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RSS feedSeptember 2020
Azure S8 and S9 Analysis Services SKUs retiring on 31 August 2023
Target retirement date: August 31, 2023
Migrate to S8V2 or S9V2 SKUs
August 2020
Support to assess physical, AWS, GCP servers now generally available
The assessments offer Azure suitability analysis, migration cost planning and performance-based rightsizing.
July 2020
Data Factory SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) migration accelerators are now generally available
Azure Data Factory now has new features to accelerate SQL Server Integration Services migration to the cloud.
.NET Core support for Azure Analysis Services client libraries is in preview
In response to customer feedback, .NET Core support for Azure Analysis Services client libraries is now available in preview. Start building .NET Core applications for modern cross-platform and cloud-oriented environments that target Analysis Services and Microsoft Power BI.
June 2020
Database engine auditing for Azure Database for MySQL is now available
Azure Database for MySQL now provides general availability support for using audit logs to record database activity and events such as connections and queries.
Database engine auditing for Azure Database for MariaDB is now available
Azure Database for MariaDB now provides general availability support for using audit logs to record database activity and events such as connections and queries.
Web Application Firewall for Azure Front Door service logging enhancements
Azure Web Application Firewall for Azure Front Door now has a match details field in the logs to provide insights on why a request triggered a Web Application Firewall rule.
Live Video Analytics now in public preview
Live Video Analytics is a platform to capture, record, and analyze live video and publish the results (video and/or video analytics), enabling intelligent video applications.
May 2020
Azure Text Analytics—Opinion mining is now available in preview
Opinion mining is now available in preview. A feature of sentiment analysis, it provides more granular information on the opinions related to aspects of a product or service mentioned in a review.
Azure Text Analytics v3 is now generally available
Azure Text Analytics v3 with sentiment analysis, key phrase extraction, language detection, and named entity recognition capabilities, as well as model version controls, is now generally available.
Azure IoT Central - Build 2020 announcements
New Azure IoT Central features, including new template and support for Azure Sphere and Azure IoT Edge, are now available.
Static Web Apps single page hosting option available in App Service now in preview
Static Web Apps is a simplified hosting option for developers building modern web apps with static front-ends and dynamic back-ends powered by serverless APIs.
New Cognitive Services capabilities are now generally available
New Cognitive Services capabilities are now generally available.
April 2020
Azure Analysis Services—Improved query replica synchronization now available
Improved query replica synchronization in Azure Analysis Services is now generally available. Analysis Services features improved query-replica synchronization in scale-out environments with client queries distributed across one or more query replicas, reducing response times for high concurrency workloads.
Azure Analysis Services—Query interleaving is now generally available
Query interleaving in Azure Analysis Services is now generally available. Query interleaving helps to improve the user experience in high-concurrency scenarios where a lot of queries are submitted close to each other.
Many-to-many relationships in Azure Analysis Services are now generally available
Many-to-many relationships in Azure Analysis Services are now generally available. These are relationships between tables where both columns are non-unique, and are based on many-to-many relationships in Power BI.
Azure Analysis Services calculation groups are now generally available
Calculation groups for Azure Analysis Services are now generally available. Use them to declutter the user interface and improve the overall navigation experience for your users.
March 2020
Azure Security Center—Protection for Azure Kubernetes Service is now available
Target availability: Q2 2020
Azure Security Center is expanding its container security features to protect Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
Http Raw logs for Azure Content Delivery Network
Azure Content Delivery Network now supports HTTP raw logs.
Improved resource governance for Azure Analysis Services
Today, we are excited to announce the release of two enhancements concerning the memory governance options of Azure Analysis Services. Specifically, the enhancements improve the accuracy of the…
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