Microsoft Azure 2021 年 2 月の Update

こんにちは。

2021 年 2 月のAzure の Update の情報です。

最新のUpdateの情報は、下記のサイトを参照ください。

■Azure Update
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/

■Azure Blog
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/

Azure Active Directory

• 2/19 Email one-time passcode authentication on by default starting October 2021
• 2/24 Please upgrade your Azure AD Connect sync to a newer version by 29 February 2024

Azure Analysis Services

• 2/16 .NET Core support for Analysis Services client libraries is generally available
• 2/22 Earlier versions of Analysis Services client libraries will retire on 30 June 2021

API Management

• 2/03 Support for Azure API Management certificates in Azure Key Vault has reached general availability.
• 2/17 API Management Diagnostics now available in public preview

App Service

• 2/10 Versions no longer required for Key Vault references in App Service and Azure Functions
• 2/17 Public preview: Application Insights auto-instrumentation for .NET5 App Services
• 2/22 Community support for Python 3.6 is ending on 23 December 2021

Azure Arc

• 2/17 Customers unify hybrid and multicloud IT operations with Azure Arc

Azure Automation

• 2/09 Azure Automation is now available in Japan West
• 2/18 Azure Automation 2020 recap and what’s new
• 2/23 Azure Automation is now available in UAE Central

Azure Backup

• 2/02 Support for more workloads, tag based policies now in Backup Center public preview
• 2/10 Back up Linux virtual machines running mission-critical workloads
• 2/11 Azure Backup for SAP HANA: Soft limit increased from 2 TB to 8 TB
• 2/17 Cross Region Restore of Azure VMs now generally available

Azure Batch

• 2/22 Azure Batch ‘CloudServiceConfiguration’ pools will be retired on 29 February 2024
• 2/24 Azure Batch Transcription and Customization Rest API v2 will be retired by 29 February 2024
• 2/24 We’re retiring the standard version of Custom Voice on 29 February 2024

Azure Cache for Redis

• 2/03 Azure Event Grid is now in public preview for Azure Cache for Redis

Azure Cognitive Service

• 2/03 General Availability: Custom Neural Voice, a Text-to-Speech capability within Speech Service
• 2/08 OCR support for 73 languages in the Cognitive Services Computer Vision public preview
• 2/22 General availability: Azure Cognitive Services Translator releases nine new languages
• 2/24 We are retiring Azure Cognitive Services Text Analytics v2.x on 29 February 2024

Azure CosmosDB

• 2/17 More ways to use composite indexes in Azure Cosmos DB now generally available
• 2/25 Update the Azure Cosmos DB Java SDK by 29 February 2024

Azure Cost Management

• 2/12 Public preview: Azure Cost Management + Billing’s cost allocation now available in Azure Government
• 2/12 Azure Cost Management now available for Azure Government Pay-As-You-Go subscriptions

Azure Databricks

• 2/11 Azure Databricks Achieves DoD Impact Level 5 (IL5) on Microsoft Azure Government
• 2/26 Power BI Connector for Azure Databricks is now generally available

Azure Data Explorer

• 2/09 General availability: Ingest up to 10 files and blobs with the new Azure Data Explorer intuitive UX

Azure Data Factory

• 2/22 General availability: Data flows in Azure Data Factory and Azure Synapse now support Reserved Instances

Azure Data Lake Storage

• 2/05 Append blob support for Azure Data Lake Storage is now in limited public preview
• 2/25 Action required: Switch to Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 by 29 February 2024

Azure Database for MySQL

• 2/03 Additional IOPS feature for MySQL – Flexible Server in public preview
• 2/03 General availability: Stop/start functionality for Azure Database for MySQL
• 2/17 Additional IOPS feature for MySQL – Flexible Server in preview 

Azure Database for PostgreSQL

• 2/22 Azure Database for PostgreSQL ending support for PostgreSQL version 9.6 on 11 November 2021

Azure Defender

• 2/09 Azure Defender for App Service introduces dangling DNS protection

Azure DevOps

• 2/23 Jenkins plug-ins for Azure are being retired on 29 February 2024

Azure DDoS Protection

• 2/04 Azure DDoS Protection—2020 year in review

Azure Firewall Manager

• 2/16 Azure Firewall Premium now in public preview
• 2/16 Azure Firewall Premium now in preview

Azure FrontDoor Service

• 2/18 Azure Front Door Standard and Premium now in public preview
• 2/18 Azure Front Door enhances secure cloud CDN with intelligent threat protection
• 2/19 Web Application Firewall Integration with Azure Front Door Standard and Premium SKU
• 2/19 General availability: Web Application Firewall for Azure Front Door managed ruleset refresh

Azure HDInsight

• 2/17 Azure Dav4-series VMs are available in Azure HDInsight

Azure IoT Central

• 2/05 Azure IoT Central new and updated features—January 2021

Azure IoT Edge

• 2/16 Azure IoT Edge 1.1.0 release is now generally available

Azure Key Vault

• 2/16 Azure role-based access control (RBAC) for Azure Key Vault data plane authorization is now generally available

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

• 2/23 AKS legacy Azure AD integration will be retired on 29 February 2024
• 2/23 General availability: Enabling IBM WebSphere on Azure Kubernetes Service

Azure Machine Learning

• 2/03 Public preview: Azure Machine Learning – Responsible ML updates
• 2/17 General availability: Azure Machine Learning updates for native terminal

Media Services

• 2/23 Update your Azure Media Services REST API and SDKs to v3 by 29 February 2024

Load Balancer

• 2/15 Standard Load Balancer and IP addresses metadata now available through Azure Instance Metadata Service (IMDS)

Azure Migrate

• 2/25 We are retiring Classic Azure Migrate on 29 February 2024

Azure Monitor

• 2/03 Support for SAP Application (NetWeaver) and Operating System (Linux) telemetry in Azure Monitor for SAP Solutions
• 2/03 Public preview: Azure Log Analytics in Australia Central 2
• 2/03 New Azure Monitor Agent available on latest Linux distros and new regions
• 2/03 General availability: Azure Log Analytics in UAE Central & Japan West
• 2/03 General availability: Application Insight in UAE Central & Japan West
• 2/03 IT Service Management Connector (ITSMC) is now certified with ServiceNow Paris version
• 2/17 New disk bursting metrics
• 2/17 Application Insights availability troubleshooting report for URL tests
• 2/17 Generally available: Application Insights synthetic monitoring SLA report template
• 2/17 Public preview: Application Insights work item integration for Azure DevOps & GitHub
• 2/18 Datadog integration with Azure: Public Preview
• 2/23 We’re retiring Classic Application Insights on 29 February 2024
• 2/24 Azure Application Gateway analytics will be retired on 29 February 2024
• 2/25 Start using new alerts in Azure Monitor for Azure China 21Vianet
• 2/25 Start using new alerts in Azure Monitor for Azure Government Cloud

Azure NetApp Files

• 2/17 Azure NetApp Files | Volume hard quota change

Network Watcher

• 2/23 We’re retiring Network Performance Monitor on 29 February 2024
• 2/23 We’re retiring Azure Network Watcher Connection Monitor (classic) on 29 February 2024

Azure Purview

• 2/17 Azure Purview available in public preview in South Central US and Canada Central

Azure Red Hat OpenShift

• 2/17 General Availability: Azure Red Hat OpenShift support for OpenShift 4.6

Azure Site Recovery

• 2/26 Azure Site Recovery update rollup 54 is now generally available – February 2021

Azure Security Center

• 2/01 Azure Security Center—General availability updates for January 2021
• 2/01 Azure Security Center—Public preview updates for January 2021

Service Bus

• 2/19 General availability support for Java Message Service (JMS) 2.0 API on Azure Service Bus Premium

Azure Sphere

• 2/18 Azure Sphere OS version 21.02 is now available for evaluation

Azure SQL Datgabase

• 2/08 Icertis boosts performance over 80 percent and lowers costs on Azure SQL
• 2/17 Log Replay Service for Azure SQL Managed Instance in public preview
• 2/17 Apache Spark Connector for SQL Server and Azure SQL now compatible with Spark 3.0

Azure Stack Edge

• 2/25 Azure Stack Edge Pro FPGA is retiring on 29 February 2024

Storage

• 2/08 General availability: Soft delete for Azure file shares is now on by default for new storage accounts

Azure Synapse

• 2/03 Gain real-time insights on SAP ERP data with Azure and Qlik Data Integration

Virtual Machine

• 2/03 Microsoft Azure Attestation is now generally available
• 2/16 Automatic Azure VM extension upgrade capabilities now in public preview
• 2/20 Azure Image Builder Service now generally available
• 2/22 The E64i_v3 & E64is_v3 Azure VMs will not be hardware-isolated on 28 February 2022
• 2/22 The GS5 Azure Virtual Machines will no longer be SAP HANA Certified on 28 February 2022 

Power BI Embedded

• 2/09 Announcing Power BI Embedded Generation 2 public preview

その他

• 2/01 HoloLens 2 Industrial Edition brings mixed reality to regulated environments
• 2/02 Azure Resource Graph unlocks enhanced discovery for ServiceNow
• 2/03 Azure achieves its first PCI 3DS certification
• 2/03 172 Azure offerings achieve HITRUST certification
• 2/04 Innovations for a more secure U.S. microelectronics supply chain
• 2/08 KLAS recognizes Microsoft’s momentum in healthcare AI
• 2/09 General availability: Azure mobile app now supports Azure Government
• 2/11 New planned datacenter region in Georgia (East US 3)
• 2/11 Connecting Azure to the International Space Station with Hewlett Packard Enterprise
• 2/11 Microsoft will establish its next U.S. datacenter region in Georgia’s Fulton and Douglas Counties
• 2/16 US Gov Virginia Availability Zones now generally available
• 2/16 Future-proof your network with Azure for Operators
• 2/22 A deep dive into serverless applications on Power Apps and Azure
• 2/23 Update your scripts to use Az PowerShell modules by 29 February 2024
• 2/23 Introducing private Azure marketplace—simplified app governance and deployment
• 2/23 Migrate SAP systems faster with Cloud Move for Azure by SNP
• 2/23 Accelerating Department of Defense mission workloads with Azure
• 2/24 Microsoft plans to establish first datacenter region in Indonesia
• 2/24 Automating quota management with Azure Quota REST API
• 2/25 E-commerce on Azure increases security with Payment Card Industry Three-Domain Secure compliance
• 2/25 Demystifying cloud economics