Azure App Innovation Key announcements at Ignite 2021

This is a summary of Azure Application Innovation announcements at #Ignite2021. This covers Azure App Migration, Developer AI, Developer Tools and services.

Developer AI:

Form Recognizer: Prebuit ID model: automated extraction of data from worldwide passports and driver’s licenses, helping customers avoid manual data entry and improving services like online banking transactions and hotel registration. Read more here:Form Recognizer now reads more languages, processes IDs and invoices, trains on tables, and more - Microsoft Tech Community

Azure Bot service native Telephony channel via Azure communications services PSTN is now in preview. No need for 3P integration.

Azure Documents Translation Service: Asynchronous batch feature offering translation of large documents eliminating limits on input text size. It supports documents with rich content in different file formats including Text, HTML, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook Message, PDF, etc. It reconstructs translated documents preserving layout and format as present in the source.

Learn more here: Translator announces Document Translation (Preview) - Microsoft Tech Community

Application Migration:

Azure Migrate: App Containerization: a new tool to help you containerize and migrate existing applications to Azure Kubernetes Service. The App Containerization tool offers a no-code, point-and-containerize approach to help you package applications running on servers into a container image and helps you deploy the containerized application to Azure Kubernetes Service. In the current preview the tool helps you:

• Containerize ASP.NET applications running on Windows Servers to Windows containers
• Containerize Java web applications running on Apache Tomcat on Linux machines to Linux containers

Read more here: Containerize and migrate applications to AKS with the Azure Migrate’s new App Containerization tool - Microsoft Tech Community

Azure Spring Cloud Managed Virtual Network and Autoscale are now generally available. Azure Spring Cloud is a fully managed service for Spring Boot apps that helps customers focus on building apps to run their businesses without the hassle of managing infrastructure. Learn more about this update.

WebLogic and WebSphere Marketplace offers and automated scripts to deploy Oracle WebLogic Server, IBM WebSphere Application Server and IBM WebSphere Liberty/Open Liberty on Azure. Customers will now have greater choice and flexibility to migrate their Java EE apps to the cloud with offers jointly supported by Microsoft, Oracle and IBM.

Customers can deploy WebLogic on Azure Virtual Machines or use validated Kubernetes operators to deploy WebLogic and WebSphere on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and WebSphere on Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO). These solutions make it easy to get up and running, while allowing for a high degree of control and customization.

Learn more about these updates for WebLogic and WebSphere on Azure.

Azure Arc updates:

• Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes is now generally available. Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes allows organizations to connect, manage and govern any Kubernetes cluster across datacenters, multicloud and edge from Azure. Customers can deploy a common set of Kubernetes configurations to all their clusters, right from the Azure Portal, consistently and at scale. Azure Arc also enables developers to centrally code and deploy applications securely to any Kubernetes cluster in any location using GitOps.
• Azure Arc-enabled machine learning is now in preview, meaning customers can innovate with Azure Machine Learning to target any Kubernetes cluster for model training, on-premises, in multicloud and at the edge. Organizations can leverage their existing Kubernetes infrastructure investments to lower cost and increase operational efficiency as they extend machine learning to run close to where the data lives and autoscale compute anywhere. In addition, Azure Arc provides management, consistency and reliability so that all resources can be managed through a single unified pane. With a simple one-click deployment of the machine learning agent, data scientists and developers can build models using familiar tools in Azure Machine Learning, without having to learn Kubernetes. All models, irrespective of where they were built, can be stored and tracked in a central location in Azure Machine Learning for sharing, reproducibility and audit compliance. Starting today, customers can sign up here to access the preview.

Learn more about this update.

Application Identity

Azure AD Verifiable Credentials is in preview: Verifiable credentials are a new way to exchange verified information about people, organizations, and more. Verifiable credentials put people in control of their personal information, enabling more trustworthy digital experiences while respecting people's privacy.Sign-up here: https://lnkd.in/ds2Gdfz

AWS Single Sign-On (SSO), a cloud-based service that simplifies SSO access across multiple Amazon Web Services (AWS) accounts and resources, is now pre-integrated in the Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) app gallery. Customers can now quickly configure single sign-on and user provisioning to AWS SSO using the Azure AD app gallery.

This integration streamlines access to AWS resources and accounts. As a pre-integrated application in the Azure AD app gallery, AWS SSO can be quickly connected to Azure AD for centralized access management of AWS resources. End users can sign into AWS SSO using their Azure AD credentials to access all their assigned AWS resources.

Learn more about this update.

Certifications:

Microsoft Certifications renewal is now available for free on Microsoft Learn to support individuals who want to keep their technical skills up to date. Anyone can renew their role-based and specialty certifications by passing an online renewal assessment at no cost.

Learn more about this update.

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