Updates Archives
Monthly updates for 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.
Azure Ultra Disk is now available in more regions
Azure Ultra Disk is now available in Australia Central, India Central, Korea Central and US Gov Texas.
Azure Container Registry now available in several new regions
Target availability: Q3 2020
Azure Container Registry is now generally available in US Gov Texas, Germany West Central, and Brazil Southeast regions bringing the number of Azure regions that it’s available in to 38.
Debug API Management policies in real time
Debug API Management policies with the Visual Studio Code extension for Azure API Management
Azure Arc enabled data services now in preview
Run Azure Arc enabled data services on premises on any infrastructure of your choice with Azure cloud benefits like elastic scale, unified management, and a cloud billing model while staying always current.
Accelerate analytics and AI workloads with Photon-powered Delta Engine on Azure Databricks
Photon-powered Delta Engine is a 100% Apache Spark-compatible vectorised query engine designed to take advantage of modern CPU architecture for extremely fast parallel processing of data.
Azure Object Anchors is now in private preview
Target availability: Q3 2020
Align and anchor holographic content to objects. Register to be considered for Azure Object Anchors private preview.
Announcing Private Azure Marketplace in public preview
Private Azure Marketplace enables you to govern the apps available for deployment for your organization
Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare will be generally available on October 30, 2020
Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare will help organizations adapt and build scalable modalities of care while safeguarding patients, care teams, and assets.
Announcing the unified Azure Certified Device program
A unified and enhanced Azure Certified Device program was announced at Microsoft Ignite, expanding on previous Microsoft certification offerings that validate IoT devices meet specific capabilities and are built to run on Azure. This program offers a low-cost opportunity for device builders to increase visibility of their products while making it easy for solution builders and end customers to find the right device for their IoT solutions.
AT&T powered guardian device with Azure Sphere is now available
AT&T powered guardian device with Azure Sphere enables customers to securely connect their devices via AT&T’s cellular network.
Azure Cognitive Services general availability updates
General availability updates in Azure Cognitive Services Decision, Speech, and containers categories.
Announcing the public preview of Azure Automanage
A new approach to managing Windows Server virtual machines in Azure.
Network Virtual Appliances from Cisco can be installed directly into the Virtual WAN hub
Azure is partnering with third-party Network Virtual Appliance (NVA) partners to allow customers to choose to deploy an NVA directly into the Virtual WAN hub as an option for SD-WAN connectivity.
New Azure Orbital, ground station as a service, now in preview
Azure Orbital is a fully managed cloud-based ground station as a service that enables you to schedule contacts with your spacecrafts or satellites and directly ingest data in Azure using Orbital ground stations.
Azure Resource Mover is now in public preview
Take advantage of the most relevant datacenter regions and meet your business needs with Azure Resource Mover.
Azure Machine Learning offers added capabilities at lower cost
Azure Machine Learning Enterprise Edition (preview) and Basic Edition are merging on September 22, 2020. This change does not cause any downtime or impact existing deployments.
Public preview: Azure Arc enabled SQL Server
Public preview of Azure Arc enabled SQL Server extends power of Azure to SQL servers hosted on-premises or in other public clouds.
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
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