Updates Archives
Monthly updates for May 2022
Public preview: Autoscale Stream Analytics jobs
Autoscaling allows you to define the minimum and maximum streaming units. Stream Analytics will automatically take care of dynamically optimizing the number of streaming units needed for your workload.
Public preview: Azure Digital Twins 3D Scenes Studio
3D Scenes Studio allows you to build lightweight 3D visualization with contextual data visualizations that can be consumed easily from web browsers.
Generally available: Stream Analytics query development improvements
See improvements to the Stream Analytics query development experience on the Azure portal to increase productivity.
Generally available: Increased size of Stream Analytics jobs and cluster
Maximum size of a Stream Analytics job and a cluster is increased from 192 SUs to 396 SUs.
Public preview: Stream Analytics no code editor
Stream Analytics no code editor provides a rich, no code, drag and drop experience for you to build you streaming pipeline within minutes.
Public preview: NGINX for Azure
Natively integrate SaaS solution for advanced traffic management and monitoring on Azure.
In development: Dynatrace for Azure
Target availability: Q2 2022
Natively integrated SaaS solution that provides deep cloud observability, advanced AIOps, and continuous runtime application security capabilities on Azure.
Generally available: Microsoft Purview Data Estate Insights
Microsoft Purview Data Estate Insights (in GA July 1, 2022) provides a bird's eye view of your data estate's health.
Public preview: Microsoft Purview Data Policy for SQL dev ops roles
Microsoft Purview Data Policy enables policies for data access, now including SQL dev ops roles.
Public preview: Azure Applied AI Services enhancements
Enhancements in preview include Power Virtual Agents to enable sophisticated conversational flows; Azure Form Recognizer helps to streamline patient check-in and verification; Azure Metrics Advisor has simplified service customization.
Public preview: Azure Cognitive Services updates
Azure Cognitive Services is announcing the following preview updates at Build: Azure OpenAI Service and summarization capabilities in Azure Cognitive Service for Language.
Generally available: Azure Cognitive Service for Language
Cognitive Service for Language now includes custom named entity recognition and custom text classification.
Generally available: Ledger in Azure SQL Database
Enable proof that your database has not been tampered with and restore it back to the original value if needed by enabling ledger in Azure SQL Database.
Public preview: Azure Synapse Link for SQL
Synapse Link for SQL enables seamless near-real-time data movement from relational sources to analytical stores without the need to build ETL pipelines.
Public preview: New modern capabilities for Azure SQL Database
Simplify and expedite application development and reduce time-to-market with new features for Azure SQL Database.
Public preview: Azure Machine Learning updates
Azure Machine Learning now offers a Responsible AI dashboard and scorecard as well as additional enhancements in preview.
Generally available: Azure Machine Learning managed endpoints and Command Line Interface v2
Deploy your machine learning models in a turnkey manner across powerful GPU and GPU machines. CLI v2 now also generally available.
General availability: Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server Business Critical service tier
Run your production workloads on the Business Critical service tier, best for high-performance transactional or analytical applications and achieve a 1.5x performance improvement over Single Server on open-source community MySQL.
Generally available: Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server 80 vCore Business Critical
Azure Database for MySQL Flexible server is now offering 80 vCore compute for tier 1 workloads.
Public preview: Azure Cosmos DB API for MongoDB data plane RBAC
The API for MongoDB now includes the ability to create users and roles and configure fine-grained access to your database account data.
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