Developers

Today, we are very excited to announce the general availability of Azure Lab Services – your computer labs in the cloud.

You can now extract more insights and unlock new workflows from your images with the latest enhancements to Cognitive Services’ Computer Vision service.

Today, we are delighted to share the release of Azure Backup Instant Restore capability for Azure Virtual Machines (VMs). Instant Restore helps Azure Backup customers quickly recover VMs from the snapshots stored along with the disks.

We continue to expand the Azure Marketplace ecosystem. From January 16 to January 31, 2019, 70 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live.

We strive with every service to provide experiences that significantly improve the development experience. We’re always looking for common pain points that everybody building software in the cloud deals with. And once we find those pain points, we build best-of-class software to address the need.

We recently announced Cognitive Services running in Docker containers with an initial set of containers ranging from Computer Vision, Face, Text Analytics, and Language Understanding.

TypeScript is becoming increasingly popular in the JavaScript community. Since Azure Functions runs Node.js, and TypeScript compiles to JavaScript, motivated users already could get TypeScript code up and running in Azure Functions.

The Internet of Things (IoT) is becoming mainstream. Companies are seeing market-making benefits from IoT and deploying at scale – from transforming operations and logistics, remote monitoring, and predictive maintenance at the edge to new consumer experiences powered by connected devices.

The Internet of Things (IoT) has expanded the world of computing far beyond mobile and PC, bringing a new and ever-growing class of cloud-connected devices that is on track to reach 20 billion devices by 2020.

Catch up on Azure – Preview: Distributed tracing support for IoT Hub; Update to Azure DevOps Projects support for Azure Kubernetes Service; More reliable event-driven applications in Azure with an updated Event Grid; and more.

We are happy to announce that Metric Alerts with Dynamic Thresholds is now available in public preview. Dynamic Thresholds are a significant enhancement to Azure Monitor Metric Alerts.

It’s amazing to look back at everything we’ve learned from our customers since we first released HoloLens.