Updates Archives
Monthly updates for May 2024
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.
Upcoming changes to Databricks materialized views and streaming tables in Databricks SQL
Azure Databricks materialized views and streaming tables Billing change
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.
Public Preview: Azure Site Recovery support for Azure Trusted Launch VMs (Windows OS)
Azure Site Recovery support for Windows Trusted launch VMs
Public preview: Azure Application Gateway v2 Basic SKU
Designed for customers, especially developers or small enterprises who are looking for a cost-effective Application Load Balancer solution and don’t require high scalability and the advanced features.
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.
Public Preview: NFS Azure Files volume mount support in Azure Container Apps
You can now mount NFS file shares in Azure Container Apps.
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.
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.
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.
Azure Virtual Network Manager user-defined route (UDR) management now in public preview
UDR management in Azure Virtual Network Manager is now in public preview, enabling users to describe their desired routing behavior via configuration, simplifying the management of routing behaviors at scale.
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