Updates Archives
Monthly updates for May 2024
Public preview: Azure Functions support for HTTP streams in Python
Use HTTP streams in Python for processing large data streaming OpenAI responses and delivering dynamic content
New Azure Event Grid capabilities support IoT solutions, event sources
Additional support for Azure Event Hubs means customers can run existing Kafka workloads
Public Preview Azure OpenAI Semantic Caching policy in Azure API Management
Target availability: Q2 2024
We're excited to announce the Public Preview for the Azure OpenAI Semantic Caching policy in Azure API Management! This innovative feature empowers customers to optimize token usage by leveraging semantic caching, which intelligently stores completions for prompts with similar meanings.
GA Circuit Breaker in Azure API Management
Target availability: Q2 2024
The circuit breaker, now generally available in Azure API Management, is seamlessly integrated to provide customers with an easy-to-use solution for enhancing the resilience of their API environments.
GA OData API type in Azure API Management
Target availability: Q2 2024
We're thrilled to announce the general availability of the OData API type in Azure API Management. This exciting addition extends Azure API Management's capabilities to include OData APIs, allowing users to apply standard API protections such as authentication, authorization, and rate limiting, alongside OData-specific policies for request validation.
GA Load Balancer in Azure API Management
Target availability: Q2 2024
The General Availability of the Load Balancer feature in Azure API Management is here! Now, customers can effortlessly create a pool of backends and efficiently distribute the load across multiple endpoints. By establishing backend pools, users can seamlessly balance the load across various backends when integrating multiple backends for an API.
GA Support for gRPC APIs in Azure API Management Self-hosted Gateway
Target availability: Q2 2024
We're thrilled to announce the general availability 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.
GA Azure OpenAI Emit Token Metric policy in Azure API Management
Target availability: Q2 2024
We're thrilled to announce the General Availability of the Azure OpenAI Emit Token Metric policy in Azure API Management! This new feature enables customers to effortlessly configure token usage metrics to be sent directly to Azure Application Insights, providing insights into the utilization of Azure OpenAI models across various applications and teams.
GA Import Azure OpenAI enpoints as an APIs in Azure API Management
Target availability: Q2 2024
We're excited to announce the General Availability of the Import Azure OpenAI as an API feature in Azure API Management! With this new capability, customers can seamlessly import Azure OpenAI endpoints as an API with just a single click, streamlining the entire process.
GA Azure OpenAI Token Limit Policy in Azure API Management
Target availability: Q2 2024
We're excited to announce the General Availability of the Azure OpenAI Token Limit Policy in Azure API Management! This feature empowers customers to effectively manage and enforce limits on API consumers based on their usage of OpenAI tokens.
GA Improved Onboarding Experience on VS Code for Azure Logic Apps Standard
Target availability: Q2 2024
We're thrilled to announce the General Availability of the improved onboarding experience for the Logic Apps standard VS Code extension. This enhancement aims to streamline the process of transitioning from developing workflows in the cloud to a local environment, making it easier for developers to get started with Logic Apps development.
Public Preview Azure Logic Apps Standard] .NET 8 Custom Code Support
Target availability: Q2 2024
We’ve extended our built-in action capabilities to include support for calling .NET 8 custom code, now available in public preview.
Public Preview Azure Logic Apps Standard Support for Zero Downtime deployment scenarios
Target availability: Q2 2024
We're excited to introduce support for Zero Downtime Deployment scenarios in Azure Logic Apps Standard, now available in Public Preview. This feature addresses one of the primary challenges in developing and maintaining mission-critical applications: ensuring continuous availability and responsiveness, even during updates or maintenance activities.
Public Preview Azure Logic Apps Standard Deployment Scripting Tools in VS Code
Target availability: Q2 2024
We're excited to introduce the Logic Apps Standard Deployment Scripting Tools in Visual Studio Code, now available in Public Preview. With this enhancement, users can streamline the development, testing, and storage of Standard logic app workflows running in single-tenant Azure Logic Apps directly within VS Code, using any source control system.
Public Preview Azure Logic Apps Monitoring Dashboard for Workflow Monitoring, Troubleshooting, and Resubmissions
Target availability: Q2 2024
We're excited to announce the Public Preview release of UI dashboards for Logic Apps Standard, designed to enhance the monitoring, diagnosis, and troubleshooting of Logic Apps workflow runs and failures. This dashboard provides users with valuable insights into the health and performance of their workflows, empowering them to quickly identify and address any issues that may arise.
GA EDI capabilities in Azure Logic Apps Standard
Target availability: Q2 2024
We're thrilled to announce the General Availability of EDI capabilities in Azure Logic Apps Standard, featuring built-in operations for processing B2B workloads at scale. With this release, customers can leverage native connectors to handle both single and batched EDI messages efficiently, including larger payloads.
Public Preview Azure Integration Account Enhancements
Target availability: Q2 2024
We're excited to introduce enhancements to the Azure Integration Account in Public Preview, aimed at providing users with increased flexibility, resilience, and security in managing their integration artifacts.
Generally Available: Azure Functions Support for HTTP Streams in Node.js
You can now stream HTTP requests to, and responses from, your Functions Apps.
Generally Available: Azure Functions extension for Dapr
You can now use Dapr’s powerful cloud native building block API with Azure Functions.
Public Preview: Azure Functions brings new flexibility with Azure Functions Flex Consumption
Flex consumption is a new Azure Functions hosting plan that provides fast scaling and networking features with a serverless billing model.
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