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Generally available: Increased size of Stream Analytics jobs and cluster
Maximum size of a Stream Analytics job and a cluster is increased from 192 SUs to 396 SUs.
Generally available: Microsoft Purview Data Estate Insights
Microsoft Purview Data Estate Insights (in GA July 1, 2022) provides a bird's eye view of your data estate's health.
Generally available: Azure Cognitive Service for Language
Cognitive Service for Language now includes custom named entity recognition and custom text classification.
Generally available: Ledger in Azure SQL Database
Enable proof that your database has not been tampered with and restore it back to the original value if needed by enabling ledger in Azure SQL Database.
Generally available: Azure Machine Learning managed endpoints and Command Line Interface v2
Deploy your machine learning models in a turnkey manner across powerful GPU and GPU machines. CLI v2 now also generally available.
General availability: Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server Business Critical service tier
Run your production workloads on the Business Critical service tier, best for high-performance transactional or analytical applications and achieve a 1.5x performance improvement over Single Server on open-source community MySQL.
Generally available: Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server 80 vCore Business Critical
Azure Database for MySQL Flexible server is now offering 80 vCore compute for tier 1 workloads.
General availability: Azure Cosmos DB Python SDK async IO support
Improve database performance by running I/O tasks concurrently using the Azure Cosmos DB Python SDK IO async support capability.
Generally available: Azure Container Apps
Run microservices in containers without managing infrastructure.
Generally available: Azure Communication Services sample app builder and Microsoft Teams support
Quickly create and deploy a "virtual visits" experience connecting your applications with Microsoft Teams bookings.
Generally available: Azure Communication Services mobile UI library
Save time with Azure Communication Services mobile UI library.
Generally available: Dynamic concurrency in Azure Functions
Azure Functions dynamic concurrency feature simplifies configuring concurrency for your function apps using Service Bus, Storage Blobs, and Storage Queue triggers.
Generally available: Updated extension defaults for new Azure Functions projects
Extension bundles for new Azure Functions projects will now default to v3 in the client tools.
Generally available: Azure Functions Kafka trigger support
You can now detect and respond to real time messages streaming into Kafka Topics.
General availability: Azure Stack HCI single-node
Bring the benefits of hybrid to a single-node Azure Stack HCI configuration.
Generally available: Subnet per node pool
You can expand your AKS clusters across multiple subnets in the same virtual network.
Generally available: AKS cluster extensions
You can now leverage a rich set of first party solutions on AKS via an Azure Resource Manager driven experience.
Generally available: Alias minor version support in AKS
You no longer need to specify the exact patch number in your AKS setup.
CIS benchmark for Linux containers
You can now attest to the state of CIS compliance for their AKS Ubuntu worker nodes.
Draft 2: An open-source project for developers building apps on Kubernetes
Create a Dockerfile for your application and the necessary Kubernetes manifests needed.
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