Updates Archives
Monthly updates for November 2020
New feature in public preview for intelligent ingestion from Event Hubs source
New ingestion feature intelligently suggests relevant table schema and mapping definitions to Event Hubs source
Export and manage Azure Policy as code with GitHub
New integrations in between Azure Policy and GitHub are now in public preview.
Azure Boards - Delivery Plans 2.0 is now in preview
With this release, we are announcing the public preview release of Delivery Plans 2.0 and other improvements.
Azure Monitor for Virtual Machines Guest Health is in public preview
Announcing the Public Preview of the Guest Health feature of Azure Monitor for Virtual Machines, that monitors the health of your virtual machines and fires an alert when any of the parameters being monitored are outside the acceptable range.
A new version of Text Analytics is now in public preview
Text Analytics new API version supports batch processing and healthcare scenarios.
Node.js 14 for Azure Functions is now available in public preview
Developers can now build and publish Azure Functions Apps using Node.js 14.
SMB Multichannel preview is now available on Azure Files premium tier
Lower your deployment cost and increase you Server Message Block (SMB) 3.x client’s performance with Azure Files SMB Multichannel.
Cognitive Services Speech adds new Neural TTS voices and general availability of Neural TTS in containers
Speech service adds 10 new neural Text to Speech (TTS) voices and announces general availability of Neural TTS in containers.
Azure Backup for SAP HANA databases now supports Incremental backups – Public preview
Azure Backup for SAP HANA now supports HANA incremental backups which allows you to have faster and more cost-effective backups.
Public preview: Application Insight in UAE North
UAE North is now in public preview for customers to start collecting telemetry and analyze their services for health using Application Insight.
Public preview: Azure Log Analytics in Germany West Central, UAE North and Switzerland West
Germany West Central, UAE North and Switzerland West are now in public preview for customers to start collecting telemetry and analyse their services for health and usage using Azure Log Analytics.
Redis 6.0 is now in preview for Azure Cache for Redis
Redis 6.0 (preview) for Azure Cache for Redis brings several new features enhancing developer productivity including Redis Streams (new list data type), new commands, improved HyperLogLog performance, and more.
Azure Machine Learning updates--November 2020
Numerous updates across security, performance, experimentation and automated ML capabilities have been implemented.
Azure Cosmos DB transactional batch support for Java SDK 4.7.0 and above is now available
This new support satisfies a frequent customer ask for ACID-compliant transactions that succeed or fail altogether.
Serverless offer for Azure Cosmos DB in preview on all APIs
A new consumption-based offer that complements the existing range of provisioned throughput options is now in preview for all Azure Cosmos DB APIs.
QnA Maker introduces deep learning (Public Preview)
The next version of QnA Maker introduces state-of-art deep learning technologies and advances several core capabilities like better relevance and precise answering.
Azure HDInsight now supports Private Link in preview
Azure HDInsight private link integration allows you to create VNET injected clusters with no public IP and access them using your own private endpoints.
Power BI dynamic M query parameter support
Power BI dynamic M query parameter allows users to explicitly inject filters at the designated place in the query and improve query performance by a few factors, especially when the report is built on top of a very big dataset, or using complex query logic.
Generate Azure Functions using Azure API Management extension for Visual Studio Code
Target availability: Q4 2020
Using Azure API Management extension for Visual Studio Code, you can now generate Azure Functions. This will help you scaffold all the necessary functions for your API based on the API definitions.
Azure Time Series Insights Gen2 Preview APIs Deprecated
Target availability: Q4 2020
The Azure Time Series Insights Gen2 public preview APIs have been deprecated. Read about the process for migrating onto the new generally available API version for Azure Time Series Insights Gen2.
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