Updates Archives
Monthly updates for October 2021
Zerto Disaster Recovery for Azure VMware Solution
Zerto Disaster Recovery is now available and supported with Azure VMware Solution, delivering data protection and disaster recovery services that eliminate data loss and downtime for vSphere virtual machines running on Azure VMware Solution environment.
Azure Spot Virtual Machines: Try to restore functionality now generally available
You can now opt-in and use this feature while deploying Spot VMs using Virtual Machine Scale Sets. This new feature will automatically try to restore an evicted Spot VM to maintain the desired target compute capacity (e.g., number of VMs) in a scale set.
General availability: Azure Backup now supports Archive Tier through Azure Portal
Azure Backup support to move backups for SQL and SAP HANA databases running in Azure VMs into the Archive tier, via Azure portal and Azure CLI, is also generally available.
OCR (Read) supports 122 languages in the Cognitive Services Computer Vision public preview
Computer Vision Read API for Optical Character Recognition (OCR), part of Cognitive Services, announces its public preview with new languages including Russian, Bulgarian, other Cyrillic and more Latin languages. This release also highlight handwritten OCR support for many languages, along with enhancements for digital PDFs and Machine Readable Zone (MRZ) text in identity documents.
Announcing Azure Synapse Analytics pre-purchase plans, now generally available
You can now save up to 28 percent on Azure Synapse workloads without sacrificing flexibility with Azure Synapse pre-purchase plans.
Azure Machine Learning now generally available in West US 3
Azure Machine learning, bringing AI to everyone with an end-to-end, scalable, trusted platform available in West US 3.
Public preview: Dynamic concurrency in Azure Functions
Azure Functions dynamic concurrency feature simplifies configuring concurrency for your function apps.
Azure Functions Python 3.9 support is now generally available
Python developers can now take advantage of the version enhancements in Python 3.9 using Azure Functions.
Windows 11 is now generally available on Azure Virtual Desktop
Deploy Windows 11 desktops and applications on Azure Virtual Desktop and utilize new capabilities while optimizing for cost.
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