Azure Update, OctoberKanio Dimitrov
VM & Networking• VM - H-Series:
• Available in South Central US• One of the fastest in Azure – 30% - 50% performance increase • For high-end computational needs (molecular modeling and computational fluid dynamics)
• VM - General Availability: Azure Disk Encryption for Windows & Linux (Standard and Premium) IaaS VM-s
• IPv6 – General Availability – most Azure regions support both
• Vnet peering – Generally available in most of the regions
Accelerated Networking - Preview
Azure DNS - General Availability
• SLA – 99.99% covered by Azure Support
• DNS record types supported:• A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, NS, PTR, SOA, SRV and TXT
• Global network of name servers
Storage
• Storage - General Availability: Storage Service Encryption
• Premium Storage – General Availability• SDD for I/O-intensive workloads• Up to 64 TB with 80 000 IOPS per second per VM• SLA – 99.9%
Key Vault
• Key Vault Certificates – simplify SST/TLS certificates from supported third=party CA
• Enroll for certificates
• Automatically renew while providing auditing trails within same environment
Azure Security Center
• Integrated vulnerability assessments available for preview
• Extended web application firewall capabilities available for preview
• Azure Storage security assessment preview
Azure Security Center
• New detections generally available
• Security incidents preview
• Threat intelligence reports preview
Application Gateway WAF
• Protect web apps from common web-based attacks
• Preconfigured for OWASP top 10 common vulnerabilities
• Simple to install and have login and continuous monitoring
• Protection and detection-only modes
Service Fabric • General Availability – Windows Server support
•On-premise installation & support offered
• Public Preview – Linux:• Support for Java applications •One box setup supported • CLI, Eclipse and Jenkins support
Document DB• Geospatial indexing and querying of Polygon and LineString
objects
• Automatic detection of GeoJSON in JSON documents
• Index for efficient spatial proximities queries
• Useful for detecting “geo-fences” in IoT , gaming and mobile apps
Document DB• TOP & ORDER BY queries available in DocumentDB Java and Node.js SDKs for partitioned collections
• IP-based access control (similar to firewall rules)
• .NET SDK 1.10.0• Direct connectivity for partitioned collections • Improved performance for Bounded Staleness consistency level • LINQ support for StringEnumConverter, IsoDateTimeConverter, and UnixDateTimeConverter
• Python SDK 2.0.0• Support for Python 3• Connection pooling • TOP and ORDER BY support
Azure SQL
• General Availability – Temporal tables in Azure SQL Database
• Track full history of data changes
• Perform data auditing
Azure SQL • Analyze tends or detect anomalies
• Implement slowly changing dimensions patterns
• Perform fine-grained row repairs at the row level
Azure App Service Companion preview
• Android and iOS support
•Manage App Services on the go
• Native mobile experience
App Service - Linux• Public preview for native Linux support for Node.js and PHP stacks
• Support for streamlined deployment abilities with deployment slots
• Custom domains
• SSL configuration
• Continuous deployment
• Horizontal and vertical scaling
Automation graphical runbooks
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