New Azure features and functionality for April 2021
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 April 2021 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
- Application Gateway URL Rewrite
- New M-series Msv2/Mdsv2 Medium Memory VMs for memory-optimized workloads
- Open source API Portal now generally available
- User data through Azure Instance Metadata Service
- Event source start options in Azure Time Series Insights Gen2
- Log analytics workspace name uniqueness is now per resource group
- New Azure Policy built-in definitions for data encryption in Azure Monitor
- Azure IoT Edge nesting capabilities are now generally available
- MSIX app attach in Azure portal
- Azure API Management support for Availability Zones
- Lustre® HSM tools now available to import from or export to Azure Storage.
- Azure Maps Weather Services
- Azure Blob storage supports objects up to 200 TB in size
- Log Analytics Windows Agent for Winter 2021
- New Azure Cloud Services deployment model
- Azure Monitor for Windows Virtual Desktop
- Azure Backup supports backup and restore of Azure Dedicated Host
Updates
- Cognitive Services – New Computer Vision API v3.2
- Azure SQL – updates for April 14, 2021
- Azure IoT Central new and updated features—March 2021
- Azure IoT Edge 1.2.0
- Updated App Service Authentication portal experience
- Azure Security Center: Updates for March 2021
