Azure

Azure Stack HCI built-in free software trial has been extended from 30 to 60 days giving more time to evaluate the solution before making a purchasing decision.
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Azure Stack HCI is now available in the China cloud. Get started in China with a 60-day free trial.
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ExpressRoute lets you extend your on-premises networks into the Microsoft cloud over a private connection with the help of a connectivity provider. The service is now available in 5 new peering locations.
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Azure Percept DK May (2105) SW update is available. The Azure Percept May update includes improvements for example to security, log rotation fixes, and provisioning experience.
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Beginning September 30, 2021, the Windows Virtual Desktop web client will no longer support IE 11.
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Key Vault is now being offered at a 99.99% availability SLA, an improvement over our previous 99.9% SLA. 
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Azure Stream Analytics is a fully managed, real-time analytics service designed to help you analyze and process fast moving streams of data that can be used to get insights, build reports, or trigger alerts and actions. The service is now available in 5 new regions.
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Azure Health Bot’s new regions empower customers to build critical business applications by hosting database in the same region as the application stack and close to customers for better performance.
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IoT Hub support for Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) and Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) is now generally available for service APIs. This means you can secure your service connections to IoT Hub with much more flexibility and granularity.
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Key Vault is now being offered at a 99.99% availability SLA, an improvement over our previous 99.9% SLA. 
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This month, Azure Sphere will not release an updated OS or SDK for 21.05. The next software update will be generally available in June.
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You can now deploy Azure Bastion in a peered Virtual Network (VNet), enabling RDP/SSH connectivity to virtual machines deployed in a peered Virtual network (VNet)
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Azure VPN Client for macOS enables customers to utilize features of Azure AD natively, such as multi-factor authentication, Conditional Access, and user-based policies for their Mac clients.
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Migrate your data to the ConsenSys Quorum Blockchain Service.
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A regular Azure API Management service update was started on May 5, 2021, and included the following new features, bug fixes, and other improvements.
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Add a layer of security and network isolation to your Purview account.
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Application Gateway now supports fronted mutual authentication and listener specific SSL policies.
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Azure Static Web Apps, now includes a standard plan for advanced capabilities supported by an enterprise Service Level Agreement (SLA).
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PgBouncer, a popular connection pooler for Postgres, is now part of the Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server managed service
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PgBouncer, a popular connection pooler for Postgres, is now part of the Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus) managed service.
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