Updates Archives
Monthly updates for January 2021
General availability: Text Analytics' Named Entity Recognition v3 now supports 10 languages with improved AI quality
With support for more entity categories and more languages, using Text Analytics NER enables organizations to extract higher quality insights from unstructured text.
General availability: Azure Machine Learning Output Datasets
Read data in the cloud efficiently with Output datasets.
Azure Sphere version 21.01 is now available
This release includes new memory and current control functions as well as new features in the SDK.
Azure API Management Updates - January, 2021
A regular Azure API Management service update was started on January 21, 2021, and included several new features and bug fixes, along other improvements. It may take several weeks for your API Management service to receive the update.
Azure Cognitive Services Translator - Inuktitut language text translation now available
Translate to or from Inuktitut into any of the more than 70 languages available in Translator.
Germany West Central Availability Zones now generally available
Microsoft is pleased to announce that Azure Availability Zones are now generally available from the Germany West Central datacenter region. Azure Availability Zones (AZs) feature in the broad portfolio of services and products that enable organizations to create resilient, highly available applications for mission-critical workloads.
South Central US Availability Zones now generally available
Azure Availability Zones are now generally available in the South Central US region. These three new zones provide customers with options for additional resiliency and tolerance to infrastructure impact.
Confluent Cloud Integration with Azure is now generally available
Confluent and Microsoft have worked together to enable seamless integration experience between Azure and Confluent Cloud – a managed Apache Kafka service. This service will enable you to provision Confluent Cloud resources using Azure client interfaces like portal/CLI/SDKs. Other integration points include single sign-on using Azure Active directory and unified billing through Azure with an option to draw down on existing Azure commits.
Azure Data Factory is now available in two additional regions
Azure Data Factory is now available in two new regions: China North 2 and South India
General availability: Azure HDInsight extends capabilities for encryption of data in transit and at rest
Azure HDInsight Internet Protocol Security (IPSec) encryption in transit is now generally available. HDInsight also supports version-less keys for customer-managed key (CMK) encryption at rest.
Generally available: Copy Blob support over private endpoints in Azure Storage
Azure Storage now supports copying of data between storage accounts using private endpoints. This includes support for the Copy Blob API and utilities such as AzCopy.
Azure Boards - New enhancements to Delivery Plans 2.0
In this sprint, we're enhancing Delivery Plans 2.0 with new condensed views and rollup information.
Azure Automation is now available in Switzerland West
Automate tasks across Azure & Non-Azure environment using PowerShell and Python based scripts.
General availability: Azure Log Analytics in Germany West Central, UAE North, & Switzerland West
Log Analytics, a feature of Azure Monitor, is now generally available for customers to start collecting telemetry and analyzing their services for health and usage in Germany West Central, UAE North, & Switzerland West .
General availability: Application Insight in Germany West Central, UAE North, & Switzerland West
Application Insight, a part of Azure Monitor, is now generally available in Germany West Central, UAE North, & Switzerland West regions for customers to collect telemetry and analyze their service health in production environments.
Azure Monitor Network Insights is now generally available
Customers now have a single console for all their network monitoring requirements with Azure Monitor Network Insights
Changes in Azure Monitor Logs for the AzureDiagnostics table is now available
Azure Monitor Logs will now allow more than 500 dimensions to be collected to the AzureDiagnostics table by introducing an "overflow" column.
Automatic tracking of click events with Application Insights is now available
Azure Monitor Application Insights JavaScript SDK Click Analytics Plugin provides automatic tracking of click events on web pages.
General availability: Optional Uptime SLA for Azure Kubernetes Service private clusters
Financially backed uptime SLA for AKS private clusters is now available.
Azure Cosmos DB: Multiple region Availability Zones support with single-region write now generally available
The general availability of Availability Zone support for Azure Cosmos DB accounts configured for two or more regions with single-region writes may lower pricing and includes increased availability SLA.
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