Azure Weekly Updates

Date: 01 March 2023

Availability: Available

GA: Online live resize of persistent volumes

Live resizing capability allows you to dynamically scale up your persistent volumes without application downtime. Previously, in order to resize the disk, you had to scale down your deployment to zero pods, wait several minutes for the disk to detach, update your persistent volume claim, and then scale back up the deployment. With Live resize of persistent volumes, you can just modify your persistent volume claim directly, avoiding any application downtime.

Generally available: 4 TiB, 8 TiB, and 16 TiB storage per node for Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL

Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL now supports 4 TiB, 8 TiB, and 16 TiB storage on coordinator and worker nodes in multi-node configurations. With the new increased storage sizes, you can onboard workloads with 10s and 100s of TiBs with fewer worker nodes. Less worker nodes with larger storage size allow for decreased overall cluster costs and increased storage IOPS per node to maintain or improve performance of your disk-bound workloads. You can start with a smaller storage size and scale up storage on worker nodes at any time as your workload size and requirements for IOPS per node grow.

General availability: New enhanced connection troubleshoot

As customers bring sophisticated, high-performance workloads into Azure, there is a critical need for increased visibility and control over the operational state of complex networks running these workloads. With decreased visibility,?diagnosing becomes difficult as the customer ends up in a black box with minimum control. One such day-to-day common occurring scenario is connectivity.

Although Microsoft Azure Network Watcher provides numerous specialized standalone tools to diagnose and troubleshoot connectivity cases. These tools include IP Flow Verify – helping detect blocked traffic due to network security group (NSG) rules restriction, Next Hop – determine intended traffic as per the rules of the effective route, and Port Scanner – helping determine any port blocking traffic. With the enhance connection troubleshoot, we attempt to build all the above functionality in one place as a comprehensive way of doing all major checks specifically issues pertaining to NSG, user defined routes, and blocked ports in one single place.?Another notable enhancement is actionable insights. Instead of just few cryptic error messages where the user scrambles to find a solution, a step-by-step guide or proper documentation will be provided for faster resolution.

With a one-stop solution to all disjointed operations and actionable insights at the fingertips, the new comprehensive and improved Network Watcher connection troubleshoot aims to reduce mean time to resolution and improve your experience.

New features:

• Unified solution for troubleshooting all NSG, user defined routes, and blocked?ports
• Actionable insights with step-by-step guide to resolve issues
• Identifying configuration issues impacting connectivity
• NSG rules that are blocking traffic
• Inability to open a socket at the specified source port
• No servers listening on designated destination ports
• Misconfigured or missing routes

General availability: Azure Archive Storage now available in West US 3

Azure Archive Storage provides a secure, low-cost means for retaining rarely accessed data including backup and archival storage. Now, Azure Archive Storage is available in West US 3. For a complete list of regions, see?Azure products available by region.

Now Available: Azure Monitor Ingestion client libraries

We’re announcing the initial stable release of the Azure Monitor Ingestion client libraries for .NET, Java, JavaScript, and Python. The libraries:

• Enable uploading of custom logs to a Log Analytics workspace.
• Are an open-source, officially supported, idiomatic alternative to sending HTTP POST requests to a REST API.
• Wrap the new?Data Collection Rules-based Logs Ingestion REST API.
• Modernize security standards by requiring Azure Active Directory token-based authentication.
• Complement the?Azure Monitor Query libraries?used for querying logs in a Log Analytics workspace.

Generally available: Burstable compute for single node configurations for Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL

The new 1-vCore with 2 GiB RAM and 2-vCore with 4 GiB RAM burstable compute options in Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL provide the flexibility to start small and grow big as your Postgres workload requirements are increasing. Burstable compute on a single node cluster is ideal for workloads like development environments or small databases that don't need the full performance of the node's CPU continuously. These workloads typically have burstable performance requirements. When a workload’s performance needs to grow single node with burstable compute can be upscaled to the regular compute single node or multi-node configurations.

General availability: Power BI with Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server

Now, you can take advantage of Power BI integration with Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server directly from the Azure portal. With Power BI Desktop, you can visually explore your data using a free-form drag-and-drop canvas, a broad range of modern data visualizations, and easy-to-use report authoring experiences. Plus, it's easy to import data directly from the tables or from a SELECT query!?

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