Updates Archives
Monthly updates for May 2021
Query Delta Lake files using T-SQL in Azure Synapse Analytics (public preview)
Use T-SQL in Azure Synapse to read Delta Lake format.
Cognitive Services - Form Recognizer adds new version in general availability
Support for 73 languages, prebuilt ID model, invoice line item extraction, table header extraction tagging as table, and more generally available in Azure Form Recognizer, part of Applied AI Services.
General availability: Azure Log Analytics in South India
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 South India.
General availability: Application Insight in South India
Application Insight, a part of Azure Monitor, is now generally available in South India region for customers to collect telemetry and analyze their service health in production environments.
Azure Storage Blob inventory public preview is now available in all public regions
Blob inventory allows you to get a full listing of all blobs within a storage account or container. This can be used in conjunction with Synapse to calculate per container metrics such as capacity and count.
PowerShell support in Durable Functions is now generally available
PowerShell users can use Durable Functions create serverless workflows to orchestrate complex, long-running automation processes.
Public preview: Introducing new Durable Functions storage provider options
Durable Functions, an extension to the Azure Functions runtime, adds two new storage provider options in public preview.
Azure Security Center integration with GitHub Actions, in public preview
GitHub’s integration with Azure Security Center is now in public preview—offering new ways for you to integrate security and compliance into early stages of the software development lifecycle.
Public preview: Announcing Azure Synapse Link for Dataverse
Power your business applications data with analytical and predictive insights.
Public preview: Scan and view lineage of data stored in Hive Metastore Database using Azure Purview
Azure Purview now supports automated scanning from a Hive Metastore Database to extract schema and lineage between data.
Spot Virtual Machines are now generally available on Azure Databricks
Access unused Azure compute capacity at discounted rates using Spot VMs on Azure Databricks
Event Hubs Premium now available in public preview
Event Hubs Premium is a new product SKU that is tailor-made for high-end event streaming scenarios that require elastic, superior performance with predictable latency.
Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server: Azure Free offer coming soon
Beginning in June 2021, enjoy the Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server B1ms compute SKU and 32GB storage free offer for the first 12 months.
The Microsoft Build of OpenJDK is now generally available
Customers and developers can use the Microsoft Build of OpenJDK to build their Java applications, and commercial support is available for applications running on Azure and Azure Stack.
Azure SQL Database ledger available in public preview
Use Azure SQL Database ledger (preview) to eliminate the additional cost, complexity, and performance overhead of decentralized blockchain technology and enable tamper-evidence through cryptographic verification of your centralized data store.
Partial document update for Azure Cosmos DB in private preview
You now have the ability to perform path-level updates on specific fields/properties in a document with partial document update for Azure Cosmos DB.
General availability: Run Enterprise Java with Red Hat JBoss EAP for Azure Virtual Machines
Azure Marketplace offers to run JBoss EAP on Azure Virtual Machines and Virtual Machine Scale Sets are now available. Customers can quickly move existing Java EE/Jakarta EE workloads to the cloud with limited code changes.
General availability: Enabling IBM WebSphere Application Server on Azure Virtual Machines
IBM WebSphere Application Server (Traditional) Network Deployment on Azure Linux Virtual Machines is now available, jointly developed and supported by IBM and Microsoft.
Public preview: Native support for WebSocket APIs in Azure API Management
Azure API Management announces native support for WebSocket APIs.
Public preview: Azure Confidential Ledger
Create a managed service built on top of the Confidential Consortium Framework that spins up a permissioned blockchain network of nodes within Azure confidential computing.
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