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Drill into the costs for your resources
Updated Cost by resource view in Cost Analysis. This improves drilldown experience to view costs accruing for each resource at a meter level.
Azure Cognitive Services Text Analytics sentiment analysis v3 now supports Korean
The sentiment analysis v3 feature of Cognitive Services Text Analytics now supports Korean in addition to English, Japanese, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Spanish, Italian, French, Portuguese, German, and Dutch.
January 2020
Improved query replica synchronization in Azure Analysis Services is in preview
A new Azure Analysis Services setting (in preview) improves performance and consistency of query-replica synchronization in scale-out environments.
Minimum virtual machine sizing for Azure HDInsight cluster head nodes
Beginning April 6, 2020, customers will be able to choose only 4-core or higher virtual machines (VMs) as head nodes for the new HDInsight clusters. Existing clusters will continue to run as expected.
November 2019
HPC Specialized VMs - HB and HC-series
Azure HB & HC Virtual Machines expand to new regions
Release of Microsoft Secure Code Analysis toolkit to help you build secure code
With the Microsoft Security Code Analysis extension, you can infuse security analysis tools including Credential Scanner, BinSkim, and others into your Azure DevOps continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.
Azure Cognitive Services Text Analytics—New languages added to sentiment analysis
Target availability: Q4 2019
Cognitive Services Text Analytics' sentiment analysis v3 now supports 10 languages including English, Japanese, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Spanish, Italian, French, Portuguese, German, and Dutch.
Azure Functions integration with Azure Monitor Logs is now in public preview
Azure Functions now offers an integration with Azure Monitor Logs, enabling a more consistent observability of Azure resources and integration with external monitoring tools.
Azure Monitor—Application change analysis updates
A number of new capabilities for Azure Monitor application change analysis have been added, including at scale onboarding, richer diagnostics, impact analysis and more new features.
Azure Monitor Workbooks is now generally available
Azure Monitor Workbooks gives you a single tool that can combine text, analytic queries, metrics, and parameters into a rich interactive report that you can share with your team members.
Easier diagnostics and logging with Azure Kubernetes Service is now in preview
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)diagnostics help you troubleshoot and diagnose problems with your AKS clusters.
Azure Cognitive Services capabilities are now in preview
The following Azure Cognitive Services capabilities are now in preview—Custom Neural Voice capability Custom Speech with Office 365 data Text Analytics; Sentiment Analysis 3.0 Text Analytics; Expanded Entity Type Support in Entities 3.0 endpoint Text Analytics; Personally Identifiable Information support in Entities 3.0 endpoint.
Azure HPC Cache is now available
High-performance workloads that require file access can now use Azure HPC Cache to minimize latency, improve availability, and increase throughput.
October 2019
Azure Analysis Services utility for QPU auto-scale
Azure Analysis Services QPU AutoScale enables automatic customizable scaling for AAS instances.
SQL Server Data Tools support for 1500 compatibility level
We are pleased to announce that SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) for Analysis Services now supports tabular models with 1500 compatibility level.
September 2019
Azure Analysis Services—Two new higher compute SKUs are now available
Target availability: Q3 2019
Two new SKUs for Azure Analysis Services, S8V2 and S9V2, are now available. These SKUs are based on next-generation hardware and have double the QPU (abstraction of CPU) of the existing S8/S9 SKUs.
Improved query replica synchronization in Azure Analysis Services is in development
Target availability: Q3 2019
A new Azure Analysis Services setting now in development will improve performance and consistency of query-replica synchronization in scale-out environments.
Azure Analysis Services diagnostic logging improvements for scale-out
Target availability: Q3 2019
Get targeted log analysis with improvements to the Diagnostic Logs extension of Azure Analysis Services. Diagnostic Logs now allow you to access and break out server metrics for each query replica with the scale-out feature.
Azure Analysis Services scale-out improvement
Target availability: Q3 2019
Synchronization of query replicas in Azure Analysis Services scale-out environments now uses an optimized copy API, which significantly reduces synchronization time on average.
Azure Cognitive Services Text Analytics—New sentiment analysis capability is now available
Cognitive Services Text Analytics has a new sentiment analysis capability supporting Japanese and Simplified Chinese languages in addition to the previously announced English language model.
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