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Public preview: Azure Firewall integration in Microsoft Copilot for Security

The Azure Firewall integration helps analysts perform detailed investigations of the malicious traffic intercepted by the IDPS feature of their firewalls across their entire fleet using natural language questions in the Copilot for Security standalone experience.

• Azure Firewall
• Microsoft Copilot for Azure
• Microsoft Build
• Security
• Services
• Features

Public preview: Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) integration in Microsoft Copilot for Security

Increase your security posture and receive an analysis of the top Azure WAF rules triggered, top offending IPs in the environment, SQL injection and Cross-site scripting attacks blocked by WAF, along with natural language explanation of the analysis.

• Web Application Firewall
• Microsoft Copilot for Azure
• Azure Front Door
• Microsoft Copilot for Security
• Application Gateway
• Microsoft Build
• Security
• Features

Public preview: Aspire dashboard support in Azure Container Apps

You can now access the Aspire dashboard in Azure Portal for your Azure Container Apps project.

• Azure Container Apps
• Microsoft Build
• Features

Public preview: Azure Functions support for HTTP streams in Python

Use HTTP streams in Python for processing large data streaming OpenAI responses and delivering dynamic content

• Azure Functions
• Microsoft Build
• Features

Azure Static Web Apps offers new Dedicated plan in preview

Enterprise-grade features for advanced use cases

• Static Web Apps
• Microsoft Build
• Features

New Azure Event Grid capabilities support IoT solutions, event sources

Additional support for Azure Event Hubs means customers can run existing Kafka workloads

• Event Grid
• Microsoft Build
• Features

Microsoft Dev Box introduces new ready-to-code and enterprise management capabilities

Dev Box has been updated with several new developer productivity and enterprise management capabilities.

• Microsoft Dev Box
• Microsoft Build
• Features

Public Preview - Azure Compute Fleet

Target availability: Q2 2024

Azure Compute Fleet is a game changer in scaling and optimizing Azure compute resources across different virtual machine (VM) types, availability zones, and pricing models to achieve desired scale, performance, and cost.

• Pricing & Offerings

Public Preview Azure OpenAI Semantic Caching policy in Azure API Management

Target availability: Q2 2024

We're excited to announce the Public Preview for the Azure OpenAI Semantic Caching policy in Azure API Management! This innovative feature empowers customers to optimize token usage by leveraging semantic caching, which intelligently stores completions for prompts with similar meanings.

• API Management
• Microsoft Build
• Features

GA Circuit Breaker in Azure API Management

Target availability: Q2 2024

The circuit breaker, now generally available in Azure API Management, is seamlessly integrated to provide customers with an easy-to-use solution for enhancing the resilience of their API environments.

• API Management
• Microsoft Build
• Features

GA OData API type in Azure API Management

Target availability: Q2 2024

We're thrilled to announce the general availability of the OData API type in Azure API Management. This exciting addition extends Azure API Management's capabilities to include OData APIs, allowing users to apply standard API protections such as authentication, authorization, and rate limiting, alongside OData-specific policies for request validation.

• API Management
• Microsoft Build
• Features

GA Load Balancer in Azure API Management

Target availability: Q2 2024

The General Availability of the Load Balancer feature in Azure API Management is here! Now, customers can effortlessly create a pool of backends and efficiently distribute the load across multiple endpoints. By establishing backend pools, users can seamlessly balance the load across various backends when integrating multiple backends for an API.

• API Management
• Microsoft Build
• Features

GA Support for gRPC APIs in Azure API Management Self-hosted Gateway

Target availability: Q2 2024

We're thrilled to announce the general availability of gRPC support in Azure API Management through the self-hosted gateway. This exciting feature empowers customers to seamlessly manage their gRPC services as APIs within Azure API Management.

• API Management
• Microsoft Build
• Features

GA Import Azure OpenAI enpoints as an APIs in Azure API Management

Target availability: Q2 2024

We're excited to announce the General Availability of the Import Azure OpenAI as an API feature in Azure API Management! With this new capability, customers can seamlessly import Azure OpenAI endpoints as an API with just a single click, streamlining the entire process.

• API Management
• Microsoft Build
• Features

GA Azure OpenAI Emit Token Metric policy in Azure API Management

Target availability: Q2 2024

We're thrilled to announce the General Availability of the Azure OpenAI Emit Token Metric policy in Azure API Management! This new feature enables customers to effortlessly configure token usage metrics to be sent directly to Azure Application Insights, providing insights into the utilization of Azure OpenAI models across various applications and teams.

• API Management
• Microsoft Build
• Features

GA Azure OpenAI Token Limit Policy in Azure API Management

Target availability: Q2 2024

We're excited to announce the General Availability of the Azure OpenAI Token Limit Policy in Azure API Management! This feature empowers customers to effectively manage and enforce limits on API consumers based on their usage of OpenAI tokens.

• API Management
• Microsoft Build
• Features

GA Improved Onboarding Experience on VS Code for Azure Logic Apps Standard

Target availability: Q2 2024

We're thrilled to announce the General Availability of the improved onboarding experience for the Logic Apps standard VS Code extension. This enhancement aims to streamline the process of transitioning from developing workflows in the cloud to a local environment, making it easier for developers to get started with Logic Apps development.

• Logic Apps
• Microsoft Build
• Features

Public Preview Azure Logic Apps Standard] .NET 8 Custom Code Support

Target availability: Q2 2024

We’ve extended our built-in action capabilities to include support for calling .NET 8 custom code, now available in public preview.

• Logic Apps
• Microsoft Build
• Features

Public Preview Azure Logic Apps Standard Support for Zero Downtime deployment scenarios

Target availability: Q2 2024

We're excited to introduce support for Zero Downtime Deployment scenarios in Azure Logic Apps Standard, now available in Public Preview. This feature addresses one of the primary challenges in developing and maintaining mission-critical applications: ensuring continuous availability and responsiveness, even during updates or maintenance activities.

• Logic Apps
• Microsoft Build
• Features