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Azure – Azure Cognitive Services has achieved human parity in image captioning
Computer Vision, part of Azure Cognitive Services, now offers an updated image captioning capability that has achieved human parity based on the Novel Object Captioning at Scale (NOCAPS) benchmark. Read More for the details.

Azure – T-digest extension for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus)
Now in general availability, the algorithm used in the open source t-digest extension allows high performance percentile calculations on sizable distributed analytical workloads with improved accuracy. Read More for the details.

Azure – SQL Server on Virtual Machines: Machine Learning with Microsoft R Open 4.0.2 now available
The latest update for Microsoft R Open 4.0.2 (downloadable for Windows, Mac, and Linux platforms) includes improvement to the performance of the merge function and adds an option to better handle zero-length arguments to the paste and paste0 functions. Read More for the details.

Azure – App Service Private Endpoints now generally available
Secure your line of business applications with Private Endpoints Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure DevTest Labs – Create a network isolated lab
Isolate environments from unwanted traffic with Azure DevTest Labs. Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure DevTest Labs now available in more regions
Explore Azure DevTest Labs in UAE North, Germany West Central and Norway East regions. Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure Monitor Log Analytics data export is in public preview
You can now enable continuous data export from your Log Analytics workspaces to an Azure Storage Account or Azure Event Hubs. Read More for the details.

AWS – Fluent Bit supports Amazon S3 as a destination to route container logs
Customers using container services including Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Services (EKS), or self-managed Kubernetes can now send their container logs to Amazon S3 using the Fluent Bit log router. Fluent Bit allows customers to route container logs to various AWS and partner monitoring solutions including Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon Kinesis, Datadog, Splunk, […]

Azure – Azure Site Recovery – TLS Certificate Changes
Assess and mitigate the impact of Azure TLS certificate updates on your Site Recovery environment Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure IoT Central new and updated features—September 2020
September updates include the data export feature, more jobs improvements, offline commands, new dashboard formatting capabilities, new Power Automate templates, and documentation enhancements. Read More for the details.