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GA: Azure Logic Apps Designer for Consumption
Target availability: Q1 2024
We're thrilled to announce the general availability of the new Azure Logic Apps Designer for Consumption, revolutionizing your workflow experience with unparalleled speed, smoothness, and reliability. Unifying the designer experience across all supported platforms, including standard Azure Logic Apps, the Azure Logic Apps Visual Studio Code extension, and consumption Azure Logic Apps in the portal, ensures seamless usability and familiarity wherever you work.
Public Preview: Safety evaluations for generative AI applications in Azure AI Studio
Target availability: Q1 2024
Measure your generative AI application’s susceptibility to jailbreak attacks and to producing unsafe content, so you can implement effective mitigations and go from prototype to production with confidence.
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
General Availability: Azure Files geo-redundancy for standard large file shares
Target availability: Q1 2024
Azure Files geo-redundancy for 100TiB standard SMB file shares is now generally available.
Public preview: Support for Key Vault Certificates in Azure Container Apps
You can now use Azure Key Vault to store and manage your own TLS/SSL certificates for use with Azure Container Apps.
Generally Available: Free managed certificates on Azure Container Apps
Azure Container Apps now provides a free managed certificate for your custom domain.
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
Public Preview: Azure Container Apps OpenTelemetry Agent support
You can now use open-source standards to send your app’s data.
General availability: Azure SQL updates for late-March 2024
Target availability: Q1 2024
General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in late-March 2024 .
Public Preview: Azure SQL updates for late-March 2024
Target availability: Q1 2024
Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in late-March 2024.
Public Preview: Real-time text translation using the azure_ai extension in Azure Database for PostgreSQL
Target availability: Q1 2024
Text translation right within SQL facilitates building intelligent multilingual applications on Azure Database for PostgreSQL.
Public Preview: Invoke Azure Machine Learning models using the azure_ai extension
Target availability: Q1 2024
Invoke Azure Machine Learning models in real-time from SQL in Azure Database for PostgreSQL.
General availability: Migration service in Azure Database for PostgreSQL
Target availability: Q1 2024
Seamlessly migrate PostgreSQL to Azure using a managed service for complete schema and data transfers, hassle-free.
General availability: Rate Limiting on ExpressRoute Direct Circuits
Rate Limiting is now generally available over ExpressRoute Direct port circuits, providing enhanced control over bandwidth usage. This Quality of Service (QoS) feature prevents circuits from bursting beyond their configured bandwidth, thereby improving network performance and reliability. Rate Limiting can be enabled for each circuit individually, offering flexibility to prioritize certain circuits. This feature can be activated during or after the creation of the ExpressRoute Direct circuit.
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.
Public Preview: Azure SQL Database Mirroring in Microsoft Fabric
Target availability: Q1 2024
Mirroring Azure SQL Database provides an easy experience to continuously replicate SQL DB data directly into Microsoft Fabric.
Azure Static Web Apps distributed functions capability now in Public Preview
Reduced latency by distributing managed functions to regions of high demand.
Breaking Changes to Azure API Management Workspaces
Target availability: Q1 2024
As part of our commitment to enhancing workspaces (in Public Preview) within Azure API Management, we are implementing several critical breaking changes effective June 14, 2024. These changes are designed to streamline functionality and improve overall performance. These breaking changes will be effective from June 14, 2024. We strongly advise making any necessary adjustments to your workspace configurations before this date to ensure uninterrupted service.
General Availability: Automatic Scaling for App Service Web Apps
Azure App Service is pleased to announce general availability of the "Automatic Scaling" feature.
Preview: New Features in Azure Container Storage
Azure Container Storage is a fully managed volume orchestration service built natively for containers. New capabilities include support for Temp SSD, simplified installation via AKS CLI, and scalable storage for cost-efficient workload management.
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