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November 2023

Nov 15

General Availability: Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q4 2023

Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore offers a fully-managed database for your MongoDB workloads and AI applications, backed by native Azure integrations, flexible pricing, and seamless migration capabilities.

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
Nov 15

Public preview: Priority-based execution in Azure Cosmos DB

IN PREVIEW

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.

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
Nov 15

Public preview: Cross-account container copy for Azure Cosmos DB NoSQL API

IN PREVIEW

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.

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
Nov 15

Public Preview: Azure Open AI “Use your data” integration with Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore

IN PREVIEW

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.

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
Nov 15

Public preview: Dynamic scaling per partition and per region

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q4 2023

Autoscale gets even better with two new improvements -- scaling per partition and per region!

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
Nov 15

Public preview: Microsoft Copilot for Azure capability now available in Azure Cosmos DB

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q4 2023

Turn your questions into Azure Cosmos DB NoSQL queries with Microsoft Copilot for Azure.

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
Nov 15

Public preview: Bring enhanced manageability to your SQL Server anywhere with Azure Arc

IN PREVIEW

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.

  • SQL Server – Azure Arc
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
Nov 15

Azure Virtual Network Manager Security Admin Rule generally available in select regions

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Virtual Network Manager's security admin rule configuration is now generally available in select regions, empowering users to enforce security rules across their virtual networks globally.

  • Azure Virtual Network Manager
  • Services
  • Security
  • Management
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
Nov 15

Public preview: Enabling Rate Limiting on ExpressRoute Direct Circuits

IN PREVIEW

With ExpressRoute Direct, you can enable rate-limiting for your circuit to match the traffic volume with the configured bandwidth rate.

  • Azure ExpressRoute
  • ExpressRoute Circuits
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
Nov 15

Public preview: Customer-controlled maintenance

IN PREVIEW

Customers can now use configurable maintenance windows to schedule gateway maintenance at a time that is most convenient for their business.

  • VPN Gateway
  • Azure ExpressRoute
  • Virtual WAN
  • Security
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
Nov 15

General Availability: Lower pricing for Azure SQL Database Hyperscale expected in December 2023

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q4 2023

Build new and highly scalable applications on Azure SQL Database Hyperscale with lower pricing!

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
Nov 15

Public Preview: Azure Cosmos DB Migration for MongoDB extension - Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore migration capability

IN PREVIEW

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.

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
Nov 15

Public preview: ExpressRoute Seamless Gateway Migration

IN PREVIEW

ExpressRoute customers can now seamlessly migrate.

  • ExpressRoute Gateways
  • Azure ExpressRoute
  • Services
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
Nov 15

Public preview: ExpressRoute Scalable Gateway

IN PREVIEW

The ExpressRoute virtual network gateway facilitates both management and control plane connectivity to Virtual Machines and Private Endpoints over ExpressRoute.

  • Azure ExpressRoute
  • ExpressRoute Gateways
  • Services
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
Nov 15

General availability: ExpressRoute Direct and Circuit in different subscriptions

NOW AVAILABLE

ExpressRoute Direct customers can now generate an authorization key for your ExpressRoute Direct resource and use it to make an ExpressRoute Circuit in a different subscription.

  • ExpressRoute Circuits
  • Azure ExpressRoute
  • Services
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
Nov 15

General availability: ExpressRoute as a Trusted Service

NOW AVAILABLE

ExpressRoute customers can now store MACSec secrets in an Azure KeyVault.

  • Azure ExpressRoute
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
Nov 15

Public preview: Microsoft Copilot for Azure

IN PREVIEW

Simplify how you design, operate, optimize, and troubleshoot apps and infrastructure from cloud to edge with Microsoft Copilot for Azure.

  • Azure AI services
  • Services
  • Microsoft Ignite
Nov 15

MQTT broker feature, PubSub capabilities now available for Azure Event Grid

NOW AVAILABLE

Bi-directional communication and flexible consumption patterns - at scale.

  • Event Grid
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
Nov 15

Introducing New Capabilities in Microsoft Dev Box

Target availability: Q4 2023

Microsoft Dev Box is introducing new capabilities to support greater customization and simplify Dev Box setup for development teams.

  • Microsoft Dev Box
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
Nov 15

Public preview: 3rd party support for Arm solutions in Azure Marketplace

Partners can now publish solutions built for Arm-based architecture to the Azure Marketplace. Enabling has broader support for ARM64 for all customers and partners in Azure.

  • Microsoft Ignite

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