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Azure Static Web Apps offers new Dedicated plan in preview

Enterprise-grade features for advanced use cases

• Static Web Apps
• Microsoft Build
• Features

Generally Available: Azure Functions Support for HTTP Streams in Node.js

You can now stream HTTP requests to, and responses from, your Functions Apps.

• Azure Functions
• Microsoft Build
• Features

Generally Available: Azure Functions extension for Dapr

You can now use Dapr’s powerful cloud native building block API with Azure Functions.

• Azure Functions
• Microsoft Build
• Features

Public preview: Azure Functions extension for OpenAI

The Azure Functions extension for OpenAI enables you to build intelligent applications with OpenAI.

• Azure Functions
• Azure OpenAI Service
• Microsoft Build
• Features

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.

• Azure Functions
• Microsoft Build
• Features
• Pricing & Offerings

Public preview: Get started with Azure Functions using Visual Studio Code for the Web

You can now use a fully browser based end-to-end development environment for Azure Functions, starting from the Azure Portal.

• Azure Functions
• Microsoft Build
• Features

Public preview: SDK type bindings for Azure Blog Storage with Azure Functions in Python

SDK type bindings for Azure Blob Storage with Azure Functions in Python allow you to easily integrate event and data sources with function applications.

• Azure Functions
• Microsoft Build
• Features

Generally Available: Azure Functions can now run on Azure Container Apps

You can now quickly build event driven, cloud native apps, with the flexibility to run functions along with other microservices, APIs, websites, workflows or any container hosted programs.

• Azure Functions
• Microsoft Build
• Features

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

Target availability: Q2 2024

Trigger serverless functions through Azure Cache for Redis.

• Azure Cache for Redis
• Microsoft Build
• Features

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.

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