Azure

Azure Firewall Premium provides next generation firewall capabilities that are required for highly sensitive and regulated environments.
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Achieve unified management and access control across Azure resources, Azure Key Vault and keys, certificates, and secrets.
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Azure Instance Metadata Service (IMDS) is a mature REST API which offers metadata information regarding Networking, Storage, SKU and etc. We are now adding Load Balancer related information to the list of metadata IMDS covers.
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Azure Cost Management capabilities to view and analyze costs, be notified when exceeding cost thresholds using budgets, and export usage and charges data is now supported for Azure Government Pay-As-You-Go subscriptions.
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Simplify your cost reporting in Azure government using Azure Cost Management + Billing’s cost allocation.
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Microsoft has announced plans to bring a new datacenter region, East US 3, to Georgia, including Availability Zones.
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Now you can protect larger SAP HANA DBs (such as Mv2 – 12 TB RAM machines) with the enhanced data transfer capabilities from Azure Backup.
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DoD Impact Level 5 (IL5) on Azure Government further validates security and compliance for Azure Databricks.
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Version pinning is no longer required for Key Vault references in App Service and Azure Functions.
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You can now manage and monitor you Azure Government subscriptions with the Azure mobile app.
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Azure Data Explorer ingestion wizard allows you to automatically create a table and ingest data from up to 10 files or blobs.
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We are announcing the second generation of Power BI Embedded, referred to as Embedded Gen 2, is available for its Azure subscribers to use during the public preview period. All of the Power BI Embedded Gen 1 capabilities such as pausing and resuming the capacity, are preserved in Gen 2 and the price per SKU remains the same, however the Gen 2 capacity resource provides substantial improvements in performance, scale and much more.
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Automate tasks across Azure & Non-Azure environment using PowerShell and Python based scripts.
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Computer Vision Read 3.2 API for Optical Character Recognition (OCR), part of Cognitive Services, announces its public preview with support for Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, and several Latin languages, with option to use the cloud service or deploy the Docker container on premise.
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Soft delete, which protects Azure file shares from accidental deletion, is now on by default for new storage accounts created after January 31st.
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Applications can now create append blobs in addition to block blobs in Azure Data Lake Storage accounts and append to them using Append Block operations. Applications that need to add information to existing files efficiently and continuously can leverage append blobs.
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January updates include jobs improvements, new API features, new data export features, and documentation enhancements.
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Azure’s PCI 3DS Attestation of Compliance, PCI 3DS Shared Responsibility Matrix, and PCI 3DS whitepaper are now available.
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Azure expands its depth of offerings to Azure customers with its latest independent HITRUST assessment.
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The ITSM connector provides a bi-directional connection between Azure and ITSM tools to help track and resolve issues faster.
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