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May 2022

May 24

Generally available: Increased size of Stream Analytics jobs and cluster

NOW AVAILABLE

Maximum size of a Stream Analytics job and a cluster is increased from 192 SUs to 396 SUs.

  • Azure Stream Analytics
  • Features
  • Microsoft Build
May 24

Generally available: Microsoft Purview Data Estate Insights

NOW AVAILABLE

Microsoft Purview Data Estate Insights (in GA July 1, 2022) provides a bird's eye view of your data estate's health.

  • Microsoft Purview
  • Microsoft Build
May 24

Generally available: Azure Cognitive Service for Language

NOW AVAILABLE

Cognitive Service for Language now includes custom named entity recognition and custom text classification.

  • Azure Cognitive Services
  • Features
  • Microsoft Build
May 24

Generally available: Ledger in Azure SQL Database

NOW AVAILABLE

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.

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Features
  • Microsoft Build
May 24

Generally available: Azure Machine Learning managed endpoints and Command Line Interface v2

NOW AVAILABLE

Deploy your machine learning models in a turnkey manner across powerful GPU and GPU machines. CLI v2 now also generally available.

  • Azure Machine Learning
  • Services
  • Microsoft Build
May 24

General availability: Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server Business Critical service tier

NOW AVAILABLE

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.

  • Azure Database for MySQL
  • Features
  • Microsoft Build
May 24

Generally available: Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server 80 vCore Business Critical

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Database for MySQL Flexible server is now offering 80 vCore compute for tier 1 workloads.

  • Azure Database for MySQL
  • Features
  • Microsoft Build
May 24

General availability: Azure Cosmos DB Python SDK async IO support 

NOW AVAILABLE

Improve database performance by running I/O tasks concurrently using the Azure Cosmos DB Python SDK IO async support capability.

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Features
  • Microsoft Build
May 24

Generally available: Azure Container Apps

NOW AVAILABLE

Run microservices in containers without managing infrastructure.

  • Azure Container Apps
  • Features
  • Microsoft Build
May 24

Generally available: Azure Communication Services sample app builder and Microsoft Teams support

NOW AVAILABLE

Quickly create and deploy a "virtual visits" experience connecting your applications with Microsoft Teams bookings.

  • Azure Communication Services
  • Features
May 24

Generally available: Azure Communication Services mobile UI library

NOW AVAILABLE

Save time with Azure Communication Services mobile UI library.

  • Azure Communication Services
  • Features
  • Microsoft Build
May 24

Generally available: Dynamic concurrency in Azure Functions

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Functions dynamic concurrency feature simplifies configuring concurrency for your function apps using Service Bus, Storage Blobs, and Storage Queue triggers.

  • Azure Functions
  • Features
May 24

Generally available: Updated extension defaults for new Azure Functions projects

NOW AVAILABLE

Extension bundles for new Azure Functions projects will now default to v3 in the client tools.

  • Azure Functions
  • Features
  • Microsoft Build
May 24

Generally available: Azure Functions Kafka trigger support

NOW AVAILABLE

You can now detect and respond to real time messages streaming into Kafka Topics.

  • Azure Functions
  • Features
  • Microsoft Build
May 24

General availability: Azure Stack HCI single-node

NOW AVAILABLE

Bring the benefits of hybrid to a single-node Azure Stack HCI configuration.

  • Azure Stack HCI
  • Features
  • Microsoft Build
May 24

Generally available: Subnet per node pool

NOW AVAILABLE

You can expand your AKS clusters across multiple subnets in the same virtual network.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Features
  • Microsoft Build
May 24

Generally available: AKS cluster extensions

NOW AVAILABLE

You can now leverage a rich set of first party solutions on AKS via an Azure Resource Manager driven experience.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Features
  • Microsoft Build
May 24

Generally available: Alias minor version support in AKS

NOW AVAILABLE

You no longer need to specify the exact patch number in your AKS setup.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Features
  • Microsoft Build
May 24

CIS benchmark for Linux containers

NOW AVAILABLE

You can now attest to the state of CIS compliance for their AKS Ubuntu worker nodes.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Compliance
  • Microsoft Build
May 24

Draft 2: An open-source project for developers building apps on Kubernetes

NOW AVAILABLE

Create a Dockerfile for your application and the necessary Kubernetes manifests needed.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Open Source
  • Microsoft Build

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