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Monthly updates for September 2020

Sep 28

Azure Sphere 20.09 is now available

NOW AVAILABLE

The Azure Sphere 20.09 OS quality update is now available in the Retail feed.

  • Azure Sphere
  • Operating System
Sep 28

Azure Container Registry now available in several new regions

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q3 2020

Azure Container Registry is now generally available in US Gov Texas, Germany West Central, and Brazil Southeast regions bringing the number of Azure regions that it’s available in to 38.

  • Azure Container Registry
  • Services
  • Regions & Datacenters
Sep 23

New maintenance control features

IN PREVIEW

Increase control over maintenance operations and ensure higher availability for your business-critical applications with two new features now in preview. You can now schedule host maintenance operations in addition to the already available manual updates. Additionally, we are adding the ability for you to control when guest OS image updates on Virtual Machine Scale Sets are rolled out.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Virtual Machine Scale Sets
  • Features
Sep 23

Column-level encryption for Azure Synapse Analytics

IN PREVIEW

Azure Synapse Analytics already provides a breadth of options that can be used to handle sensitive data in a secure manner—we are expanding that support with the introduction of Column Level Encryption (CLE).

  • Azure Synapse Analytics
  • Features
Sep 23

COPY command now generally available in Azure Synapse Analytics

NOW AVAILABLE

The COPY command can now automatically parse your files to calculate file splits and can evenly distribute data chunks across the Synapse SQL compute nodes for parallel ingestion.

  • Azure Synapse Analytics
  • Features
Sep 23

New MERGE command for Azure Synapse Analytics

IN PREVIEW

Users can now synchronize two tables in a single step, streamlining the data processing using a single step statement while improving code readability and debugging.

  • Azure Synapse Analytics
  • Features
Sep 23

Windows IoT Microsoft Edge Kiosk Mode in public preview

IN PREVIEW

Microsoft Edge can now be run in Kiosk mode on Windows IoT

  • Windows 10 IoT Core Services
  • Operating System
  • Features
Sep 22

Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server now in preview

IN PREVIEW

Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server is a new deployment option that provides better control and flexibility, more options for high availability, and cost optimization controls.

  • Azure Database for PostgreSQL
  • Features
Sep 22

Logic Apps updated with new hosting options, improved performance and developer workflows

IN PREVIEW

Logic Apps is now updated with new hosting options and performance and development improvements that will enable you to build modern workflow-enabled apps.

  • Logic Apps
  • Features
Sep 22

Debug API Management policies in real time

IN PREVIEW

Debug API Management policies with the Visual Studio Code extension for Azure API Management

  • API Management
  • Services
Sep 22

Configurable Backup Storage Redundancy option for Azure SQL Managed Instance

NOW AVAILABLE

Now in general availability, locally redundant storage (LRS) and zone-redundant storage (ZRS) options have been added to backup storage redundancy, providing more flexibility and choice.

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Features
Sep 22

Azure Arc enabled data services now in preview

IN PREVIEW

Run Azure Arc enabled data services on premises on any infrastructure of your choice with Azure cloud benefits like elastic scale, unified management, and a cloud billing model while staying always current.

  • Azure Arc
  • Services
  • Management
Sep 22

Accelerate analytics and AI workloads with Photon powered Delta Engine on Azure Databricks

IN PREVIEW

Photon powered Delta Engine is a 100% Apache Spark-compatible vectorized query engine designed to take advantage of modern CPU architecture for extremely fast parallel processing of data.

  • Azure Databricks
  • Services
  • Features
Sep 22

High throughput output from Stream Analytics to Azure Synapse Analytics (General Availability)

NOW AVAILABLE

With a brand new output connector to Synapse SQL Pools, Stream Analytics can now support throughput rates even higher than 200MB/sec while ensuring ultra-low latencies.

  • Azure Stream Analytics
  • Azure Synapse Analytics
  • Features
Sep 22

Azure Stream Analytics clusters with VNet support (Preview)

IN PREVIEW

Azure Stream Analytics clusters delivers support for Azure Virtual Network (VNet) and more predictable performance.

  • Azure Stream Analytics
  • Features
Sep 22

Azure Object Anchors is now in private preview

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q3 2020

Align and anchor holographic content to objects. Register to be considered for Azure Object Anchors private preview.

  • Services
  • Features
Sep 22

Announcing Private Azure Marketplace in public preview

IN PREVIEW

Private Azure Marketplace enables you to govern the apps available for deployment for your organization

  • Marketplace
  • Services
  • Features
Sep 22

GA: Azure Kubernetes Service mutate default storage class feature

NOW AVAILABLE

AKS users now have the flexibility to use a different storage class instead of the default storage class.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Features
Sep 22

Redis Enterprise features on Azure Cache for Redis coming soon

IN DEVELOPMENT

Two new tiers will be coming soon in preview for Azure Cache for Redis through a collaboration with Redis Labs: Enterprise and Enterprise Flash.

  • Azure Cache for Redis
  • Features
Sep 22

Azure AD authentication features for Azure SQL DB, Azure Synapse Analytics, and Azure SQL Managed Instance

IN PREVIEW

These new preview features extend existing functionality, remove user limitations, and provide customers with greater ease of use when setting up Azure SQL Database or Azure SQL Managed Instance.

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Features

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