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Announcing the General Availability of GPT-4 Turbo with Vision on Azure OpenAI Service
Target availability: Q2 2024
We are thrilled to announce the general availability of GPT-4 Turbo with Vision on the Azure OpenAI Service, which processes both text and image inputs and replaces several preview models. This multimodal model has already been used by customers in various industries to enhance efficiencies and innovate, with case studies to be featured at the upcoming Build conference. For deployment details and future enhancements, including JSON mode and function calling for image inputs, please refer to our Azure OpenAI Service resources and updates.
New version of AKS extension in Visual Studio Code now available
You can now take advantage of new enhancements available in version 1.4.3
Public preview: Initialization taints in AKS
You can now use node initialization taints in AKS e.g. in scenarios where you may need extra time to setup your nodes.
GA: Support for disabling Windows outboundNAT in AKS
You can now manually disable Windows outboundNAT when creating new Windows node pools in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
Public Preview: NFS Azure Files volume mount support in Azure Container Apps
You can now mount NFS file shares in Azure Container Apps.
General availability: Customer-managed keys on existing accounts
Target availability: Q2 2024
Configure customer-managed keys for your existing Azure Cosmos DB account.
Public Preview: SQL Server on Azure VM storage configuration deployment experience with support for Premium SSD v2
Target availability: Q2 2024
Customers can now choose Premium SSD v2 for the Ebdsv5 and Ebsv5 virtual machine series with the additional ability to opt-in for NVMe support.
General availability: Latest version of the TimeScaleDB extension on Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server
Target availability: Q2 2024
Upgrade to the latest TimeScaleDB extension on Azure for enhanced time-series data handling and improved performance.
General availability: Latest PostgreSQL minor versions supported by Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server
Target availability: Q2 2024
Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server now supports minor versions 16.2, 15.6, 14.11, 13.14, and 12.18.
General Availability: Azure Cosmos DB Data Explorer keyboard shortcuts
Target availability: Q2 2024
Work Smarter: Enhance Productivity with Azure Cosmos DB Data Explorer shortcut keys.
General availability: Azure Cosmos DB API for MongoDB RU supports version 5.0 and 6.0
Target availability: Q2 2024
Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB now supports MongoDB v5 and v6.
Public preview: Standby pools for Virtual Machine Scale Sets with flexible orchestration
Standby Pools for Virtual Machine Scale Sets with Flexible Orchestration provides the ability to reduce scale out latency and increase scale out performance.
Azure Ultra Disk Storage is now available in Italy North
Now available in Italy North region, Azure Ultra Disk Storage provides high-performance along with sub-millisecond latency for your most-demanding workloads.
Generally Available: Azure Red Hat OpenShift v4.14 at install time
Azure Red Hat OpenShift version 4.14 is now available at install time.
Public Preview: Azure Storage Actions is now available in 14 more regions
Azure Storage Actions is a fully managed platform that helps you automate data management operations for object storage and data lakes. The preview is now available in 14 more regions.
General Availability: Microsoft Azure now available from new cloud region in Mexico
Microsoft has announced the opening of its first hyper-scale cloud region in Mexico.
Azure Front Door log scrubbing of sensitive data is generally available
Azure Front Door supports removing sensitive data from Azure Front Door access log.
General Availability - Azure API Center
Target availability: Q2 2024
Azure API Center is now generally available, providing a centralized solution to manage the challenges of API sprawl, which is exacerbated by the rapid proliferation of APIs and AI solutions. Azure API Center offers a unified inventory for seamless discovery, consumption, and governance of APIs, regardless of their type, lifecycle stage, or deployment location.
Action needed: Update Azure Autoscale Notifications to using additional email addresses for notifications
Azure Classic roles will be retired by 31st August, 2024 – transition to using only additional email addresses for Azure Autoscale Notifications as Azure Autoscale is dependent on the Azure Classic Roles.
Azure Governance Update - Management Groups
Beginning May 3, 2024, Azure will start enabling the root management group for tenants that have not enabled it yet. Using Azure management groups leverages best practices when applying Azure Policy and having it pre-enabled reduces the initial set up work to follow the best practices.
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