Updates Archives
Monthly updates for May 2022
Public preview: Azure Cognitive Services updates
Azure Cognitive Services is announcing the following preview updates at Build: Azure OpenAI Service and summarization capabilities in Azure Cognitive Service for Language.
Generally available: Azure Cognitive Service for Language
Cognitive Service for Language now includes custom named entity recognition and custom text classification.
Generally available: Ledger in Azure SQL Database
Enable proof that your database has not been tampered with and restore it back to the original value if needed by enabling ledger in Azure SQL Database.
Public preview: Azure Synapse Link for SQL
Synapse Link for SQL enables seamless near-real-time data movement from relational sources to analytical stores without the need to build ETL pipelines.
Public preview: New modern capabilities for Azure SQL Database
Simplify and expedite application development and reduce time-to-market with new features for Azure SQL Database.
Public preview: Azure Machine Learning updates
Azure Machine Learning now offers a Responsible AI dashboard and scorecard as well as additional enhancements in preview.
Generally available: Azure Machine Learning managed endpoints and Command Line Interface v2
Deploy your machine learning models in a turnkey manner across powerful GPU and GPU machines. CLI v2 now also generally available.
General availability: Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server Business Critical service tier
Run your production workloads on the Business Critical service tier, best for high-performance transactional or analytical applications and achieve a 1.5x performance improvement over Single Server on open-source community MySQL.
Generally available: Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server 80 vCore Business Critical
Azure Database for MySQL Flexible server is now offering 80 vCore compute for tier 1 workloads.
Public preview: Azure Cosmos DB API for MongoDB data plane RBAC
The API for MongoDB now includes the ability to create users and roles and configure fine-grained access to your database account data.
Public preview: Enhanced elasticity features for Azure Cosmos DB
Elasticity features for Azure Cosmos DB help achieve the best scalability and performance, including increased serverless capacity, database traffic burst handling, partition throughput redistribution, partition merge, and hierarchical partition keys.
General availability: Azure Cosmos DB Python SDK async IO support
Improve database performance by running I/O tasks concurrently using the Azure Cosmos DB Python SDK IO async support capability.
Generally available: Azure Container Apps
Run microservices in containers without managing infrastructure.
Generally available: Azure Communication Services sample app builder and Microsoft Teams support
Quickly create and deploy a "virtual visits" experience connecting your applications with Microsoft Teams bookings.
Public preview: Azure Communication Services APIs in US Government cloud
Use Azure Communication Services APIs for voice, video, and messaging in US Government cloud.
Public preview: Azure Communication Services Email
Add email notifications to your apps using Azure Communication Services Email.
Generally available: Azure Communication Services mobile UI library
Save time with Azure Communication Services mobile UI library.
Public preview: Durable functions support for managed identity for Azure Storage
Durable functions in Azure Functions now support using managed identity when using Azure Storage.
Public preview: Azure Functions .NET Framework support in the isolated worker model
Apps using Azure Functions isolated worker model for .NET can now target .NET Framework.
Generally available: Dynamic concurrency in Azure Functions
Azure Functions dynamic concurrency feature simplifies configuring concurrency for your function apps using Service Bus, Storage Blobs, and Storage Queue triggers.
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