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July 2019
Microsoft adds new features to IPv6 support for Azure VNets
IPv6 for Azure VNETs enables you to expand into the growing mobile and IoT markets with your Azure-based applications and to address IPv4 depletion in your own networks.
Update 19.07 for Azure Sphere public preview now available for evaluation
The Azure Sphere public preview 19.07 quality release is now available via the Retail Evaluation feed. The Retail Evaluation feed will provide the new OS for 14 days before we release it to the Retail feed. It is meant for backwards compatibility testing.
One Click Integration with Stream Analytics from Event Hubs
With just 1 click, Event Hubs customers can easily visualize incoming streaming data and start writing Stream Analytics query from the Event Hubs portal.
Stream Analytics supports output to Azure Data Lake Storage Gen 2
Azure Stream Analytics now offers output adapter for egress to Azure Data Lake Storage Gen 2.
Authenticate Stream Analytics egress to Azure Blob Storage using managed identities
Now you can authenticate Stream Analytics egress to Azure Blob Storage using managed identities.
Cognitive Services Form Recognizer prebuilt capability
Form Recognizer learns the structure of your forms to intelligently extract text and data.
A new set of Azure SDKs is now available in preview
A new set of libraries for working with Azure Storage, Cosmos DB, Key Vault, and Event Hubs in Java, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, and C# is now available in preview.
Proximity placement groups are now in preview
A proximity placement group is an Azure Virtual Machine logical grouping capability that you can use to decrease network latency among VMs.
Multi-protocol Data Access for Azure Data Lake Storage is now in public preview
New functionality that will enable you to manage the same data using either Blob APIs or Data Lake Storage Gen2 APIs is now available in preview.
Read replica across regions for Azure Database for MariaDB
Cross-region asynchronous replication is now in preview for Azure Database for MariaDB. Create up to five read-only replica servers for every master server to scale out and balance read-heavy workloads across replica servers and Azure regions.
Availability Zones support is now available for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) in preview
Protect applications and data from datacenter failures with redundancies across Availability Zones.
Driver extension for Cassandra in Azure Cosmos DB is now in preview
Azure Cosmos DB now offers a preview driver extension for Azure Cosmos DB Cassandra API for Java SDK.
Public preview: Azure Data Share
Target availability: Q3 2019
Share data with other organizations using Azure Data Share, now in preview.
Cognitive Services Text Analytics sentiment v3 available in public preview
The latest release of the Text Analytics API's sentiment capability (v3) provides a significant improvement in detecting positive, neutral, and negative sentiment of text documents. It is available in public preview Central Canada, East Asia, and Central US.
SQL Server Registry available: Extended Security Updates for SQL Server 2008 / 2008 R2
July-9 2019 marks the official last day of SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 support. Customers that need to remain on SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 for some additional time can leverage Extended Security Updates (ESUs). To obtain security updates for SQL Server on-premises or hosted environments, customers must first register the eligible SQL Server instances in their own SQL Server Registry.
Large storage for Azure Database for MySQL now in preivew
We are excited to announce support for up to 16TB of storage and up to 20,000 IOPS in Azure Database for MySQL is now in preview.
Large storage for Azure Database for PostgreSQL now in preivew
We are excited to announce support for up to 16TB of storage and up to 20,000 IOPS in Azure Database for PostgreSQL is now in preview.
Update 19.06 for Azure Sphere public preview now available in Retail feed
The Azure Sphere public preview 19.06 quality release is now available via the Retail feed.
Azure Data Factory Mapping Data Flows public preview adds parameter support
Azure Data Factory Mapping Data Flows provides a code-free design environment for building and operationalizing ETL data transformations at scale. Now, the ADF team has added parameter support for Data Flows, enabling flexible & reusable data flows that can be called dynamically from pipelines.
June 2019
Azure API Management extension for Visual Studio Code is now in preview
A new Azure API Management extension for Visual Studio Code is now available in preview
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