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September 2019

17 Sep

Azure Analysis Services scale-out improvement

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q3 2019

Synchronisation of query replicas in Azure Analysis Services scale-out environments now uses an optimised copy API, which significantly reduces synchronisation time on average.

  • Azure Analysis Services
  • Services
  • Management
  • Features
12 Sep

Azure Cognitive Services Text Analytics – New sentiment analysis capability is now available

NOW AVAILABLE

Cognitive Services Text Analytics has a new sentiment analysis capability supporting Japanese and Simplified Chinese languages in addition to the previously announced English language model.

  • Text Analytics
  • Azure AI services
  • Services

August 2019

8 Aug

Navigator now provides dependency mapping and change analysis in App Service Diagnostics

NOW AVAILABLE

Navigator is now available in App Service Diagnostics for Windows web apps. Navigator provides a centralised view of an app and its dependencies along with changes made over time.

  • App Service
  • Services
  • Features

July 2019

29 Jul

Azure marketplace charges are now available in Azure Cost Management for pay-as-you-go customers!

IN PREVIEW

We are excited to announce a preview release of Azure marketplace charges within our Cost Analysis tool for pay-as-you-go customers. As part of this preview, you can now analyse your marketplace charges alongside your Azure service charges within Cost Analysis and reconcile your Azure marketplace invoice using both Cost Analysis and a new usage csv download API.

  • Microsoft Cost Management
  • Features
29 Jul

Azure Security Center for IoT now available

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Security Center allows you to protect your end-to-end IoT deployment with threat protection that identifies emerging threats and provides you with steps for remediation.

  • Azure IoT Hub
  • Azure IoT Edge
  • Security Center
  • Security
12 Jul

Azure Monitor for VMs is now available in East and South East Australia regions

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Monitor for VMs is now available in East Australia and South East Australia. Around the world, it is available in nine public regions.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Virtual Machines
  • Virtual Machine Scale Sets
  • Service Fabric
  • Regions & Datacenters
11 Jul

In development: query interleaving for Azure Analysis Services

IN PREVIEW

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.

  • Azure Analysis Services
  • Management
  • Features
10 Jul

Cognitive Services Text Analytics sentiment v3 available in public preview

IN 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.

  • Azure AI services
  • Text Analytics
  • Services
  • Features

June 2019

10 Jun

Public preview of calculation groups in Azure Analysis Services

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q3 2019

We are pleased to announce that calculation groups are now officially in public preview for Azure Analysis Services!

  • Azure Analysis Services
  • Features
10 Jun

Public preview of many-to-many relationships in Azure Analysis Services

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q3 2019

Many-to-many relationships in Azure Analysis Services allow relationships between tables where both columns are non-unique.

  • Azure Analysis Services
  • Features
7 Jun

Spatial Operations for Azure Maps are now generally available

NOW AVAILABLE

Spatial Operations provides applications with enhanced location intelligence with a library of common geospatial mathematical calculations, (notably within the IoT space), including services such as geofencing, closest point and point in polygon.

  • Azure Maps
  • Services
  • Features

May 2019

31 May

Azure Monitor for VMs is now available in West US 2

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Monitor for VMs is now available in West US 2. Around the world, it’s available in seven public regions.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Virtual Machines
  • Virtual Machine Scale Sets
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Compliance
  • Management
  • Features
28 May

Application Change Analysis for Azure Monitor is now in public preview

IN PREVIEW

Change Analysis public preview with integration into App Services Diagnose and solve problems tool.

  • Azure Monitor
  • App Service
  • Services
  • Features
8 May

Azure Monitor BUILD 2019 updates

IN PREVIEW

Azure Monitor is launching a number of exciting features including end-to-end AKS monitoring, granular RBAC for logs, intelligent and scalable alerts, a new application change analysis capability and more.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Features
6 May

Azure Cost Management multi-cloud for AWS is in preview

IN PREVIEW

Now you can manage your AWS spend along your Azure spend in Azure Cost Management

  • Microsoft Cost Management
  • Management
6 May

New features for Azure Machine Learning are now available

NOW AVAILABLE

Features include: Model interpretability – Machine learning interpretability allows data scientists to explain machine-learning models globally on all data, or locally on a specific data point using the state-of-art technologies in an easy-to-use and scalable fashion. Machine learning interpretability incorporates technologies developed by Microsoft and proven third-party libraries (for example, SHAP and LIME).

  • Azure Machine Learning
  • Features
6 May

Public preview of tighter integration of Azure Data Explorer with Python and Spark

IN PREVIEW

Spark connector for Azure Data Explorer and ability to run inline Python and R as part of the query.

  • Azure Data Explorer
  • Open Source

April 2019

25 Apr

New governance setting for cache refreshes from Azure Analysis Services

NOW AVAILABLE

The new ClientCacheRefreshPolicy property allows IT or the Analysis Services practitioner to disable automatic cache refreshes.

  • Azure Analysis Services
  • Features
5 Apr

Azure FXT Edge Filer is in public preview

IN PREVIEW

The Avere FXT Edge Filer solution is currently being previewed. This redesigned hardware takes advantage of Avere Systems’ software technology to accelerate network-attached storage (NAS) environments and expand access to Azure Blob.

  • Avere vFXT for Azure
  • Services
3 Apr

Azure Security Center for IoT in public preview

IN PREVIEW

Azure is now the first major public cloud with end-to-end security for IoT for your devices, hubs and cloud resources. We are adding advanced threat protection for IoT to three key services: Azure Security Center, Azure Sentinel and Azure IoT Hub.

  • Azure IoT Hub
  • Azure IoT Edge
  • Azure Sphere
  • Security Center
  • Azure Sentinel
  • Security

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