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Azure Blob access time tracking and access time-based lifecycle management preview
The preview is available in France Central, Canada East, and Canada Central regions.
Public Preview of Azure NetApp Files Cross Region Replication (CRR) capability
Replicate Azure NetApp Files volumes from one Azure region to another in a fast and cost-effective way, protecting your data from unforeseeable regional failures.
Azure Files support for NFS v4.1 is now in preview
Azure Files now adds support for NFS v4.1 file system protocol for an easy migration of your Linux-centric workloads.
Public Preview - Get Retail Rates for all Azure Products/Services
An unauthenticated experience to get retail prices for all Azure Products/Services (including Reserved Instances).
Automatic VM guest patching is now in public preview
Automatic VM guest patching provides safe and automatic patching for virtual machines to simplify update management and maintain security compliance.
Public preview: Automated deployment of Always On availability groups through the Azure portal
Simplify configuring Always On availability groups and improve availability for SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines
Azure Cache for Redis Visual Studio Code extension now in preview
You will be able to use Visual Studio Code to view, test, and debug your caches in one streamlined experience. This extension enhances ease of development by eliminating the need to manually track connection and access keys to connect to your caches.
Azure Monitor Agent and Data Collection Rules Public Preview
Azure Monitor is introducing a new concept for data collection configuration and a new, unified agent for Azure Monitor in Public Preview.
Azure Cache for Redis Visual Studio Code extension now in preview
You’ll be able to use Visual Studio Code to view, test, and debug your caches in one streamlined experience. This extension enhances ease of development by eliminating the need to manually track connection and access keys to connect to your caches.
August 2020
Windows Virtual Desktop is now available in the Azure Government cloud (in preview)
Get started today with Windows Virtual Desktop in public preview in US Government regions. Deploy and scale Windows desktops and apps on Azure in minutes.
Stream Analytics now can be run on Azure Stack Hub
Azure Stream Analytics is now available on Azure Stack Hub via IoT Edge Runtime.
Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 access control list recursive update in public preview
Set, update, or remove access control lists (ACLs) recursively for existing Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 directories and files.
Release of new Azure CDN (Microsoft Standard) capability
The Azure CDN service, a distributed network of servers that can efficiently deliver web content to users, now supports multiple origins.
Public Preview: Cognitive Services Form Recognizer v2.1
Form Recognizer v2.1-preview.1 has been released. It includes support for new languages, checkbox/selection marks, and the submit multiple form types to a single model Id.
Azure Machine Learning announces output dataset (Preview)
With the new output datasets capability, write back to cloud storage and configure and register output data.
Simplified Chinese language support now available in Azure Cognitive Services Computer Vision public preview
Computer Vision Read API v3.1, part of Cognitive Services, announces its public preview with support for Simplified Chinese language.
Azure Policy Compliance Scan Action for GitHub Workflows is in public preview
Trigger on-demand Azure policy compliance scan on Azure resources from GitHub workflows and proceed/fail workflow execution depending on compliance state of resources.
PowerShell support in Durable Functions is in public preview
Developers can now orchestrate complex automation workflows in Azure Functions using familiar language constructs in PowerShell 7
Serverless offer for Azure Cosmos DB now in preview
A new consumption-based offer that requires no capacity management is now available
Azure Blob – Soft Delete for Containers public preview
Soft delete for containers expands upon Azure Blob Storage’s existing capabilities such as soft delete for blobs, account delete locking, and immutable blobs, making our data protection and restore capabilities even better.
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