Azure SQL Database Gen 4 hardware approaching end of life in 2020

Azure SQL Database is beginning the decommissioning process of Gen 4 Intel E5-2673 v3 (Haswell)-based CPUs and is transitioning to Intel E5-2673 v4 (Broadwell) 2.3 GHz and Intel SP8160 (Skylake) processors for all new deployments. Source: Microsoft Azure – aggiornamenti

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IoT devices and applications to only use TLS 1.2 for communication with IoT Hub and DPS

To provide best-in-class encryption, IoT Hub and Device Provisioning Service are moving to Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.2 as the encryption mechanism of choice for IoT devices. As such, legacy support for TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 as well as several legacy ciphers will be deprecated in July[…]

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Azure Search meter names will change on February 1, 2020

Effective February 1, 2020, the meter names of Azure Search will change. Source: Microsoft Azure – aggiornamenti

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Azure SQL Database managed instance meter PITRs name changes

Effective February 1, 2020, the meter names of Azure SQL Database managed instance point-in-time restore (PITR) backup will change. Source: Microsoft Azure – aggiornamenti

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Azure IOT Central meter IDs will change on February 3, 2020

Effective February 3, 2020, the meter IDs of Azure IoT Central will change based on the number of message allocations. The Overages Messages meter ID will change as well. Modify your billing routines that rely on meter IDs. Your pricing may also be impacted. See the pricing page[…]

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