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Azure Security Center—News and updates for September 2020
on 30th September 2020 at 17:05
New enhancements and updates that were made to Azure Security Center in September 2020.
Authenticate Azure Stream Analytics to Azure Synapse Analytics using managed identities (preview)
on 30th September 2020 at 17:00
To support Azure customers' need for a more secure streaming data pipelines, Azure Stream Analytics now supports managed identity authentication with SQL pool tables Azure Synapse Analytics.
Embedded C SDK general availability
on 30th September 2020 at 16:01
Announcing the release of our newest device SDK for embedded IoT devices
Long term retention for Azure Database for PostgreSQL-Single Server
on 30th September 2020 at 16:01
Preview of long-term retention of data for Azure Database for PostgreSQL-Single Server is now available.
Azure DevTest Labs: Encrypt OS disks in your lab
on 30th September 2020 at 16:01
Protect your labs data and data stored on managed disks while resting assured that you are hitting your organization's security and compliance benchmarks with Server-Side Encryption.
New features for Windows Server containers in Azure Kubernetes Service
on 30th September 2020 at 16:01
Learn about new Windows Server container related capabilities in AKS
Confidential computing nodes (DCSv2) support on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) in public preview
on 30th September 2020 at 16:01
Orchestrate your container applications with hardware based isolation and data-in-use protection through Intel SGX enclaves. Supporting both enclave aware containers and confidential containers (unmodified container apps)
GA: Data Factory adds ORC data lake file format support for ADF Data Flows and Synapse Data Flows
on 30th September 2020 at 16:01
Azure Data Factory (ADF) is adding new connector support to enable Optimized Row Columnar (ORC) format to data flows in ADF and Synapse Analytics in ADLS and Blob Store.
Public Preview: Data Factory adds SQL Managed Instance (SQL MI) support for ADF Data Flows and Synapse Data Flows
on 30th September 2020 at 16:01
Azure Data Factory (ADF) is adding new connector support to SQL MI as a source and sink to data flows in ADF and Synapse Analytics in ADLS and Blob Store.
Azure Cognitive Services Translator Text— Assamese language now available
on 30th September 2020 at 16:01
Translator Text now supports the Assamese language.
General availability: Azure Availability Zones in more regions
on 30th September 2020 at 16:01
Azure Availability Zones are now generally available in Australia East and Canada Central.
Spring Data Azure Cosmos DB SDK v3.0.0 release now available
on 30th September 2020 at 16:01
Now you can use the Spring Data framework with the Azure Cosmos DB Core (SQL) API.
New performance recommendations now available in Azure Advisor
on 30th September 2020 at 16:00
Review new Azure Advisor recommendations to help you achieve better performance.
New recommendations for operational excellence are now available in Azure Advisor
on 30th September 2020 at 16:00
Review new Azure Advisor recommendations to help you improve your cloud operations.
Azure Ultra Disk is now available in more regions
on 30th September 2020 at 16:00
Azure Ultra Disk is now available in Australia Central, India Central, Korea Central and US Gov Texas.
New guided UI experience to deploy machine learning models in Azure Synapse Analytics (in preview)
on 30th September 2020 at 16:00
We are introducing a guided UI experience in the Synapse Studio that enables users to deploy machine learning models from the Azure Machine Learning model registry directly to Azure Synapse for inferencing.
New Common Data Model connector for Apache Spark in Azure Synapse Analytics & Azure Databricks (in preview)
on 30th September 2020 at 16:00
This new Spark CDM connector requires zero configuration and is pre-installed with Azure Synapse Analytics. It can also be installed and used with Azure Databricks.
Shared disks on Azure Disk Storage is now available in broader set of regions
on 30th September 2020 at 16:00
Shared disks is available for Premium SSDs in all regions and available for Ultra Disks in all regions that support Ultra Disks.
Azure HDInsight --Autoscale for Interactive Query with HDInsight 4.0 is now generally available
on 29th September 2020 at 16:39
Enable HDInsight Autoscale to drive higher utilization of your clusters.
General Availability: Application Insight in UK West
on 29th September 2020 at 15:23
Application Insight, a part of Azure Monitor, is now generally available in the UK West region for customers to collect telemetry and analyze their service health in production environments.