Authors- Rajat Malik (Cloud Engineer), Anubhav Bisht (Associate Cloud Engineer) (If you are not familiar with Spring then check the lower section of the blog for more details) What is Azure Spring Cloud? As more and more customers move their workloads to the cloud, there is a tremendous growth in the use of cloud-native architectures, particularly microservices.…
#IaaS Action Required—Log Analytics agent for Windows will enforce SHA-2 signing on 18th May 2020 The Log Analytics agent for Windows, sometimes known as the OMS Windows agent or Microsoft Monitoring agent, will begin to enforce SHA-2 signing on 18th May 2020. Log Analytics Agent for Windows March 2020 release is now available The Log Analytics…
#CloudSecurity Azure Web Application Firewall for Azure Content Delivery Network is in preview Protect your web applications from common exploits and vulnerabilities with Web Application Firewall for Azure Content Delivery Network from Microsoft. Web Application Firewall is already natively integrated with Azure Application Gateway and Azure Front Door services. Onboard on-prem servers to Security Center from Windows Admin…
#Data Azure Cosmos DB—Save up to 33 percent on multi-master accounts Customers creating new Azure Cosmos DB accounts can now get discounted pricing up to 33 percent off for accounts enabling multi-region writes (multi-master). Azure Cosmos DB—Limit of 25 collections per database Azure Cosmos DB accounts using shared database throughput are now limited to 25…
#IaaS Azure Site Recovery mobility service automated deployment using JetPatch. Automate the Azure Site Recovery mobility service deployment using JetPatch for on-premises VMware virtual machines and physical servers. Automatic instance repairs for Azure virtual machine scale sets now in preview Azure virtual machine scale sets now provide the capability to automatically repair unhealthy instances based on application…
#IaaS Azure Virtual Network service endpoint policies feature is now available. Azure Virtual Network service endpoint policies enable you to prevent unauthorised access to Azure Storage accounts from your virtual network. Azure Load Balancer TCP resets on idle timeout is now available Azure Load Balancer now supports sending bidirectional TCP resets on idle timeout for…
#CloudSecurity Azure Firewall Manager Preview refresh Azure Firewall Manager Preview now supports Azure Firewall deployments in virtual networks (also known as hub virtual networks) in addition to its support for Azure Firewall deployments in virtual WAN hubs (also known as secured virtual hubs). Azure Firewall Spring 2020 updates Azure Firewall is a cloud native firewall-as-a-service…
#CloudSecurity Native Azure Active Directory authentication support and Azure VPN Client now available. Native Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) authentication support for OpenVPN protocol and Azure VPN Client for Windows are now generally available for Azure point-to-site (P2S) VPN. Azure Resource Manager template support for NSG flow logs. Azure Resource Manager is a native and powerful way to manage…
#IaaS Azure Backup now supports selective disk backup and restore using Azure Virtual machine backup solution. Azure Backup supports backing up all the disks (OS and data) in a VM together using the Virtual Machine backup solution. With exclude-disk functionality, you get an option to backup one or a few from the many data disks in a…
#OSSinCloud The Microsoft Team has introduced the Azure Red Hat OpenShift private endpoints now in preview. Support for private endpoints in Azure Red Hat OpenShift is now available in preview. This enables private endpoints for the API server in clusters deployed in East US 2 and Central US. Support for additional regions will be added…
