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New maintenance control features
Increase control over maintenance operations and ensure higher availability for your business-critical applications with two new features now in preview. You can now schedule host maintenance operations in addition to the already available manual updates. Additionally, we are adding the ability for you to control when guest OS image updates on Virtual Machine Scale Sets are rolled out.
Column-level encryption for Azure Synapse Analytics
Azure Synapse Analytics already provides a breadth of options that can be used to handle sensitive data in a secure manner—we are expanding that support with the introduction of Column Level Encryption (CLE).
COPY command now generally available in Azure Synapse Analytics
The COPY command can now automatically parse your files to calculate file splits and can evenly distribute data chunks across the Synapse SQL compute nodes for parallel ingestion.
New MERGE command for Azure Synapse Analytics
Users can now synchronize two tables in a single step, streamlining the data processing using a single step statement while improving code readability and debugging.
Windows IoT Microsoft Edge Kiosk Mode in public preview
Microsoft Edge can now be run in Kiosk mode on Windows IoT
Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server now in preview
Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server is a new deployment option that provides better control and flexibility, more options for high availability, and cost optimization controls.
Logic Apps updated with new hosting options, improved performance and developer workflows
Logic Apps is now updated with new hosting options and performance and development improvements that will enable you to build modern workflow-enabled apps.
Debug API Management policies in real time
Debug API Management policies with the Visual Studio Code extension for Azure API Management
Configurable Backup Storage Redundancy option for Azure SQL Managed Instance
Now in general availability, locally redundant storage (LRS) and zone-redundant storage (ZRS) options have been added to backup storage redundancy, providing more flexibility and choice.
Azure Arc enabled data services now in preview
Run Azure Arc enabled data services on premises on any infrastructure of your choice with Azure cloud benefits like elastic scale, unified management, and a cloud billing model while staying always current.
Accelerate analytics and AI workloads with Photon powered Delta Engine on Azure Databricks
Photon powered Delta Engine is a 100% Apache Spark-compatible vectorized query engine designed to take advantage of modern CPU architecture for extremely fast parallel processing of data.
High throughput output from Stream Analytics to Azure Synapse Analytics (General Availability)
With a brand new output connector to Synapse SQL Pools, Stream Analytics can now support throughput rates even higher than 200MB/sec while ensuring ultra-low latencies.
Azure Stream Analytics clusters with VNet support (Preview)
Azure Stream Analytics clusters delivers support for Azure Virtual Network (VNet) and more predictable performance.
Azure Object Anchors is now in private preview
Target availability: Q3 2020
Align and anchor holographic content to objects. Register to be considered for Azure Object Anchors private preview.
Announcing Private Azure Marketplace in public preview
Private Azure Marketplace enables you to govern the apps available for deployment for your organization
GA: Azure Kubernetes Service mutate default storage class feature
AKS users now have the flexibility to use a different storage class instead of the default storage class.
Redis Enterprise features on Azure Cache for Redis coming soon
Two new tiers will be coming soon in preview for Azure Cache for Redis through a collaboration with Redis Labs: Enterprise and Enterprise Flash.
Azure AD authentication features for Azure SQL DB, Azure Synapse Analytics, and Azure SQL Managed Instance
These new preview features extend existing functionality, remove user limitations, and provide customers with greater ease of use when setting up Azure SQL Database or Azure SQL Managed Instance.
Visual Studio Code extension diagnostics + periscope
This Visual Studio Code extension enables developers to use AKS periscope and AKS diagnostics in their development workflow to quickly diagnose and troubleshoot their clusters.
GA: Azure Kubernetes Service support for new base image Ubuntu 18.04
Ubuntu 18.04 is now the default Node Operating System on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
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