Updates Archives
Monthly updates for May 2024
General Availability: Azure AI extension in Azure Database for PostgreSQL
Target availability: Q2 2024
The Azure AI extension allows customers to leverage large language models and build rich PostgreSQL GenAI applications.
General Availability: Azure Cosmos DB Vercel integration
Target availability: Q2 2024
We're excited to announce Azure Cosmos DB integration with Vercel Generally Available.
Public Preview: DiskANN vector indexing and search in Azure Cosmos DB NoSQL
Target availability: Q2 2024
Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL built-in vector search powered by DiskANN is in public preview.
General availability: Azure Cosmos DB Go SDK
Target availability: Q2 2024
The Azure Cosmos DB Go SDK is now available with improved support for global distribution.
Public Preview: vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB cross-region disaster recovery (DR)
Target availability: Q2 2024
Cross region DR allows you to switch to another region in case of an outage.
General availability: Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL integrations in LangChain and Semantic Kernel
Target availability: Q2 2024
Implement your RAG pipelines with Azure Cosmos DB and LangChain and Semantic Kernel!
Public preview: Azure Cache for Redis Enterprise now offers a 1GB E1 SKU
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.
General availability: Azure Cache for Redis triggers and bindings for Azure Functions
Target availability: Q2 2024
Trigger serverless functions through Azure Cache for Redis.
General availability: Computed properties in Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL
Target availability: Q2 2024
Computed properties make it easy to write NoSQL query logic once and reference it many times!
Experimentation capabilities for Azure App Configuration now in public preview
Enables online experimentation for web, mobile, and Generative AI apps
Preview: Azure Cobalt 100 Arm-based Virtual Machines
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.
Update on Inter-Availability Zone Data Transfer Pricing
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.
Announcing the General Availability of GPT-4 Turbo with Vision on Azure OpenAI Service
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.
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