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In Cloud Computing This Week [Sept 3rd 2021]

September 3, 2021

This week's roundup of all the cloud news.

 

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AWS Updates and Releases

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Amazon Monitron launches a new ethernet gateway device

This week, AWS announced the launch of Amazon Monitron Gateway (Ethernet) , a new gateway device that allows customers to use their ethernet network to connect Monitron to the internet. The ethernet gateway joins the Wi-Fi gateway that was launched in December 2020, giving customers even more options for Amazon Monitron internet connectivity. Amazon Monitron is an end-to-end  system that uses machine learning (ML) to detect abnormal conditions in industrial equipment, enabling you to implement predictive maintenance and reduce unplanned downtime. It includes sensors to capture vibration and temperature data from equipment, a gateway device to securely transfer data to AWS, the Amazon Monitron service that analyzes the data for abnormal equipment conditions using machine learning, and a companion mobile app to set up the devices and receive reports on operating behavior and alerts to potential failures in your equipment.

Amazon RDS for MariaDB supports new minor versions 10.5.12, 10.4.21, 10.3.31, 10.2.40

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MariaDB now supports MariaDB minor versions 10.5.12 , 10.4.21 , 10.3.31 , and 10.2.40 . We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MariaDB, and to benefit from the numerous bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the MariaDB community.

Updated AWS Solutions Implementation: AWS CloudEndure Migration Factory Solution

AWS CloudEndure Migration Factory Solution coordinates and automates manual processes for larger scaled migrations involving a substantial number of servers. This solutions implementation helps enterprises improve migration velocity and prevents long cutover windows by providing an orchestration and automation platform for rehosting servers to AWS at scale.

Introducing Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the general availability of Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, a storage service that allows customers to launch and run complete, fully managed ONTAP file systems in the cloud for the first time. ONTAP is NetApp’s file system technology that has traditionally powered on-premises network-attached storage (NAS) and provides a widely adopted set of data access and data management capabilities. Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP provides the popular features, performance, and APIs of ONTAP file systems with the agility, scalability, and simplicity of a fully managed AWS service, making it easier for customers to migrate on-premises applications that rely on NAS appliances to AWS. It also provides developers with high-performance and feature-rich file storage that makes it easy to build, test, and run cloud-native applications.

Amazon SageMaker is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region

Amazon SageMaker is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region. Amazon SageMaker is a fully managed service that provides every developer and data scientist with the ability to build, train, and deploy machine learning (ML) models quickly. SageMaker removes the heavy lifting from each step of the machine learning process to make it easier to develop high quality models.

Amazon Elastic File System introduces Intelligent-Tiering to automatically optimize storage costs

Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) now supports Intelligent-Tiering, a new capability that makes it easier for you to optimize costs for shared file storage, even when access patterns change. EFS Intelligent-Tiering is designed to help you achieve the right price and performance blend for your application file data by placing your file data in a storage class based on file access patterns.

Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering further automates storage cost savings by removing the minimum storage duration and monitoring and automation charge for small objects

The Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering storage class automates storage cost savings for a wider range of workloads by eliminating the minimum storage duration, and removing the low per-object monitoring and automation charges for objects smaller than 128 KB. S3 Intelligent-Tiering is the only cloud storage class that delivers automatic storage cost savings when data access patterns change, without performance impact or operational overhead. Previously, S3 Intelligent-Tiering was optimized for long-lived objects stored for a minimum of 30 days and objects larger than 128 KB. With these changes, S3 Intelligent-Tiering is the ideal storage class for data with unknown, changing, or unpredictable access patterns, independent of object size or retention period. You can use S3 Intelligent-Tiering as the default storage class for data lakes, analytics, and new applications.

Amazon EBS direct APIs now supports creating 64 TB EBS Snapshots

Amazon EBS direct APIs now supports creating 64 TB EBS Snapshots directly from any block storage data, including on-premises data. With this new capability, customers can use EBS Snapshots for disaster recovery of their largest on-premises workloads and achieve business continuity in AWS at lower costs.

AWS Database Migration Service now supports migrating multiple databases in one task using MongoDB as a source

AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) expands functionality by adding support for migrating multiple databases in one task using MongoDB and Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) as a source. Using AWS DMS, you can now group multiple databases of a MongoDB cluster and migrate them using one DMS task to any AWS DMS supported targets  including Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) with minimal downtime.

AWS Transfer Family simplifies managed file transfer workflows with low code automation

AWS Transfer Family now supports managed workflows that makes it easy for you to create, execute, and monitor post upload processing for file transfers over SFTP, FTPS, and FTP for Amazon S3 and Amazon EFS. Using this feature, you can save time with low code automation to coordinate all the necessary tasks such as copying and tagging. You can also configure custom logic to scan for errors in the data including Personal Identifiable Information (PII), viruses, malware, or incorrect file formats or types. With managed workflows, quickly detect anomalies and meet your compliance requirements with ease.

Amazon S3 Multi-Region Access Points accelerate access to replicated data sets by up to 60%

Amazon S3 Multi-Region Access Points accelerate performance by up to 60% when accessing data sets that are replicated across multiple AWS Regions. Based on AWS Global Accelerator, S3 Multi-Region Access Points consider factors like network congestion and the location of the requesting application to dynamically route your requests over the AWS network to the lowest latency copy of your data. This automatic routing allows you to take advantage of the global infrastructure of AWS while maintaining a simple application architecture.

NICE DCV releases web client SDK 1.0.3

NICE DCV is a high-performance remote display protocol that helps users to securely access remote desktop or application sessions, including 3D graphics applications hosted on servers with high-performance GPUs.

NICE DCV releases version 2021.2

NICE DCV is a high-performance remote display protocol that helps customers securely access remote desktop or application sessions, including 3D graphics applications hosted on servers with high-performance GPUs.

AWS Lambda now supports AWS PrivateLink in previously unsupported Availability Zones

AWS Lambda now supports AWS PrivateLink in previously unsupported Availability Zones in US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), South America (São Paulo), Canada (Central), and EU (London) regions. With this launch, AWS Lambda now supports AWS PrivateLink in all Availability Zones in all commercial regions, AWS GovCloud (US-East), and AWS GovCloud (US-West). 

Amazon Polly offers full support in the AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region

Amazon Polly, a service that turns text into speech, extends its offering to the AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region. Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Ayanda, Polly’s first South African English Neural Text-to-Speech (NTTS) voice, as well as full support for the entire portfolio of Amazon Polly's Neural and Standard voices in the AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region. With this launch, the service now supports 31 languages including 7 different varieties of English. Neural TTS voices are available in 12 AWS Regions.

AWS Security Hub Automated Response and Remediation adds support for PCI-DSS v3.2.1 Security Standard

AWS Security Hub Automated Response & Remediation solution is a reference implementation that includes a library of automated security response and remediation actions to common security findings. The solution makes it easier for customers to resolve common security findings and improve their security posture in AWS.

AWS Firewall Manager now supports AWS WAF log filtering

AWS Firewall Manager now enables security administrators to specify which web requests to log and which requests to exclude from logs when using AWS WAF to inspect web traffic. If you use Firewall Manager security policies to centralize AWS WAF logging, you can now log only the information you want to analyze. By reducing the amount of log data stored, you can reduce your log delivery and storage costs.

Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights adds support for Microsoft SQL Server FCI and FSx storage

Now you can easily setup monitoring, alarms and dashboards for your Microsoft SQL Server Failover Cluster Instances (FCI) running on AWS and for applications using FSx managed storage with CloudWatch Application Insights. CloudWatch Application Insights is a capability that helps customers monitor and troubleshoot their enterprise applications running on AWS resources. The new feature adds automatic discovery of the database and managed storage, the FCI configuration and the underlying resources along with setting up the metrics, telemetry and logs for monitoring its health and wellness. 

AWS Elemental MediaTailor now supports time based schedules for Channel Assembly streams

Channel Assembly with AWS Elemental MediaTailor now lets you schedule programs based on a wall-clock time. Using "linear mode" you have fine-grained control of when individual sources will be played and which sources are to follow on a channel output. Looping mode is also available where timing on individual programs is loosely defined to ensure that there is content always playing on a channel output.

Amazon SageMaker now supports M5d, R5, and P3dn instances for SageMaker Studio Notebooks

This week, AWS  were excited to announce that Amazon SageMaker Studio now supports Amazon EC2 M5d, R5, and P3dn instances. Customers can launch SageMaker Studio Notebooks with these instances types in the regions where they are available.

AWS LAUNCH WIZARD NOW SUPPORTS ADDITIONAL DEPLOYMENT CAPABILITIES TO MEET DEVOPS AND ORGANIZATIONAL REQUIREMENTS

When you deploy SAP applications with AWS Launch Wizard it now saves the CloudFormation templates and application configuration code in your S3 buckets and creates an AWS Service Catalog product when deployment is complete. This allows you to leverage Launch Wizard-generated infrastructure as code to repeat deployments with identical configuration, or customize them to meet organizational requirements. This provides a number of benefits:

  • Choice: Use the deployment tools (e.g. ServiceNow, Jira, CloudFormation) and processes of your choice.
  • Versioning: Adopt new Launch Wizard features and capabilities at your own pace.
  • Simplification: This launch allows you to reduce number of inputs needed for repeat deployments of the same product/pattern. For example, when deploying multiple HANA systems of same version in the same VPC and subnet, you can default these settings in AWS ServiceCatalog/AWS CloudFormation and let the end user only interact with other inputs that change from deployment to deployment.

AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry adds support for Amazon ECS in Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights and metrics support for AWS Lambda applications in Amazon Managed Prometheus (Preview)

This week, AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT) adds support for Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) metrics running on Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) in Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights (preview), enabling customers to easily collect container metrics and analyze them along with other metrics in Amazon CloudWatch. You can also collect AWS Lambda application metrics and send them to Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus (preview).

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports July 2021 Patch Set Update (PSU) for 12.1 and Release Updates (RU) for 12.2 and 19c

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for Oracle now supports the July 2021 Patch Set Update (PSU) for Oracle Database 12.1 and Release Updates (RU) for Oracle Database 12.2 and 19c.

AWS Copilot now supports Pub/Sub architectures

This week, AWS were excited to announce the release of version 1.10 of AWS Copilot with support for publish/subscribe architectures that customers can use to decouple microservices and consume events asynchronously. Customers can now use AWS Copilot to build event-driven architectures or to decouple services in order to increase performance, reliability, and scalability.

AWS announces General Availability of Amazon Managed Grafana with SAML 2.0 and Grafana v8.0 features

Amazon Managed Grafana is now generally available. Amazon Managed Grafana is a fully managed, secure data visualization service that enables customers to query, correlate, and visualize operational metrics, logs, and traces for their applications across multiple data sources. Developed in collaboration with Grafana Labs, Amazon Managed Grafana manages the provisioning, setup, scaling, and maintenance of Grafana servers, eliminating the need for customers to do this themselves.

Amazon VPC Announces New Routing Enhancements to Make It Easy to Deploy Virtual Appliances Between Subnets In a VPC

You can now configure routes in your subnet route tables to forward traffic between two subnets in a VPC, via virtual appliances such as network firewalls, intrusion detection and protection systems, etc.

Introducing Dynamic Partitioning in Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose

This week AWS announced Dynamic Partitioning in Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose. With Dynamic Partitioning, you can continuously partition streaming data in Kinesis Data Firehose using keys within data like “customer_id” or “transaction_id” and deliver data grouped by these keys into corresponding Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) prefixes, making it easier for you to run high performance, cost-efficient analytics on streaming data in Amazon S3 using Amazon Athena, Amazon EMR, and Amazon Redshift Spectrum.

AWS Systems Manager enables additional application management capabilities

Application Manager, a capability of AWS Systems Manager, now supports additional features that help customers to easily manage their applications end-to-end, without switching consoles. With this release, IT professionals can edit application and resource tags, and invoke appropriate runbooks based on the application type, all within the Application Manager console.

AWS IoT Device Management announces new fleet monitoring enhancements

This week, AWS IoT announced the general availability of several new enhancements for AWS IoT Device Management. These new features will enable customers to better monitor characteristics of their fleet over time, diagnose connectivity issues, and perform aggregation queries to group devices across different values.

AMAZON MANAGED WORKFLOWS FOR APACHE AIRFLOW (MWAA) AVAILABLE IN CANADA, LONDON, PARIS, SAO PAULO, SEOUL, AND MUMBAI REGIONS

Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) is now available in six new AWS Regions: South America (Sao Paulo), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Canada (Central), EU (London), and EU (Paris).

Amazon Aurora supports PostgreSQL 13 in GovCloud Regions

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition now supports PostgreSQL major version 13 in GovCloud regions. PostgreSQL 13  includes improved functionality and performance from enhancements such as de-duplication of B-tree index entries, improved performance for queries that use partitioned tables, incremental sorting to accelerate data sorts, parallel processing of indexes with the VACUUM command, more ways to monitor activity within a PostgreSQL database, new security capabilities, and more. This release also adds support for bool_plperl, which simplifies writing Perl procedures.

AWS Backint Agent now supports Amazon S3 Intelligent Tiering, sending log and data backups to separate folders, and Ansible

Posted On: Aug 30, 2021

AWS Backint Agent now supports three new features: Amazon S3 Intelligent Tiering, the ability to send log and data backups to separate folders, and compatibility with Ansible.

AWS Database Migration Service now supports Redis as a target

AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) expands functionality by adding support for Redis, Amazon ElastiCache for Redis, and Amazon MemoryDB for Redis as targets. Redis is a fast, open-source, in-memory key-value data store for use as a cache, database, message broker, and queue. Amazon ElastiCache for Redis is a fully managed caching service that combines the speed, simplicity, and versatility of open-source Redis with manageability, security, and scalability from Amazon to power the most demanding real-time applications. Amazon MemoryDB for Redis is a Redis-compatible, durable, in-memory database service that delivers ultra-fast performance for modern, microservices applications. Using AWS DMS, you can now migrate data live from any AWS DMS supported sources  to Redis data stores with minimal downtime.

EC2 Image Builder supports Amazon EventBridge notifications

Now on EC2 Image Builder, customers can use events to trigger an image build schedule in their event-driven architectures. Integrate your image build schedule with your events from AWS services, our SaaS partners, and custom events, via Amazon EventBridge. You can also create rules for event patterns, such as listening for a specific variable, and configure those rules to initiate image builds using EC2 Image Builder.

AWS CLOUDFORMATION INTRODUCES THE OPTION TO TROUBLESHOOT PROVISIONING ERRORS BEFORE ROLLBACK, ACCELERATING DEPLOYMENTS

AWS CloudFormation users can now choose to preserve the state of successfully deployed resources in the event of CloudFormation stack operation errors. Using this feature, you can retry the operation using an updated CloudFormation template and quickly iterate through feedback loops, shortening development cycles.

 

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Google Cloud Releases and Updates
Source: cloud.google.com

AI Platform Prediction

Runtime version 2.6 is now available. You can use runtime version 2.6 to serve online predictions with TensorFlow 2.6.0, scikit-learn 0.24.2, or XGBoost 1.4.2. Runtime version 2.6 does not support batch prediction.

See the full list of updated dependencies in runtime version 2.6.

 

Anthos Clusters on VMware

Anthos clusters on VMware 1.8.2-gke.11 is now available. To upgrade, see Upgrading Anthos clusters on VMware. Anthos clusters on VMware 1.8.2-gke.11 runs on Kubernetes 1.20.9-gke.701.

The supported versions offering the latest patches and updates for security vulnerabilities, exposures, and issues impacting Anthos clusters on VMware are 1.8, 1.7, and 1.6.

Starting from version 1.8.2, Anthos clusters on VMware uses cert-manager instead of Istio Citadel for issuing TLS certificates used by metrics endpoints.

Anthos GKE on AWS

Anthos clusters on AWS aws-1.8.2-gke.2 is now available.

Anthos clusters on AWS aws-1.8.2-gke.2 clusters run the following Kubernetes versions:

    • 1.17.17-gke.15800
    • 1.18.20-gke.4800
    • 1.19.14-gke.600
    • 1.20.10-gke.600

BigQuery

 

An updated version of ODBC driver for BigQuery is now available that includes enhancements.

Exporting table data in Parquet format is now generally available (GA).

 

Cloud Build

Users can now use build triggers in projects in the VPC Service Controls perimeter. For instructions, see Using VPC Service Controls.

Cloud Composer

Cloud Composer 1.16.16 release started on August 30, 2021. Get ready for upcoming changes and features as we roll out the new release to all regions. This release is in progress at the moment. Listed changes and features might not be available in some regions yet.

Airflow 2.1.2 is available in Cloud Composer images.

(Airflow 2) Cloud Composer now supports the stable Airflow REST API. The stable Airflow REST API is enabled by default.

Cloud Functions

Cloud Functions adds support for setting a minimum number of instances, available at the Preview release level. For more information, see the blog post.

Cloud Logging

You can now collect nginx metrics and logs from the Ops Agent, starting with version 2.1.0. For more information, see Monitoring third-party applications: nginx.

 

Cloud Monitoring

You can now collect nginx metrics and logs from the Ops Agent, starting with version 2.1.0. For more information, see Monitoring third-party applications: nginx.

The VM Instances page features enhanced scorecards for VM health. The new scorecards now include both "maintenance" and "system" events that might affect your VMs and agents, along with other metrics and statistics about the health of your VMs. The filtering and sorting of the Inventory table have also been enhanced.

Cloud Spanner

The R2DBC driver for Cloud Spanner is available in Preview. This driver lets you connect to Cloud Spanner from fully reactive applications.

In the Cloud Console, a database's Query page now supports multiple query tabs so you no longer have to clear one query to create and run another. Additionally, you can enter multiple query and DML statements in a single query tab. When you do so, the Results and Explanation subtabs let you choose which statement's results or query plan you want to view. See A tour of the query editor for details.

Added support for changing the leader region location of a Cloud Spanner database.

Added support for the JSON data type. For more information, see Working with JSON data.

 

Cloud SQL for MySQL

Cloud SQL for MySQL now supports using a custom import to set up replication from large external databases. To use this replication option, see Configuring Cloud SQL to replicate from an external server and Using a custom import to set up replication from large external databases.

Cloud SQL for MySQL

Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL support for pglogical, native logical replication, wal2json and test_decoding is now generally available.

Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL support for Automatic IAM database authentication is now generally available. See Automatic IAM database authentication.

Compute Engine

Generally available: When deleting VMs from a managed instance group, you can flag the operation to continue even if some instances were already deleted or if other instance validation errors occur.

Dataflow

Dataflow Prime is now available in Preview.
 

Dataproc

New sub-minor versions of Dataproc images: 1.4.70-debian10, 1.4.70-ubuntu18, 1.5.45-centos8, 1.5.45-debian10, 1.5.45-ubuntu18, 2.0.19-centos8, 2.0.19-debian10, 2.0.19-ubuntu18

Backported SPARK-34295: Added a new spark.yarn.kerberos.renewal.excludeHadoopFileSystemsconfiguration option.

Image 2.0:

OOZIE-3599: Upgraded Jetty version to 9.4.

Hive version 3.1.2 will become the default Dataproc Metastore service creation version in 1 week on September 6, 2021.

Dialogflow

New Dialogflow CX agent roles are introduced for granular control of agent resources.

GKE

GKE Autoscaling profiles are now generally available.

Network Connectivity Centre

You can now create Router appliance spokes by using the Google Cloud Console. For more information, see Working with hubs and spokes.

Traffic Director

Traffic Director deployed with proxyless gRPC can now use the advanced traffic management features retry and session affinity.


 
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Microsoft Azure Releases And Updates
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PUBLIC PREVIEW OF PRIVATE LINK UDR SUPPORT

User Defined Routes support on Private Endpoint will make configuring custom routes to traffic destined to a Private Endpoint easier for your large workloads. Learn more about how to use this feature in select regions.

Public preview of Private Link Network Security Group Support

Network Security Group support on Private Endpoint (PE) will allow you to improve granular security requirements for traffic destined to a private endpoint. This will assist in meeting specific compliance and security requirements for managing your PE powered workloads.

General availability: Azure Route Server

Azure Route Server enables network appliances to exchange route information with Azure virtual networks dynamically.

 

General availability: Azure DevOps August 2021 updates

 

With August updates, we added support for environment variables in Linux scale set agents. Now you can change the working directory of a Linux agent to use a faster drive than the OS drive. In addition, you can set a proxy to be used by the agent.

Upgrade to the latest version of Azure AD Connect before 31 August 2022

TARGET RETIREMENT DATE: AUGUST 31, 2022

All 1.x versions of Azure AD Connect will be retired next year.

General availability: Azure API Management updates - August 2021

The availability zones feature in Azure API Management has been updated to provide better support in four new regions, in addition to other API Management updates.

 

General availability: Update in policy compliance for Azure Kubernetes Policies

Azure Kubernetes policies now surface error states to you, providing important information about potential errors in your environment.

Custom AKS policy support - now public preview

Azure Policy and AKS teams announce the public preview of custom policy support for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters. With this feature is enabled, you can create and assign custom policy definitions and constraint templates to their AKS clusters, see enhanced error state information for troubleshooting, use embedded constraint template inside policy definitions, and more.

Private preview: Azure Spring Cloud Enterprise

Azure Spring Cloud Enterprise (preview) is a new managed service for Spring Boot that is optimized for the needs of enterprise developers running applications at scale.

AZURE MACHINE LEARNING NOW GENERALLY AVAILABLE IN JAPAN WEST

Azure Machine learning, bringing AI to everyone with an end-to-end, scalable, trusted platform available in Japan West.

AZURE SQL MIGRATION EXTENSION IN AZURE DATA STUDIO IN PUBLIC PREVIEW

 

Migrate SQL Server to Azure SQL using Azure Data Studio (preview) for a modern open-source, cross-platform, and hybrid unifying tooling experience for data operations across SQL Server and Azure databases.

Windows Server IoT 2022 now generally available

Get all the latest capabilities including hybrid capabilities with Azure, advanced multilayer security and faster innovation for applications. .

General availability: Enabling Load Balancing for IBM WebSphere on Azure Virtual Machines

IBM WebSphere Application Server (Traditional) Network Deployment on Azure Linux Virtual Machines now includes added load balancing.

GENERAL AVAILABILITY: AZURE APP CONFIGURATION NOW OFFERS INCREASED HOURLY REQUEST LIMIT

The limit has increased to 30,000 requests per hour in the Standard tier

Public preview: Monitor Spring Boot applications end-to-end using Dynatrace

Dynatrace OneAgent performance monitoring is now integrated in Azure Spring Cloud in collaboration with Dynatrace for end-to-end observability of Spring Boot applications.

General availability: Change performance tiers for Azure Premium SSDs with no downtime

Azure Premium SSDs now enables you to change performance tiers without any downtime to your applications.

General availability: Automatic key rotation of customer-managed keys for encrypting Azure disks

Azure Disk Storage now enables you to automatically rotate keys for encryption of your data.

Generally available: Azure Monitor support for Availability Zones

Azure Monitor support for Availability Zones (AZ) is now available on West US 2 and East US 2. Currently, only workspaces created on dedicated clusters can have AZ support, by selecting to use Availability Zones when creating the cluster.

General availability: Cross service queries between Azure Monitor and Azure Data Explorer

You can now write cross service queries between Azure Monitor and Azure Data Explorer, to access relevant data where you need it.

Azure SQL - General availability updates for early September 2021 

General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL Managed Instance in early September 2021.

Azure SQL - Public preview updates for early September 2021

 
 
 
 IN PREVIEW

Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL Managed Instance in early September 2021.

AZURE DATABASE FOR POSTGRESQL – HYPERSCALE (CITUS) NOW SUPPORTS POSTGRESQL 11.12 MINOR VERSION

PostgreSQL 11.12 is now supported on Hyperscale (Citus) for Azure Database for PostgreSQL, a managed service running the open source Postgres database on Azure.

Public preview: Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server automated intelligent tuning

Intelligent tuning, an automated tuning service, is now available on Flexible Server for Azure Database for PostgreSQL, a managed service running the open-source Postgres database on Azure.

Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus): Germany West Central region generally available 

Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus) is now available in the Germany West Central region to distribute your Postgres database to horizontally scale queries across multiple machines using sharding.

Azure AD Graph is retiring on 30 June 2022

TARGET RETIREMENT DATE: JUNE 30, 2022

Update your apps to use Microsoft Graph before 30 June 2022

Run Commands for Azure VMware Solution now in public preview

 

Run commands are a collection of PowerShell packages available in the Azure VMware Solution portal that simplify the execution of certain operations on vCenter. With this announcement your cloud administrator can now more easily run management tasks that require elevated privileges.

Azure Functions support for Node 10 is ending on 30 September 2022

TARGET RETIREMENT DATE: SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Functions App support for Node 10 apps is ending on 30 September 2022, we recommend you upgrade to Node 14.

 

Azure Functions support for PowerShell 6 is ending on 30 September 2022

TARGET RETIREMENT DATE: SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Functions Apps support for PowerShell 6 apps is ending on 30 September 2022.

Azure Functions support for Node 6 is ending on 28 February 2022

TARGET RETIREMENT DATE: FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Functions App support for Node 6 apps is ending on 28 February 2022, we recommend you upgrade to Node 14.

General availability: Azure Backup Offline backup with Azure Data Box

 

The capability to seed large initial Microsoft Azure Recovery Services (MARS) backups offline to recovery services vault using Azure Data Box is now generally available.

 

Azure Security Center: Public preview updates for August 2021

Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure Security Center in August 2021.

Azure Security Center: General availability updates for August 2021

New enhancements and updates released for general availability (GA) in Azure Security Center in August 2021.

Public preview: Simplified disaster recovery for VMware machines using Azure Site Recovery

A new and more reliable way to protect VMware machines using simplified ASR replication appliance

General availability: Azure ExpressRoute: New ExpressRoute Direct locations available

ExpressRoute Direct gives you the ability to connect directly into Microsoft’s global network at peering locations strategically distributed around the world.

General availability: Azure ExpressRoute: New ExpressRoute peering locations available

ExpressRoute lets you extend your on-premises networks into the Microsoft cloud over a private connection with the help of a connectivity provider.

GENERAL AVAILABILITY: NEW AZURE BATCH CAPABILITIES

Several new pool and security features are now generally available.

 
 


 
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