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Monthly updates for January 2021

29 Jan

General availability: Text Analytics' Named Entity Recognition v3 now supports 10 languages with improved AI quality

NOW AVAILABLE

With support for more entity categories and more languages, using Text Analytics NER enables organizations to extract higher quality insights from unstructured text.

  • Text Analytics
  • Azure AI services
  • Services
  • Features
27 Jan

Azure API Management Updates - January, 2021

NOW AVAILABLE

A regular Azure API Management service update was started on January 21, 2021, and included several new features and bug fixes, along other improvements. It may take several weeks for your API Management service to receive the update.

  • API Management
  • Services
  • Features
26 Jan

99.99% uptime for Azure Active Directory Premium customers is coming April 1st, 2021

IN DEVELOPMENT

SLA for Azure AD is increasing the up-time commitment to 99.99% for Azure AD Premium customers to support the need for an Identity service with high resilience and low interruptions.

  • Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD)
  • Services
  • Features
  • Security
26 Jan

Confluent Cloud integration with Azure is now generally available

NOW AVAILABLE

Confluent and Microsoft have worked together to enable seamless integration experience between Azure and Confluent Cloud – a managed Apache Kafka service. This service will enable you to provision Confluent Cloud resources using Azure client interfaces such as portal/CLI/SDKs. Other integration points include single sign-on using Azure Active Directory and unified billing through Azure with an option to draw down on existing Azure commits.

  • Services
  • Features
25 Jan

Azure Data Factory is now available in two additional regions

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Data Factory is now available in two new regions: China North 2 and South India

  • Azure Data Factory
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Services
  • Features
25 Jan

New Azure Cloud Services deployment model in public preview

IN PREVIEW

Use Azure Cloud Services (extended support), now in public preview, to increase regional resiliency and gain access to new capabilities that the Azure Resource Manager-based deployment model provides.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Services
  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Features
22 Jan

Generally available: Copy Blob support over private endpoints in Azure Storage

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Storage now supports copying of data between storage accounts using private endpoints. This includes support for the Copy Blob API and utilities such as AzCopy.

  • Storage Accounts
  • Azure Private Link
  • Services
  • Features
  • Security
21 Jan

Public preview: Prevent Shared key authorisation on Azure Storage accounts

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q2 2021

Enhance secure access to Azure Storage accounts with the prevent shared key authorisation.

  • Storage Accounts
  • Services
  • Features
  • Security
19 Jan

The Azure Quota REST API to manage service limits (quotas) is now generally available

NOW AVAILABLE

Use Azure REST Quota APIs to manage the service limits (quota) of Azure virtual machines (cores/vCPU) and Azure Machine Learning. Take advantage of this capability to query current usage and quotas for the supported resources and update these limits.

  • Azure Machine Learning
  • Virtual Machines
  • Services
  • SDK and Tools
  • Features
11 Jan

Monitoring your Azure Data Explorer clusters with Azure Monitor (insights) – public preview

IN 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.

  • Azure Data Explorer
  • Azure Monitor
  • Services
  • Management
  • Features
7 Jan

Built-in Azure Policy support for NSG Flow Logs is now available

NOW AVAILABLE

Network security group (NSG) Flow Logs can now be deployed and managed using built-in Azure policies. You don't need to write your own policies to manage NSG Flow Log deployments.

  • Network Watcher
  • Azure Monitor
  • Services
  • Features
6 Jan

Azure Health Bot is now generally available

NOW AVAILABLE

Moving Microsoft Healthcare Bot to Azure and empowering organizations to deliver even better care for patients.

  • Microsoft Healthcare Bot
  • Services
5 Jan

View changes at-scale with Application Change Analysis now in public preview

IN PREVIEW

Application Change Analysis now has a new UI to view changes in all resources under selected subscriptions, without 10 rows per page limitation. Check it out and monitor your Azure resources at-scale.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Activity Log
  • Azure Resource Graph
  • Azure Resource Manager
  • Compliance
  • Services
  • Management
  • Features
4 Jan

NCas_T4_v3-Series VMs are now generally available

NOW AVAILABLE

These virtual machines are ideal to run ML and AI workloads utilizing Cuda, TensorFlow, Pytorch, Caffe, and other Frameworks or the graphics workloads using NVIDIA GRID technology.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Services
  • Features

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