Updates Archives
Monthly updates for December 2018
Azure Container Service Will Retire on January 31, 2020
Target retirement date: January 31, 2020
The Azure Container Service (ACS) will retire on January 31, 2020. Customers should begin transitioning to the Azure Kubernetes Service or other options now.
API Management consumption tier is in preview
API Management is now available in preview in a new consumption-based usage plan called consumption tier.
Now available: Azure Service Fabric runtime version 6.4 & SDK updates
Azure Service Fabric runtime version 6.4 with the corresponding SDK and tooling updates is now available with many enhancements.
General availability: Azure Database for MariaDB
Azure Database for MariaDB is generally available.
Smaller SKUs for Azure SQL Data Warehouse Gen2
Smaller SKUs for Azure SQL Data Warehouse Gen2
Azure Machine Learning service is now available
Azure Machine Learning service, a cloud service that enables developers and data scientists to quickly and easily build, train, and deploy machine learning models, is now generally available.
Link GitHub commits and pull requests to Azure Boards work items - Sprint 144 Update
In the Sprint 144 Update of Azure DevOps, we continue to expand the integration with GitHub. Now you can link GitHub commits and pull requests to Azure Boards work items.
New updates to Azure IoT Remote Monitoring
A series of updates to the Azure IoT Remote Monitoring solution accelerator is now available. This includes features such as integration of Time Series Insights to allow for root cause analysis, or roles-based access control through Azure Active Directory.
Custom Translation capability of Text Translator
Announcing general availability of custom translation capability in Translator Text Cognitive Service
New updates to Azure IoT device simulation
Announcing the latest update to Azure IoT device simulation, which highlights our continued investment in the vital IoT simulation space.
Language Understanding Container Support: Preview
Announcing Language Understanding Cognitive Service Container Support in Preview
Azure SQL Database Managed Instance—Business-critical service tier now available
Designed for mission-critical business apps with high I/O requirements, business critical supports high availability with the highest level of storage and compute redundancy. Additionally, you can save up to 80 percent off the license-included full price when you apply Azure Hybrid Benefit for SQL Server and reserved capacity pricing. Learn more about Managed Instance business critical and other Managed Instance updates in our announcement blog.
Deploy Service Fabric Ubuntu clusters on-premise using Bosh
Using Bosh as the deployment mechanism provides a way to define the deployment, monitor the cluster and auto-heal the infrastructure.
Azure Container Instances (ACI) GPU support public preview
ACI now allows developers to choose GPU enabled containers. GPUs are ideal for compute and graphics-intensive workloads. This enables developers to run intensive jobs required for machine learning.
Serverless Community Library
The Serverless Community Library is an open-source set of prebuilt components based on common use cases using Functions and Logic Apps.
JavaScript support for Durable Functions is now available
Orchestrate your serverless workflows programmatically using the Durable Functions extension to the Azure Functions runtime, which will support JavaScript in general availability (GA) to be used for production workloads.
Azure Backup simplifies data protection and protects against ransomware.
Azure Backup is simple to use because it’s a modern software-as-a-service application built into the platform to give you the latest updates while reducing management.
Paginated reports in Power BI is in preview
Paginated reports functionality is now available in Power BI Premium, allowing you to view and interact with your pixel-perfect paginated reports alongside your existing Power BI interactive reports in the Power BI portal.
API Management bring your own cache is in preview
Bring your own cache feature enables you to use external Redis-compatible cache with API Management in the Consumption Tier.
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