Category Azure News

New enhancements and updates were made to Azure Security Center in July 2020.
Source: Azure Roadmap
Source Link: Azure Security Center—News and updates for July 2020

Custom Translator team is being upgraded to V2 phase-1 to take advantage of the state-of-the-art neural machine translation (NMT) architecture available in Microsoft Translator. This architecture powers translation for Microsoft services such as Office 365, Teams, Speech Services, Bing.com, and Translator, along with other services. Data residency support is also being enabled to meet corporate data security, data privacy, and regulatory requirements to keep customer data in the Europe region.
Source: Azure Roadmap
Source Link: Custom Translator upgrade and Regional data residency

A new Node.js IoT SDK LTS branch has been released offering customers a guarantee that they will benefit from any necessary security or critical bug fixes with minimal impact to their device’s stable code.
Source: Azure Roadmap
Source Link: The Azure IoT Node.js SDK releases a new long term support (LTS) branch

Beginning September 1, 2020, new Azure SQL Database gateways in multiple regions will start accepting traffic
Source: Azure Roadmap
Source Link: Azure SQL Database gateways changes effective September 2020

Beginning September 1, 2020, new Azure SQL Database gateways in multiple regions will start accepting traffic
Source: Azure Roadmap
Source Link: Azure SQL Database gateways changes effective September 2020

On a rolling basis throughout September 2020, we’ll move Bandwidth to a source–destination billing model. Additionally, metering will be divided into inter-region meter IDs.
Source: Azure Roadmap
Source Link: Upcoming billing changes to Azure Bandwidth

We have expanded the preview regions for Azure Blob storage object replication to include East US 2, Central US. You can start previewing this feature on any existing or new General-purpose (GPv2) storage accounts in those regions.
Source: Azure Roadmap
Source Link: New regions added for Azure Blob storage object replication public preview

Lifecycle management for Azure Data Lake Storage provides an automated solution for tiering down infrequently used data to cooler tiers, allowing you to easily optimize your data for both performance and cost.
Source: Azure Roadmap
Source Link: Azure Data Lake Storage lifecycle management is now generally available

LightIngest is a command-line utility for large volumes of data ingestion, and for querying records on the time created, rather than the time ingested.
Source: Azure Roadmap
Source Link: Azure Data Explorer LightIngest now supports actual creation time for historical data migration

LightIngest is a command-line utility for large volumes of data ingestion, and for querying records on the time created, rather than the time ingested.
Source: Azure Roadmap
Source Link: Azure Data Explorer LightIngest now supports actual creation time for historical data migration