Azure Update for the month of October.

1. Azure Update, October
Kanio Dimitrov

2. 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

3. Accelerated Networking - Preview

4. 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

5. 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%

6. 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

7. Azure Security Center
• Integrated vulnerability assessments available for preview
• Extended web application firewall capabilities available for
preview
• Azure Storage security assessment preview

8. Azure Security Center
• New detections generally available
• Security incidents preview
• Threat intelligence reports preview

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. Azure SQL
• General Availability – Temporal tables in Azure SQL
Database
• Track full history of data changes
• Perform data auditing

14. Azure SQL
• Analyze tends or detect anomalies
• Implement slowly changing dimensions patterns
• Perform fine-grained row repairs at the row level

15. Azure App Service Companion preview
• Android and iOS support
• Manage App Services on the go
• Native mobile experience

18. 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

19. Automation graphical runbooks

20. Azure Bot