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Announcing pricing decrease for Azure App Service on the Premium plan August 21, 2019

We are happy to announce a price reduction of an average of 35% for Linux App Service on the Premium v2 plan (pricing may vary by regional meters). This price reduction makes the decision point between hosting on a Standard App Service plan or a Premium v2 App Service plan a much simpler one.

Global trace flags are now available in Azure SQL Database Managed Instance August 21, 2019

You can now enable trace flags on Azure SQL Database Managed Instance to increase compatibility of your Managed Instance Database Engine and SQL Server Database Engine.

Azure Function Consumption plan for Linux is now available August 21, 2019

The Azure Functions Consumption hosting plan is now generally available for Linux-based applications.

Python support in Azure Functions is now available August 21, 2019

Python support in Azure Functions is now generally available and ready for production workloads.

Just-in-time (JIT) VM access for Azure Firewall is now generally available August 21, 2019

Secure your Azure Firewall protected environments, in addition to your NSG protected environments, with just-in-time VM access.

Security Center now has single click remediation to boost your security posture (in preview) August 21, 2019

Remediate recommendations on a bulk of resources in a single click by using Secure Score, a tool that helps you assess your workload security posture.

Azure SQL provides a unified management experience August 21, 2019

Azure SQL is a modern SQL platform that serves developers and enterprises by offering a rich selection of deployment options, powered by an industry leading SQL Server engine.

SQL data discovery and classification for Azure SQL Database is now available August 21, 2019

SQL data discovery and classification, which provides advanced capabilities built into Azure SQL Database for discovering, classifying, labeling, and protecting sensitive data, is now available.

Egress lockdown in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is now generally available August 21, 2019

Achieve additional security by restricting outbound (egress) traffic for cluster nodes to a limited number of ports and addresses.

Same region read replica is now available for Azure Database for MariaDB August 21, 2019

Azure Database for MariaDB now supports asynchronous replication of data from one Azure Database for MariaDB server (the ‘master’) to up to five Azure Database for MariaDB servers (the ‘replicas’) in the same region.

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