New Azure features and functionality for June 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 June 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
- Azure Maps Android SDK is now generally available
- Azure Image Builder Service now generally available
- Introducing the Ingestion Client for Azure Speech
- Azure Digital Twins plugin for Azure Data Explorer
- Turn your phone into an IoT device with the new IoT Plug and Play mobile app
- Azure Cognitive Services Text Analytics for Health
- Azure Blob storage—NFS 3.0 protocol support generally available
- Expansion of credit-based disk bursting to Azure Standard SSDs E30 and smaller
- Full text query in diagnostics logs for Azure Cosmos DB in general availability
- Azure IoT Edge for Linux now generally available
- Azure Key Vault Managed HSM is generally available
- Azure Data Explorer adds new geospatial capabilities
- Azure Blob index tags now generally available
- Cross region Restore of SQL/SAP HANA running in Azure VM
- Maintenance control for Virtual Machine Scale Sets OS image upgrades
- Azure Data Explorer and subnet delegation
- Azure Data Lake Storage static website is now generally available
- Azure Monitor Agent and Data Collection Rules now generally available
- Support for SQL Server in data flows using Azure Data Factory & Azure Synapse
- Azure Maps Elevation API is now in general availability
- Confidential Computing price reduction on DCsv2 virtual machines
- 6 new Locales added to Speech service to support speech transcription
- Azure Database for MariaDB Azure Defender
- Azure Defender for Azure Database for MySQL – Single Server now generally available
- Azure Defender for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Single Server in general availability
- Azure Database for MariaDB: Planned Maintenance Notifications in general availability
- Azure Database for MySQL – Single Server: Planned maintenance notifications in general availability
- Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Single Server: Planned Maintenance Notifications in general availability
- Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus) now compliant with additional certifications
- Application Insights Node.js pre-aggregated standard metrics
- Enterprise-scale landing zone reference implementation for AKS
- Azure Cache for Redis zone redundancy for Premium tier now generally available
- Open source API portal now generally available
- ExpressRoute Global Reach Pricing Reduction
- Key Rotation and Expiration Policies for Azure Storage
- Azure Maps Creator is now generally available
- Azure API Management Premium tier price reduction for incremental purchased units
Updates
- Azure DevOps updates for June 2021
- Azure Sphere OS version 21.06 is now available
- Azure SQL—updates for late June 2021
- Azure IoT Central new and updated features—May 2021
- Azure SQL: Updates for early June 2021
- Update in Policy Compliance for Resource Type Policies
- Azure Security Center: Updates for May 2021
- Azure Site Recovery update rollup 55 is now available – April 2021
Misc
- Azure NetApp Files | Regional Capacity Quota
- Five more free services available with an Azure free account
- Azure Backup: Upgrade to TLS 1.2 or above for secure MARS agent backups by September 1, 2021
- Pricing changes to Azure Sentinel and Azure Monitor to help you reduce costs
