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Public Preview: Support for GraphQL APIs in Azure API Management Self-hosted Gateway
Target availability: Q4 2023
Customers now have the power to expose GraphQL APIs through Azure API Management's self-hosted gateway.
January 2023
Public Preview of Viewing SQL Server Databases via Azure Arc
Surfaces all the active databases and their configurations for each of the Arc-enabled SQL Servers in Azure.
July 2021
Azure SQL enabled by Azure Arc generally available on July 30, 2021
Bring cloud data management to data workloads on-premises, at the edge, and in multicloud environments.
June 2021
Azure IoT Edge for Linux now generally available
Leverage existing Windows expertise and seamlessly connect Azure IoT Edge for Linux on Windows devices to Microsoft Azure and quickly bring cloud intelligence to your edge.
March 2021
General availability: Stream Analytics runs on Azure Stack Hub
Stream Analytics now is available on Azure Stack Hub as an IoT Edge module, supporting native input and output adapters, such as Event Hub and IoT Hub. It allows customer to build truly hybrid data solutions.
Machine Learning Services on Azure SQL Managed Instance now generally available
Use machine learning capabilities on a Managed Instance of Azure SQL Database for ease of moving your data, packages, and models to a cloud ready environment fully configured for machine learning.
September 2020
Azure Arc enabled data services now in preview
Run Azure Arc enabled data services on premises on any infrastructure of your choice with Azure cloud benefits like elastic scale, unified management, and a cloud billing model while staying always current.
Public preview: Azure Arc enabled SQL Server
Public preview of Azure Arc enabled SQL Server extends power of Azure to SQL servers hosted on-premises or in other public clouds.
Announcing Azure SQL Edge now in general availability
You can reduce cost, drive innovation, and improve operational efficiencies by using Azure SQL Edge to stream, store, and analyze IoT data.
May 2020
Azure SQL Edge now in preview
Azure SQL Edge meets the demands of IoT edge data and compute with built-in streaming, storage, and AI—all backed by the industry-leading performance and security of SQL.
January 2020
Azure Logic Apps updates for November and December 2019
These are the new features, fixes, and connectors for Azure Logic Apps that were released in November and December of 2019.
May 2019
New features for Azure Machine Learning are now available
Features include: Model Interpretability - Machine learning interpretability allows data scientists to explain machine learning models globally on all data, or locally on a specific data point using the state-of-art technologies in an easy-to-use and scalable fashion. Machine Learning interpretability incorporates technologies developed by Microsoft and proven third-party libraries (for example, SHAP and LIME).
Azure SQL Database Edge
Azure SQL Database Edge is a small footprint database engine with built-in AI that is optimized for the intelligent edge . This new product combines data streaming and time series with in-database machine learning and graph to unlock intelligence on the edge with a simplified architecture. <br> <a href="https://aka.ms/Build2019_IntelligentEdge" data-event="area-build-announcements-clicked-announcement">Read blog</a>
April 2019
.NET for Apache Spark™ is now available
Apache Spark is now accessible to the .NET developer ecosystem with .NET for Apache Spark.
Azure Stream Analytics tools for Visual Studio April 2019 Update
April updates for Stream Analytics tools for Visual Studio is now available. The update includes enhancement for local testing and enables several new features:
Azure Security Center for IoT in public preview
Azure is now the first major public cloud with end-to-end security for IoT for your devices, hubs and cloud resources. We are adding advanced threat protection for IoT to three key services: Azure Security Center, Azure Sentinel and Azure IoT Hub.
September 2018
C# UDF for Azure Stream Analytics on IoT Edge now in preview
C# user-defined functions (UDF) support for Azure Stream Analytics on IoT Edge is now available in preview.
ExpressRoute Direct in preview
ExpressRoute Direct allows customers to use the functionality of ExpressRoute and connect directly to the global Microsoft backbone at 100 Gbps. This enables customers who have scenarios like massive data ingestion to storage, physical isolation, dedicated capacity, and burst capacity to take advantage of Microsoft’s global backbone to access Azure regions at tremendous scale. This is backed with the enterprise-grade 99.95 percent SLA for port pair availability.
March 2018
February update for Azure IoT Edge
The February update for Azure IoT Edge contains improvements to the runtime, documentation, and tooling.
June 2017
Graph support for Azure SQL Database
Azure SQL Database now offers fully integrated graph extensions, so users will be able to define graph schema with graph objects.
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