Azure Roadmap

Ubuntu 16.04 community support ends on 30 April 2021 – Transition to 18.04 immediately

Azure Purview is announcing the public preview of resource set pattern rules. A resource set is a single object in the data catalog that represents a large number of assets in storage.  Resource set pattern rules allow you to customize or override how Azure Purview detects which assets are grouped as resource sets and how they are displayed within the catalog.

Azure Data Factory has released Mapping Data Flows for 2 new Azure regions: US Virgina Gov & US Arizona Gov

Application Gateway now supports hosting friendly URLs and routing based on query string values.

Azure Government customers can build secure, enclave-based applications to protect code and data while it’s in use, in a dedicated cloud that meets stringent government security and compliance requirements. 

Azure Msv2/Mdsv2 medium memory series offering up to 192vCPU and 4-TB memory configurations and running on Cascade Lake processor are now generally available.

The new datacenter region is part of the “Bersama Malaysia” initiative to support inclusive economic growth in Malaysia.

API Portal is a no-code option to create, manage, and publish API documentation - for free.

Participate in the retail evaluation now to ensure full compatibility. The OS evaluation period provides 14 days for backward compatibility testing.

Leverage user data to customize your VM instance provision and configuration.

The new event source start options feature in Azure Time Series Insights Gen2 gives you flexibility when configuring an event source.

Use managed identities now to authenticate runbooks to any Azure service that supports Azure AD authentication.

Apache Spark 3.0 public preview in HDInsight 4.0 is a major update to Apache Spark and brings significant improvements including better performance and better support for ANSI SQL.

An unauthenticated experience to get retail prices in different currencies for all Azure products/services (including Reserved Instances).

You can now use the same workspace name in deployments across all your environment without a conflict. This is useful in template deployments when the same name can be used for every deployment for consistency.

Updated Computer Vision API now generally available to improve image tagging, content moderation, OCR language expansion, and more.

With Azure Monitor built-in policy definitions for data encryption, you can enforce organizational standards and assess compliance of data encryption settings in your environment.

We have upgraded the functions experience in log analytics, providing new UI and capabilities to allow you to do more with functions.

Enable organizations to identify anomalies across multiple variables with multivariate Anomaly Detector.

Azure Data Factory (ADF) has released a “quick re-use” option as public preview to the Azure Integration Runtime TTL to reduce data flow execution to from 2 mins to under 20 seconds.