Updates Archives
Monthly updates for May 2024
General availability: Azure Cosmos DB Go SDK
Target availability: Q2 2024
The Azure Cosmos DB Go SDK is now available with improved support for global distribution.
Public Preview: vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB cross-region disaster recovery (DR)
Target availability: Q2 2024
Cross region DR allows you to switch to another region in case of an outage.
General availability: Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL integrations in LangChain and Semantic Kernel
Target availability: Q2 2024
Implement your RAG pipelines with Azure Cosmos DB and LangChain and Semantic Kernel!
Public preview: Azure Cache for Redis Enterprise now offers a 1GB E1 SKU
Target availability: Q2 2024
Azure Cache for Redis Enterprise will offer yet another smaller 1GB SKU for your vector search and semantic caching needs levering the powerful capabilities of RediSearch module.
General availability: Azure Cache for Redis triggers and bindings for Azure Functions
Target availability: Q2 2024
Trigger serverless functions through Azure Cache for Redis.
General availability: Computed properties in Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL
Target availability: Q2 2024
Computed properties make it easy to write NoSQL query logic once and reference it many times!
Experimentation capabilities for Azure App Configuration now in public preview
Enables online experimentation for web, mobile, and Generative AI apps
General availability: Azure Cache for Redis now supports Microsoft Entra ID authentication and authorization
Target availability: Q2 2024
Azure Cache for Redis now offers a password-free authentication mechanism by integrating with Microsoft Entra. This integration is complemented with the role-based access control that open source Redis supports.
Azure Machine Learning - General Availability for Build 2024
One new feature now available in GA enables you to create and customize AI workflows using task-specific Language skills/models to complete business use cases.
Preview: Azure Cobalt 100 Arm-based Virtual Machines
Target availability: Q2 2024
Azure Cobalt 100 Arm-based VMs are now available in preview. Please use the sign-up form at https://aka.ms/Cobalt100-VM-Preview-Signup to request access.
Azure Machine Learning - Public Preview for Build 2024
Three features now available in preview enable you to enjoy simplified management of the customer-managed key (CMK) encrypted workspace, take advantage of our content filtering system alongside models that you can access through Models as a Service, and bring in indexes from Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore and Pinecone for use in RAG workflows.
Update on Inter-Availability Zone Data Transfer Pricing
Azure will not charge for the data transfer across availability zones to help customers build more resilient and efficient applications on the cloud by leveraging availability zones. This will enable customers to leverage the benefits of zonal and zone-redundant services without extra costs for data transfer between availability zones.
Public Preview: Migrate virtual machine backups using standard backup policy to enhanced backup policy
Azure Backup now supports migrating virtual backups using standard backup policy to enhanced backup policy.
App Service Environment version 1 and version 2 will be retired on 31 August 2024
Target retirement date: August 31, 2024
Migrate to App Service Environment v3 by 31 August 2024.
Upcoming changes to Databricks materialized views and streaming tables in Databricks SQL
Azure Databricks materialized views and streaming tables Billing change
General availability: ExpressRoute Seamless Gateway Migration
ExpressRoute customers can now deploy a second gateway to the Gateway Subnet. This will enable a seamless migration to an Az-enabled Gateway SKU and upgrade your Public IP configurations.
The availability of Azure compute reservations will continue until further notice
Initially planned to end on January 1, 2024, the availability of Azure compute reservation exchanges for Azure Virtual Machine, Azure Dedicated Host and Azure App Service has been extended until further notice.
General Availability: Data API builder
Target availability: Q2 2024
Add a feature-rich data API to an Azure database or on-prem database using Microsoft's open-source Data API builder.
Public preview: Sensitive data protection for Azure Front Door Web Application Firewall
Protect the sensitive data getting stored in your Web Application Firewall (WAF) using log scrubbing on Azure’s global Web Application Firewall running on Azure Front Door.
Introducing GPT-4o: OpenAI’s new flagship multimodal model now in preview on Azure
Target availability: Q2 2024
Microsoft is thrilled to announce the launch of GPT-4o, OpenAI’s new flagship model, now available on Azure AI in preview. This groundbreaking multimodal model integrates text, vision, and audio capabilities, setting a new standard for generative and conversational AI experiences. GPT-4o is available now in Azure OpenAI Service, in preview, with support for text and image. Azure OpenAI Service customers can explore GPT-4o’s extensive capabilities through a preview playground in Azure OpenAI Studio starting today in two regions in the US. This initial release focuses on text and vision inputs to provide a glimpse into the model's potential, paving the way for further capabilities like audio.
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