New Azure features and functionality for December 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 December 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
- RabbitMQ Extension for Windows and Linux is now generally available
- Support for reference data up to 5GB and new improvements in Azure Stream Analytics now generally available
- Azure Digital Twins is now generally available
- Private Link support for Azure Automation is now generally available
- Event hubs on Azure Stack Hub is now generally available
- Azure Storage account recovery available via portal is now generally available
- Azure Data Factory data flow connectors now generally available for CDM and Delta Lake.
- Azure Stack HCI is now generally available
- Azure Data Share snapshot sharing for SQL Database and Synapse generally available
- Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Single Server: logical decoding feature is now generally available
- Infrastructure Encryption for Azure Monitor dedicated clusters now generally available
- General availability: AKS resources view
- Azure Functions custom handlers are now generally available
- Azure Stack Edge Kubernetes system is now available
- GA: Azure Red Hat OpenShift support for OpenShift 4.5
- Java Azure Functions support on Linux is now generally available
- New features are now available for Azure Form Recognizer
Updates
- Azure Sphere OS version 20.12 is now available
- Azure VMware Solution now available in UK South
- Azure IoT Central new and updated features—November 2020
- HoloLens 2 Development Edition expands to new markets
- Azure Security Center—News and updates for November 2020
Misc.
- Azure portal to end support for Internet Explorer 11 on March 31, 2021
- Ingress logs are now available for Azure Time Series Insights environments
- Five more free services now available in the Azure free account
- Automatic VM placement and Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets available on Dedicated Host
- Intel SGX based confidential computing VMs now available on Azure Dedicated Hosts
- Azure Repos – New enhancements to pull request experience
- Azure Data Factory is now available in UK West
- Enabling IBM WebSphere Liberty and Open Liberty on Azure Red Hat OpenShift
- Azure IRAP has assessed seven additional services and granted them the level of PROTECTED
- IoT Hub private link now works with the built-in Event Hub compatible endpoint
- Azure Batch vCPU quota checks are being updated
Useful Links
- Get stuck into more Azure on Microsoft Learn
- New Azure features and functionality for November 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?
