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Preview: Introducing Reporting Capabilities for Azure Site Recovery
Azure Site Recovery is introducing reporting capabilities to enable your BCDR Admin get rich insights into your estate protected with Site Recovery for audit and tracking purposes. These reports are highly customizable and are available out of box on Business Continuity Center, Recovery Service Vault and Backup Center. These reports provide historical evidence on failover jobs and replicated items.
Announcing General Availability of Graph Semantics in Kusto
Target availability: Q2 2024
The Graph Semantics extension to Kusto is now generally available. Users are encouraged to integrate this tool into their production workflows to enhance understanding of complex datasets and uncover hidden patterns.
Azure Firewall: New Regions Availability
Azure Firewall Basic, Standard, Premium and Azure Firewall Manager are now generally available in four new regions.
Public preview of the App Configuration Extension for AKS
Azure App Configuration extension for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) allows you to install and manage Azure App Configuration Kubernetes Provider on your AKS cluster via Azure Resource Manager (ARM).
Azure portal now offers in context observability for AKS object overviews
View your key performance metrics for your AKS resources in context with the Azure Portal
Public preview: Managed Prometheus visualizations for Azure Monitor container insights
Container insights now supports out of the box visualizations using only managed Prometheus.
Preview: Windows gRPC support is now available on App Service
gRPC support for App Service Windows now in preview
Public preview: Azure Log Analytics enhances resilience with workspace replication across regions
Target availability: Q2 2024
Azure Log Analytics is announcing Workspace Replication, a new capability that enhances workspace resilience by enabling you to switch your workspace operation to another region if your primary region isn’t healthy.
Expanding extensibility model to Pulumi in Azure Deployment Environments
Expanding extensibility model to Pulumi in Azure Deployment Environments
Public preview: Azure Firewall integration in Microsoft Copilot for Security
The Azure Firewall integration helps analysts perform detailed investigations of the malicious traffic intercepted by the IDPS feature of their firewalls across their entire fleet using natural language questions in the Copilot for Security standalone experience.
Public preview: Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) integration in Microsoft Copilot for Security
Increase your security posture and receive an analysis of the top Azure WAF rules triggered, top offending IPs in the environment, SQL injection and Cross-site scripting attacks blocked by WAF, along with natural language explanation of the analysis.
Public preview: Aspire dashboard support in Azure Container Apps
You can now access the Aspire dashboard in Azure Portal for your Azure Container Apps project.
Public preview: Azure Functions support for HTTP streams in Python
Use HTTP streams in Python for processing large data streaming OpenAI responses and delivering dynamic content
Azure Static Web Apps offers new Dedicated plan in preview
Enterprise-grade features for advanced use cases
New Azure Event Grid capabilities support IoT solutions, event sources
Additional support for Azure Event Hubs means customers can run existing Kafka workloads
Microsoft Dev Box introduces new ready-to-code and enterprise management capabilities
Dev Box has been updated with several new developer productivity and enterprise management capabilities.
Public Preview - Azure Compute Fleet
Target availability: Q2 2024
Azure Compute Fleet is a game changer in scaling and optimizing Azure compute resources across different virtual machine (VM) types, availability zones, and pricing models to achieve desired scale, performance, and cost.
Public Preview Azure OpenAI Semantic Caching policy in Azure API Management
Target availability: Q2 2024
We're excited to announce the Public Preview for the Azure OpenAI Semantic Caching policy in Azure API Management! This innovative feature empowers customers to optimize token usage by leveraging semantic caching, which intelligently stores completions for prompts with similar meanings.
GA Circuit Breaker in Azure API Management
Target availability: Q2 2024
The circuit breaker, now generally available in Azure API Management, is seamlessly integrated to provide customers with an easy-to-use solution for enhancing the resilience of their API environments.
GA OData API type in Azure API Management
Target availability: Q2 2024
We're thrilled to announce the general availability of the OData API type in Azure API Management. This exciting addition extends Azure API Management's capabilities to include OData APIs, allowing users to apply standard API protections such as authentication, authorization, and rate limiting, alongside OData-specific policies for request validation.
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