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Azure – Audit Logs of Azure Monitor logs queries now available
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. Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure Cosmos DB Management with PowerShell cmdlets is in public preview
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. Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure Cosmos DB: Azure CLI support for autoscale
Now in general availability, we are announcing Azure CLI support for autoscale in Azure Cosmos DB. Read More for the details.

Azure – No downtime indexing updates in Azure Cosmos DB
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. Read More for the details.

Azure – Configurable backup storage redundancy option for Azure SQL Managed Instance
More flexibility and choice for backup storage redundancy with the addition of LRS and ZRS storage options. Read More for the details.

Azure – SQL Server FCI on Shared Disks for SQL Server on virtual machines
Azure Shared Disks for SQL Server Failover Cluster Instance (SQL FCI) on Azure IaaS is now in general availability. Read More for the details.

Azure – Backup storage cost savings for Azure SQL Database and Managed Instance
Greater recovery period granularity and automated backup compression now available, helping to optimize your backup storage costs. Read More for the details.

Azure – App Service: .NET Framework 4.8 Support now available
Support for .NET Framework 4.8 is now generally available in Azure App Service Read More for the details.

AWS – Introducing Genomics Tertiary Analysis and Machine Learning using Amazon SageMaker
Genomics Tertiary Analysis and Machine Learning Using Amazon SageMaker is a new AWS Solutions Implementation that creates a scalable environment in AWS to develop machine learning models using genomics data, generate predictions, and evaluate model performance. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS IoT Device Management increases the limit for concurrent Active Jobs to 1,000 per AWS account per region
We’re excited to announce that customers will be able to create up to 1,000 Active Jobs per AWS account per connected region. The prior limit was 100 active continuous jobs and 100 active snapshot jobs per AWS account. This new limit will apply to the total number of Jobs created – including both, continuous and […]