Azure updates

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.

• Azure Cosmos DB
• Features

Generally available: Bulk delete operation for the FHIR service in Azure Health Data Services

The bulk delete operation allows deletion of FHIR resources across different levels, enabling healthcare organizations to comply with data retention policies while providing asynchronous processing capabilities.

• Services

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.

• Alerts
• Features

Public Preview of Azure OpenAI and AI Search in-app connectors for Logic Apps (Standard)

Target availability: Q1 2024

We're thrilled to announce two new built-in connectors for Azure Logic Apps: Azure OpenAI and Azure AI Search. With the increasing adoption of AI technologies, there's a growing demand to integrate these capabilities seamlessly into Logic Apps workflows. To address this need, we're launching the Public Preview of these connectors, bridging the gap between Logic Apps and AI.

• Logic Apps
• Features

Billing for Azure Monitor stateful log search alerts

Starting from May 1, 2024, you will be charged for stateful log alerts in Azure Monitor.

• Services
• Features
• Compliance

General availability: Additional cache size for Azure Cache for Redis Enterprise

Target availability: Q1 2024

Utilize an additional Enterprise-tier cache size to optimize the price and performance of your Redis workload.

• Azure Cache for Redis
• Features

Azure Advisor integration with Azure Monitor Log Analytics Workspace

Advisor is a personalized cloud consultant that helps you follow best practices to optimize your Azure deployments. It analyzes your resource configuration and usage telemetry and then recommends solutions that can help you improve the cost effectiveness, performance, Reliability, and security of your Azure resources.   We in Azure Monitor believe that observability should be cost effective, and we want to help our customers control their cost, operational excellence, performance, reliability, and security of their  Azure  resources. This, in turn, helps grow their overall satisfaction with, and usage of Azure.  We have introduced several cost optimization related recommendations and added Azure Advisor to the Log Analytics Workspace admin experience. more recommendations are on the way. 

• Log Analytics
• Azure Advisor
• Pricing & Offerings
• Features
• Compliance

Public preview: Vector database add-ons for Azure Container Apps

You can now get started quickly with cognitive search using Azure Container Apps and its native integration with three popular open source vector database variants.

• Azure Container Apps
• Microsoft Ignite
• Features

Azure Machine Learning - General Availability for November

Five features now available in GA enable you to search thousands of OSS LLMs, provide a feature set specification and let the system handle the rest, and lower. compute management overhead and setup costs. You can also now deploy complex compute graphs under batch endpoints, and use one platform to build, tune, evaluate, deploy, and test AI workflows.  

• Azure Machine Learning
• Microsoft Ignite
• Features

General availability: Azure AI Advantage for Azure Cosmos DB

Target availability: Q4 2023

Today, we are excited to announce the Azure AI Advantage customer offer.

• Microsoft Ignite
• Features

Public Preview: Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra Feature Updates

Target availability: Q4 2023

New preview features available including vector search, turnkey major version upgrades, turnkey replication, and write-through cache!

• Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra
• Microsoft Ignite
• Features

General availability: Vector search in Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore

Target availability: Q4 2023

Unlock next-level AI applications with native vector similarity search in Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore.

• Azure Cosmos DB
• Microsoft Ignite
• Features

General Availability: Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore

Target availability: Q4 2023

Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore offers a fully-managed database for your MongoDB workloads and AI applications, backed by native Azure integrations, flexible pricing, and seamless migration capabilities.

• Azure Cosmos DB
• Microsoft Ignite
• Features

Public Preview: Azure Open AI “Use your data” integration with Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore

Target availability: Q4 2023

Now you can easily leverage your data stored in Azure Cosmos DB for Mongo DB vCore for Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) with Azure OpenAI models using the "Use your data" feature in Azure OpenAI Studio.

• Azure Cosmos DB
• Microsoft Ignite
• Features