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April 2024
Generally Available: Azure Chaos Studio supports Resource tags
Azure Chaos Studio is now supporting resource tags.
Public preview: Azure Monitor pipeline (at edge)
We are announcing public preview Azure Monitor pipeline (for edge). With this, we are now extending our Azure Monitor pipeline capabilities from the cloud to the edge, enabling seamless and high-scale data ingestion with centralized configuration management.
Infrastructure and quality enhancements for Azure Container Registry
ACR now supports expanded registry capacity of up to 40TiB and optimized geo-replication performance.
Public Preview: Azure Dedicated Host - Redeploy
Target availability: Q2 2024
Introducing redeploying capability for Azure dedicated hosts
General availability: Improved network topology experience in Network Watcher and Azure Monitor Network Insights
Enhancing network and resource health visualization with unified and dynamic topology across subscriptions, regions, and resource groups integrated with actionable connectivity and traffic insights
Updated Retirement Notice: Azure Data Catalog will now be retired on 15 May 2024
Target retirement date: May 15, 2024
Azure Data Catalog will now be retired on 15 May 2024 – migrate to Microsoft Purview
Public preview: Extensibility model in Azure Deployment Environments
Azure Deployment Environments is adding a new extensibility model that empowers customers to customize deployment workflows using Bicep, Terraform, Pulumi, or any other infrastructure-as-code (IaC) framework of their choice.
Public preview: Azure Change Analysis New Portal Experience
Viewing changes to your Azure resources just became easier! With Azure Resource Graph’s Change Analysis, you can now view all your resource changes across all your tenants and subscriptions in the Azure Portal.
General availability: Application Gateway Web Application Firewall (WAF) inspection limit & size enforcement
Azure’s regional Web Application Firewall (WAF) running on Application Gateway now supports greater control over request body inspection, and maximum size limits for request bodies and file uploads.
Generally Available: Index Advisor in Azure Cosmos DB helps optimize your index policy for NoSQL queries
Target availability: Q2 2024
Reduce RU-costs and improve query speeds with Index Advisor!
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!
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.
General availability: Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server enhanced disaster recovery features
Target availability: Q2 2024
Explore advanced disaster recovery with Virtual Endpoints and seamless role-swapping in Azure Database for PostgreSQL.
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.
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.
General availability: Virtual network flow logs
Gain visibility of IP traffic flowing through your virtual networks
Azure Virtual Network Manager security admin rule generally available in all public regions
Azure Virtual Network Manager's security admin rule configuration is now generally available in all public regions, empowering users to enforce security rules across their virtual networks globally.
Public Preview: Azure Monitor Agent Upload to Storage and Event Hubs
Azure Monitor Agent can now upload to Azure Storage and Event Hubs.
.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.
Support of Azure Notification Hubs’ Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) legacy API will be deprecated by July 2024.
Target retirement date: March 31, 2027
Azure Notification Hubs support for GCM/FCM legacy will be retired on 1 July 2024.
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