Senior Azure PM Varun Shandilya talks to the team about Spot VMs and gives us some great tips on tricks on when and how to leverage these low-cost VM SKUs.
Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode315.mp3
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Azure Key Vault—Private endpoints now available in preview
Updated: February 07, 2020
Establish a private connection between Azure Key Vault and other Azure services by using Azure Private Link, now available in preview for all public regions.
From <https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/key-vault-private-endpoint/>
Azure Cognitive Services Text Analytics sentiment analysis v3 now supports Korean
Updated: February 07, 2020
The sentiment analysis v3 feature of Cognitive Services Text Analytics now supports Korean in addition to English, Japanese, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Spanish, Italian, French, Portuguese, German, and Dutch.
From <https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/sentiment-v3-preview-updates3/>
Backup Explorer is now in preview
Updated: February 07, 2020
Azure Backup now offers a new solution called Backup Explorer (in preview). Backup Explorer is a built-in Azure Monitor Workbook enabling you to have a single pane of glass to perform real-time monitoring across your entire backup estate on Azure.
From <https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/backup-explorer-public-preview-2/>
Azure Stream Analytics—Machine learning–based anomaly detection functions
Updated: February 06, 2020
Easily add anomaly detection capabilities to your Stream Analytics jobs without the requirement to develop and train your own machine learning models. Ready-to-use unsupervised learning ML models are provided within the SQL language
From <https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/machine-learningbased-anomaly-detection-functions-in-azure-stream-analytics-general-availability/>
Advancing safe deployment practices
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/advancing-safe-deployment-practices/
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