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Monthly updates for September 2020

Sep 22

Accelerate analytics and AI workloads with Photon powered Delta Engine on Azure Databricks

IN PREVIEW

Photon powered Delta Engine is a 100% Apache Spark-compatible vectorized query engine designed to take advantage of modern CPU architecture for extremely fast parallel processing of data.

  • Azure Databricks
  • Services
  • Features
Sep 22

Azure Cognitive Services general availability updates

NOW AVAILABLE

General availability updates in Azure Cognitive Services Decision, Speech, and containers categories.

  • Azure AI services
  • Services
  • Features
Sep 22

New Azure Cognitive Services and capabilities in preview

IN PREVIEW

Preview capabilities in Azure Cognitive Services Decision, Vision, and containers categories.

  • Azure AI services
  • Features
Sep 22

Azure Machine Learning offers added capabilities at lower cost

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Machine Learning Enterprise Edition (preview) and Basic Edition are merging on September 22, 2020. This change does not cause any downtime or impact existing deployments.

  • Azure Machine Learning
  • Services
  • Features
Sep 22

Azure Cognitive Search - Managed identity support and Private Endpoints are GA

NOW AVAILABLE

You can now request Azure Cognitive Search to create an outbound private endpoint connection in order to securely access data from such data sources via indexers . You can also create identity for a search service in Azure Active Directory, then use RBAC permissions to grant the identity permissions to Azure data sources.

  • Azure AI Search
  • Compliance
  • Services
Sep 22

Azure Machine Learning updates Ignite 2020

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Machine Learning is bringing new capabilities to customers at no additional cost. Azure Machine Learning designer and automated ML UI are now generally available.

  • Azure Machine Learning
  • Services
  • Features
Sep 22

Azure Communication Services now available in public preview

IN PREVIEW

Build engaging communication experiences with the same secure platform used by Microsoft Teams. Add video, voice, SMS, chat, and telephony capabilities into almost any web, mobile, or desktop application.

  • Visual Studio
  • App Service
  • Event Grid
  • Logic Apps
  • Azure Functions
  • Azure AI services
  • Services
  • SDK and Tools

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