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General availability: Application Gateway Web Application Firewall (WAF) inspection limit & size enforcement
Azure’s regional Web Application Firewall (WAF) running on Application Gateway now supports greater control over request body inspection, and maximum size limits for request bodies and file uploads.
Generally Available: Index Advisor in Azure Cosmos DB helps optimize your index policy for NoSQL queries
Target availability: Q2 2024
Reduce RU-costs and improve query speeds with Index Advisor!
General availability: Semantic caching with vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB
Target availability: Q2 2024
Leverage historical LLM responses with Azure Cosmos DB and LangChain!
Public preview: Filtered vector search in vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB
Target availability: Q2 2024
Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB improves its vector search capabilities with filtered vector search, now in preview.
General availability: Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server enhanced disaster recovery features
Target availability: Q2 2024
Explore advanced disaster recovery with Virtual Endpoints and seamless role-swapping in Azure Database for PostgreSQL.
General availability: Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL geo-redundant backup and restore
Target availability: Q2 2024
Store cluster backup in another region. Restore cluster in the primary or another region.
General availability: HNSW vector index in vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB
Target availability: Q2 2024
The HNSW vector index is now generally available in vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB.
General availability: Virtual network flow logs
Gain visibility of IP traffic flowing through your virtual networks
Azure Virtual Network Manager security admin rule generally available in all public regions
Azure Virtual Network Manager's security admin rule configuration is now generally available in all public regions, empowering users to enforce security rules across their virtual networks globally.
Public Preview: Azure Monitor Agent Upload to Storage and Event Hubs
Azure Monitor Agent can now upload to Azure Storage and Event Hubs.
Public Preview – DR for Shared Disks – Azure Site Recovery
Target availability: Q2 2024
Now you can use the benefits of Shared Disk for your mission-critical applications such as SQL FCI, SAP ASCS, Scale-out File Servers, etc., while ensuring business continuity and disaster recovery with Azure Site Recovery.
Azure Data Box Disk is now available with hardware encryption
Target availability: Q2 2024
Azure Data Box Disk is now Generally Available with hardware encryption.
GA: Azure Monitor log search alerts support managed identities
A common challenge for developers is the management of credentials for applications to use when connecting to resources. Managed identities provide an automatically managed identity in Microsoft Entra ID. Applications can use managed identities to obtain Microsoft Entra tokens without having to manage any credentials.
Using Azure Virtual Network Manager network groups in security admin rules is now in public preview
Using your Azure Virtual Network Manager network groups in the source and/or destination of security admin rules is now in public preview, enabling users to achieve network isolation across different environments and manage network segments more easily at scale.
Azure Machine Learning - General Availability for April 2024
Three features now available in GA enable you to seamlessly log inference data to a central location, set up event-driven applications, processes, or workflows based on Azure Machine Learning events, and utilize lifecycle management of features from creation through archival.
General availability: Azure Virtual Network encryption availability in all regions
Azure Virtual Network encryption is a feature of Azure Virtual Networks. Virtual network encryption allows you to seamlessly encrypt and decrypt traffic between Azure Virtual Machines.
Announcing Public Preview of Query editor in Azure Monitor Metrics
Public Preview of Query editor in Azure Monitor Metrics is now Available! Get started with Query editor to access advanced querying capabilities within Azure Monitor Metrics. With the Query Editor's seamless integration of the widely adopted Prometheus Query Language (PromQL), customers can unlock advanced querying capabilities within their Azure Monitor Workspace. With PromQL, you can now efficiently analyze Prometheus metrics, identify trends, troubleshoot issues, and optimize resource utilization for better performance and reliability.
Generally available: Azure Site Recovery update rollup 73 - April 2024
This article describes the improvements for the latest version of Azure Site Recovery components.
Azure Event Grid support for last will & testament (LWT) capabilities now in Public Preview
Ensures predictable and reliable flow of communication among MQTT clients during unexpected disconnections.
GA: New Property for Disks-LastOwnershipUpdateTime
Introducing LastOwnershipUpdateTime for Disks in Azure Portal, PowerShell, and CLI. It indicates the last state change time for the Disk, useful for tracking its current state and when it was last updated.
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