Updates Archives
Monthly updates for July 2019
Cognitive Services Form Recognizer prebuilt capability
Form Recognizer learns the structure of your forms to intelligently extract text and data.
Azure Container Registry—Support for scheduling in Container Registry Tasks
Container Registry Tasks, which supports cloud build and graph execution of containers, now supports automated scheduling.
Azure Container Registry—Self diagnostic health check support in the Azure CLI
Easily self-diagnose the most common issues with registry connectivity using Azure Container Registry Health Check APIs.
Introducing Azure Lighthouse
Azure Lighthouse provides service providers with a single control plane to manage across customer estates with increased automation, efficiency, and governance.
Proximity placement groups are now in preview
A proximity placement group is an Azure Virtual Machine logical grouping capability that you can use to decrease network latency among VMs.
Multi-protocol Data Access for Azure Data Lake Storage is now in public preview
New functionality that will enable you to manage the same data using either Blob APIs or Data Lake Storage Gen2 APIs is now available in preview.
Announcing Azure Migration Program
Azure Migration Program, which allows customers and partners to apply to work directly with Microsoft to plan and implement Azure migration projects, is now available. Using proven Microsoft cloud adoption methodologies, tools, resources, and best practices, you’ll simplify and accelerate your Azure cloud migration with an approach that’s tailored to your organization’s unique needs.
MongoDB to Azure Cosmos DB online and offline migrations are now available
Migrate from on-premises or cloud implementations of MongoDB to Azure Cosmos DB with minimal downtime by using Azure Database Migration Service.
Read replica across regions for Azure Database for MariaDB
Cross-region asynchronous replication is now in preview for Azure Database for MariaDB. Create up to five read-only replica servers for every master server to scale out and balance read-heavy workloads across replica servers and Azure regions.
Azure Cosmos DB .NET V3 SDK now generally available
Azure Cosmos DB .NET V3 SDK incorporates performance improvements (including the new streaming API), a more intuitive, idiomatic programming model with developer-friendly APIs, and new change feed pull and push programming models.
Azure DevTest Labs—Configure your lab to use a remote desktop gateway
Use Azure DevTest Labs to configure a remote desktop gateway for your lab to ensure secure access to the virtual machines (VMs) without having to expose the RDP port.
Azure Cosmos DB Java V3 SDK now available
Now generally available, the Azure Cosmos DB Java V3 SDK features a new, more intuitive, idiomatic programming model with developer-friendly APIs, Reactor-based async programming model, and added support for Azure Cosmos DB direct TCP transport protocols to increase performance and availability.
Azure Cosmos DB JavaScript V3 SDK is now available
Now generally available, the Azure Cosmos DB JavaScript V3 SDK includes usability updates to the object model for a better developer experience, as well as the ability to begin using partition keys to scale previously non-partitioned containers.
Availability Zones support is now available for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) in preview
Protect applications and data from datacenter failures with redundancies across Availability Zones.
Driver extension for Cassandra in Azure Cosmos DB is now in preview
Azure Cosmos DB now offers a preview driver extension for Azure Cosmos DB Cassandra API for Java SDK.
In development: query interleaving for Azure Analysis Services
Target availability: Q4 2019
Enterprise BI systems need to support high user concurrency, which means there can be lots of queries submitted close to each other. We are pleased to announce that we are working on the query interleaving feature, which allows system configuration to improve the user experience in high-concurrency scenarios. Query interleaving allows configuration to improve the user experience in high-concurrency scenarios. Multiple queries can run concurrently so fast queries are not blocked behind slow ones. Query interleaving can be set up with short-query bias so if the system is under CPU pressure, short queries are allocated a higher proportion of CPU resources than long-running queries, allowing them to complete faster.
Azure Ephemeral OS Disk is now Generally Available
Announcing the general availability of Ephemeral OS disk which enables faster reimage of your VMs to its original state as well as enabling you to create thousands of VMs at scale with Shared Image Gallery.
Azure Migrate is now a central hub to start, execute and track your migration journey
Azure Migrate is now enhanced and can help you discover, assess, and migrate applications, infrastructure, and data from your on-premises environments to Azure. You can centrally track progress of your migration journey across multiple Microsoft and Independent Software Vendor (ISV) tools in Azure Migrate.
Authentication method usage and insight reporting in Azure AD
Understand the adoption of self-service password reset (SSPR) and Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) in your organization with this Azure AD dashboard.
Cognitive Services Text Analytics sentiment v3 available in public preview
The latest release of the Text Analytics API's sentiment capability (v3) provides a significant improvement in detecting positive, neutral, and negative sentiment of text documents. It is available in public preview Central Canada, East Asia, and Central US.
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