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May 2018

21 May

Azure Storage Explorer

NOW AVAILABLE

Explorer allows users easily manage different storage entities in one place from Linux, macOS, and Windows.

  • Storage Explorer
  • Features
21 May

Azure Media Services and Video Indexer

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Media Services and Video Indexer make it easy to integrate advanced media processing and AI-based media metadata extraction on your apps and workflows.

  • Media Services
  • Video Indexer
  • Features
21 May

Azure Sphere

IN PREVIEW

Azure Sphere is an industry-first solution that combines the power of a new class of microcontroller (MCU) with built-in security, a purpose-built OS that’s optimized for security and agility, and a cloud security service that guards every device.

  • Azure Sphere
  • Features
21 May

Azure IoT solution accelerators

NOW AVAILABLE

At Build, we announced the latest update of Azure IoT Remote Monitoring, a solution accelerator that is fully operational right out of the box.

  • Azure IoT solution accelerators
  • Features
21 May

Visual Studio Team Services | Release Management release gates

NOW AVAILABLE

Visual Studio Team Services, a cloud-hosted DevOps service, features capabilities such as Agile planning, Git source control, Cloud Build, Release Management (including continuous integration and delivery [CI/CD] pipelines), Test Manager, and Package Management. We’ve added the Release Management release gates capability to Team Services.

  • Azure DevOps
  • Features
21 May

Visual Studio Team Services | Azure DevOps Projects

NOW AVAILABLE

Use Azure DevOps Projects to start running your application on Azure App Service or Virtual Machine hosts.

  • Azure DevOps
  • Features
21 May

Visual Studio App Center | App Center and GitHub integration

NOW AVAILABLE

Visual Studio App Center and GitHub integration gives mobile developers a continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) solution at their fingertips to automate the build-test-distribute process for iOS and Android apps.

  • App Centre
  • Features
21 May

Azure Blockchain Workbench

IN PREVIEW

Azure Blockchain Workbench, a new developer tool, makes it easier to build blockchain applications on Azure. With a few clicks, deploy an Azure-supported blockchain network that’s pre-integrated with a set of cloud services commonly needed to create working blockchain applications, such as Azure Active Directory, Key Vault, and SQL Database.

  • Azure Blockchain Workbench
  • Features
21 May

Azure Container Registry

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Container Registry provides a managed Docker registry service to store and manage private container images.

  • Azure Container Registry
  • Features
21 May

Azure Container Instances on Windows and Linux

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Container Instances offers an on-demand compute service delivering rapid deployment of containers with no virtual machine management and elastic cloud scale.

  • Azure Container Instances
  • Features
21 May

Azure Service Fabric | Service Fabric Mesh

IN PREVIEW

Azure Service Fabric is a microservice platform for business critical applications.

  • Azure Service Fabric
  • Features
21 May

Azure App Service | Debug, diagnostics, easy authentication

IN PREVIEW

Azure App Service is getting new capabilities with the latest updates. Mundane developer tasks are simpler with App Service diagnostics, remote debugging for container-based apps, and easy authentication extended to App Service on Linux.

  • App Service (Linux)
  • Features
21 May

Azure App Service | App Service Environment for App Service on Linux

IN PREVIEW

Azure App Service on Linux is now available in preview on App Service Environment.

  • App Service (Linux)
  • Features
21 May

Microsoft Cognitive Services | Custom Vision Service API

IN PREVIEW

Custom Vision Service API aims to identify trained objects and show their location within images.

  • Azure AI services
  • Features
21 May

Microsoft Cognitive Services | Computer Vision API

IN PREVIEW

Computer Vision API represents a collection of state-of-the-art image-processing algorithms, designed to return information based on visual content and to help generate suitable thumbnails.

  • Azure AI services
  • Features
21 May

Microsoft Cognitive Services | Bing Visual Search API

NOW AVAILABLE

Bing Visual Search API is a new service that delivers intelligent image understanding capabilities from Bing.

  • Azure AI services
  • Features
21 May

Microsoft Cognitive Services | Bing Statistics

NOW AVAILABLE

The Bing Statistics add-in provides metrics such as call volume, top queries, API response, code distribution, and market distribution.

  • Azure AI services
  • Features
21 May

Microsoft Cognitive Services | Bing Custom Search API

NOW AVAILABLE

Bing Custom Search API is an easy-to-use, ad-free search solution that lets you build a search experience and query content on your website or across a selected set of websites or domains.

  • Azure AI services
  • Features
21 May

Microsoft Cognitive Services | Language Understanding speech to intent

NOW AVAILABLE

Language Understanding (LUIS), a machine learning-based service, offers simple tools to build your own language understanding models (intents/entities) to help any bot or app provide natural language-based user interactions.

  • Azure AI services
  • Features
21 May

Microsoft Cognitive Services | QnA Maker API

NOW AVAILABLE

QnA Maker API provides a web-based service to train AI to respond to questions in a natural, conversational way.

  • Azure AI services
  • Features

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