Microsoft made a lot of announcements with their Microsoft Build 2020 event that kicked off today. The event included TONS of updates and announcements across the entire stack of Microsoft products with a centered focus towards a Developer audience; since #MSBuild is Microsoft’s largest dev focused conference that is held every year.
Azure Service Updates from Microsoft Build 2020
Here’s a list of all the Microsoft Azure service updates published by Microsoft around the Microsoft Build 2020 conference:
- Build updates for Azure Cognitive Search
- Azure Security Center—News and updates for May 2020
- Azure Storage—Routing preferences now available for preview
- Authenticate Azure Stream Analytics to Azure SQL Database using managed identities (preview)
- High throughput output from Stream Analytics to Azure Synapse Analytics (preview)
- Announcing .NET 5 Preview 4 and our Journey to one .NET
- ASP.NET Blazor now supports WebAssembly
- .NET Multi-platform App UI (.NET MAUI) announced
- Announcing Project Bonsai and Project Moab
- ‘Learn TV’ daily online program to provide developers with education and skills
- Azure VM Image Builder service will be generally available Q3 2020
- New Azure IoT Central features are now available
- New Azure extensions for Visual Studio Code
- Azure Container Registry diagnostic logs now generally available
- Static Web Apps single page hosting option available in App Service now in preview
- Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) resource provider on Azure Stack preview
- Azure Stack Hub fleet management preview
- Easily deploy and manage Azure Stack through Avanade
- CloudAssert multicloud management solution for Hub now available
- Support for Windows containers Azure Container Networking Interface on Azure Stack Hub coming soon in private preview
- Azure Stack Hub now supports cross-platform compatibility on PowerShell
- ManageIQ (formerly known as CloudForms) is now available in preview
- Manufacturing solutions with AI in factories
- Azure Container Registry on Azure Stack Hub private preview
- Azure Container Registry support for Azure Private Link and firewall is now available
- IoT Hub support for virtual networks is now generally available
- High throughput output from Azure Stream Analytics to Azure Synapse Analytics in preview
- Authenticate Azure Stream Analytics to Azure SQL Database using managed identities
- Azure Data Explorer ingests up to 10,000 blobs with auto-suggestive schema definition
- Azure HDInsight enterprise security enhancements
- Azure HDInsight Tools for Visual Studio Code—Create, run, and debug notebook
- Azure Arc support for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) engine clusters
- Azure Stack is partnering with Aware Group to offer new solutions
- FHIR Server on Azure Stack Hub
- New portal experience for Azure Functions
- Support for Linux workloads in the App Service Migration Assistant tool
- Customer-managed keys for Azure Container Registry now generally available
- Azure Event Grid partner topics are now in preview
- Azure Event Grid support for System Assigned Managed Identities is now in preview
- Azure Virtual Machines—Support for backup is now in preview
- Azure Quantum in Preview
- New Responsible ML innovation in Azure Machine Learning
- Visual Studio Live Share now supports voice chat
- Visual Studio Codespaces: New OS Support & GitHub integration
- Azure Bot Service and Bot Framework updates for Build 2020
- New network tier with routing preference is now available in preview
- Azure Peering Service is now generally available
- Azure Digital Twins now has expanded digital representation capabilities
- Azure Policy for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) in preview
- New features for Azure Cosmos DB built-in Jupyter Notebook support
- Azure Synapse Link for Azure Cosmos DB is now in preview
- Encryption at rest with customer-managed keys on Azure Cosmos DB now generally available
- Autoscale provisioned throughput for Azure Cosmos DB
- Azure Cosmos DB Python SDK 4.0 now available
- Azure Private Link for Azure Cosmos DB now in general availability
- Azure NetApp Files—New certifications, increased SLA, expanded regional availability
- Azure Synapse Analytics features availability now in preview
- Azure SQL Edge now in preview
- Azure Active Directory support in Azure Database for MySQL now available
- Azure Active Directory support in Azure Database for PostgreSQL—single server now available
- New Cognitive Services capabilities are now available in preview
- New Cognitive Services capabilities are now generally available
- Azure Real-Time Operating System
- New Azure Resource Manager templates capabilities released
- Azure Monitor enhancements are now available
- Azure Key Vault service enhancements now available
- Azure HDInsight enterprise security enhancements
- Learn, connect, and share feedback with Microsoft experts
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MSBuild 2020 Book of News
While you could go watch all the sessions from Microsoft Build 2020 once they are available to learn a ton about all the latest announcements form the event, you can also see a nicely curated list of Microsoft Build 2020 announcements that’s been released by Microsoft in the Book of News.
The Microsoft Build Book of News contains a huge list of information with links to docs and articles about many of the various announcements made around Microsoft Build 2020. While the list above is all the Azure service updates released by Microsoft; the Build Book of News provides you with a curated top list of announcements from Microsoft themselves!
About the Author
Chris Pietschmann
Chris Pietschmann is a Microsoft MVP, HashiCorp Ambassador, and Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) with 20+ years of experience designing and building Cloud & Enterprise systems. He has worked with companies of all sizes from startups to large enterprises. He has a passion for technology and sharing what he learns with others to help enable them to learn faster and be more productive.
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