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Live Video Analytics now in public preview
Live Video Analytics is a platform to capture, record, and analyze live video and publish the results (video and/or video analytics), enabling intelligent video applications.
Windows Server containers in AKS is now available in Azure Government
Windows Server containers in AKS is now available in Azure Government.
Azure Kubernetes Service upgrade improvements are now in preview
Two new AKS upgrade capabilities that will improve the granularity and efficiency of regular Kubernetes upgrade operations are now in preview.
Azure Kubernetes Service—Integrated application gateway feature now available
Azure Application Gateway ingress controller (AGIC), a managed, scalable, and highly available application delivery controller, is now available to use as the ingress (inbound) traffic load-balancer for Kubernetes pods within an AKS cluster.
Azure Spring Cloud updates
New features in Spring Cloud that boost developer productivity, enable more DevOps scenarios, and make the platform production ready, are now available.
Azure Spring Cloud Basic tier is now in preview
Get started with Spring Cloud development and testing at a lower cost
Azure Media Services now supports Live Transcription preview in additional regions
Live transcription is a new feature of Azure Media Services v3 APIs, wherein you can enhance the streams delivered to viewers with machine-generated text that is transcribed from spoken words in the audio feed. This feature was first announced in Nov 2019 and we are now making this available in additional regions.
Transparent data encryption with customer-managed keys for Azure SQL Database Hyperscale
Transparent data encryption (TDE) helps protect Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance, and Synapse SQL in Azure Synapse Analytics against the threat of malicious offline activity by encrypting data at rest.
Data encryption for Azure Database for PostgreSQL—single server
The preview of data encryption for Azure Database for PostgreSQL—single server is now available. Data encryption with customer-managed keys for Azure Database for PostgreSQL—single server enables you to bring your own key (BYOK) for data protection at rest.
Large storage for Azure Database for MariaDB
Support for up to 16 TB of storage and up to 20,000 IOPS in Azure Database for MariaDB is now available in preview. This functionality not only provides five times more storage for database servers, but also more than triples the available IOPS.
Data encryption with customer-managed keys for Azure Database for MySQL
We’re excited to announce the preview of data encryption for Azure Database for MySQL. Data encryption with customer-managed keys for Azure Database for MySQL enables you to bring your own key (BYOK) for data protection at rest.
Redirection support for the mysqlnd PHP driver connecting to MariaDB now in preview
Redirection support for the mysqlnd PHP driver used to connect to Azure Database for MariaDB is now available in preview.
Azure SQL Database Hyperscale—Transparent data encryption with customer-managed keys now in preview
For the Hyperscale service tier in Azure SQL Database, TDE with bring your own key (BYOK) support is now available in preview. TDE with BYOK gives customers full and granular control over usage and management of the database encryption key (also known as TDE protector) and enables central management of keys in Azure Key Vault.
Machine Learning on Azure SQL Managed Instance limited preview available
Machine Learning services with support for R and Python languages now include limited preview support on Azure SQL Managed Instance.
Azure Databricks is now available in the Azure Government cloud (in preview)
Azure Databricks is now available in preview to Azure Government customers in the US Gov Virginia and Arizona regions. Azure Databricks provides a fast, easy, and collaborative Apache Spark™-based analytics platform as a fully managed service. It helps you increase your developer productivity, automatically scales with your most demanding workloads, and enables enterprise-grade security that’s easy to use on Azure.
Azure Shared Image Gallery—New features are now available in preview
New preview features now available in Azure Shared Image Gallery.
May 2020
Azure Text Analytics—Opinion mining is now available in preview
Opinion mining is now available in preview. A feature of sentiment analysis, it provides more granular information on the opinions related to aspects of a product or service mentioned in a review.
Windows Virtual Desktop media optimization for Microsoft Teams is now available in preview
Media optimization for Microsoft Teams is now available for Windows Desktop client on Windows 10 machines
Backup your SAP HANA databases running on RHEL using Azure Backup
Azure Backup support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), one of the widely used Linux operating systems running SAP HANA, is now available in preview. This preview is available across all Azure regions except for Germany Northeast, Germany Central, France South, and US Gov IOWA.
Service Bus Explorer on the Azure portal is now available in preview
Send, receive, and peek from queues, topics, and subscriptions, now from the Azure portal (in preview).
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