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Public preview: Azure Cosmos DB partition key advisor notebook
The Azure Cosmos DB partition key advisor notebook helps recommend an optimal partition key based on information you provide about your workload traffic patterns and queries.
Generally available: The new Azure Front Door – a modern cloud CDN service
Azure Front Door is a modern cloud CDN that enables you to accelerate the delivery of applications, APIs, and content on Azure or anywhere at scale.
December 2021
General availability: Azure Communication Services interoperability with Microsoft Teams
Improving customer interactions across apps with Microsoft Teams and Azure Communication Services interoperability.
November 2021
Cost saving recommendations in Azure Advisor for Azure Cosmos DB now generally available
Refer to the Azure Advisor recommendations for possible cost savings in Azure Cosmos DB, which are calculated based on historical usage patterns.
October 2021
General availability: Azure Data Explorer Insights
Azure Data Explorer Insights provides comprehensive monitoring of your clusters by delivering a unified view of your cluster performance, usage, ingestion operations, cache, and more.
General availability: Azure Advisor recommendations for Azure Data Explorer Clusters
Azure Advisor analyzes the Azure Data Explorer cluster configurations and usage telemetry and offers personalized and actionable recommendations to help you optimize your cluster. Advisor is designed to help you save you time on the cluster optimization. The recommendations include suggested actions you can take right away, postpone, or dismiss.
May 2021
General availability: Azure Applied AI Services
Azure AI is introducing a new category of services called Azure Applied AI Services. These services accelerate time-to-value in building AI solutions for common business processes. Within this category, there are important enhancements and status updates for Azure Bot Service and Azure Metrics Advisor.
Azure Applied AI Services public preview updates for Build 2021
Azure AI is introducing a new category of services called Azure Applied AI Services. These services accelerate time-to-value in building AI solutions for common business processes. Within this category, Azure Video Analyzer is now in public preview. The service brings Live Video Analytics and Video Indexer together so developers can quickly build AI-powered video analytics solutions.
March 2021
Public preview: Azure Communication Services interoperability with Microsoft Teams
Azure Communication Services is now interoperable with Microsoft Teams in preview, enabling you to leverage a unified offering for both internal and external communication experiences.
February 2021
Azure Cost Management now available for Azure Government Pay-As-You-Go subscriptions
Azure Cost Management capabilities to view and analyze costs, be notified when exceeding cost thresholds using budgets, and export usage and charges data is now supported for Azure Government Pay-As-You-Go subscriptions.
January 2021
Monitoring your Azure Data Explorer Clusters with Azure Monitor (Insights) - public preview
Azure Monitor for Azure Data Explorer (public preview) provides comprehensive monitoring of your Azure Data Explorer clusters by delivering a unified view of the performance, operations, and usage.
November 2020
New recommendations from Azure Advisor are now available
Four new best practice recommendations will help you improve the reliability and performance of your Azure resources
September 2020
New performance recommendations now available in Azure Advisor
Review new Azure Advisor recommendations to help you achieve better performance.
New recommendations for operational excellence are now available in Azure Advisor
Review new Azure Advisor recommendations to help you improve your cloud operations.
New Azure Cognitive Services and capabilities in preview
Preview capabilities in Azure Cognitive Services Decision, Vision, and containers categories.
Azure Advisor Score is now in preview
Measure, track, and improve your Azure optimization posture with prioritized Advisor best practice recommendations so you can get the most out of your Azure investments
August 2020
Cost optimization enhancements now available in Azure Advisor
New Advisor cost optimization enhancements help you optimize and reduce your overall Azure spend.
Azure Advisor Quick Fix is now available
Remediate Advisor recommendations at scale more quickly and easily using Advisors new Quick Fix feature.
May 2020
Azure Advisor recommendation digests now available
Receive a periodic, customizable notification of your available Advisor recommendations to help you stay current on Azure best practices.
April 2020
Azure Advisor integration with AKS now generally available
By analyzing your AKS configuration and usage telemetry, Azure Advisor can recommend solutions that help improve the performance, high availability, and security of your AKS cluster.
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