Azure updates

Public Preview: Redis extension for Azure Functions

You can now leverage Redis data types as triggers for serverless app development.

• Azure functions
• Features

General availability: New KQL function to enrich your data analysis with geographic context

KQL introduces a new function to retrieve country, state, city, and coordinates from IP addresses using GeoLite2 data. Find out how to use geo_info_from_ip_address() and what it can do for your data analysis.

• Azure Data Explorer
• Azure Synapse Analytics
• Features

Public Preview: Data mapping designer in Azure Logic Apps (Standard)

Microsoft has re-envisioned data transformations in Azure Logic Apps (Standard) by building a new data mapper experience from the ground up.

• Logic Apps
• Features

Generally Available: V2 programming model for Azure Functions using Python

A simplified programming model for Python developers.

• Azure functions
• Microsoft Build
• Features

Public preview: Azure Functions for cloud-native microservices

Quickly build event driven, cloud native apps, with the flexibility to run functions along with other microservices, APIs, websites, workflows or any container hosted programs.

• Azure functions
• Azure Container Apps
• Microsoft Build
• Features

Generally Available: Linked backends for Azure Static Web Apps

You can now link your backend APIs to your Static Web Apps applications for seamless routing and integrated security.

• Static Web Apps
• Microsoft Build
• Features

Generally Available: SQL Bindings for Azure Functions

With input and output bindings for SQL, you can now can quickly write Azure Functions that read and write from your databases.

• Azure functions
• Microsoft Build
• Features

Public preview: ASP.NET Core integration in Azure Functions .NET isolated model

Use familiar ASP.NET Core types to construct HTTP-triggered functions in the isolated worker model.

• Azure functions
• Microsoft Build
• Features

Public Preview: Azure Cosmos DB computed properties

Simplify complex queries using computed properties which can represent frequently used query logic such as expressions based on persisted item properties and can be indexed for increased performance.

• Azure Cosmos DB
• Microsoft Build
• Features

Announcing the public preview of custom Text Analytics for health

Target availability: Q2 2023

Custom Text Analytics for health is the newest healthcare NLP offering from Cognitive Services for Language. It allows you to add a layer of customization on top of Text Analytics for health using state-of-the-art machine learning models to build your own healthcare entity extraction model with your specific domain data. The model's authoring experience can be performed either using the graphical user interface on the Language Studio or programmatically using the REST APIs. The feature is now in public preview allowing you to make 5,000 text records of predictions per language resource for free using the Standard (S) pricing tier.

• Features

General availability: Azure Data Explorer adds new geospatial capabilities

Azure Data Explorer now supports geospatial analysis with three new functions: geo_point_buffer, geo_line_buffer, and geo_polygon_buffer. These functions let you create polygonal buffers around points, lines, or polygons.

• Azure Data Explorer
• Features

Azure Backup Reports now includes support for more workloads

Azure Backup Reports now includes support for more workloads: Azure Database for PostgreSQL Servers, Azure Blobs and Azure Disks.

• Management

General Availability : Azure Monitor for SAP solutions

This is a GA launch announcement blog for Azure Monitor for SAP solutions.

• Features

General Availability: Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server major version upgrade

Upgrade your Azure Database for MySQL flexible server version from 5.7 to 8.0.

• Features

General availability: Azure IoT Edge supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

The latest Azure IoT Edge releases provide official packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 on AMD64 devices.

• Azure IoT Edge
• Operating System
• Features

General availability: Improved scaling model for Azure Functions with Target Based Scaling

Scaling improvement for Service Bus, Event Hubs, Storage Queue, and Cosmos DB is now available for the Azure Functions Consumption and Premium plans.

• Azure functions
• Features

Generally available: Static Web Apps support for Python 3.10

You can now build Static Web Apps applications using Python 3.10

• Static Web Apps
• Features