Azure Updates – Number 10 – May 8, 2021
A summary update on Azure News that includes updates released from Microsoft Azure related to Azure, Architecture, Compute, and Sentinel topics. I’ll provide links to all the resource updates with each item. Hopefully this will save you some time digging around to find recent releases and changes.
Updates will include preview and general availability announcements, news, and technical articles published in the listed topic areas for the previous 2 week snapshot. Presented is a subset of news that is highlighted here, visit Azure Blog or Azure Updates Blog to see all the updates.
Azure Updates
Fri, 07 May 2021 Azure Storage — Attribute-based Access Control (ABAC) now available for preview Fri, 07 May 2021 Prevent Shared Key authorization for an Azure Storage account Thu, 06 May 2021 Append blob support in Azure Data Lake Storage is now generally available Wed, 05 May 2021 General availability: Multiple features for Azure VPN Gateway Wed, 05 May 2021 General availability: Custom Translator???May new features, improvements and bug fixes Wed, 05 May 2021 Azure Backup: Operational backup for Azure Blobs is now generally available Wed, 05 May 2021 General availability: Azure Log Analytics UI updates May 2021 Tue, 04 May 2021 Azure Data Share Preview API versions will no longer be supported starting August 1, 2021 Tue, 04 May 2021 New NPv1 virtual machines are now generally available Tue, 04 May 2021 Public preview: AKS support for Secrets Store Container Storage Interface Mon, 03 May 2021 General availability: Azure Maps- new Gen2 pricing model available Mon, 03 May 2021 Azure Security Center: General availability updates for April 2021 Mon, 03 May 2021 Azure Security Center: Public preview updates for April 2021 Thu, 29 Apr 2021 Azure Sphere version 21.04 is now generally available Thu, 29 Apr 2021 Microsoft Azure Web PubSub service now in public preview Thu, 29 Apr 2021 Azure Site Recovery now supports Azure Policy in public preview Thu, 29 Apr 2021 General availability: Azure Site Recovery now supports cross-continental disaster recovery for 3 region pairs Thu, 29 Apr 2021 General availability: Set up Azure Site Recovery with proximity placement groups across hybrid and cloud disaster recovery scenarios Wed, 28 Apr 2021 Public preview: Application Insight in South India and West Central US Wed, 28 Apr 2021 Public preview: Azure Log Analytics in South India Wed, 28 Apr 2021 Azure Ultra Disk is now generally available in North Central US Wed, 28 Apr 2021 Public preview: Forced failover now available with zone redundant high availability for Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server Wed, 28 Apr 2021 General availability: Application Insights work item integration in Azure Monitor Wed, 28 Apr 2021 Public preview: Stateful and 1-minute frequency log alerts in Azure Monitor Wed, 28 Apr 2021 Azure SQL???public preview updates for April 2021 Wed, 28 Apr 2021 Azure Database for MySQL ??? Flexible Server: Zone redundant high availability now generally available in new regions Wed, 28 Apr 2021 The public preview of Azure Database for MySQL ??? Flexible Server is available in two new regions Wed, 28 Apr 2021 Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server now supports 8.0.21?? Wed, 28 Apr 2021 Public preview: Azure Database for PostgreSQL ??? Flexible Server intelligent performance Wed, 28 Apr 2021 General availability: Azure Hybrid Benefit for Linux with RI and VMSS Support Wed, 28 Apr 2021 Azure Event Grid for Azure Cache for Redis now in general availability Wed, 28 Apr 2021 Azure Database for PostgreSQL ??? Hyperscale (Citus) is generally available in new regions Mon, 26 Apr 2021 New Azure VMs for general purpose and memory intensive workloads now in public preview
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