Azure updates

IoT Hub device telemetry events in Event Grid - public preview

IoT Hub expands its capabilities as an event source in Event Grid by enabling subscribing to device telemetry events.

• Event Grid
• Azure IoT Hub
• Features
• Services

Events up to 1MB in Event Grid - public preview

Public preview of support for larger events, now up to 1MB.

• Event Grid
• Features
• Services

Event Grid can now publish events to Service Bus

Service Bus is now available as an event handler in Event Grid.

• Event Grid
• Service Bus
• Features
• Services

Azure Container Registry—Helm 3 support is now in preview

Helm 3 support is now in preview. This update brings support for storing Helm 3 charts, the next version of Helm, which brings an improved security model, and a new Lua based scripting engine.

• Container Registry
• Features

Azure Container Registry—Open Container Initiative (OCI) new artifact registry types supported (in preview)

Azure Container Registry –OCI new artifact registry types support is now in preview.

• Container Registry
• Features
• Open Source

Azure App Configuration is now available in preview

Azure App Configuration provides a service to centrally manage application settings and helps secure their accesses. In addition, it helps developers to ship code faster by being able to easily “flight� their features in production using feature flags.

• App Service
• Virtual Machines
• App Configuration
• Services

Application Change Analysis for Azure Monitor is now in public preview

Change Analysis public preview with integration into App Services Diagnose and solve problems tool.

• Azure Monitor
• App Service
• Features
• Services

Generation 2 virtual machines in Azure – Public Preview

Generation 2 (UEFI Boot) Virtual Machines available in Azure for public preview

• Virtual Machines
• Features
• Pricing & Offerings

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) now supports Windows Server containers

Use managed Kubernetes for all of your workloads whether they’re in Windows, Linux or both.

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Features

Update 19.05 for Azure Sphere public preview now available for evaluation

The Azure Sphere public preview 19.05 feature release is available today via the Retail Evaluation feed. The regular Retail OS feed will continue to deliver version 19.04; we plan to upgrade it to 19.05 in two weeks.

• Azure Sphere
• Operating System

Read replica across regions for Azure database services for MySQL and PostgreSQL

Cross-region asynchronous replication is now in preview for Azure Database for MySQL and Azure Database for PostgreSQL.

• Azure Database for PostgreSQL
• Azure Database for MySQL
• Features

Azure Monitor BUILD 2019 updates

Azure Monitor is launching a number of exciting features including end to end AKS monitoring, granular RBAC for logs, intelligent and scalable alerts, a new application change analysis capability and more.

• Azure Monitor
• Features
• Microsoft Build

New networking features for App Service Linux are now in preview

New networking capabilities to enable Linux apps to access resources securely are now available in preview.

• App Service
• Features
• Microsoft Build

Durable Functions now supports a new stateful entities pattern

Durable Functions now supports a new stateful entities pattern, enabling you to build stateful Azure Functions that map to an actor.

• Azure Functions
• Features
• Microsoft Build
• Services

Azure Cosmos DB API for etcd in preview

With a wire-protocol compatible API for etcd on top of Azure Cosmos DB, developers will automatically get highly reliable, globally distributed and highly available Kubernetes and K8 tools with no code changes or management required.

• Azure Cosmos DB
• Features
• Microsoft Build

IoT Plug and Play announcement at Build

Today we’re announcing IoT Plug and Play, which is based on an open modeling language that allows developers to connect IoT devices to the cloud without having to write any code.

• Azure IoT Hub
• Azure IoT Edge
• Azure IoT Central
• Microsoft Build

Azure Cost Management multi-cloud for AWS is in preview

Now you can manage your AWS spend along your Azure spend in Azure Cost Management

• Cost Management
• Management
• Microsoft Build

Azure AD admin roles for B2C are in public preview

Target availability: Q2 2019

Announcing the public preview of new B2C Azure AD administrator roles for B2C tenants.

• Azure Active Directory B2C
• Management

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BYOS images now available

Red Hat Enterprise Linux images are now available as both BYOS and PAYG offers.

• Virtual Machines
• Red Hat Linux
• Linux Virtual Machines
• Microsoft Build
• Open Source
• Operating System
• Pricing & Offerings

Announcing Ephemeral OS Disk in Public Preview

We are happy to announce Ephemeral OS disk in Public Preview. Ephemeral OS disks work well for stateless workloads, where applications are tolerant of individual VM failures and are more concerned about the time it takes to deploy at scale or to reimage the individual VMs.

• Managed Disks
• Virtual Machines
• Virtual Machine Scale Sets
• Features