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November 2023

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
15 Nov

Public preview: Azure VMSS Zonal Expansion

IN PREVIEW

Zonal expansion for VMs and VM Scale Sets empowers users to smoothly transition their regionally configured VMs or VM scale sets into a zonal configuration across Azure availability zones, resulting an increased availability Service Level Agreement (SLA) from 99.95% to 99.99%.

  • Microsoft Ignite
15 Nov

Public preview: New Generation AMD VMs - Dasv6/Easv6/Fasv6

IN PREVIEW

Azure introduces the latest AMD-based VMs in public preview for the D, E, and F series VMs, built on the 4th Generation AMD EPYC™ (Genoa) CPU.

  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Pricing & Offerings
13 Nov

Public Preview: Support for GraphQL APIs in Azure API Management Self-hosted Gateway

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q4 2023

Customers now have the power to expose GraphQL APIs through Azure API Management's self-hosted gateway.

  • Features
13 Nov

Public Preview: Azure Monitor Agent JSON log collection

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q4 2023

Azure Monitoring Agent team has released for public preview JSON log collection. New collection types enable customers to migrate from other competing data collection services to Azure Monitor.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Log Analytics
  • Microsoft Sentinel
  • Security
  • SDK and Tools
  • Features
13 Nov

Public Preview: Support for gRPC APIs in Azure API Management Self-Hosted Gateway

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q4 2023

We are thrilled to announce the public preview of gRPC support in Azure API Management through the self-hosted gateway. This exciting feature empowers customers to seamlessly manage their gRPC services as APIs within Azure API Management. 

  • Features
13 Nov

Public Preview: Azure Monitor Alerts integration with Event Grid for Azure Key Vault system events

IN PREVIEW

​​​​​​​Azure Monitor alerts as a destination in Event Grid event subscriptions allow you to receive notification of critical events via action groups as Short Message Service (SMS), email, push notification, and more. You can leverage on the low latency event delivery of Event Grid with the flexibility and direct-to-customer notifications of Azure Monitor alerts.

  • Alerts
  • Compliance
  • Services
  • Features
13 Nov

Export cost details using the FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification (FOCUS)

IN PREVIEW

Sign up for an early preview of Cost Management exports that provide cost data aligned to the open-source FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification (FOCUS).

  • Azure Cost Management and Billing
  • Open Source
  • Management
  • Features
  • Pricing & Offerings
9 Nov

Public Preview: App Service End-to-end (E2E) Encryption for Linux Multi-tenant Resources

IN PREVIEW

Encrypt traffic between multi-tenant App Service front-ends and workers using the new End-to-end (E2E) TLS Encryption (Preview) feature.

  • App Service (Linux)
  • Security
  • Features
8 Nov

Public Preview: Azure SQL updates for early-November 2023

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q4 2023

Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in early-November 2023.

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Features

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