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Monthly updates for May 2024

May 21

General Availability: Azure AI extension in Azure Database for PostgreSQL

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q2 2024

The Azure AI extension allows customers to leverage large language models and build rich PostgreSQL GenAI applications.

  • Azure Database for PostgreSQL
  • Microsoft Build
  • Features
May 21

General Availability: Azure Cosmos DB Vercel integration

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q2 2024

We're excited to announce Azure Cosmos DB integration with Vercel Generally Available.

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Microsoft Build
  • Features
May 21

Public Preview: DiskANN vector indexing and search in Azure Cosmos DB NoSQL

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q2 2024

Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL built-in vector search powered by DiskANN is in public preview.

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Microsoft Build
  • Features
May 21

General availability: Azure Cosmos DB Go SDK

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q2 2024

The Azure Cosmos DB Go SDK is now available with improved support for global distribution.

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Microsoft Build
  • Features
May 21

Public Preview: vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB cross-region disaster recovery (DR)

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q2 2024

Cross region DR allows you to switch to another region in case of an outage.

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Microsoft Build
  • Features
May 21

General availability: Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL integrations in LangChain and Semantic Kernel

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q2 2024

Implement your RAG pipelines with Azure Cosmos DB and LangChain and Semantic Kernel!

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Microsoft Build
  • Features
May 21

Public preview: Azure Cache for Redis Enterprise now offers a 1GB E1 SKU

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q2 2024

Azure Cache for Redis Enterprise will offer yet another smaller 1GB SKU for your vector search and semantic caching needs levering the powerful capabilities of RediSearch module.

  • Azure Cache for Redis
  • Microsoft Build
  • Features
May 21

General availability: Azure Cache for Redis triggers and bindings for Azure Functions

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q2 2024

Trigger serverless functions through Azure Cache for Redis.

  • Azure Cache for Redis
  • Microsoft Build
  • Features
May 21

General availability: Computed properties in Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q2 2024

Computed properties make it easy to write NoSQL query logic once and reference it many times!

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Microsoft Build
  • Features
May 21

Experimentation capabilities for Azure App Configuration now in public preview

IN PREVIEW

Enables online experimentation for web, mobile, and Generative AI apps

  • App Configuration
  • Security
  • Microsoft Build
  • Features
May 21

Preview: Azure Cobalt 100 Arm-based Virtual Machines

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q2 2024

Azure Cobalt 100 Arm-based VMs are now available in preview. Please use the sign-up form at https://aka.ms/Cobalt100-VM-Preview-Signup to request access.

  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Open Source
  • Services
  • Microsoft Build
  • Pricing & Offerings
May 21

Update on Inter-Availability Zone Data Transfer Pricing

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure will not charge for the data transfer across availability zones to help customers build more resilient and efficient applications on the cloud by leveraging availability zones. This will enable customers to leverage the benefits of zonal and zone-redundant services without extra costs for data transfer between availability zones.

  • Bandwidth
  • Microsoft Build
  • Pricing & Offerings
May 10

Announcing the General Availability of GPT-4 Turbo with Vision on Azure OpenAI Service

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q2 2024

We are thrilled to announce the general availability of GPT-4 Turbo with Vision on the Azure OpenAI Service, which processes both text and image inputs and replaces several preview models. This multimodal model has already been used by customers in various industries to enhance efficiencies and innovate, with case studies to be featured at the upcoming Build conference. For deployment details and future enhancements, including JSON mode and function calling for image inputs, please refer to our Azure OpenAI Service resources and updates.

  • Azure OpenAI Service
  • Azure AI Vision
  • Services
  • Microsoft Build
  • Features

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