Updates Archives
Monthly updates for September 2018
Azure Cognitive Services—Speech Service now generally available
Speech service is now generally available, combining the following capabilities in one service: speech-to-text; text-to-speech; custom speech; and speech translation.
Azure IoT Hub—New message routing capability available
Azure IoT Hub message routing simplifies IoT solution development and enables you to send messages from your devices to cloud services in an automated, scalable, and reliable manner. Use routing queries to apply customized filters and send only the most relevant data to the service facing endpoints.
Azure IoT Hub—Device provisioning service new functionalities
IoT Hub Device Provisioning Service is a feature of IoT Hub that allows customers to provision and register IoT devices at scale in a secure manner
Azure IoT Edge—extended edge offline support
Extended edge offline support is a new feature of Azure IoT Edge in preview that offers robust offline operation.
Azure Active Directory conditional access in Azure Databricks
Azure Databricks now supports Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) conditional access, which allows administrators to control where and when users are permitted to sign in to Azure Databricks. Some of the common concerns this addresses include restricted sign-in access, limited network location access, managing the type of device access as well as restricted access to client applications.
Azure Key Vault support with Azure Databricks
Azure Databricks now supports Azure Key Vault backed secret scope. With this, Azure Databricks now supports two types of secret scopes—Azure Key Vault-backed and Databricks-backed.
Azure SQL Data Warehouse streaming support in Azure Databricks.
Azure SQL Data Warehouse connector now offers efficient and scalable structured streaming write support for SQL Data Warehouse.
Azure Databricks is available in Japan, Canada, India, and Australia
Azure Databricks is now generally available in additional regions—Japan, Canada, India, Australia Central and Australia Central 2. With these additions, Azure Databricks is now available in 24 regions.
PowerShell in Azure Cloud Shell now generally available
PowerShell in Azure Cloud Shell is now generally available.
Azure Resource Graph in preview
Azure Resource Graph, now in preview, enables fast exploration of your resources for efficient inventory management.
Azure Cost Management in the Azure Portal preview
Azure Cost Management is in the Azure portal and currently in preview. It's now enabled by default, with improved performance and fuly integrated into the Azure platform.
Azure Blueprints in preview
Azure Blueprints enables the creation of fully governed environments in a repetitive manner.
New full stack monitoring capabilities in Azure Monitor
We're bringing together our existing capabilities for monitoring infrastructure, apps, and networks under the moniker of Azure Monitor to provide a unified offering that delivers full stack monitoring for your applications.
Azure SQL Database: Hyperscale in preview
Azure SQL Database Hyperscale is a new, highly scalable service tier that adapts on demand to your workload's needs, quickly auto-scaling up to 100 TB per database, eliminating the need to pre-provision storage resources, and significantly expanding the potential for app growth without being limited by storage size.
SQL Data Warehouse now offers flexible restore points
SQL Data Warehouse is a fast, flexible and secure analytics platform. It now provides user defined restore points, enabling you to initiate snapshots before and after significant operations on your data warehouse.
SQL Data Warehouse intelligent insights
Get intelligent insights to ensure your data warehouse is consistently optimized for performance with SQL Data Warehouse intelligent insights.
Protect data in use with Azure Confidential Computing
Azure Confidential Computing benefits are now available on a new DC series of virtual machines in Azure for preview using Intel SGX chipsets. In addition, Azure is also offering an open source SDK to provide a consistent enclave abstraction experience to build your SGX-based applications.
SQL Data Warehouse Vulnerability Assessment
SQL Vulnerability Assessment is an easy-to-use service that continually monitors your database or data warehouse, ensuring those are maintained at a high level of security at all times and that your organizational policies are met.
SQL Data Warehouse: User defined maintenance scheduling
Azure SQL Data Warehouse maintenance scheduling is now preview. This is a new feature that seamlessly integrates the Azure Service Health planned maintenance notifications with Resource Health monitor services.
Enterprise Security Package for Azure HDInsight generally available
Enterprise Security Package for Azure HDInsight is now generally available.
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