Azure Shared Image Gallery now supports specialized images in preview

Azure Shared Image Gallery now supports specialized images in preview. This feature enables you to create specialized image versions using multiple snapshots (OS disk and data disks). Source: Microsoft Azure – aggiornamenti

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New deployment strategies and caching for Azure Pipelines

Updates to Azure Pipelines include new deployment strategies (canary for Kubernetes, rolling for Kubernetes and VMs), as well as the GA of Pipeline Caching. Source: Microsoft Azure – aggiornamenti

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HDInsight HBase Accelerated Writes is now generally available

The accelerated writes feature in the HDInsight HBase cluster attaches a Premium SSD managed disk to every region server (worker node). Write ahead logs are configured to be written to Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) mounted on premium managed disks instead of standard Azure page blobs. Premium managed[…]

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Azure HDInsight now enables you to customize Azure SQL Database for Ambari

A new Azure HDInsight capability enables you to customize and upgrade your Azure SQL Database for Apache Ambari during cluster creation. Source: Microsoft Azure – aggiornamenti

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Native Azure Active Directory authentication support in point-to-site VPN

Native Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) authentication support for OpenVPN protocol, and Azure VPN Client for Windows are now available. Source: Microsoft Azure – aggiornamenti

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Azure Cognitive Services Text Analytics—New languages added to sentiment analysis

Cognitive Services Text Analytics’ sentiment analysis v3 now supports 10 languages including English, Japanese, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Spanish, Italian, French, Portuguese, German, and Dutch. Source: Microsoft Azure – aggiornamenti

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Azure SQL Database—Billing for managed instance backup storage is now in effect

Managed instance backup storage billing went into effect November 1, 2019. Backup storage is free of charge up to sizes equal to the size of the provisioned storage, while any additional GB is charged at a fixed amount depending on region. Source: Microsoft Azure – aggiornamenti

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Transparent data encryption with customer-managed keys for Azure SQL Database managed instance is now generally available

Transparent data encryption (TDE) with customer-managed keys for Azure SQL Database managed instance is now generally available. Source: Microsoft Azure – aggiornamenti

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Azure Database for MySQL support for intelligent performance is now available

Azure Database for MySQL support for intelligent performance, which includes query store, query performance insight, and performance recommendations, is now generally available. This set of features provides the ability for you to better understand your workloads, including the ability to visually inspect them, and to identify bottlenecks. Source:[…]

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Azure Database for MariaDB support for intelligent performance is now available

Azure Database for MariaDB support for the intelligent performance set of features, which includes query store, query performance insight, and performance recommendations, is now generally available. This set of features provides the ability for you to better understand your workloads, including visually inspecting them, and to identify bottlenecks. […]

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