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Monthly updates for May 2019
KEDA: Kubernetes-based event-driven autoscaling
Microsoft and Red Hat collaborated to create an open-sourced project that supports the deployment of serverless, event-driven containers on Kubernetes. Kubernetes-based event-driven autoscaling (KEDA) can be used in any Kubernetes environment — in any public/private cloud or on-premises such as Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and Red Hat OpenShift. <br> <a href="https://aka.ms/Build2019_AKS-Serverless" data-event="area-build-announcements-clicked-announcement">Read blog</a>
Significant new updates to Azure Cognitive Services
We are introducing a new category in Cognitive Services called Decision that reflects the evolution of the product portfolio. We are also introducing new services and capabilities under the Vision, Speech and Language categories. And, we are continuing to make more Cognitive Services available on the edge and on-premises with containers. <br> <a href="https://aka.ms/Build2019_AI-ML" data-event="area-build-announcements-clicked-announcement">Read blog</a>
IoT Central introduces capabilities for rules and alerts, visualization, personalization & more
IoT Central is introducing new capabilities that are designed to simplify IoT Central for developers and enable integration to a customer’s existing enterprise and line of business solutions by enabling more seamless integration to a customer’s existing enterprise and line of business solutions.
Microsoft Authentication Library for .NET
.NET developers can use MSAL.NET to securely sign-in and authenticate any Microsoft identity (Azure AD and Microsoft Accounts) and call Microsoft Graph or other APIs.
Hyperscale service tier for select Azure database engines
A new Hyperscale service tier in Azure Database for PostgreSQL joins Azure SQL Database Hyperscale to enable developers to build highly scalable, low latency applications using their existing skills. Azure Databases with Hyperscale significantly scales out compute, storage and memory resources as needed, allowing developers to focus on building app experiences without worrying about performance and scale limitations. <br> <a href="https://aka.ms/Build2019_Hyperscale" data-event="area-build-announcements-clicked-announcement">Read blog</a>
Azure Cosmos DB API for etcd in preview
With a wire-protocol compatible API for etcd on top of Azure Cosmos DB, developers will automatically get highly reliable, globally distributed and highly available Kubernetes and K8 tools with no code changes or management required.
Azure IoT Edge 1.0.7 release is now available
The 1.0.7 update of Azure IoT Edge fixes connectivity issues, introduces a troubleshooting tool, and is the first version which is generally available on Windows.
IoT Plug and Play announcement at Build
Today we’re announcing IoT Plug and Play, which is based on an open modeling language that allows developers to connect IoT devices to the cloud without having to write any code.
Azure Cost Management multi-cloud for AWS is in preview
Now you can manage your AWS spend along your Azure spend in Azure Cost Management
Azure AD admin roles for B2C are in public preview
Target availability: Q2 2019
Announcing the public preview of new B2C Azure AD administrator roles for B2C tenants.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux BYOS images now available
Red Hat Enterprise Linux images are now available as both BYOS and PAYG offers.
Azure Shared Image Gallery is now generally available
Azure Shared Image Gallery makes it easier to manage, share and distribute custom virtual machine (VM) images in Azure. Shared Image Gallery is now generally available in all public cloud regions.
Azure ExpressRoute is generally available in eight additional locations
Azure ExpressRoute lets you extend your on-premises networks into the Microsoft cloud over a private connection facilitated by a connectivity provider. The ExpressRoute footprint is expanding to eight new locations.
New series of Azure Bot Framework enhancements now available
Azure Bot Service, built on Microsoft Bot Framework, makes it easier to develop bots and intelligent agents. New enhancements include: Adaptive dialogs enable developers to create more sophisticated, dynamic conversations.
Announcing Ephemeral OS Disk in Public Preview
We are happy to announce Ephemeral OS disk in Public Preview. Ephemeral OS disks work well for stateless workloads, where applications are tolerant of individual VM failures and are more concerned about the time it takes to deploy at scale or to reimage the individual VMs.
Language Understanding now has analytics dashboard
Language Understanding service makes it easier to build language models by extending roles to all entity types, dynamic lists, and providing a new analytics dashboard.
Azure Cosmos DB API for Spark and etcd
Azure Cosmos DB, a globally distributed multi-model database service, now offers APIs for Apache Spark and for etcd, a distributed key-value store designed to securely store data across a cluster. These updates bolster the abilities of Cosmos DB users to build and manage operational analytics workloads that run real time over globally distributed data. <br> <a href="https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/planet-scale-operational-analytics-and-ai-with-azure-cosmos-db/" data-event="area-build-announcements-clicked-announcement">Read blog | </a>See documentation for <a href="https://aka.ms/SparkAPI" data-event="area-build-announcements-clicked-announcement">Spark API | </a>See documentation for <a href="https://aka.ms/EtcdAPI" data-event="area-build-announcements-clicked-announcement">etcd API</a>
Microsoft Bot Framework enhancements
New feature enhancements to the Microsoft Bot Framework allow developers to handle complex dialogs with users while also enjoying more natural language experiences. The updates include the ability to improve the dialog management process — necessitating less code by using adaptive dialogs. Additionally, Language Generation allows developers to decouple language resources for their bot and then manage those resources in separate files, avoiding the need to hardcode bot responses.
QnA Maker now supports multi-turn dialogs
QnA Maker now can handle multi-turn conversation and is even more simple to deploy without code
Microsoft Authentication Library for Javascript
Developers building a Single Page Javascript App can use MSAL.js to securely sign-in and authenticate any Microsoft identity (Azure AD and Microsoft Accounts) and call Microsoft Graph or other APIs.
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