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Confluent Cloud Integration with Azure is now generally available
Confluent and Microsoft have worked together to enable seamless integration experience between Azure and Confluent Cloud – a managed Apache Kafka service. This service will enable you to provision Confluent Cloud resources using Azure client interfaces like portal/CLI/SDKs. Other integration points include single sign-on using Azure Active directory and unified billing through Azure with an option to draw down on existing Azure commits.
December 2020
Azure Batch vCPU quota checks are being updated
The vCPU quota checks that are performed during pool operations are being updated to check the dedicated VM series vCPU quotas, in addition to the Batch account total dedicated vCPUs quota that is currently checked.
November 2020
More IOPS at no additional cost for Azure Files premium tier
All premium shares get additional baseline and burst input/output per second (IOPS) at zero cost, providing better performance and lower cost of deployment.
A new version of Text Analytics is now in public preview
Text Analytics new API version supports batch processing and healthcare scenarios.
Azure Cosmos DB transactional batch support for Java SDK 4.7.0 and above is now available
This new support satisfies a frequent customer ask for ACID-compliant transactions that succeed or fail altogether.
October 2020
New Azure Batch capabilities
New job scheduling and security-related features are now available.
New Azure Batch capabilities available in preview
A number of new security-related features are now available in preview.
General Availability: Azure Spot on Azure Kubernetes Service
Use Azure Spot with Azure Kubernetes Service to save on compute costs for workloads that can tolerate interruptions
New VM series supported by Azure Batch
An expanded selection of VMs can be used with Azure Batch, providing access to newer Azure VM series.
Azure IoT Central new and updated features—September 2020
September updates include the data export feature, more jobs improvements, offline commands, new dashboard formatting capabilities, new Power Automate templates, and documentation enhancements.
September 2020
Virtual Machine (VM) level Disk Bursting on Dvs3 and Esv3 VMs
Virtual Machine (VM) level Disk Bursting is now enabled on for our Dsv3 and Esv3 virtual machines, allowing customer s workloads to handle unforeseen disk traffic spikes smoothly without the need to overprovision their virtual machine.
July 2020
SR-IOV availability on InfiniBand-equipped Virtual Machines
We will be enabling support for all MPI implementations and RDMA verbs for InfiniBand-equipped virtual machines. This greatly increases ability and options for leveraging InfiniBand for your workloads.
June 2020
Azure Speech Services REST API v3.0 is now available
Azure Azure Speech Services REST API v3.0 is now available, along with several new features.
Azure Private Link for Azure Batch is now generally available in select regions
Azure Private Link for Azure Batch is now generally available in the West US 2, East US, South Central US, US Gov Virginia, and US Gov Arizona regions
May 2020
Azure HDInsight Tools for Visual Studio Code—Create, run, and debug notebook
This new release enables you to perform Jupyter-like notebook operations and boosts collaborations with one-click conversion between IPYNB and PY files.
Virtual machine (VM)-level disk bursting
Virtual machine (VM)-level disk bursting is a new feature that enables your workloads to handle unforeseen disk traffic spikes smoothly without the need to overprovision your virtual machine. The feature is now enabled on all of Azure Lsv2-series virtual machines.
April 2020
Azure Spot support for Azure Kubernetes Service is in preview
Take advantage of underused capacity as a way to achieve significant cost savings.
March 2020
Http Raw logs for Azure Content Delivery Network
Azure Content Delivery Network now supports HTTP raw logs.
February 2020
Cognitive Services Bing Speech API is being retired November 1, 2021
Target retirement date: November 01, 2021
To continue providing speech recognition and translation capabilities in your current Bing Speech applications, you’ll need to migrate them to Speech Services and the Speech SDK
Azure Cognitive Services Computer Vision Read API v3.0 now in preview
Target availability: Q1 2020
Cognitive Services Computer Vision Read API of is now available in v3.0 (in preview). Read features the newest models for optical character recognition (OCR), allowing you to extract text from printed and handwritten documents.
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