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Secure your Custom Domains at no cost with App Service Managed Certificates (preview)
Excerpt: One of the most highly requested features for App Service for free Transport Layer Security (TLS) is now in preview! You can secure custom domains for your web apps with App Service Managed Certificates.
October 2019
Azure Media Indexer is being retired
Target retirement date: January 01, 2023
A year ago we announced the general availability of Azure Video Indexer, which is built on the capabilities of Azure Media Analytics, Azure Search, and Cognitive Services. This enables you to extract a rich set of machine learning insights based on multiple channels of your media files, all integrated together in one call and on a shared timeline.
September 2019
Monitor bandwidth usage for all peered Azure virtual networks with ExpressRoute
Monitor bandwidth use for all peered Azure virtual networks with an improvement to ExpressRoute, a capability of Network Performance Monitor.
Public Preview - Video Indexer Multilingual identification and transcription
Automatic spoken language identification leverages machine learning technology to identify the different languages used in a media asset.
Public Preview - Video Indexer Animated Character Detection
Azure Media Services Video Indexer supports detection, grouping, and recognition of characters in animated content.
Azure Advisor alerts are now in preview
Get your Azure best practice recommendations as soon as they become available with Azure Advisor user-configured alerts, now available in preview.
Data transfer from Azure Origins to Azure CDN from Microsoft is now free of charge
Data transfer from Azure services, such as Azure Storage, Azure Media Services, Azure Application Gateway, and more, to Azure CDN from Microsoft will be free of charge starting October 2019.
Azure Backup support for large disks up to 30 TB is now in public preview
Announcing the public preview support for larger and more powerful Azure Managed Disks of up to 30 TB size.
Microsoft Azure available from new cloud regions in Germany
Deutsche Bank, Deutsche Telekom, SAP, and others trust Microsoft for their digital transformations
Legacy media encoders are being retired on November 30, 2019
Target retirement date: November 30, 2019
We've been making steady improvements to the robustness, reliability, performance, price and capabilities of the encoding features of Azure Media Services.
August 2019
Navigator now provides dependency mapping and change analysis in App Service Diagnostics
Navigator is now available in App Service Diagnostics for Windows web apps. Navigator provides a centralized view of an app and its dependencies along with changes made over time.
Media Services is now available in both South Africa regions
Media Services is now available in South Africa North and South Africa West regions
July 2019
Azure DevOps Roadmap update for Q3 of 2019
The engineering team behind Azure DevOps is constantly at work delivering enhancements and new features across our services. We recently added new capabilities at an unprecedented pace for Azure DevOps. The highlights listed below are just a few of the new features coming in the next few months. Visit the DevOps feature timeline for a complete list.
Azure Lab Services now has a new instance size available—Medium (nested virtualization)
Azure Lab Services now has a new instance size available—Medium (nested virtualization) that’s priced at USD0.55 per hour across all regions (55 lab units per hour).
Location telemetry support in IoT Central is now available
We have added support for location telemetry that lights up scenarios such as asset track and trace, connected logistics, and more!
In development: query interleaving for Azure Analysis Services
Target availability: Q4 2019
Enterprise BI systems need to support high user concurrency, which means there can be lots of queries submitted close to each other. We are pleased to announce that we are working on the query interleaving feature, which allows system configuration to improve the user experience in high-concurrency scenarios. Query interleaving allows configuration to improve the user experience in high-concurrency scenarios. Multiple queries can run concurrently so fast queries are not blocked behind slow ones. Query interleaving can be set up with short-query bias so if the system is under CPU pressure, short queries are allocated a higher proportion of CPU resources than long-running queries, allowing them to complete faster.
June 2019
HDInsight Tools for VSCode: Enhanced PySpark Interactive Query
We are pleased to announce the integration of VSCode Python extension to handle PySpark interactive for HDInsight in VSCode. The Azure HDInsight Tools for VSCode leverages the Python extension to…
HDInsight Tools for VSCode: Hive Table Preview
HDInsight for VSCode continues to boost the experience of Hive users with self-service exploratory capabilities. The HDInsight explorer in VSCode not only empowers you to browse Hive databases across…
Premium Live Encoder now supports streaming at 1080p and 30 frames per second
The Premium Live Encoder for Azure Media Services now allows you to live encode streaming content at a resolution of 1080p and up to 30 frames per second.
Public preview of calculation groups in Azure Analysis Services
Target availability: Q3 2019
We are pleased to announce calculation groups are now officially in public preview for Azure Analysis Services!
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