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Monthly updates for May 2020

May 19

Azure SQL Edge now in preview

IN PREVIEW

Azure SQL Edge meets the demands of IoT edge data and compute with built-in streaming, storage, and AI—all backed by the industry-leading performance and security of SQL.

  • Features
May 19

Azure Active Directory support in Azure Database for MySQL now available

NOW AVAILABLE

The Azure Active Directory integration for Azure Database for MySQL is now generally available.

  • Azure Database for MySQL
  • Features
May 19

Azure Active Directory support in Azure Database for PostgreSQL—single server now available

NOW AVAILABLE

The Azure Active Directory integration for Azure Database for PostgreSQL–single server is now generally available.

  • Azure Database for PostgreSQL
  • Features
May 19

New Cognitive Services capabilities are now available in preview

IN PREVIEW

New Cognitive Services capabilities are now available in preview.

  • Azure AI services
  • Services
  • Features
May 19

New Cognitive Services capabilities are now generally available

NOW AVAILABLE

New Cognitive Services capabilities are now generally available.

  • Azure AI services
  • Azure AI Vision
  • QnA Maker
  • Speaker recognition
  • Language service
  • Services
  • Features
May 19

Azure Real-Time Operating System

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Real-Time Operating System, which helps make IoT development even easier to help you get to market faster, is now generally available.

  • Azure RTOS
  • Features
May 19

New Azure Resource Manager templates capabilities released

IN PREVIEW

Azure Resource Manager templates are widely used to manage deployments on Azure. It’s a way to intuitively describe your entire Azure environment using our template language. New capabilities that address key challenges at the time of doing deployments with Resource Manager templates are now available.

  • Azure Resource Manager
  • Services
May 19

Azure Monitor enhancements are now available

NOW AVAILABLE

New enhancements to Azure Monitor maximize performance and provide full stack observability for apps and infrastructure across Azure and hybrid environments.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Services
May 19

Azure Key Vault service enhancements now available

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Key Vault safeguards data in the cloud with enhancements for Azure Private Link, bring your own key (BYOK), and Key Vault secrets.

  • Key Vault
  • Security
  • Services
May 19

Azure HDInsight enterprise security enhancements

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q2 2020

Azure HDInsight enterprise security enhancements include support for customer-managed key encryption with Azure Key Vault and a new feature, ID broker, which simplifies authentication setups.

  • HDInsight
  • Security
  • Features
May 19

Azure VM Image Builder service will be generally available Q4 2020

IN PREVIEW

Unify and simplify your image building process across Azure and Azure Stack using Azure VM Image Builder. It helps give you ease of use with automated image building pipeline, management for the images you’ve built, and DevOps integration with Azure DevOps and other DevOps management solutions you use. In addition, it enables Azure integration for governance and compliance with virtual network configuration and connectivity via enterprise networking options and authentication.

  • Services
May 19

Azure Machine Learning – what’s new from Build 2020

IN PREVIEW

Microsoft Azure Machine Learning empowers developers and data scientists with enterprise-grade capabilities to accelerate the ML lifecycle. At Microsoft Build 2020, we announced several advances to Azure Machine Learning across the following areas: ML for all skills, Enterprise grade MLOps, and responsible ML.

  • Azure Machine Learning
  • Services
May 19

Azure Security Center—News and updates for May 2020

NOW AVAILABLE

See the list of enhancements and updates made to Azure Security Center in May 2020.

  • Microsoft Defender for Cloud
  • Security
  • Features
May 19

Manufacturing solutions with AI in factories

IN DEVELOPMENT

Manufacturing customers, modernize your factory floors and get started with the intelligent edge by using an artificial intelligence (AI) solution that combines the power of Azure Stack Hub and Azure Stack Edge with computer vision - coming soon.

  • Azure Stack Hub
  • Features
May 19

Learn, connect, and share feedback with Microsoft experts

NOW AVAILABLE

The new Microsoft Q&A experience is fully integrated with Microsoft Docs and the Microsoft Learn platform to provide a richer online experience for answering your technical questions.

  • Features
May 18

Firewall support for Azure Relay is now in preview

IN PREVIEW

With new firewall support, now in preview, Azure Relay now offers the ability to restrict connectivity to only well-known IP addresses or IPv4 addresses in Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) ranges for improved security.

  • Security
  • Services
  • Features
May 18

Azure Relay—Azure Private Link support for sender clients is now available in preview

IN PREVIEW

With this preview release, traffic between your Relay sender client running inside your virtual network and Azure Relay uses the Microsoft backbone network providing network isolation.

  • Azure Private Link
  • Security
  • Services
  • Features
May 15

Azure Blob versioning public preview now available

IN PREVIEW

As the next step to enhance data management and protection, we are excited to announce the Blob storage versioning preview.

  • Azure Blob Storage
  • Features
May 15

Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 PowerShell and CLI are now generally available

NOW AVAILABLE

Use PowerShell and Azure CLI filesystem semantics for operations on Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 filesystems, directories and files.

  • Azure Data Lake Storage
  • SDK and Tools
May 14

Azure Private Link is now available for multiple new Azure services

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Private Link now supports multiple new Azure services in general availability and preview.

  • Azure Private Link
  • Virtual Network
  • Event Hubs
  • Event Grid
  • Service Bus
  • Azure AI Search
  • Azure Container Registry
  • Azure Backup
  • Azure SignalR Service
  • Azure IoT Hub
  • Security
  • Services
  • Compliance

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