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Support for Linux workloads in the App Service Migration Assistant tool
The App Service Migration Assistant tool now supports migrating containerized web applications from on-premises container images to App Service on Linux.
Azure Event Grid partner topics are now in preview
Use partner topics to connect third-party event sources directly to Event Grid and subscribe to events as you would with any other source. Our partner Auth0 is now integrated with Event Grid partner topics. Connect your Auth0 and Azure accounts in order to react to, log, and monitor Auth0 events in real time.
Azure Event Grid support for System Assigned Managed Identities is now in preview
Event Grid now supports system assigned managed identities
Azure Virtual Machines—Support for backup is now in preview
Azure Backup now supports Azure Virtual Machines with up to 32 attached disks.
Visual Studio Live Share now supports voice chat
Create shared coding sessions from Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, or Visual Studio Codespaces to work together in real time – now with voice and text chat.
Visual Studio Codespaces: New OS Support & GitHub integration
Announcing private previews: Create cloud-hosted dev environments that can be accessed from Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, or natively from within GitHub.com.
New network tier with routing preference is now available in preview
Choose how your traffic routes between Azure and the internet using Azure routing preference, now available in preview. Choose either “routing via Microsoft Global Network” or “routing via ISP network (public internet)”. Egress data transfer pricing will vary based on the routing selection.
Azure Digital Twins now has expanded digital representation capabilities
Azure Digital Twins adds expanded digital representation capabilities.
Azure Policy for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) in preview
Audit and enforce configurations on your resources at scale across all your Azure resources with Azure Policy. Use Azure Policy for AKS to set policies on pods, namespaces, and ingress in between others.
New features for Azure Cosmos DB built-in Jupyter Notebook support
Now in preview, several new features are available for Azure Cosmos DB built-in Jupyter Notebook support that make it easier for developers and data scientists to analyze and visualize their Azure Cosmos DB data.
Azure Synapse Link for Azure Cosmos DB is now in preview
Get near real-time insights on operational data in Azure Cosmos DB with Azure Synapse Link, a cloud-native hybrid transactional and analytical processing (HTAP) capability. Azure Synapse Link creates a tight integration between Azure Cosmos DB and Azure Synapse Analytics.
Azure Synapse Analytics features availability now in preview
Try the new Azure Synapse features now available in preview.
Azure SQL Edge now in preview
Azure SQL Edge meets the demands of IoT edge data and compute with built-in streaming, storage, and AI—all backed by the industry-leading performance and security of SQL.
New Cognitive Services capabilities are now available in preview
New Cognitive Services capabilities are now available in preview.
New Azure Resource Manager templates capabilities released
Azure Resource Manager templates are widely used to manage deployments on Azure. It’s a way to intuitively describe your entire Azure environment using our template language. New capabilities that address key challenges at the time of doing deployments with Resource Manager templates are now available.
Azure Machine Learning – what’s new from Build 2020
Microsoft Azure Machine Learning empowers developers and data scientists with enterprise-grade capabilities to accelerate the ML lifecycle. At Microsoft Build 2020, we announced several advances to Azure Machine Learning across the following areas: ML for all skills, Enterprise grade MLOps, and responsible ML.
Firewall support for Azure Relay is now in preview
With new firewall support, now in preview, Azure Relay now offers the ability to restrict connectivity to only well-known IP addresses or IPv4 addresses in Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) ranges for improved security.
Azure Relay—Azure Private Link support for sender clients is now available in preview
With this preview release, traffic between your Relay sender client running inside your virtual network and Azure Relay uses the Microsoft backbone network providing network isolation.
Azure Blob versioning public preview now available
As the next step to enhance data management and protection, we are excited to announce the Blob storage versioning preview.
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