Updates Archives
Monthly updates for May 2021
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.
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.
Spot Virtual Machines are now generally available on Azure Databricks
Access unused Azure compute capacity at discounted rates using Spot VMs on Azure Databricks
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.
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.
General availability: Logic Apps with new hosting options
Logic Apps has been updated with new hosting options, improved performance, and developer workflows.
General availability: Azure Cognitive Services Translator Document Translation feature
Now generally available, use Document Translation to translate documents at scale.
Introducing Developer Velocity Lab to improve developers’ work and well-being
Developer Velocity Lab (DVL) is a new research initiative that includes contributions across Microsoft, its research labs and GitHub.
General availability: Improved Python support in Visual Studio Code with Pylance
The latest release of the Python extension for VS Code comes with a much improved experience for Python developers thanks to the new Pylance language server in general availability.
App Service Managed Certificates now generally available
You can secure your custom domains at no additional cost.
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) on Azure Stack HCI is now generally available
AKS on Azure Stack HCI is a Kubernetes based platform that developers and administrators can use to build, deploy and manage containerized applications in their datacenters and edge locations.
General availability: Azure Applied AI Services
Azure AI is introducing a new category of services called Azure Applied AI Services. These services accelerate time-to-value in building AI solutions for common business processes. Within this category, there are important enhancements and status updates for Azure Bot Service and Azure Metrics Advisor.
Azure Machine Learning general availability announcements //Build, May 2021
New features now generally available including Data Labeling – Image Instance Segmentation and MLflow support
AKS support for regulated industries
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) makes it easier for regulated industries, such as healthcare & finance, to adopt Kubernetes for their regulated workloads
General availability: Encryption at host support in AKS
You can now enable host-based encryption in AKS for end-to-end security.
General availability: Azure RBAC for Kubernetes Authorization in AKS
Achieve unified management and access control across Azure and AKS resources.
Azure Cosmos DB role-based access control (RBAC) now in general availability
Enable fine-grained access control to data and leverage Azure Active Directory (AAD) authentication with Azure Cosmos DB role-based access control (RBAC), now generally available.
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