Updates Archives
Monthly updates for October 2020
Microsoft plans to establish new cloud datacenter region in Austria
The new region is anticipated to include Microsoft Azure, with Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365 and Power Platform to follow.
Azure Policy for Key Vault now supports keys, secrets and certificates
Get a deeper view into your organisation’s security posture, configure daily automated audits and start enforcing best practices in under five minutes.
Azure Blob storage lifecycle management now supports blob versions management
You can now use Azure Blob storage lifecycle management to automatically transition old blob versions to a cooler storage tier (hot to cool, hot to archive or cool to archive) or delete old blob versions to optimise for cost.
Azure Cognitive Services Translator – Canadian French language text translation now available
Use Translator to add Canadian French translation to your apps, products and workflows.
Fluent Bit connector for Azure Storage to support Azure Data Explorer streaming
In collaboration with Fluent Bit, we are releasing a new output plug-in for Azure Blob Storage. The connector can output both block blobs and append blobs to an Azure storage account.
Azure role-based access control (RBAC) for Azure Key Vault data plane authorization is now in preview
Achieve unified management and access control across Azure resources, Azure Key Vault and keys, certificates, and secrets.
Azure Key Vault Event Grid integration is now available
Azure Key Vault is now an events publisher with Azure Event Grid, enabling developers to subscribe to events about keys, certificates and secrets changes.
Generally available: Azure HPC – CycleCloud 8.1.0
Check the list of improvements and resolved issues include in this release.
Windows Virtual Desktop is now generally available in the Azure Government cloud
Simplify and secure your virtualization infrastructure, in the cloud, with Windows Virtual Desktop.
Azure Sphere update 20.10 is now available for compatibility testing
The Azure Sphere OS update 20.10 is now available for evaluation via the retail evaluation feed. The 20.10 evaluation release includes an OS update as well as a special evaluation version of the SDK for use during this period.
Azure Monitor Log Analytics data export is in public preview
You can now enable continuous data export from your Log Analytics workspaces to an Azure Storage Account or Azure Event Hubs.
App Service Private Endpoints now generally available
Secure your line of business applications with Private Endpoints
Azure DevTest Labs now available in more regions
Explore Azure DevTest Labs in UAE North, Germany West Central and Norway East regions.
Azure DevTest Labs - Create a network isolated lab
Isolate environments from unwanted traffic with Azure DevTest Labs.
Azure Cognitive Services has achieved human parity in image captioning
Computer Vision, part of Azure Cognitive Services, now offers an updated image captioning capability that has achieved human parity based on the Novel Object Captioning at Scale (NOCAPS) benchmark.
T-digest extension for Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Hyperscale (Citus)
Now in general availability, the algorithm used in the open source t-digest extension allows high performance percentile calculations on sizable distributed analytical workloads with improved accuracy.
SQL Server on Virtual Machines: Machine Learning with Microsoft R Open 4.0.2 now available
The latest update for Microsoft R Open 4.0.2 (downloadable for Windows, Mac, and Linux platforms) includes improvement to the performance of the merge function and adds an option to better handle zero-length arguments to the paste and paste0 functions.
Distributed database transactions spanning multiple Azure SQL Managed Instances
Utilise distributed transactions (now in preview) and save time when migrating existing apps that require this capability as it eliminates the need to change app code and to perform extensive testing.
Machine Learning open sourcing for R and Python Custom Runtime
Announcing a general availability release that solves one of our customers’ pain points; the ability to bring a newer version of R and Python they may be using in their own companies.
Zone Redundancy in preview for Azure Cache for Redis
Increase reliability in the Azure Cache for Redis premium tier even further with up to four nodes for redundancy; a primary and three replicas that can be distributed across multiple availability zones. This setup protects you against a datacenter-level outage, increasing availability up to a 99.95 percent level.
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