Azure Search service upgrades: New hardware, unlimited document counts, and more!
Starting in late 2017, all new paid Azure Search services started using brand new, more powerful underlying hardware in select regions.
Announcements
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Azure #CosmosDB Graph API now generally available
Azure Cosmos DB Graph API is the first cloud database to provide graph functionality over a globally distributed managed service.
A year in review for Azure Government
Looking back over the past year and seeing the progress we’ve made gives us a real sense of momentum as we continue to double-down on our investments in Azure Government in 2018.
A great developer experience for Ansible
As customers grow their deployed application in Azure, we are seeing increased interest in DevOps space for configuration management. In the rapidly evolving cloud space, bringing the on-premises expertise to fluently work in cloud brings increased efficiency.
Virtual Network Service Endpoints and Firewalls for Azure Storage now generally available
Today we are announcing the general availability of Firewalls and Virtual Networks (VNets) for Azure Storage along with Virtual Network Service Endpoints.
New Azure Data Factory self-paced hands-on lab for UI
Announcing a new self-paced hands-on Lab for the Azure Data Factory UI to visually build scale-out data pipelines in the cloud using ADF V2.
Announcing the general availability of Azure Event Grid
Modern applications are taking maximum advantage of the agility and flexibility of the cloud by moving away from monolithic architectures and instead using a set of distinct services, all working…
Azure ExpressRoute updates – New partnerships, monitoring and simplification
Azure ExpressRoute allows enterprise customers to privately and directly connect to Microsoft’s cloud services, providing a more predictable networking experience than traditional internet…
Comprehensive monitoring for Azure Site Recovery now generally available
A new, intuitive and simplified monitoring experience for Azure Site Recovery is now available through the Azure portal. This blog post introduces the new monitoring experience and shows you how it can help you understand your current disaster recovery posture.
Azure Search enterprise security: Data encryption and user-identity access control
Effective immediately, Azure Search now supports encryption at rest for all incoming data indexed on or after January 24, 2018…
Open AI ecosystem advances as Preferred Network adds Chainer support to ONNX AI Format
In September we introduced the Open Neural Network Exchange (ONNX) format Microsoft co-created to increase interoperability and reduce friction for developing and deploying AI.
Maximize your VM’s Performance with Accelerated Networking – now generally available for both Windows and Linux
We are happy to announce that Accelerated Networking (AN) is generally available (GA) and widely available for Windows and the latest distributions of Linux providing up to 30Gbps in networking…