Azure roadmap
As Azure continues to grow, we want to keep you informed—so that we can plan for the future together. This product roadmap is the place to find out what’s new and what’s coming next. Let us know what you think by providing feedback and voting on items. You can also subscribe to notifications, so you’ll always be the in the know.
Azure Analysis Services
Date updated: Friday, June 30, 2017
Transform complex data into actionable insights. Built on the proven analytics engine in Microsoft SQL Server 2016 Analysis Services, Azure Analysis Services will deliver enterprise-grade data modeling with the scale and benefits of the cloud.
Microsoft Cognitive Services—Bing Speech
Date updated: Wednesday, May 31, 2017
Bing Speech Service, Microsoft’s speech recognition and text-to-speech cloud offering, will help users to voice-enable their applications and add a delightful conversational experience.
Microsoft Cognitive Services—Custom Decision Service
Date updated: Wednesday, May 24, 2017
Custom Decision Service will soon be available in preview. This new service will help you create intelligent systems with a cloud-based contextual decision-making API that will adapt with experience.
HDInsight—Cloud-first with Hortonworks Data Platform 2.6
Date updated: Friday, June 2, 2017
Operating a cloud service like HDInsight, fully managed and backed by enterprise-grade SLA, will enable customers to deploy the latest bits of Hadoop and Spark on demand. To that end, we're excited to announce that the latest Hortonworks Data Platform 2.6 will be continuously available to HDInsight even before its on-premises release.
Azure Cost Management by Cloudyn
Date updated: Tuesday, September 26, 2017
Azure is introducing Cost Management by Cloudyn, a recently acquired service that will help organizations manage and optimize cloud spend across a multi-cloud environment.
Runtime 6.0 and SDK 2.8 released for Azure Service Fabric
Date updated: Tuesday, September 26, 2017
Azure Service Fabric is Microsoft’s microservices application platform, as well as a container orchestrator that will help developers build and manage cloud-scale applications.
Azure Media Redactor
Date updated: Monday, August 21, 2017
Azure Media Redactor is a powerful cloud video processing service that will automatically detect and blur faces in videos, and is ideal for use in cases such as public safety and news media.
Visual Studio Mobile Center
Date updated: Monday, May 15, 2017
Visual Studio Mobile Center will combine multiple services commonly used by mobile developers into a single, integrated product. You'll be able to build, test, distribute, and monitor your mobile apps, and then easily add backend cloud services to scale your app to millions of users on demand.
Azure Container Instances
Date updated: Thursday, July 27, 2017
We're extremely excited to announce a new Azure service that makes it even easier to deploy containers. The very first service of its kind in the cloud, Azure Container Instances is a new Azure service delivering containers with great simplicity and speed, and without any Virtual Machine infrastructure to manage.
Azure Time Series Insights
Date updated: Wednesday, May 24, 2017
Azure Time Series Insights will be a fully managed cloud service for storing, querying, and visualizing IoT time series data.