Azure updates

General availability: Semantic caching with vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB

Target availability: Q2 2024

Leverage historical LLM responses with Azure Cosmos DB and LangChain!

• Azure Cosmos DB
• Features

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

General availability: Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL geo-redundant backup and restore

Target availability: Q2 2024

Store cluster backup in another region. Restore cluster in the primary or another region.

• Azure Cosmos DB
• Features

General availability: HNSW vector index in vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB

Target availability: Q2 2024

The HNSW vector index is now generally available in vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB.

• Azure Cosmos DB
• Features

.Net Standard user-defined functions for Azure Stream Analytics will be retired on 30 September 2024.

Target retirement date: October 01, 2024

.Net Standard user-defined functions for Azure Stream Analytics will be retired on 30 September 2024. After that date, it won’t be possible to use the feature. Please transition to JavaScript user-defined functions for Azure Stream Analytics. 

• Azure Stream Analytics
• Retirements

Azure Machine Learning data collector is now generally available

Target availability: Q2 2024

Azure Machine Learning data collector provides real-time logging of input and output data from models that are deployed to managed online endpoints or Kubernetes online endpoints. This data can be seamlessly used for model monitoring, debugging, or auditing, thereby providing observability into the performance of your deployed models.

• Azure Machine Learning
• Azure Machine Learning
• Services

Azure Machine Learning - General Availability for April 2024

Three features now available in GA enable you to seamlessly log inference data to a central location, set up event-driven applications, processes, or workflows based on Azure Machine Learning events, and utilize lifecycle management of features from creation through archival.

• Azure Machine Learning
• Features

Azure Event Grid support for last will & testament (LWT) capabilities now in Public Preview

Ensures predictable and reliable flow of communication among MQTT clients during unexpected disconnections.

• Event Grid
• Features

Public Preview: Mirroring Azure Cosmos DB in Microsoft Fabric

Target availability: Q2 2024

Get near-real time analytics on your Azure Cosmos DB data in Microsoft Fabric with zero-ETL.

• Azure Cosmos DB
• Features

General Availability of Azure Logic Apps connectors for IBM Mainframe and Midranges

Target availability: Q2 2024

Exciting news! Our IBM Mainframe and Midrange connectors, including IBM 3270, IBM CICS, IBM DB2, IBM i, IBM MQ, and IBM IMS, are now generally available. These connectors address highly sought-after customer requests, bring capabilities to extend Azure Logic Apps cloud native workloads with some of the oldest systems ever built for Mainframes and Midranges. 

• Logic Apps
• 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

Announcing General Availability of Azure API Management Basic v2 and Standard v2 Tiers

Target availability: Q2 2024

We're thrilled to announce the General Availability of Azure API Management's newest pricing tiers – Basic v2 and Standard v2. The Azure API Management v2 pricing tiers represent a significant leap forward, offering a comprehensive range of capabilities tailored to projects of all sizes, from small-scale endeavors to large-scale enterprise applications. Importantly, these new v2 pricing tiers are available alongside our existing Azure API Management classic pricing tiers, ensuring continuity for users. It's worth noting that the Azure API Management classic pricing tiers remain actively supported and invested in.  

• API Management
• Pricing & Offerings

Azure Maps Web SDK Map Control version 2.0.x and Azure Maps Service Module will be retired on 30 September 2026

Target retirement date: September 30, 2026

Azure Maps Web SDK Map Control version 2.0.x and Azure Maps Service Module will be retired on 30 September 2026

• Azure Maps
• Retirements

Retirement: Support for .NET 6 ends on 12 November 2024—upgrade your Azure Functions apps to .NET 8

Target retirement date: November 12, 2024

Upgrade your Azure Functions apps to .NET 8

• Azure functions
• Retirements

Retirement: Support for the in-process model for .NET apps in Azure Functions ends 10 November 2026.

Target retirement date: November 10, 2026

Migrate your .NET apps in Azure Functions to the isolated worker model

• Azure functions
• Retirements

GA: Azure SQL Trigger support for Azure Functions

You can now build application logic in Azure Function apps which can be driven by the data from Azure SQL database

• Azure functions
• Features

Public preview: PowerShell 7.4 support for Azure Functions

You can now develop apps using PowerShell 7.4 locally and deploy them to Azure Functions

• Azure functions
• Features

Public preview: Change partition key of a container in Azure Cosmos DB (NoSQL API)

Target availability: Q1 2024

The ability to change the partition key of a container in Azure Cosmos is now available in preview for NoSQL API.

• Azure Cosmos DB
• Features