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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