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Monthly updates for August 2016

Aug 31

Event Hubs in the Azure portal

You can now use the Azure portal to create and manage Event Hubs namespaces.

  • Event Hubs
  • Management
  • Features
Aug 31

Azure DevTest Labs: Auto-shutdown notifications

DevTest Labs enables lab owners to set up auto-shutdown notifications. A notification will be sent to lab users 15 minutes before auto-shutdown if any of their VMs will be affected.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Azure DevTest Labs
  • Services
  • Features
Aug 25

Machine Learning workspaces and web service pricing plans available in Azure portal

NOW AVAILABLE

You can create standard Azure Machine Learning workspaces from within the Azure portal.

  • Services
  • Features
Aug 25

General availability: Operations Management Suite Security

NOW AVAILABLE

Operations Management Suite Security is a cloud-based service that enables customers to quickly and easily assess the security posture and detect security threats across hybrid cloud environments.

  • Features
Aug 25

Public preview: Computer Vision API and Academic Knowledge API in Cognitive Services

IN PREVIEW

Microsoft Cognitive Services is a collection of APIs that enable developers to tap into high-quality vision, speech, language, knowledge, and search technologies.

  • Azure AI services
  • Features
  • Pricing & Offerings
Aug 25

Public preview: N-Series instances for Azure Virtual Machines

IN PREVIEW

N-Series instances are enabled with NVIDIA’s cutting-edge GPUs so you can run GPU-accelerated workloads and visualize them.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Services
  • Pricing & Offerings
Aug 24

G-Series instances for Azure Virtual Machines available in Canada Central and Canada East

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Virtual Machines customers can take advantage of the G-Series instances now available in Canada Central and Canada East.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Services
  • Pricing & Offerings
Aug 24

General availability: New Azure SQL Database Premium performance level, P15

NOW AVAILABLE

P15 offers 4000 Database Transaction Units (DTUs)—that’s twice as powerful as our P11 offering—with extremely fast transactional performance, real-time analytics, and up to 1 TB of storage.

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Services
  • Pricing & Offerings
Aug 24

General availability: Azure SQL Data Warehouse now in more regions

Azure SQL Data Warehouse is now generally available in additional regions—North Europe, Japan East, Brazil South, and Australia Southeast.

  • Azure Synapse Analytics
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Services
  • Pricing & Offerings
Aug 22

Announcing MySQL in-app (preview) for web apps

IN PREVIEW

The MySQL in-app (preview) feature enables running MySQL natively on the Azure App Service platform.

  • App Service
  • Features
Aug 22

PHP runtime and extension updates include potentially breaking changes

Review your sites to ensure that changes to the available runtimes and PHP extensions on the Azure App Service workers will not cause any downtime of your applications or tooling.

  • App Service
  • SDK and Tools
  • Features
Aug 22

Azure DevTest Labs available in new Canada, India, and US regions

Azure DevTest Labs is available in new regions of Canada, India, and the US that support the required Azure resources used in the labs.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Azure DevTest Labs
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Services
Aug 22

Azure Search: .NET SDK preview and portal support for Blob/Table indexers

IN PREVIEW

Azure Search has released a new preview version of the .NET SDK and supports Blob and Table storage indexers in the Azure portal.

  • Azure AI Search
  • SDK and Tools
  • Features
Aug 19

Service Bus messaging in the Azure portal

You can now use the new Azure portal to create and manage Service Bus messaging resources (namespaces, queues, and topics).

  • Service Bus
  • Management
  • Features
Aug 18

Azure Mobile Apps SDK for Apache Cordova reaches RC1

The Azure Mobile Apps SDK for Apache Cordova is now at v2.0.0-RC1. This version includes better handling of conflicts for offline sync, plus bug fixes.

  • App Service
  • Mobile Services
  • SDK and Tools
  • Features
Aug 18

Parse Server available in all regions

The Azure Marketplace template "Parse Server on managed Azure services" has been updated. You can now deploy Parse Server in all Azure regions.

  • App Service
  • Mobile Services
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Features
Aug 17

Azure Scheduler gets new PowerShell cmdlets

You can use Azure PowerShell 2.0.1 cmdlets to manage Azure Scheduler job collections and jobs in Azure Resource Manager.

  • Scheduler
  • Management
  • SDK and Tools
Aug 15

Azure Automation Hybrid Runbook Worker supports proxy environments

NOW AVAILABLE

An update to Azure Automation Hybrid Runbook Worker adds support for workers communicating through a proxy server.

  • Services
  • Management
  • Features
Aug 15

Azure DevTest Labs: More running VMs are supported in a single lab

Azure DevTest Labs now allows you to run more VMs with maximum IOPS in a single lab by automatically scaling the storage accounts where lab VMs are created.

  • Azure DevTest Labs
  • Services
  • Features
Aug 15

Improved support for Azure AD B2C in App Service

In a recent service update, we improved our overall support for Azure Active Directory B2C in Azure App Service.

  • App Service
  • Azure Active Directory B2C
  • Features

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