Enhancements to Insights in Azure Monitor
The past few months have seen a range of new capabilities added to Azure Monitor, most recently there has been some updates to Insights. Here is a quick round-up:
Azure Files – New Data Protection Features
Recent enhancements of Azure Files provide improvements to multiple data protection strategies. Azure Files provides a systematic approach to ensuring your data is available, backed up, and recoverable, here are some recent announcements in this area:
Exposure Notification APIs Available on Xamarin
Google and Apple have produced Exposure Notification APIs through Bluetooth Low Energy to aid in contact tracing. The Xamarin team has been following the development closely and the first preview of bindings for Android and iOS Exposure APIs is now out.
Azure Cosmos DB – New Features Now Generally Available
As with all areas of Azure we are seeing updates and new features constantly. With Azure Cosmos DB, these are features to make possible swift application development across teams and enhanced enterprise-level security accessible to apps of any magnitude or scope.
Azure Synapse Link – Now in Preview
Microsoft has announced a cloud-native execution of HTAP called Azure Synapse Link. A capability which eliminates the obstacles between Azure operational database services and Azure Synapse Analytics.
Xamarin.Forms 4.6 Styling Improvements
Xamarin.Forms regular updates bring us a range of improvements. An interesting new feature from version 3.6 was the addition of Material Design controls from Google which allows you to match the default Android experience. Xamarin.Forms 4.6 is now building on this addition with further bindings to the Google library and added styling support.
Updates to Azure Maps
Azure maps received several updates in April. Here is a quick roundup of recently added features. Now Generally Available: Azure Maps Batch services Azure Maps Batch capabilities available through Search and Route allow customers to send batches of queries using…
Xamarin.Essentials 1.5 – What’s New
April brought us the release of Xamarin.Essentials 1.5. Xamarin.Essentials always brings us simplification of intricate native features into a single cross-platform library. Here is a quick round-up of the new features in this release: A new way to simply choose…
Azure Managed Disks – Recent Feature Announcements
Azure Managed Disks has seen some recent features move to general availability. Read on to learn more about incremental snapshots and customer-managed keys. Incremental Snapshots - Now Generally Available Incremental snapshots are a point-in-time backup of managed disks which are…
Incremental Enrichment has Arrived in Azure Cognitive Search
Incremental enrichment brings a declarative approach to indexing data. This new feature causes document enrichment to perform at the lowest cost, even while you continue to improve your skills. Indexers with incremental enrichment can: Add documents to the search index…