New Azure features and functionality for May 2021 – Microsoft Build Edition
It’s been an extremely busy month as far as new Azure features and functionality go, with many updates and announcements being revealed at Build last week! We’ll have our recap of Build later this week, but just in case you’ve missed something, we’ve collected all of the announcements from May 2021 in one place. Be sure to give this list a read through, as there’s a wealth of exciting new functions and updates to check out!
General Availability
- PowerShell support in Durable Functions
- Spot Virtual Machines are now generally available on Azure Databricks
- The Microsoft Build of OpenJDK is now generally available
- Run Enterprise Java with Red Hat JBoss EAP for Azure Virtual Machines
- Enabling IBM WebSphere Application Server on Azure Virtual Machines
- Azure Cognitive Services Text Analytics for Health
- Logic Apps with new hosting options
- Azure Cognitive Services Translator Document Translation feature
- Improved Python support in Visual Studio Code with Pylance
- App Service Managed Certificates
- Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) on Azure Stack HCI
- Azure Applied AI Services
- Encryption at host support in AKS
- Azure RBAC for Kubernetes Authorization in AKS
- Azure Cosmos DB role-based access control (RBAC)
- Azure Cosmos DB serverless now in general availability
- Expanded Azure Cosmos DB free tier
- Azure Health Bot adds new regions and languages for it’s systems checker
- IoT Hub service API support for Azure Active Directory based access control
- Azure Key Vault SLA raised to 99.99%
- VNET peering support for Azure Bastion
- Azure Static Web Apps is now generally available
- Azure NetApp Files : Application Consistent Snapshot tool (AzAcSnap)
- Capacity calculator with Azure Cosmos DB API for MongoDB
- Enable Azure Site Recovery (ASR) while creating Azure Virtual Machines
- Append blob support in Azure Data Lake Storage
- General availability: Multiple features for Azure VPN Gateway
- Azure Backup: Operational backup for Azure Blobs
- New NPv1 virtual machines are now generally available
- Azure Maps- new Gen2 pricing model available
Updates
- Cognitive Services – Form Recognizer adds new version
- Azure Machine Learning general availability announcements //Build, May 2021
- AKS support for regulated industries
- Azure ExpressRoute: 5 New Peering Locations Available
- Azure Stream Analytics: 5 new regions are now available
- Public Preview: Azure Percept DK May (2105) software update is available
- Azure API Management updates – May 2021
- Azure DevOps updates for May 2021
- Azure IoT Central new and updated features—April 2021
- Custom Translator—May new features, improvements and bug fixes
- Azure Log Analytics UI updates May 2021
- Azure Security Center: General availability updates for April 2021
Misc
- Introducing Developer Velocity Lab to improve developers’ work and well-being
- Azure Stack HCI 60-Day Free Trial Now Available
- Windows Virtual Desktop web client to end support for Internet Explorer 11 on September 30, 2021
- Announcing lower pricing for provisioned throughput on Azure Ultra Disks
- Prevent Shared Key authorization for an Azure Storage account
- Azure Data Share Preview API versions will no longer be supported starting August 1, 2021
