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Monthly updates for August 2020

Aug 31

Azure Private Link support in Azure Data Factory now available

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Data Factory (ADF) now supports Azure Private Link.

  • Data Factory V2
  • Features
Aug 31

Azure Blob versioning is now general available

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure storage strives to protect your business critial data from any accident or attack. We are excited to announce the general availability of  Azure Blob versioning.

  • Premium Blob Storage
  • Hot/Cool/Cold Blob Storage Tiers
  • Azure Blob Storage
  • Features
Aug 31

Windows Virtual Desktop is now available in the Azure Government cloud (in preview)

IN PREVIEW

Get started today with Windows Virtual Desktop in public preview in US Government regions. Deploy and scale Windows desktops and apps on Azure in minutes.

  • Azure Virtual Desktop
  • Features
Aug 31

Upcoming changes to Standard Public IPs and Standard Load Balancers

NOW AVAILABLE

The zone related behavior in Standard Public IP address and Standard Load Balancer is being changed.

  • Load Balancer
  • Virtual Network
  • IP Addresses
  • Features
Aug 28

Stream Analytics now can be run on Azure Stack Hub

IN PREVIEW

Azure Stream Analytics is now available on Azure Stack Hub via IoT Edge Runtime.

  • Azure IoT Edge
  • Azure Stream Analytics
  • Azure Stack Hub
  • Features
Aug 27

Configure upstream source for universal Packages with Azure Artifacts

NOW AVAILABLE

This feature will add the ability to configure your Azure Artifacts feeds to automatically download Universal Packages from upstream sources on demand.

  • Azure DevOps Projects
  • Features
Aug 27

Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 access control list recursive update in public preview

IN PREVIEW

Set, update, or remove access control lists (ACLs) recursively for existing Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 directories and files.

  • Storage Accounts
  • Azure Data Lake Storage
  • Security
  • Features
Aug 26

Azure Data Explorer: Create a table with the new 1-click experience

NOW AVAILABLE

Create a table easily and quickly using an intuitive 1-click wizard experience.

  • Azure Data Explorer
  • Features
Aug 25

Support to assess physical, AWS, GCP servers now generally available

NOW AVAILABLE

The assessments offer Azure suitability analysis, migration cost planning and performance-based rightsizing.

  • Azure Migrate
  • Features
Aug 24

AzCopy v10.6 released with updated sync features and larger blob size support

NOW AVAILABLE

AzCopy v10.6 sync now supports access control lists (ACLs) and properties as well as larger block blob size and blob versioning.

  • Storage Accounts
  • Services
  • Features
Aug 21

Public Preview: Cognitive Services Form Recognizer v2.1

IN PREVIEW

Form Recognizer v2.1-preview.1 has been released. It includes support for new languages, checkbox/selection marks, and the submit multiple form types to a single model Id.

  • Azure AI services
  • Features
Aug 20

Azure Machine Learning announces output dataset (Preview)

IN PREVIEW

With the new output datasets capability, write back to cloud storage and configure and register output data.

  • Azure Machine Learning
  • Features
Aug 20

Simplified Chinese language support now available in Azure Cognitive Services Computer Vision public preview

IN PREVIEW

Computer Vision Read API v3.1, part of Cognitive Services, announces its public preview with support for Simplified Chinese language.

  • Azure AI Vision
  • Services
  • Features
Aug 20

Azure Cognitive Services Translator Text— New languages now available

NOW AVAILABLE

Translator Text now supports the Odia, Dari, Pashto, Central Kurdish and Northern Kurdish languages.

  • Azure AI Translator
  • Features
Aug 19

Azure Policy Compliance Scan Action for GitHub Workflows is in public preview

IN PREVIEW

Trigger on-demand Azure policy compliance scan on Azure resources from GitHub workflows and proceed/fail workflow execution depending on compliance state of resources.

  • Azure Policy
  • Compliance
  • Management
  • Features
Aug 19

Azure Site Recovery update rollup 49 - August 2020

NOW AVAILABLE

The latest Azure Site Recovery update provides fixes and download links for Site Recovery components.

  • Azure Site Recovery
  • Features
Aug 19

Azure IoT Central UI new and updated features—July 2020

NOW AVAILABLE

July updates include jobs improvements, CLI updates, documentation enhancements, new REST APIs, and a new mobile gateway sample.

  • Azure IoT Central
  • Features
Aug 19

Azure Backup for SAP HANA databases running on RHEL is now generally available

NOW AVAILABLE

On August 1, 2020, Azure Backups support for HANA databases running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) became generally available. This offering is available across all Azure regions except for Germany Northeast, Germany Central, France South, and US Gov IOWA.

  • Azure Backup
  • Red Hat Linux
  • Features
Aug 19

PowerShell support in Durable Functions is in public preview

IN PREVIEW

Developers can now orchestrate complex automation workflows in Azure Functions using familiar language constructs in PowerShell 7

  • Azure Functions
  • Features
Aug 19

Serverless offer for Azure Cosmos DB now in preview 

IN PREVIEW

A new consumption-based offer that requires no capacity management is now available

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Features

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