Updates Archives
Monthly updates for May 2020
Azure Data Explorer ingests up to 10,000 blobs with auto-suggestive schema definition
Learn how to ingest up to 10,000 blobs with auto-suggestive schema definition and continue ingestion for new blobs in only a few minutes.
Azure HDInsight enterprise security enhancements
Three new security feature improvements are available for Azure HDinsight.
Azure HDInsight Tools for Visual Studio Code—Create, run, and debug notebook
This new release enables you to perform Jupyter-like notebook operations and boosts collaborations with one-click conversion between IPYNB and PY files.
Azure Stack is partnering with Aware Group to offer new solutions
Microsoft is expanding the Azure Stack ISV and partner ecosystem, announcing new partnerships with solution availability in summer 2020, including offerings from Aware Group.
FHIR Server on Azure Stack Hub
The open-source Microsoft Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) server is being packaged and released for Azure Stack Hub and Azure Stack Edge. Bringing the FHIR server for health data interchange to the edge will enable disconnected or intermittently connected scenarios.
New portal experience for Azure Functions
New portal experience for Azure Functions – improving performance, accessibility, and consistency with the rest of the Azure portal.
Support for Linux workloads in the App Service Migration Assistant tool
The App Service Migration Assistant tool now supports migrating containerized web applications from on-premises container images to App Service on Linux.
Customer-managed keys for Azure Container Registry now generally available
Bring your own encryption key for Azure Container Registry is now available for new registries.
Azure Event Grid partner topics are now in preview
Use partner topics to connect third-party event sources directly to Event Grid and subscribe to events as you would with any other source. Our partner Auth0 is now integrated with Event Grid partner topics. Connect your Auth0 and Azure accounts in order to react to, log, and monitor Auth0 events in real time.
Azure Event Grid support for System Assigned Managed Identities is now in preview
Event Grid now supports system assigned managed identities
New Responsible ML innovation in Azure Machine Learning
To help organizations overcome barriers to adopting artificial intelligence (AI), Microsoft is announcing several new Responsible ML innovations in Azure Machine Learning.
Visual Studio Live Share now supports voice chat
Create shared coding sessions from Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, or Visual Studio Codespaces to work together in real time – now with voice and text chat.
Visual Studio Codespaces: New OS Support & GitHub integration
Announcing private previews: Create cloud-hosted dev environments that can be accessed from Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, or natively from within GitHub.com.
Azure Bot Service and Bot Framework updates for Build 2020
See the list of enhancements and new capabilities designed to make chatbot development more productive, including the GAs of Bot Framework Composer and Virtual Assistant solution accelerators, as well as support for human hand-off scenarios.
Azure Digital Twins now has expanded digital representation capabilities
Azure Digital Twins adds expanded digital representation capabilities.
New features for Azure Cosmos DB built-in Jupyter Notebook support
Now in preview, several new features are available for Azure Cosmos DB built-in Jupyter Notebook support that make it easier for developers and data scientists to analyze and visualize their Azure Cosmos DB data.
Azure Synapse Link for Azure Cosmos DB is now in preview
Get near real-time insights on operational data in Azure Cosmos DB with Azure Synapse Link, a cloud-native hybrid transactional and analytical processing (HTAP) capability. Azure Synapse Link creates a tight integration between Azure Cosmos DB and Azure Synapse Analytics.
Encryption at rest with customer-managed keys on Azure Cosmos DB now generally available
Customer-managed keys will give users total control over the keys used by Azure Cosmos DB to encrypt their data at rest, and addresses demands from users with specific security and compliance requirements.
Autoscale provisioned throughput for Azure Cosmos DB
Now in general availability, autoscale provisioned throughput (called “autopilot mode” in preview) is a new pricing model for Azure Cosmos DB.
Azure Cosmos DB Python SDK 4.0 now available
Version 4.0 of the Azure Cosmos DB Python SDK is now generally available. This latest version includes usability improvements to the object model for a better developer experience, support for new query features, bug fixes, and other enhancements.
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