Updates Archives
Monthly updates for December 2018
CORS Support in Azure Cosmos DB
Now generally available, Azure Cosmos DB offers service level, global CORS (cross-origin resource sharing) support which enables web browser-based applications to directly connect to Azure Cosmos DB. CORS is an HTTP (hyper-text transfer protocol) feature that enables web applications running on one domain to request resources from another domain. This new support offers functionality and security for cross-origin requests to developers using Azure Cosmos DB via the JavaScript SDK.
New key capabilities added to Time Series Insights to meet your IoT needs
Time series-optimized long term storage, time series model for data contextualization, and a comprehensive analytics experience are now available in preview.
API Management flexible subscriptions is in preview
API Management consumption tier users can now create subscriptions at different levels, and subscriptions are no longer required to be associated with a developer account.
Version 3.0 of the Azure Cosmos DB .NET SDK in preview
The Azure Cosmos DB .NET SDK helps developers build Azure Cosmos DB applications with the SQL API and perform various operations more easily. The preview of version 3.0 is now available for download or to provide feedback on GitHub. The SDK targets .NET Standard 2.0 and has many new features including a new, intuitive object model, support for streams, and other performance improvements.
Azure Functions, Python support is in preview
Azure Functions now supports Python development on the Functions 2.0 runtime.
Open Source ONNX Runtime
ONNX Runtime, a high-performance inference engine for machine learning models, is now being open sourced.
Azure Cosmos DB new shared database offer now available
Throughput provisioned at the database level now starts at 400 RU/s per database and can be shared across any or all containers within a database.
Azure Stream Analytics on IoT Edge is now available
Azure Stream Analytics on IoT Edge empowers developers to deploy near-real-time analytical intelligence closer to IoT devices so that they can unlock the full value of device-generated data.
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) virtual node is in preview
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) virtual node allows developers to elastically provision additional pods inside Container Instances that start in seconds.
Application Insights is available in UK South
Azure Application Insights is now available in UK South.
AKS clusters patched for Kubernetes vulnerability
The Kubernetes community announced a serious security vulnerability that affects some recent releases. In preparation for this announcement, Azure Kubernetes Service has patched all affected clusters.
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