Use Azure SQL Database ledger (preview) to eliminate the additional cost, complexity, and performance overhead of decentralized blockchain technology and enable tamper-evidence through cryptographic verification of your centralized data store.
The Microsoft Build of OpenJDK is now generally available
Customers and developers can use the Microsoft Build of OpenJDK to build their Java applications, and commercial support is available for applications running on Azure and Azure Stack.
General availability: Run Enterprise Java with Red Hat JBoss EAP for Azure Virtual Machines
Azure Marketplace offers to run JBoss EAP on Azure Virtual Machines and Virtual Machine Scale Sets are now available. Customers can quickly move existing Java EE/Jakarta EE workloads to the cloud with limited code changes.
Partial document update for Azure Cosmos DB in private preview
You now have the ability to perform path-level updates on specific fields/properties in a document with partial document update for Azure Cosmos DB.
Public preview: Native support for WebSocket APIs in Azure API Management
Azure API Management announces native support for WebSocket APIs.
General availability: Enabling IBM WebSphere Application Server on Azure Virtual Machines
IBM WebSphere Application Server (Traditional) Network Deployment on Azure Linux Virtual Machines is now available, jointly developed and supported by IBM and Microsoft.
Azure IoT Verified telemetry is now in public preview
Azure IoT Verified Telemetry provides data reliability and is available as part of Dependable IoT SDK and can be seamlessly integrated into current Azure IoT offerings such as Azure RTOS and IoT PnP.
Azure Machine Learning public preview announcement //Build, May 2021
New feature: Prebuilt Docker images for Inferencing, now in public preview.
Public preview: Azure Confidential Ledger
Create a managed service built on top of the Confidential Consortium Framework that spins up a permissioned blockchain network of nodes within Azure confidential computing.
Public preview: Azure Cognitive Services Text Analytics Adds Question Answering Feature
The new, standard Question Answering feature provides users the capability to answer questions over a passage of text without having to create knowledgebases and manage additional storage