Ashish Sharma

Azure service updates Soft delete for blobs capability for Azure Data Lake Storage is now in limited public preview If you have processes or tools to detect accidental deletion of files and directories for your Azure Data Lake Storage accounts, you can now also restore the deleted objects using soft delete for blobs capability. During the retention period that you specify, you can now restore a soft-deleted object to its state at the time it was deleted. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates General availability: Azure Sphere version 21.07 expected on July 21, 2021 Participate in the retail evaluation now to ensure full compatibility. The 21.07 OS evaluation period provides 21 days for backward compatibility testing. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Azure Maps Android SDK is now generally available Get started with Android map control using vector map libraries, now generally available with Azure Maps Android SDK. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Azure Image Builder Service now generally available Use Azure Image Builder to streamline your image building pipeline and integrate your DevOps application life-cycle with the cloud native tools. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates VPN NAT now in public preview Azure VPN Gateway NAT (Network Address Translation) can be used to connect on-premises networks or branch offices to an Azure virtual network with overlapping IP addresses. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Limited Preview: New Azure VMs for confidential workloads New DCsv3 and DCdsv3-series Azure Virtual Machines transform the state-of-the-art for confidential workloads Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Public preview: Azure Automanage now supports Arc enabled servers Now you can automatically onboard your Arc enabled servers to best practice Azure management services using Azure Automanage, saving time and manual management effort. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Expansion of the public preview of on-demand disk bursting for Premium SSD to more regions The preview of on-demand disk bursting for Premium SSDs P30 and greater (lager than 512 GiB) is now expanded to all production regions. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Introducing the Ingestion Client for Azure Speech Ingestion Client in conjunction with Azure Speech allows customers to transcribe audio files without any development effort. Whether you have few or millions of file Azure will transcribe those securely and quickly. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Azure NetApp Files | Regional Capacity Quota We're changing the regional capacity quota for Azure NetApp files at no additional cost to you. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates General availability: Azure Digital Twins plugin for Azure Data Explorer  Adding context to IoT data just became easier. Azure Digital Twins and Azure Data Explorer now seamlessly integrate, allowing you to allow you to contextualize time-series IoT data. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates General availability: Turn your phone into an IoT device with the new IoT Plug and Play mobile app Use the IoT Plug and Play phone app as an IoT device to get started quickly with IoT Central or IoT Hub. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates General availability: Azure DevOps updates for June 2021 With this update, we've added a new set of policies which can be used to restrict the scope and lifespan of your organization’s Azure DevOps personal access tokens. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates General availability: Azure Cognitive Services Text Analytics for Health Now generally available, use Text Analytics for Health to detect words and phrases mentioned in unstructured text as entities in the healthcare and biomedical domain. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Azure Container Registry is now available in West US 3 Azure Container Registry is now generally available in West US 3 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 OS version 21.06 is now generally available This quality release of the OS includes bug fixes for apps using SPI Flash. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Azure Maps Mobility Services Preview will be retired on 5 October 2021 Transition to Bing Maps Routes API and/or Moovit Public Transit API’s by 5 October 2021 Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Azure Data Lake Storage Gen1: Account creation will be blocked for new customers starting July 5, 2021 Take advantage of Azure Data Lake Storage Gen 2 for all of your analytic needs after July 5, 2021. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Azure Blob storage—NFS 3.0 protocol support generally available Azure Blob Storage is the only storage platform that supports NFS 3.0 protocol over object storage natively (no gateway or data copying required), with object storage economics. With multi-protocol support, customers can run their applications on a single storage platform with no application rewrites necessary, therefore eliminating data silos. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates General availability: Expansion of credit-based disk bursting to Azure Standard SSDs E30 and smaller Credit-based disk bursting, which allows you to handle unexpected disk traffic and batch jobs smoothly without the need to overprovision your disk, is now available on Azure Standard SSDs E30 and smaller. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus) now offers server group restart feature in public preview The restart server group capability is now available in preview for Hyperscale (Citus) on Azure Database for PostgreSQL, a managed service running the Postgres open-source database on Azure. Click here for more information.

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

Azure service updates Azure Machine Learning public preview announcements for June 2021. New features include data scientist built-in role, text classification labeling, and environments UI. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Azure SQL—general availability updates for late June 2021  General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in late June 2021 Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Full text query in diagnostics logs for Azure Cosmos DB in general availability Use self-serve to enable/disable full text query to deobfuscate your queries in diagnostic logs with the full-text query for Azure Cosmos DB feature. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Azure IoT Edge for Linux now generally available Leverage existing Windows expertise and seamlessly connect Azure IoT Edge for Linux on Windows devices to Microsoft Azure and quickly bring cloud intelligence to your edge. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server: Forced failover in public preview Forced failover capability is available in preview in all zone redundant regions on Flexible Server for Azure Database for PostgreSQL, a managed service running the open-source Postgres database on Azure. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates General availability: Introducing Log Analytics Open In Excel - A new Excel integration capability Azure Monitor Log Analytics introduces a new Excel integration capability that allows you to create a connected Excel workbook right from the Log Analytics blade in Azure. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Azure Key Vault Managed HSM is generally available Azure Key Vault Managed HSM (hardware security module) is now generally available. Managed HSM offers a fully managed, highly available, single-tenant, high-throughput, standards-compliant cloud service to safeguard cryptographic keys for your cloud applications, using FIPS 140-2 Level 3 validated HSMs. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Public preview of Default Rule Set 2.0 for Azure Web Application Firewall Increase your security posture and reduce false positives with the Default Rule Set 2.0, now in public preview for Azure Web Application Firewall. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates General availability: Azure Data Explorer adds new geospatial capabilities The new support for H3 based geospatial clustering in KQL enables users to visualize and explore spatial data stored in Azure Data Explorer. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Azure Blob index tags now generally available Azure Blob index tags now generally available. Blob index tags allows developers and IT Pros to first tag specific blobs (for example, StoreID = "1234") and then filter or query for all blobs to more easily find or use them. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates General availability: Cross region Restore of SQL/SAP HANA running in Azure VM General availability of Cross Region Restore of SQL/SAP HANA databases running in Azure VM allows to restore data in the secondary region for compliance/audit and outage scenarios. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates General availability: Maintenance control for Virtual Machine Scale Sets OS image upgrades Take control of OS image upgrades on your virtual machine scale sets by using the new maintenance control feature. Now you can update at the time chosen by you with all the safety checks in place. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates General availability: Azure Data Explorer and subnet delegation Injecting an Azure Data Explorer cluster into a virtual network has never been easier. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Azure Data Lake Storage Static Website is now generally available Directly host static content from Azure Data Lake Storage and view that content from a browser by using the public URL of that website. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates New Azure private MEC solution announced Azure private multi-access edge compute (MEC) enables operators and systems integrators to simplify the consumption of secure and private 5G networks, and to easily deliver ultra-low-latency networking, applications, and services at the enterprise edge. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Azure Virtual Machines DCsv2-series are now available in Australia Confidential computing DCsv2-series virtual machines (VMs) are now available in Australia Click here for more information.

Azure service updates General availability: Azure IoT Central new and updated features—May 2021 May updates include device template DTDL editing, displaying external content on dashboards, other UI and doc enhancements, and CDE parity with CDE v1. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Microsoft Azure available from new cloud regions in Arizona Azure is now available from our newest sustainable datacenter region West US 3 in Arizona. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Azure Monitor Agent and Data Collection Rules now generally available Start using or migrating to the new Azure Monitor Agent and Data Collection Rules in your production environments to leverage key new capabilities and save on ingestion costs. With support for private links and direct proxies coming soon, you would be able to use these features without compromising on your networking requirements. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates General availability: Support for SQL Server in data flows using Azure Data Factory & Azure Synapse SQL Server is now available as a data flow source sink from your on-premises and VM-based instances in ADF and Synapse Analytics. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Azure Dev Spaces retired on May 15, 2021 Take advantage of Bridge for Kubernetes for development scenarios that Azure Dev Spaces previously supported. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Call recording for Azure Communication Services coming soon Call recording for Azure Communication Services helps to simplify and improve the recording process during calls. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Direct routing for Azure Communication Services coming soon Developers will be able to use or extend their existing telephony infrastructure to the calling capabilities they build with Azure Communication Services. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Azure Maps Elevation API is now in general availability For any given point on the Earth surface, the Elevation API returns its elevation measured from mean sea level. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Five more free services available with an Azure free account We've added the option to use Azure Database for PostgreSQL, Azure Database for MySQL, Azure Key Vault, Azure Logic Apps, and the Encoding feature of Azure Media Services to services included with free accounts. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Azure IoT Edge integration with Azure Monitor is now in public preview Monitoring and troubleshooting your Azure IoT Edge devices just became more simple and efficient. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates General availability: Confidential Computing price reduction on DCsv2 virtual machines DCsv2-series Azure Virtual Machines protect the confidentiality and integrity of your data and code while it’s processed in the public cloud. The price for this offering is now 37% lower. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates General availability: Azure Sphere OS version 21.06 expected on June 23 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.