New Azure features and functionality for August 2020
It’s been a busy month as far as new Azure features and functionality go! Just in case you’ve missed something, we’ve collected all of the announcements from August 2020 in one place. Be sure to give this list a read through, as there’s a wealth of exciting new functions and updates to check out!
General Availability
- Azure Private Link support in Azure Data Factory now available
- Azure Blob versioning is now available
- Azure Monitor Logs – Log Analytics REST APIs general availability
- Immersive Reader is now generally available
- Azure Certified for Plug and Play is now available
- Support to assess physical, AWS, GCP servers now generally available
- Azure Backup for SAP HANA databases running on RHEL is now generally available
- Cost optimization enhancements now available in Azure Advisor
- Azure Ultra Disk is now generally available in more regions and Availability Zones
- New Azure IoT Central App Template – Video Analytics is now available
- General Availability: Azure Kubernetes Service node image upgrade
- Azure Data Share in-place sharing for Azure Data Explorer now generally available
- Windows 10 IoT Core Services are generally available
- Azure Functions: PowerShell 7 support is now generally available
- TypeScript 4.0 is generally available
- Data encryption with customer managed keys for Azure Database for MySQL is now generally available
- App Service: .NET Framework 4.8 Support now available
- Azure Advisor Quick Fix is now available
News
- Upcoming changes to Standard Public IPs and Standard Load Balancers
- Upcoming billing changes to Azure Bastion
- Azure SQL Database gateways changes effective September 15, 2020
- AzCopy v10.6 released with updated sync features and larger blob size support
- Azure Site Recovery update rollup 49 – August 2020
- Azure IoT Central UI new and updated features—July 2020
- Azure Sphere OS update 20.08 is now available for compatibility testing
- Azure Cognitive Services Translator Text— New languages now available
- The Azure Cloud Shell tools image is now open sourced
- Azure Cosmos DB Management with PowerShell cmdlets is in public preview
- Azure Security Center—News and updates for July 2020
- Custom Translator upgrade and Regional data residency
- The Azure IoT Node.js SDK releases a new long term support (LTS) branch
- Azure SQL Database gateways changes effective September 2020
Misc.
- Configure upstream source for universal Packages with Azure Artifacts
- Azure Data Explorer: Create a table with the new 1-click experience
- Ingestion data isolation in Log Analytics
- Log Analytics new System Center configuration blade
- Line numbers in Log Analytics query editor
- Improvements to Azure VM backups are now available
- Data encryption with customer managed keys for Azure DB for PostgreSQL-single server
- Large storage for Azure Database for MariaDB
- Backup storage cost savings for Azure SQL Database and Managed Instance
- Azure Cosmos DB: Azure CLI support for autoscale
- No downtime indexing updates in Azure Cosmos DB
- Configure backup for Azure file shares directly from the file share blade
- SQL Server FCI on Shared Disks for SQL Server on virtual machines
Useful Links
- Get stuck into more Azure on Microsoft Learn
- New Azure features and functionality for July 2020
- View live and on-demand sessions on Azure and more on Microsoft Learn TV
- A look at the announcements from Microsoft Build 2020
- Catch up with Build 2020’s on-demand sessions
- How to skill up while stuck at home
- I want to skill up – but what do I learn?
