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Improved resource governance for Azure Analysis Services
Today, we are excited to announce the release of two enhancements concerning the memory governance options of Azure Analysis Services. Specifically, the enhancements improve the accuracy of the…
Azure DevTest Labs – Security alerts for lab environments
View Azure Security Center alerts for your Azure Resource Management environments deployed through the Azure DevTest Service.
February 2020
Drill into the costs for your resources
Updated Cost by resource view in Cost Analysis. This improves drilldown experience to view costs accruing for each resource at a meter level.
Azure Cognitive Services Text Analytics sentiment analysis v3 now supports Korean
The sentiment analysis v3 feature of Cognitive Services Text Analytics now supports Korean in addition to English, Japanese, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Spanish, Italian, French, Portuguese, German and Dutch.
January 2020
Improved query replica synchronisation in Azure Analysis Services is in preview
A new Azure Analysis Services setting (in preview) improves performance and consistency of query-replica synchronisation in scale-out environments.
Minimum virtual machine sizing for Azure HDInsight cluster head nodes
Beginning 6 April 2020, customers will be able to choose only 4-core or higher virtual machines (VMs) as head nodes for the new HDInsight clusters. Existing clusters will continue to run as expected.
November 2019
HPC Specialized VMs - HB and HC-series
Azure HB and HC Virtual Machines expand to new regions
Release of Microsoft Secure Code Analysis toolkit to help you build secure code
With the Microsoft Security Code Analysis extension, you can infuse security analysis tools including Credential Scanner, BinSkim and others into your Azure DevOps continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.
Azure Cognitive Services Text Analytics—New languages added to sentiment analysis
Target availability: Q4 2019
Cognitive Services Text Analytics' sentiment analysis v3 now supports 10 languages including English, Japanese, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Spanish, Italian, French, Portuguese, German, and Dutch.
Azure Functions integration with Azure Monitor Logs is now in public preview
Azure Functions now offers an integration with Azure Monitor Logs, enabling a more consistent observability of Azure resources and integration with external monitoring tools.
Azure Monitor – Application change analysis updates
A number of new capabilities for Azure Monitor application change analysis have been added, including at-scale onboarding, richer diagnostics, impact analysis and more new features.
Azure Monitor Workbooks is now generally available
Azure Monitor Workbooks gives you a single tool that can combine text, analytic queries, metrics and parameters into a rich interactive report that you can share with your team members.
Easier diagnostics and logging with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is now in preview
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) diagnostics help you troubleshoot and diagnose problems with your AKS clusters.
Azure Cognitive Services capabilities are now in preview
The following Azure Cognitive Services capabilities are now in preview – Custom Neural Voice capability Custom Speech with Office 365 data Text Analytics; Sentiment Analysis 3.0 Text Analytics; Expanded Entity Type Support in Entities 3.0 endpoint Text Analytics; Personally Identifiable Information support in Entities 3.0 endpoint.
Azure HPC Cache is now available
High-performance workloads that require file access can now use Azure HPC Cache to minimise latency, improve availability and increase throughput.
October 2019
Azure Monitor for VMs is now available in South Central US, West US, Central US, North Central US, East Asia and Central India regions
Azure Monitor for VMs is now available in South Central US, West US, Central US, North Central US, East Asia and Central India. It’s available around the world in eighteen public regions.
Azure Analysis Services utility for QPU auto-scale
Azure Analysis Services QPU AutoScale enables automatic customisable scaling for AAS instances.
SQL Server Data Tools support for 1500 compatibility level
We are pleased to announce that SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) for Analysis Services now supports tabular models with 1500 compatibility level.
September 2019
Azure Analysis Services – Two new higher compute SKUs are now available
Target availability: Q3 2019
Two new SKUs for Azure Analysis Services, S8V2 and S9V2, are now available. These SKUs are based on next-generation hardware and have double the QPU (abstraction of CPU) of the existing S8/S9 SKUs.
Improved query replica synchronisation in Azure Analysis Services is in development
Target availability: Q3 2019
A new Azure Analysis Services setting now in development will improve performance and consistency of query-replica synchronisation in scale-out environments.
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