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November 2023

15 Nov

Public preview: Online Disaster recovery between SQL Server 2022 and Azure SQL Managed Instance

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q4 2023

Managed online disaster recovery between SQL Server 2022 and Azure SQL Managed Instance allows near real-time database replication and bidirectional online failover to Azure and back.

  • Azure SQL Managed Instance
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
15 Nov

Public Preview: Azure SQL updates for mid-November 2023

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q4 2023

Public Preview enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in mid-November 2023.

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
15 Nov

Public Preview: Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra Feature Updates

IN PREVIEW

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
15 Nov

Public Preview: Long Term Retention for Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q4 2023

Benefit from long term data retention and improved compliance using Azure Backup.

  • Azure Database for PostgreSQL
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
15 Nov

Public preview: Azure Database for PostgreSQL extension for Azure AI

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q4 2023

Leverage integrated Azure AI services to build intelligent apps in Azure Database for PostgreSQL.

  • Azure Database for PostgreSQL
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
15 Nov

Public Preview: Azure Database for PostgreSQL Networking with private endpoints

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q4 2023

We are announcing public preview of networking with private endpoints for Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server.

  • Azure Database for PostgreSQL
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
15 Nov

Public Preview: Enhanced performance and scalability in Azure Database for PostgreSQL

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q4 2023

Benefit from the enhanced performance and scalability of Azure Database for PostgreSQL to improve mission-critical workloads.

  • Azure Database for PostgreSQL
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
15 Nov

Public preview: Priority-based execution in Azure Cosmos DB

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q4 2023

Priority-based execution in Azure Cosmos DB enables customers to prioritize critical high priority requests for execution during high traffic, while potentially throttling low priority requests.

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
15 Nov

Public preview: Cross-account container copy for Azure Cosmos DB NoSQL API

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q4 2023

You can use offline cross-account container copy to migrate data across Azure Cosmos DB NoSQL API accounts seamlessly using Azure CLI.

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
15 Nov

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

IN PREVIEW

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
15 Nov

Public preview: Dynamic scaling per partition and per region

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q4 2023

Autoscale gets even better with two new improvements -- scaling per partition and per region!

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
15 Nov

Public preview: Microsoft Copilot for Azure capability now available in Azure Cosmos DB

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q4 2023

Turn your questions into Azure Cosmos DB NoSQL queries with Microsoft Copilot for Azure.

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
15 Nov

Public preview: Bring enhanced manageability to your SQL Server anywhere with Azure Arc

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q4 2023

Azure Arc provides enhanced manageability for SQL Server, on-premises or across multi-cloud, to enable better visibility, flexibility and security.

  • SQL Server - Azure Arc
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
15 Nov

Public preview: Enabling Rate Limiting on ExpressRoute Direct Circuits

IN PREVIEW

With ExpressRoute Direct, you can enable rate-limiting for your circuit to match the traffic volume with the configured bandwidth rate.

  • Azure ExpressRoute
  • ExpressRoute Circuits
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
15 Nov

Public preview: Customer-controlled maintenance

IN PREVIEW

Customers can now use configurable maintenance windows to schedule gateway maintenance at a time that is most convenient for their business.

  • VPN Gateway
  • Azure ExpressRoute
  • Virtual WAN
  • Security
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
15 Nov

Public Preview: Azure Cosmos DB Migration for MongoDB extension - Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore migration capability

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q4 2023

Migrate MongoDB workloads to Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore using Azure Cosmos DB Migration for MongoDB extension in Azure Data Studio.

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
15 Nov

Public preview: ExpressRoute Seamless Gateway Migration

IN PREVIEW

ExpressRoute customers can now seamlessly migrate.

  • ExpressRoute Gateways
  • Azure ExpressRoute
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Services
  • Features
15 Nov

Public preview: ExpressRoute Scalable Gateway

IN PREVIEW

The ExpressRoute virtual network gateway facilitates both management and control plane connectivity to Virtual Machines and Private Endpoints over ExpressRoute.

  • Azure ExpressRoute
  • ExpressRoute Gateways
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Services
  • Features
15 Nov

Public preview: Microsoft Copilot for Azure

IN PREVIEW

Simplify how you design, operate, optimize, and troubleshoot apps and infrastructure from cloud to edge with Microsoft Copilot for Azure.

  • Azure AI services
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Services
15 Nov

Introducing New Capabilities in Azure Deployment Environments

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q4 2023

Azure Deployment Environments is adding new capabilities to deliver an end-to-end developer experience, broader infrastructure-as-code (IaC) template support, and the ability to control costs by configuring auto-delete schedules.

  • Azure Deployment Environments
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features

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