in Azure Monitor log analytics We have upgraded the functions experience in log analytics, providing new UI and capabilities to allow you to do more with functions. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Public preview: Cognitive Services- Anomaly Detector now supports multivariate anomaly detection​ Enable organizations to identify anomalies across multiple variables with multivariate Anomaly Detector. Click here for more information.