Updates Archives
Monthly updates for September 2020
Azure Security Center—News and updates for September 2020
New enhancements and updates that were made to Azure Security Center in September 2020.
Embedded C SDK general availability
Announcing the release of our newest device SDK for embedded IoT devices
Long term retention for Azure Database for PostgreSQL-Single Server
Preview of long-term retention of data for Azure Database for PostgreSQL-Single Server is now available.
Azure DevTest Labs: Encrypt OS disks in your lab
Protect your labs data and data stored on managed disks while resting assured that you are hitting your organization's security and compliance benchmarks with Server-Side Encryption.
New features for Windows Server containers in Azure Kubernetes Service
Learn about new Windows Server container related capabilities in AKS
Confidential computing nodes (DCSv2) support on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) in public preview
Orchestrate your container applications with hardware based isolation and data-in-use protection through Intel SGX enclaves. Supporting both enclave aware containers and confidential containers (unmodified container apps)
GA: Data Factory adds ORC data lake file format support for ADF Data Flows and Synapse Data Flows
Azure Data Factory (ADF) is adding new connector support to enable Optimised Row Columnar (ORC) format to data flows in ADF and Synapse Analytics in ADLS and Blob Store.
Public Preview: Data Factory adds SQL Managed Instance (SQL MI) support for ADF Data Flows and Synapse Data Flows
Azure Data Factory (ADF) is adding new connector support to SQL MI as a source and sink to data flows in ADF and Synapse Analytics in ADLS and Blob Store.
Azure Cognitive Services Translator Text— Assamese language now available
Translator Text now supports the Assamese language.
General availability: Azure Availability Zones in more regions
Azure Availability Zones are now generally available in Australia East and Canada Central.
Spring Data Azure Cosmos DB SDK v3.0.0 release now available
Now you can use the Spring Data framework with the Azure Cosmos DB Core (SQL) API.
New performance recommendations now available in Azure Advisor
Review new Azure Advisor recommendations to help you achieve better performance.
New recommendations for operational excellence are now available in Azure Advisor
Review new Azure Advisor recommendations to help you improve your cloud operations.
Azure Ultra Disk is now available in more regions
Azure Ultra Disk is now available in Australia Central, India Central, Korea Central and US Gov Texas.
New guided UI experience to deploy machine learning models in Azure Synapse Analytics (in preview)
We are introducing a guided UI experience in the Synapse Studio that enables users to deploy machine learning models from the Azure Machine Learning model registry directly to Azure Synapse for inferencing.
New Common Data Model connector for Apache Spark in Azure Synapse Analytics and Azure Databricks (in preview)
This new Spark CDM connector requires zero configuration and is pre-installed with Azure Synapse Analytics. It can also be installed and used with Azure Databricks.
Shared disks on Azure Disk Storage is now available in broader set of regions
Shared disks is available for Premium SSDs in all regions and available for Ultra Disks in all regions that support Ultra Disks.
Azure HDInsight --Autoscale for Interactive Query with HDInsight 4.0 is now generally available
Enable HDInsight Autoscale to drive higher utilization of your clusters.
General Availability: Application Insight in UK West
Application Insight, a part of Azure Monitor, is now generally available in the UK West region for customers to collect telemetry and analyze their service health in production environments.
Azure Data Explorer extends functionality to support geospatial joins
The new geo_polygon_to_s2cells function enables the user to join vast amount of geospatial timeseries data with polygons on S2 cells.
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