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Azure Data Explorer ingests up to 10,000 blobs with auto-suggestive schema definition
Learn how to ingest up to 10,000 blobs with auto-suggestive schema definition and continue ingestion for new blobs in only a few minutes.
Azure HDInsight enterprise security enhancements
Three new security feature improvements are available for Azure HDinsight.
Azure HDInsight Tools for Visual Studio Code—Create, run, and debug notebook
This new release enables you to perform Jupyter-like notebook operations and boosts collaborations with one-click conversion between IPYNB and PY files.
Azure Arc support for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) engine clusters
Simplify and streamline your on-premises, edge, and multicloud investments with the new capabilities of Azure Arc.
Azure Stack is partnering with Aware Group to offer new solutions
Microsoft is expanding the Azure Stack ISV and partner ecosystem, announcing new partnerships with solution availability in summer 2020, including offerings from Aware Group.
FHIR Server on Azure Stack Hub
The open-source Microsoft Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) server is being packaged and released for Azure Stack Hub and Azure Stack Edge. Bringing the FHIR server for health data interchange to the edge will enable disconnected or intermittently connected scenarios.
New portal experience for Azure Functions
New portal experience for Azure Functions – improving performance, accessibility, and consistency with the rest of the Azure portal.
Support for Linux workloads in the App Service Migration Assistant tool
The App Service Migration Assistant tool now supports migrating containerized web applications from on-premises container images to App Service on Linux.
Customer-managed keys for Azure Container Registry now generally available
Bring your own encryption key for Azure Container Registry is now available for new registries.
Azure Event Grid partner topics are now in preview
Use partner topics to connect third-party event sources directly to Event Grid and subscribe to events as you would with any other source. Our partner Auth0 is now integrated with Event Grid partner topics. Connect your Auth0 and Azure accounts in order to react to, log, and monitor Auth0 events in real time.
Azure Event Grid support for System Assigned Managed Identities is now in preview
Event Grid now supports system assigned managed identities
Azure Virtual Machines—Support for backup is now in preview
Azure Backup now supports Azure Virtual Machines with up to 32 attached disks.
New Responsible ML innovation in Azure Machine Learning
To help organizations overcome barriers to adopting artificial intelligence (AI), Microsoft is announcing several new Responsible ML innovations in Azure Machine Learning.
Visual Studio Live Share now supports voice chat
Create shared coding sessions from Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, or Visual Studio Codespaces to work together in real time – now with voice and text chat.
Visual Studio Codespaces: New OS Support & GitHub integration
Announcing private previews: Create cloud-hosted dev environments that can be accessed from Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, or natively from within GitHub.com.
Azure Bot Service and Bot Framework updates for Build 2020
See the list of enhancements and new capabilities designed to make chatbot development more productive, including the GAs of Bot Framework Composer and Virtual Assistant solution accelerators, as well as support for human hand-off scenarios.
New network tier with routing preference is now available in preview
Choose how your traffic routes between Azure and the internet using Azure routing preference, now available in preview. Choose either “routing via Microsoft Global Network” or “routing via ISP network (public internet)”. Egress data transfer pricing will vary based on the routing selection.
Azure Peering Service is now generally available
Azure Peering Service is a partnership with service providers to provide highly reliable and optimized internet connectivity to Microsoft services. It also provides internet latency telemetry and route monitoring with alerting against hijacks, leaks, and any other Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) mal configurations.
Azure Digital Twins now has expanded digital representation capabilities
Azure Digital Twins adds expanded digital representation capabilities.
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