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New VM series supported by Azure Batch
An expanded selection of VMs can be used with Azure Batch, providing access to newer Azure VM series.
Public preview: Zone redundant configuration for Azure SQL DB general purpose tier
Make your general purpose databases and elastic pools resilient to a much larger set of failures, including catastrophic datacenter outages, without any changes of the application logic by selecting zone redundancy.
Change in verification code SMS content
The verification code SMS content will remove "MSG & DATA RATES MAY APPLY" by early November.
Azure Site Recovery update rollup 51 - October 2020
The latest Azure Site Recovery update provides provides fixes, updated Linux support for the Mobility service, and download links for Site Recovery components.
Azure API Management updates- October 2020
Regular Azure API Management service updates including new features, bug fixes, changes and other improvements.
Log Analytics Linux Agent for Fall 2020 now available
A new release of the Linux Agent is now available with support fixes and a new troubleshooting tool.
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 plugin 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.
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 Eval 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. T
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.
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.
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