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RSS feedMay 2023
Public preview: Azure SQL Database Hyperscale elastic pools
You can now efficiently provision and scale compute resources independent of data size by deploying multiple Azure SQL Hyperscale databases with varying workloads in elastic pools.
Generally Available: Enhanced document expiration with Time to Live (TTL) on any field.
Effortlessly set a TTL on any field in a collection, giving you more flexibility to control how your documents expire in Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB RU.
Public Preview: In-Account restore for continuous backup accounts
Customers can restore the deleted database and containers in the same continuous backup account.
Public Preview: Azure Cosmos DB computed properties
Simplify complex queries using computed properties which can represent frequently used query logic such as expressions based on persisted item properties and can be indexed for increased performance.
Generally Available: Azure Cosmos DB burst capacity
Now generally available, Azure Cosmos DB burst capacity helps improve performance by allowing you to use idle throughput to handle temporary spikes in traffic.
Azure Machine Learning - Public Preview for Build
New features now available in PuPr include the ability to evaluate text/image data fairness and enjoy one platform to build, tune, evaluate, deploy, and test AI workflow with LLM.
Azure Machine Learning - General Availability for Build
New features now available in GA include the ability to enable MLOPs across dev, test, and prod environments to promote assets across multiple workspaces.
Public Preview: Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Distro for ASP.NET Core, JavaScript (Node.js), Python
Onboard to Azure Monitor Application Insights using standard, cloud-native APIs and SDKs with rich data collection capabilities and a first-class Azure experience.
Generalized Azure Compute Gallery custom image support in Update management center
VM Image support for Update management center has expanded with the addition of support for generalized Azure Compute Gallery custom images.
March 2023
Generally available: Azure Private Link support for Inbound traffic in Azure API Management
With Azure Private Link support in Azure API Management, you can now integrate clients in a virtual network privately.
Public preview: Azure Cognitive Service for Vision Powers State-of-the-Art Computer Vision Development
Extract robust insights from images and video content across multiple industry domains
May 2022
Public preview: Autoscale Stream Analytics jobs
Autoscaling allows you to define the minimum and maximum streaming units. Stream Analytics will automatically take care of dynamically optimising the number of streaming units needed for your workload.
Public preview: Azure Digital Twins 3D Scenes Studio
3D Scenes Studio allows you to build lightweight 3D visualisation with contextual data visualisations that can be consumed easily from web browsers.
Generally available: Stream Analytics query development improvements
See improvements to the Stream Analytics query development experience on the Azure portal to increase productivity.
Generally available: Increased size of Stream Analytics jobs and cluster
Maximum size of a Stream Analytics job and a cluster is increased from 192 SUs to 396 SUs.
Public preview: Stream Analytics no code editor
Stream Analytics no code editor provides a rich, no code, drag and drop experience for you to build you streaming pipeline within minutes.
Public preview: NGINX for Azure
Natively integrate SaaS solution for advanced traffic management and monitoring on Azure.
In development: Dynatrace for Azure
Target availability: Q2 2022
Natively integrated SaaS solution that provides deep cloud observability, advanced AIOps, and continuous runtime application security capabilities on Azure.
Generally available: Microsoft Purview Data Estate Insights
Microsoft Purview Data Estate Insights (in GA July 1, 2022) provides a bird's eye view of your data estate's health.
Public preview: Microsoft Purview Data Policy for SQL dev ops roles
Microsoft Purview Data Policy enables policies for data access, now including SQL dev ops roles.
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