Ashish Sharma

Azure service updates Logic Apps Standard Plan updates in public preview 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 now available in public preview. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Querying Delta Lake files using T-SQL in Azure Synapse Analytics is generally available Querying Delta Lake format using the T-SQL language in Azure Synapse is generally available. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Public preview: Multiple backups per day for Azure Files Azure Backup now supports configuring multiple backups per day for Azure Files via backup policy. You can achieve RPO (Recovery Point Objective) up to 4 hours using Azure Files snapshot-based backup solution. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates General availability: Ephemeral OS disks for Azure VMs support additional VM sizes You now can choose where to store Ephemeral OS disks, either in VM temp disk or on VM cache. This enables Ephemeral OS disks to be created on more VM sizes that have sufficient temp disks. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates General availability: Logz.io on Microsoft Azure You can now run Logz.io as a service on Azure through the Azure Marketplace. This offer provides you with seamless experience to provision Logz.io accounts and configure Azure resources to send logs to Logz.io from Azure portal. Leverage best-in-class provisioning, onboarding, and management experience in Azure with unified billing for the Logz.io on Azure service through the Azure Marketplace.  Click here for more information.

Azure service updates General availability: Azure Functions extensions for Blobs, Queues, Event Hubs, Service Bus, and Event Grid The new triggers and bindings contain a number of improvements, including support for identity-based connections. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates General availability: Azure Data Explorer Insights Azure Data Explorer Insights provides comprehensive monitoring of your clusters by delivering a unified view of your cluster performance, usage, ingestion operations, cache, and more. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Zerto Disaster Recovery for Azure VMware Solution Zerto Disaster Recovery is now available and supported with Azure VMware Solution, delivering data protection and disaster recovery services that eliminate data loss and downtime for vSphere virtual machines running on Azure VMware Solution environment. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Azure Spot Virtual Machines: Try to restore functionality now generally available You can now opt-in and use this feature while deploying Spot VMs using Virtual Machine Scale Sets. This new feature will automatically try to restore an evicted Spot VM to maintain the desired target compute capacity (e.g., number of VMs) in a scale set. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Extended regional availability for Private Link NSG Support Private Link NSG public preview support has extended regional availability to ​​​​​​​Asiaeast, Australiaeast, Japaneast, Canadacentral, Europenorth, Koreacentral, Brazilsouth, Uksouth, US South, US North, France Central. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Extended regional availability for Private Link UDR Support Private Link Network Security Group public preview support has extended regional availability to ​​​​​​​Asiaeast, Australiaeast, Japaneast, Canadacentral, Europenorth, Koreacentral, Brazilsouth, Uksouth, US South, US North, France Central Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2021 RTM for OEMs Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2021, the operating system offering for embedded and IoT device has gone RTM for Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs). Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Azure Red Hat OpenShift now available in public preview in Azure Government Azure Government customers can use Azure Red Hat OpenShift to build cloud-native applications Click here for more information.

Azure service updates General availability: ExpressRoute IPv6 Support for Private Peering IPv6 support for ExpressRoute Private Peering is now generally available with ExpressRoute circuits and Azure environments globally. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates General availability: Azure governance policy for Azure Key Vault Integration of Azure Key Vault with Azure Policy has reached general availability and is now ready for production use. Azure Policy provides the ability to place guardrails on Key Vault and its objects to ensure they are compliant with your organizations security recommendations and compliance regulations. It allows you to perform real time policy-based enforcement and on-demand compliance assessment of existing secrets in your Azure environment. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates General availability: Azure Sphere version 21.10 Version 21.10 is a feature update for the Azure Sphere OS, the SDK, supporting tools, and customer documentation. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates General availability: Azure Backup now supports Archive Tier through Azure Portal Azure Backup support to move backups for SQL and SAP HANA databases running in Azure VMs into the Archive tier, via Azure portal and Azure CLI, is also generally available. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Azure Monitor Log Analytics and Application Insights support for Availability Zones is now generally available in West US 2 Azure Monitor Log Analytics and Application Insights are now support Availability Zones capability in West US 2. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates General availability: Azure Advisor recommendations for Azure Data Explorer Clusters Azure Advisor analyzes the Azure Data Explorer cluster configurations and usage telemetry and offers personalized and actionable recommendations to help you optimize your cluster. Advisor is designed to help you save you time on the cluster optimization. The recommendations include suggested actions you can take right away, postpone, or dismiss. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates OCR (Read) supports 122 languages in the Cognitive Services Computer Vision public preview Computer Vision Read API for Optical Character Recognition (OCR), part of Cognitive Services, announces its public preview with new languages including Russian, Bulgarian, other Cyrillic and more Latin languages. This release also highlight handwritten OCR support for many languages, along with enhancements for digital PDFs and Machine Readable Zone (MRZ) text in identity documents. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates General availability: Azure Log Analytics in West US 3, Korea South, and Canada East Log Analytics, a feature of Azure Monitor, is now generally available for customers to start collecting telemetry and analyzing their services for health and usage in West US 3, Korea South, and Canada East. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates General availability: Cross region replication for Azure NetApp Files Azure NetApp Files supports cross region replication for disaster-recovery (DR) purposes and provides frequent, efficient and cost-effective volume and snapshot replication between Azure standard and non-standard region pairs. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Public preview: Azure Spring Cloud RBAC config server and registry access and Nginx logs and metrics Spring Cloud Config Server and Service Registry access using Azure Active Directory and Nginx ingress logs and metrics are now available in preview in Azure Spring Cloud. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates General availability: Azure Spring Cloud application health monitoring and end-to-end TLS/SSL Application lifecycle and health monitoring with Azure Activity log and Azure Service Health, and end-to-end TLS/SSL are now generally available in Azure Spring Cloud. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Public preview: Visual Studio Code for the Web Visual Studio Code for the Web is a web-based code editor that runs within the browser and allows opening repositories on GitHub and Azure Repos, and making lightweight code changes. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates General availability: Azure Stack HCI new feature update This latest update for Azure Stack HCI enables new workloads, new host capabilities, and new management scenarios. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Public preview: Azure Percept DK September (2109) software update is available The Azure Percept September update includes fixes related to security and Wi-Fi/Network. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates General availability: Azure Monitor Query SDK The new Azure Monitor Query SDK is now generally available for .NET, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, and Python, allowing developers to build apps that perform read-only queries in Azure Monitor's Logs and Metrics platform. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates 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. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates General availability: Cross region replication for Azure NetApp Files Azure NetApp Files supports cross region replication for disaster-recovery (DR) purposes and provides frequent, efficient and cost-effective volume and snapshot replication between Azure standard and non-standard region pairs. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates OCR (Read) supports 122 languages in the Cognitive Services Computer Vision public preview Computer Vision Read API for Optical Character Recognition (OCR), part of Cognitive Services, announces its public preview with new languages including Russian, Bulgarian, other Cyrillic and more Latin languages. This release also highlight handwritten OCR support for many languages, along with enhancements for digital PDFs and Machine Readable Zone (MRZ) text in identity documents. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates 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. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates 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. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates 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 Click here for more information.

Azure service updates 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. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Azure Maps iOS SDK is now in public preview Develop integrated immersive mapping solutions for mobile applications with Azure Maps iOS SDK Click here for more information.

Azure service updates 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. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates 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. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates 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. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates 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 Click here for more information.

Azure service updates 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. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Public preview: IPv6 for Kubenet AKS now supports dual stack IPv6 overlay networking Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Public preview: AKS out of tree cloud provider controller manager Cloud provider controller manager enables AKS releases independent of Kubernetes release cadence. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Public preview: AKS support for WebAssembly System Interface (WASI) workloads Deploy WebAssembly System Interface (WASI) workloads in Kubernetes using Krustlets Click here for more information.

Azure service updates 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. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Public preview: HTTPS proxy configuration support You can now specify HTTPS proxy configuration when creating your AKS clusters and node pools. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Azure SQL—Public preview updates for October 2021  Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL Managed Instance for 2021. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates 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. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates 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. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates 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. Click here for more information.