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Public Preview of Azure OpenAI and AI Search in-app connectors for Logic Apps (Standard)
Target availability: Q1 2024
We're thrilled to announce two new built-in connectors for Azure Logic Apps: Azure OpenAI and Azure AI Search. With the increasing adoption of AI technologies, there's a growing demand to integrate these capabilities seamlessly into Logic Apps workflows. To address this need, we're launching the Public Preview of these connectors, bridging the gap between Logic Apps and AI.
March 2024
Migrate to Azure AI Document Intelligence v3.1 GA version
Target retirement date: August 31, 2026
Azure AI Document Intelligence v2.0 API will be retired on 31 August 2026
Billing for Azure Monitor stateful log search alerts
Starting from May 1, 2024, you will be charged for stateful log alerts in Azure Monitor.
General availability: Additional cache size for Azure Cache for Redis Enterprise
Target availability: Q1 2024
Utilize an additional Enterprise-tier cache size to optimize the price and performance of your Redis workload.
February 2024
Sending a log search alert with cross tenant target resource will no longer be supported
As of March 15, 2024, this behavior will change and sending a log search alert with a cross tenant target resource (except for the lighthouse case) will no longer be supported. Alerts will not be sent to unauthorized target resources, and log search alert rules with an unauthorized target will be ignored. This will ensure that only authorized users can receive and investigate log search alerts.
January 2024
Preview: Selectable search parameter capability for the FHIR service in Azure Health Data Services
The selectable search parameter capability for the FHIR service in Azure Health Data Services allows you to tailor and enhance searches on FHIR resources. You can choose which inbuilt search parameters to enable or disable for the FHIR service according to your unique requirements. By enabling only the search parameters you need, you can store more FHIR resources and potentially improve performance of FHIR search queries.
Azure Advisor integration with Azure Monitor Log Analytics Workspace
Advisor is a personalized cloud consultant that helps you follow best practices to optimize your Azure deployments. It analyzes your resource configuration and usage telemetry and then recommends solutions that can help you improve the cost effectiveness, performance, Reliability, and security of your Azure resources. We in Azure Monitor believe that observability should be cost effective, and we want to help our customers control their cost, operational excellence, performance, reliability, and security of their Azure resources. This, in turn, helps grow their overall satisfaction with, and usage of Azure. We have introduced several cost optimization related recommendations and added Azure Advisor to the Log Analytics Workspace admin experience. more recommendations are on the way.
November 2023
Azure Logic Apps workflow assistant in public preview
Target availability: Q4 2023
Bringing the power of AI to Azure Logic Apps for the first time, this workflow assistant answers any questions you have about Azure Logic Apps from directly within the designer. Currently in public preview, this chat interface provides access to Azure Logic Apps documentation and best practices without requiring you to navigate documentation or search online forums.
Public preview: Vector database add-ons for Azure Container Apps
You can now get started quickly with cognitive search using Azure Container Apps and its native integration with three popular open source vector database variants.
Azure Machine Learning - General Availability for November
Five features now available in GA enable you to search thousands of OSS LLMs, provide a feature set specification and let the system handle the rest, and lower. compute management overhead and setup costs. You can also now deploy complex compute graphs under batch endpoints, and use one platform to build, tune, evaluate, deploy, and test AI workflows.
General availability: Azure AI Advantage for Azure Cosmos DB
Target availability: Q4 2023
Today, we are excited to announce the Azure AI Advantage customer offer.
Public Preview: Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra Feature Updates
Target availability: Q4 2023
New preview features available including vector search, turnkey major version upgrades, turnkey replication, and write-through cache!
General availability: Vector search in Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore
Target availability: Q4 2023
Unlock next-level AI applications with native vector similarity search in Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore.
General Availability: Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore
Target availability: Q4 2023
Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore offers a fully-managed database for your MongoDB workloads and AI applications, backed by native Azure integrations, flexible pricing, and seamless migration capabilities.
Public Preview: Azure Open AI “Use your data” integration with Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore
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.
October 2023
New E-mail templates for Log search alerts - API version 2021-08-01 and up
During November, we will replace log search alerts (API version 2021-08-01 and up) that uses non-common schema template with an upgraded and more informative email template.
LSA payload update for fixes on 15-Jan
On the 15-Jan we are going to fix those 2 values in LSA payload to contain the correct values according to our other alerts services.
September 2023
Azure API for FHIR retiring on 30 September 2026
Target retirement date: September 30, 2026
Migrate your data from Azure API for FHIR to Azure Health Data Services FHIR service for richer data integration and analytics capabilities.
We’re ending support for the 2017-03-01-GA API.
Target retirement date: September 16, 2026
You’re receiving this email because you currently use the 2017-03-01-GA API of Azure Container Registry.
Public Preview: Additional cache sizes for Azure Cache for Redis Enterprise
Target availability: Q3 2023
Utilize additional Enterprise-tier cache sizes to optimize the price and performance of your Redis workload.
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