Azure Roadmap

on 6th August 2020 at 20:00

Additional SQL Gateways are being added for Azure SQL Database in West Central US and South Africa North effective 10 September 2020.

on 6th August 2020 at 18:00

Optimize your costs and enjoy faster backup and restore operations by selectively backing up a subset of the data disks in a VM.

on 6th August 2020 at 17:45

Azure has added an important compliance offering for telecommunications in France, the Global System for Mobile Communications Association (GSMA) Security Accreditation Scheme for Subscription Management (SAS-SM).

on 5th August 2020 at 23:00

Azure monitor for containers with Azure portal now supports new Kubernetes resource view. In this new view you can diagnose the issue by drilling down to resource types including deployments, pods, and replica sets & see historical data trend and overall usage over time.

on 5th August 2020 at 16:00

Support for .NET Framework 4.8 is now generally available in Azure App Service

on 5th August 2020 at 16:00

More flexibility and choice for backup storage redundancy with the addition of LRS and ZRS storage options.

on 5th August 2020 at 16:00

Greater recovery period granularity and automated backup compression now available, helping to optimize your backup storage costs.

on 5th August 2020 at 16:00

General availability support for up to 16TB of storage and up to 20,000 IOPS in Azure Database for MariaDB enables you to run the most demanding, large scale workloads.

on 5th August 2020 at 16:00

You can now confidently make indexing changes without fear of impacting existing reads and writes. Before this change, write performance was unaffected during index updates but query results were not consistent while the index transformation was ongoing.

on 5th August 2020 at 16:00

Now in preview, users can manage Azure Cosmos DB resources using a set of PowerShell cmdlets, available in the Az.CosmosDB Powershell module. The Az.CosmosDB module can be used with Windows PowerShell 5.1 as well as cross-platform PowerShell Core 6 or 7.

on 5th August 2020 at 16:00

Now in general availability, we are announcing Azure CLI support for autoscale in Azure Cosmos DB.

on 5th August 2020 at 16:00

The Azure Monitor Logs service allows you to collect telemetry of all types across their entire infrastructure and query this telemetry to collect insights. We are announcing a new capability to collect audit logs about query execution.

on 5th August 2020 at 16:00

Remediate Advisor recommendations at scale more quickly and easily using Advisors new Quick Fix feature.

on 5th August 2020 at 16:00

In order to provide Azure Service Bus to more customers irrespective of their application stack and application ecosystem, and in keeping with that vision, we’re announcing feature parity with Java Message Service (JMS) 2.0 over AMQP.

on 5th August 2020 at 16:00

Kubernetes resource view allows developers to use point and click navigation to see live, in-depth details of their workloads.

on 5th August 2020 at 16:00

Azure Backup now supports configuring backup for Azure file shares directly from the file share blade

on 5th August 2020 at 16:00

Azure Shared Disks for SQL Server Failover Cluster Instance (SQL FCI) on Azure IaaS is now in general availability.

on 4th August 2020 at 16:00

New enhancements and updates were made to Azure Security Center in July 2020.

on 4th August 2020 at 16:00

Effective September 1, 2020 Azure Analytics Data Bricks Meters will have a name change.

on 3rd August 2020 at 22:00

Custom Translator team is being upgraded to V2 phase-1 to take advantage of the state-of-the-art neural machine translation (NMT) architecture available in Microsoft Translator. This architecture powers translation for Microsoft services such as Office 365, Teams, Speech Services, Bing.com and Translator, along with other services. Data residency support is also being enabled to meet corporate data security, data privacy and regulatory requirements to keep customer data in the Europe region.