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New Stream Analytics and Azure SQL Database integration experience in Azure portal
Stream real-time data into a SQL Database table directly from the Azure portal using Azure Stream Analytics (now in preview).
Azure Blockchain Service enhancements are now in preview
Azure Blockchain Service keeps getting better with the addition of a new blockchain data manager and support for additional ledgers.
Azure Blockchain Tokens is now in preview
Azure Blockchain Tokens is a new Azure managed service that allows you to create and manage ledger-based tokens easily to accelerate your blockchain solution development.
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.
New virtual machine scale sets capabilities are now in preview
New virtual machine scale sets features simplify the management of virtual machines while improving their runtime and performance capabilities.
Autopilot mode for provisioned throughput is now in preview
With Autopilot mode, users select a throughput tier and Azure Cosmos DB will automatically scale RU/s up and down as needed to match capacity with demand.
Azure Spring Cloud service is now in private preview
Simplify Spring Boot based microservices development and application lifestyle management.
Azure Peering Service is now in managed preview
Azure Peering Service is a partnership with service providers to provide highly reliable and optimized internet connectivity to Microsoft services. It also provides internet latency telemetry and route monitoring with alerting against hijacks, leaks, and any other BGP mal configurations.
.NET Core 3 support in Azure Functions, now in preview
Azure Functions now supports .NET Core 3 as an official language in preview.
Event-driven secrets management with Azure Key Vault events now in Event Grid
Azure Key Vault becomes a first party event publisher for Azure Event Grid, publishing events about keys and secrets management.
Simplify ML workloads with Azure Machine Learning events now in Event Grid
Azure Machine Learning becomes a first party event publisher for Azure Event Grid, publishing events about model training run, model registration, model deployment and data drift detection
Azure Blob Storage on IoT Edge integration with Event Grid in preview
Blob Storage module now provides integration with Event Grid on IoT Edge
Azure Sphere will be generally available in February 2020
Azure Sphere will be generally available in February 2020. General availability will mark our readiness to fulfill our security promise at scale, and to put the power of Microsoft’s expertise to work for our customers every day.
October 2019
Event Grid on IoT Edge is now available in preview
Azure Event Grid is now available on Azure IoT Edge
IoT Hub device streams new preview regions
IoT Hub device streams is now also available in North Europe and Southeast Asia in preview
Update 19.10 for Azure Sphere public preview now available for evaluation
The Azure Sphere public preview 19.10 quality release is now available via the retail evaluation feed. The retail evaluation is meant for backwards compatibility testing. Use the retail evaluation feed to verify production-signed applications against the new release before we deploy it broadly on the retail feed.
Changes are coming to the Azure Sphere SDK in the next release
The next release of the Azure Sphere SDK will bring significant enhancements in response to great feedback from the community.
Cost Management Preview Features October 2019
Please find a table below outlining the Cost Management features that are currently in preview.
Updates to Azure Monitor for virtual machines (preview) before general availability release
Updates to Azure Monitor for virtual machines (preview) will be launched in mid-November, 2019, ahead of the general availability (GA) release.
Service-aided subnet configuration for managed instance in Azure SQL Database is now in preview
Managed instance, a deployment capability of Azure SQL Database, is transitioning from a manual to service-aided subnet configuration, now in preview.
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