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Monthly updates for October 2020

Oct 21

Microsoft plans to establish new cloud datacenter region in Austria

IN DEVELOPMENT

The new region is anticipated to include Microsoft Azure, with Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365 and Power Platform to follow.

  • Regions & Datacenters
Oct 21

Azure Policy for Key Vault now supports keys, secrets, and certificates

IN PREVIEW

Get a deeper view into your organization's security posture, configure daily automated audits, and start enforcing best practices in under 5 minutes.

  • Key Vault
  • Azure Policy
  • Microsoft Defender for Cloud
  • Compliance
  • Features
  • Security
Oct 21

Azure Blob storage lifecycle management now supports blob versions management

NOW AVAILABLE

You can now use Azure Blob storage lifecycle management to automatically transition old blob versions to a cooler storage tier (hot to cool, hot to archive, or cool to archive) or delete old blob versions to optimize for cost.

  • Hot/Cool/Cold Blob Storage Tiers
  • Azure Blob Storage
  • Archive Storage
  • Storage Accounts
  • Features
Oct 20

Azure Cognitive Services Translator — Canadian French language text translation now available

NOW AVAILABLE

Use Translator to add Canadian French translation to your apps, products, and workflows.

  • Azure AI services
  • Features
Oct 19

Fluent Bit connector for Azure Storage to support Azure Data Explorer streaming

IN PREVIEW

In collaboration with Fluent Bit, we are releasing a new output plugin for Azure Blob Storage. The connector can output both block blobs and append blobs to an Azure storage account.

  • Azure Data Explorer
  • Azure Blob Storage
  • Open Source
Oct 19

Azure role-based access control (RBAC) for Azure Key Vault data plane authorization is now in preview

IN PREVIEW

Achieve unified management and access control across Azure resources, Azure Key Vault and keys, certificates, and secrets.

  • Features
Oct 19

Azure Key Vault Event Grid integration is now available

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Key Vault is now an events publisher with Azure Event Grid, enabling developers to subscribe to events about keys, certificates, and secrets changes.

  • Key Vault
  • Event Grid
  • Features
  • Security
Oct 16

Generally available: Azure HPC – CycleCloud 8.1.0

Check the list of improvements and resolved issues include in this release.

  • Features
Oct 16

Windows Virtual Desktop is now generally available in the Azure Government cloud

NOW AVAILABLE

Simplify and secure your virtualization infrastructure, in the cloud, with Windows Virtual Desktop.

  • Azure Virtual Desktop
  • Features
Oct 14

Azure Sphere update 20.10 is now available for compatibility testing

NOW AVAILABLE

The Azure Sphere OS update 20.10 is now available for evaluation via the Retail Eval feed. The 20.10 evaluation release includes an OS update as well as a special evaluation version of the SDK for use during this period.

  • Azure Sphere
  • SDK and Tools
  • Operating System
Oct 14

Azure Monitor Log Analytics data export is in public preview

IN PREVIEW

You can now enable continuous data export from your Log Analytics workspaces to an Azure Storage Account or Azure Event Hubs.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Features
Oct 14

App Service Private Endpoints now generally available

NOW AVAILABLE

Secure your line of business applications with Private Endpoints

  • App Service
  • Features
Oct 14

Azure DevTest Labs now available in more regions

NOW AVAILABLE

Explore Azure DevTest Labs in UAE North, Germany West Central and Norway East regions.

  • Azure DevTest Labs
  • Pricing & Offerings
Oct 14

Azure DevTest Labs - Create a network isolated lab

NOW AVAILABLE

Isolate environments from unwanted traffic with Azure DevTest Labs.

  • Azure DevTest Labs
  • Features
Oct 14

Azure Cognitive Services has achieved human parity in image captioning

NOW AVAILABLE

Computer Vision, part of Azure Cognitive Services, now offers an updated image captioning capability that has achieved human parity based on the Novel Object Captioning at Scale (NOCAPS) benchmark.

  • Azure AI services
  • Services
Oct 14

T-digest extension for Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Hyperscale (Citus)

NOW AVAILABLE

Now in general availability, the algorithm used in the open source t-digest extension allows high performance percentile calculations on sizable distributed analytical workloads with improved accuracy.

  • Azure Database for PostgreSQL
  • Open Source
  • Features
Oct 14

SQL Server on Virtual Machines: Machine Learning with Microsoft R Open 4.0.2 now available

NOW AVAILABLE

The latest update for Microsoft R Open 4.0.2 (downloadable for Windows, Mac, and Linux platforms) includes improvement to the performance of the merge function and adds an option to better handle zero-length arguments to the paste and paste0 functions.

  • SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines
  • Management
  • Open Source
  • Features
Oct 14

Distributed database transactions spanning multiple Azure SQL Managed Instances

IN PREVIEW

Utilize distributed transactions (now in preview) and save time when migrating existing applications that require this capability as it eliminates the need to change application code and to perform extensive testing.

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Features
Oct 14

Machine Learning open sourcing for R and Python Custom Runtime

NOW AVAILABLE

Announcing a general availability release that solves one of our customers’ pain points; the ability to bring a newer version of R and Python they may be using in their own companies.

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Open Source
  • Features
Oct 14

Zone Redundancy in preview for Azure Cache for Redis

IN PREVIEW

Increase reliability in the Azure Cache for Redis premium tier even further with up to four nodes for redundancy; a primary and three replicas that can be distributed across multiple availability zones. This setup protects you against a datacenter-level outage, increasing availability up to a 99.95 percent level.

  • Azure Cache for Redis
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Features
  • Security

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