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December 2018
Azure API Management update December 20
Learn about the latest regular update to Azure API Management.
Migrating to the Az.ApiManagement PowerShell module
Azure API Management is migrating to the new Az.ApiManagement PowerShell module.
Azure Log Analytics is available in West US 2
Azure Log Analytics is now available and can be built in West US 2.
Azure Monitor for Containers agent updates
Updates to the Azure Monitor for Containers agent include the auto-upgrade feature, along with enhancements and bug fixes.
Azure IoT Edge 1.0.5 release
The 1.0.5 update of Azure IoT Edge enables a better experience on devices with slow connections, provides improved error messages, and moves Windows to RS5.
Cognitive Services Speech Services neural text-to-speech capability is in preview
Cognitive Services Speech Services now offers a neural text-to-speech capability in preview. Use this capability to deploy voices to apps that are nearly indistinguishable from the human voice.
Azure Service Bus and Azure Event Hubs Virtual Networks and Firewall rules are now generally available
Virtual Networks and Firewall rules for both Azure Event Hubs and Azure Service Bus are now generally available.
Power BI service December update
Power BI dataflows and Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 integration is in preview
Power BI Desktop December Update
December is a huge month in terms of accessibility
Retirement of Media Hyperlapse (in preview) on March 29, 2019
Starting December 19, 2018, we will no longer make changes or improvements to the Media Hyperlapse feature of Azure Media Services.
Dev/test pricing for Azure SQL Database Managed Instance is now available
Dev/test pricing is now available for SQL Database Managed Instance as part of the Azure Enterprise dev/test offer, providing a cost-effective way to run your development and testing workloads on Azure SQL Database.
Support for SQL to Azure SQL DB Managed Instance online migrations
Users can now migrate SQL Server databases to Azure SQL Database Managed Instance with minimal downtime by using generally available functionality in the Azure Database Migration Service.
Azure Cosmos DB emulator support for Cassandra API
Now generally available, Azure Cosmos DB now provides support for its Cassandra API, in addition to support for SQL and MongoDB APIs.
Premium tier now available for the Azure Database Migration Service
Azure Database Migration Service, the fully managed service designed for both operational database and data warehouse migrations, now supports offline and online migrations using the premium tier.
SQL Data Warehouse integration with Informatica iPaaS on Azure
Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services (IICS) on Azure is now generally available
Power BI Embedded new workspace experience creation API
Use the Power BI REST API to create new Power BI Embedded workspace experience automatically.
Power BI Embedded zero-downtime capacity scale
Scale Power BI Embedded capacity resources with no downtime.
Azure Resource Health monitoring for Power BI Embedded
Power BI Embedded is integrated with Resource Health to help monitor the availability of resources and diagnose the root cause in case of unavailable status.
Power BI Embedded capacity metrics to monitor workloads
To monitor Power BI Embedded workloads, metrics have been added for Memory Per Workload and QPU Per Workload.
Self-service big data prep (dataflows) available in Power BI Embedded
Self-service big data prep, called dataflows, is now available in Power BI Embedded.
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