Updates Archives
Monthly updates for May 2021
Azure Machine Learning public preview announcement //Build, May 2021
New feature: Prebuilt Docker images for Inferencing, now in public preview.
Azure IoT Verified Telemetry is now in public preview
Azure IoT Verified Telemetry provides data reliability and is available as a part of Dependable IoT SDK and can be seamlessly integrated into current Azure IoT offerings such as Azure RTOS and IoT PnP.
Public preview: Azure Cognitive Services Text Analytics adds question answering feature
The new, standard question answering feature provides users with the capability to answer questions over a passage of text without having to create knowledge bases and manage additional storage
General availability: Logic Apps with new hosting options
Logic Apps has been updated with new hosting options, improved performance and developer workflows.
General availability: Azure Cognitive Services Translator document translation feature
Now generally available, use document translation to translate documents at scale.
Introducing Developer Velocity Lab to improve developers’ work and well-being
Developer Velocity Lab (DVL) is a new research initiative that includes contributions across Microsoft, its research labs and GitHub.
General availability: Improved Python support in Visual Studio Code with Pylance
The latest release of the Python extension for VS Code comes with a much-improved experience for Python developers thanks to the new Pylance language server in general availability.
App Service Managed Certificates now generally available
You can secure your custom domains at no additional cost.
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) on Azure Stack HCI is now generally available
AKS on Azure Stack HCI is a Kubernetes based platform that developers and administrators can use to build, deploy and manage containerised applications in their data centres and edge locations.
Azure Applied AI Services public preview updates for Build 2021
Azure AI is introducing a new category of services called Azure applied AI services. These services accelerate time-to-value in building AI solutions for common business processes. Within this category, Azure Video Analyzer is now in public preview. The service brings Live Video Analytics and Video Indexer together so that developers can quickly build AI-powered video analytics solutions.
General availability: Azure Applied AI Services
Azure AI is introducing a new category of services called Azure applied AI services. These services accelerate time-to-value in building AI solutions for common business processes. Within this category, there are important enhancements and status updates for Azure Bot Service and Azure Metrics Advisor.
Azure Machine Learning general availability announcements //Build, May 2021
New features now generally available including data labelling – image instance segmentation and MLflow support
Azure Machine Learning managed online and batch endpoints now in public preview //Build 2021.
Managed online and batch endpoints, in public preview, allow for seamless deployment and operationalisation
Public preview: Log Analytics workspace insights from Azure Monitor
A new workbooks-based insights experience for all log analytics workspaces available per resource, and at scale.
Public preview: Export Azure Monitor logs to multiple destinations
Logs export can be separated between multiple destinations to overcome destination rate limit and to maintain access control in destinations.
Public preview: Easily onboard application insights for Java apps on Azure App Services
Customers writing Java apps on Azure App Services can now onboard to application insights for application monitoring without making any code changes. App Service Linux, both code-based and custom containers, and App Service Windows code-based are supported.
Public preview: Save and share log analytics queries with new query packs in Azure Monitor
Query packs are a new capability within log analytics intended to make creating, saving, managing and discovering log analytics queries simpler and more efficient.
Traversal Using Relays Around NAT (TURN) is now in public preview for Azure Communication Services
This enables real-time communication when users are behind Network Address Translation (NAT) or firewalls.
Azure Communication Services Calling SDK for Windows apps in public preview
Add voice and video calling capabilities to applications that run on Microsoft Windows.
Azure Communication Services UI Library available in public preview
Developers can simplify the cross-channel user experiences within their applications with Azure Communication Services UI Library.
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