Updates Archives
Monthly updates for July 2019
Availability Zones support is now available for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) in preview
Protect applications and data from data centre 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 organisations using Azure Data Share, now in preview.
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 that 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.
Authentication method usage and insight reporting in Azure AD
Understand the adoption of self-service password reset (SSPR) and Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) in your organisation with this Azure AD dashboard.
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 for public preview Central Canada, East Asia and Central US.
Large storage for Azure Database for PostgreSQL now in preview
We are excited to announce support for up to 16 TB of storage and up to 20,000 IOPS in Azure Database for PostgreSQL is now in preview.
Large storage for Azure Database for MySQL now in preview
We are excited to announce support for up to 16 TB of storage and up to 20,000 IOPS in Azure Database for MySQL 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 AD B2B collaboration direct federation with SAML and WS-Fed providers
Seamlessly collaborate with guests or partners whose IT managed identity solution supports the SAML or WS-Fed standards.
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 operationalising 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.
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