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General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in early June 2021
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Setup alerts on the Azure portal to be notified about planned deployments with planned maintenance notifications for Azure Database for MySQL – Single Server.
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Set up alerts today on the Azure portal to be notified about planned deployments for Azure Database for MariaDB.
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Azure Defender provides security alerts for anomalous activities so that you can detect potential threats and respond to them as they occur.
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Azure Defender detects anomalous activities indicating unusual and potentially harmful attempts to access or exploit your Azure Database for MySQL.
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Azure Defender detects anomalous activities indicating unusual and potentially harmful attempts to access or exploit your Azure Database for MariaDB.
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Speech service has added Speech to Text support for 6 new languages and locales.
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Azure Policy built-in policies in which resource type is the only evaluation criterion (e.g. Allowed Resource Types, Disallowed Resource Types) have updated logic to provide a more accurate assessment of your overall environment when aggregated with other policies.
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Support for TLS 1.0 and 1.1 ends September 1, 2021, please upgrade to TLS 1.2 to ensure secure and uninterrupted backups using MARS agent
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ExpressRoute Global Reach allows you to link ExpressRoute circuits together to make a private network between your on-premises networks. The data transfer price for this offering is now 50% lower.
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Access Key Expiration and Policy support for Azure Storage Accounts
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Azure Maps Creator provides an end-to-end solution for private indoor maps.
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With this update, we are including changes to Azure Boards and Azure Pipelines. You can now get total capacity for all teams in an iteration. In addition, we are previewing support for templates in the YAML editor.
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Azure functions can now connect using an identity instead of a secret.
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Enjoy additional cost savings with the new price changes to Azure Sentinel and Azure monitor. These changes took effect on June 2, 2021.
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Visual developer tool for exploring your digital twin is now available as a web application.
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After the first purchased unit, a price reduction of 50% will be applied on all subsequent units purchased.
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New enhancements and updates released for general availability (GA) in Azure Security Center in May 2021.
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Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure Security Center in May 2021.
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The latest Azure Site Recovery update provides improvements, fixes, updated replication support, and download links for Site Recovery components.
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