Data professionals

We are pleased to announce the public preview of Microsoft Azure Analysis Services, the latest addition to our data platform in the cloud.

Recently we released several updates to Azure DocumentDB portal experience. We added a new consolidated metrics experience which includes new metrics for availability, throughput, consistency, and latency which allows you to track how DocumentDB is meeting its SLA.

Azure DocumentDB, Microsoft’s globally replicated, low latency, NoSQL database, is pleased to announce updates to all four of its client-side SDKs.

We are very excited to announce the next phase of our support of blockchain on Microsoft Azure with the launch of an early version of the Bletchley v1 infrastructural substrate.

In the introduction of Project Bletchley white paper in June, we introduced some of the requirements needed for building consortium based blockchains as well as Cryptlets, a primitive for next generation blockchain applications.

Of the many key scenarios for Event Hubs, are long term data archival and downstream micro-batch processing. Customers typically use compute (Event Processor Host/Event Receivers) or Stream Analytics jobs to perform these archival or batch processing tasks.

Today, we are excited to announce the General Availability of Storage Service Encryption for Azure Blob Storage. You can enable this feature on any Azure Resource Manager storage account using the Azure Portal, Azure Powershell, Azure CLI or the Microsoft Azure Storage Resource Provider API.

Azure backup now supports edit and delete on existing Azure VM backup policies in Recovery Services vault.

New update to SQL Database Advisor greatly reduces the time required (from a week to a day) to produce and implement index tuning recommendations, making the performance tuning process much faster.

We are happy to announce that JSON support is now generally available in Azure SQL Database.

Today, we’re announcing a cool new feature (in preview) for Web developers using Azure App Service to create Web applications that use MySQL.

We would like to share a few customer experiences that demonstrate how Azure SQL Database Threat Detection helped address their concerns about potential threats to their database.