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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.
July 2023
General availability: Call automation capabilities for Azure Communication Services
Target availability: Q2 2023
A new set of APIs are in preview, to help developers build server-based, calling workflows.
June 2023
General availability: Azure HX Virtual Machines for HPC
HX-series VMs for HPC are now generally available in the Azure East US region.
General availability: Azure HBv4 Virtual Machines for HPC
HBv4-series VMs for HPC are now generally available in the Azure East US region.
Public Preview: App Service support for .NET 8
Early access feature of App Service enables support for .NET 8.
Public preview: Add-on and node image in AKS release tracker
More accurate information about specific add-ons and node images
General Availability: Isovalent Cilium Enterprise through Azure Marketplace
Target availability: Q2 2023
Isovalent Cilium Enterprise is now generally available through Azure Marketplace.
May 2023
General availability: NLog Sink for Azure Data Explorer
Azure Data Explorer now supports ingestion of data from .NET Applications via the NLog Sink.
Public Preview: Azure Data Explorer bindings for Azure Functions
Target availability: Q2 2023
Azure Data Explorer Bindings for Azure Functions (Public Preview)
General availability: Azure CNI powered by Cilium
Target availability: Q2 2023
Leverage next generation eBPF dataplane for pod networking, Kubernetes network policies and service load balancing.
Setting Up a CI/CD Pipeline with GitHub Actions for Stream Analytics Jobs
Are you using GitHub for managing your Stream Analytics project and looking to leverage GitHub's powerful CI/CD pipeline? Follow this comprehensive guide and learn to set up a CI/CD pipeline with GitHub Actions for your Stream Analytics jobs.
Public Preview: Azure AI Content Safety
Azure AI Content Safety is a new Azure AI service that identifies harmful online content, categorizes it and assigns severity scores to support human content moderator workloads.
Private Preview: Kafka Input and Output with Azure Stream Analytics
Target availability: Q2 2023
You can connect directly to Kafka to ingest from Kafka clusters or output data to Kafka clusters in your Azure Stream Analytics (ASA) job.
Virtual Network Integration Support (Public Preview) for Azure Stream Analytics
ASA is thrilled to announce public preview of Virtual Network Integration support for Azure Stream Analytics!
Azure Stream Analytics is Launching a New Competitive Pricing Model!
Up to 80% price reduction in Azure Stream Analytics
Public Preview: Azure Cosmos DB SDKs OpenTelemetry and Application Insights integration
Monitoring your applications is easier than ever with new support for OpenTelemetry and improved Application Insights integration.
General Availability: Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus
Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus is now Generally Available.
Public Preview: App Service automatic scaling support in portal UX
Now you can use the Azure Portal to configure App Service auto-scaling rules.
Public Preview: Azure Monitor announces Network Observability AKS add-on
The new Network Observability AKS add-on provides complete observability into the network health and connectivity of your AKS cluster.
Preview: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9.2 support for AMD confidential VMs
User of AMD-based confidential VMs can now select the RHEL 9.2 technical preview as their guest OS.
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