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Public Preview: Enhanced performance and scalability in Azure Database for PostgreSQL
Target availability: Q4 2023
Benefit from the enhanced performance and scalability of Azure Database for PostgreSQL to improve mission-critical workloads.
Public preview: Priority-based execution in Azure Cosmos DB
Target availability: Q4 2023
Priority-based execution in Azure Cosmos DB enables customers to prioritize critical high priority requests for execution during high traffic, while potentially throttling low priority requests.
Public preview: Cross-account container copy for Azure Cosmos DB NoSQL API
Target availability: Q4 2023
You can use offline cross-account container copy to migrate data across Azure Cosmos DB NoSQL API accounts seamlessly using Azure CLI.
Public Preview: Azure Open AI “Use your data” integration with Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore
Target availability: Q4 2023
Now you can easily leverage your data stored in Azure Cosmos DB for Mongo DB vCore for Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) with Azure OpenAI models using the "Use your data" feature in Azure OpenAI Studio.
Public preview: Dynamic scaling per partition and per region
Target availability: Q4 2023
Autoscale gets even better with two new improvements -- scaling per partition and per region!
Public preview: Microsoft Copilot for Azure capability now available in Azure Cosmos DB
Target availability: Q4 2023
Turn your questions into Azure Cosmos DB NoSQL queries with Microsoft Copilot for Azure.
Public preview: Bring enhanced manageability to your SQL Server anywhere with Azure Arc
Target availability: Q4 2023
Azure Arc provides enhanced manageability for SQL Server, on-premises or across multi-cloud, to enable better visibility, flexibility and security.
Public preview: Enabling Rate Limiting on ExpressRoute Direct Circuits
With ExpressRoute Direct, you can enable rate-limiting for your circuit to match the traffic volume with the configured bandwidth rate.
Public preview: Customer-controlled maintenance
Customers can now use configurable maintenance windows to schedule gateway maintenance at a time that is most convenient for their business.
Public Preview: Azure Cosmos DB Migration for MongoDB extension - Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore migration capability
Target availability: Q4 2023
Migrate MongoDB workloads to Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore using Azure Cosmos DB Migration for MongoDB extension in Azure Data Studio.
Public preview: ExpressRoute Seamless Gateway Migration
ExpressRoute customers can now seamlessly migrate.
Public preview: ExpressRoute Scalable Gateway
The ExpressRoute virtual network gateway facilitates both management and control plane connectivity to Virtual Machines and Private Endpoints over ExpressRoute.
Public preview: Microsoft Copilot for Azure
Simplify how you design, operate, optimize, and troubleshoot apps and infrastructure from cloud to edge with Microsoft Copilot for Azure.
Introducing New Capabilities in Azure Deployment Environments
Target availability: Q4 2023
Azure Deployment Environments is adding new capabilities to deliver an end-to-end developer experience, broader infrastructure-as-code (IaC) template support, and the ability to control costs by configuring auto-delete schedules.
Public preview: Azure VMSS Zonal Expansion
Zonal expansion for VMs and VM Scale Sets empowers users to smoothly transition their regionally configured VMs or VM scale sets into a zonal configuration across Azure availability zones, resulting an increased availability Service Level Agreement (SLA) from 99.95% to 99.99%.
Public preview: New Generation AMD VMs - Dasv6/Easv6/Fasv6
Azure introduces the latest AMD-based VMs in public preview for the D, E, and F series VMs, built on the 4th Generation AMD EPYC™ (Genoa) CPU.
Public Preview: Support for GraphQL APIs in Azure API Management Self-hosted Gateway
Target availability: Q4 2023
Customers now have the power to expose GraphQL APIs through Azure API Management's self-hosted gateway.
Public Preview: Azure Monitor Agent JSON log collection
Target availability: Q4 2023
Azure Monitoring Agent team has released for public preview JSON log collection. New collection types enable customers to migrate from other competing data collection services to Azure Monitor.
Public Preview: Support for gRPC APIs in Azure API Management Self-Hosted Gateway
Target availability: Q4 2023
We are thrilled to announce the public preview 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.
Public Preview: Azure Monitor Alerts integration with Event Grid for Azure Key Vault system events
Azure Monitor alerts as a destination in Event Grid event subscriptions allow you to receive notification of critical events via action groups as Short Message Service (SMS), email, push notification, and more. You can leverage on the low latency event delivery of Event Grid with the flexibility and direct-to-customer notifications of Azure Monitor alerts.
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