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Generally Available: Cost-optimizations with transformations on Log Analytics for troubleshooting Cosmos DB
Optimize costs on your Log Analytics workspace by adding transformation rules to your Cosmos DB LA tables.
Azure SQL Managed Instance —Public preview updates for late-May 2023
Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in late-May 2023
Database Migration Service Pack for Oracle - Preview
An Azure Data Studio extension pack for end-to-end Oracle database schema and data migration to Azure Data (SQL and PostgreSQL)
Microsoft Azure Deployment Environments is now generally available.
Azure Deployment Environments is now generally available. With Deployment Environments, developers can self-deploy the environments they need on demand using infrastructure-as-code templates.
Public preview: Automated deployments in AKS now supports Draft
Configure automated deployments to create a Dockerfile, build a container image and create Kubernetes deployment files directly from your source code.
Public Preview: Vector search in Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore
Vector search in Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore enhances AI-driven applications using OpenAI API or custom-built solutions by incorporating vector similarity search into your database.
General Availability – Database Schema Conversion Toolkit for Oracle
An extension that automates and provides code conversion from Oracle to SQL to simplify and accelerate the migration process.
Public Preview – Data Migration for Oracle
Seamless data migration from Oracle to Azure with the new Azure Database Migration Service extension
Generally Available: Azure Cosmos DB serverless container with 1 TB storage
Azure Cosmos DB serverless 1-TB is now generally available. Enjoy expanded storage capacity, allowing you to store up to 1 TB of data in a single container.
Generally Available: Azure Cosmos DB hierarchical partition keys
Now generally available, hierarchical partition keys in Azure Cosmos DB enables you to partition your data with up to three levels of keys.
Public Preview: Azure Cosmos DB all versions and deletes change feed mode
The new all versions and deletes mode for change feed allows you to read item creates, updates, and deletes that occurred within the continuous backup period configured on your account.
Public Preview: Materialized views for Cosmos DB NoSQL API
Create materialized views on top of your NoSQL containers to reduce cross partition queries, improve speed, and reduce costs.
Public preview: Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus for Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes
Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus is now extending monitoring support for Kubernetes clusters hosted on Azure Arc.
Public Preview: Azure Monitor Container insights introduces "Cluster Optimization" workbook
Customers can now use Azure Monitor Container insights “Cluster Optimization” workbook to optimize container limits and request, identify event anomalies and detect liveness probe failures.
Generally Available: Azure Monitor announces managed services for Prometheus
Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus delivers the best of the open-source ecosystem while automating complex tasks such as scaling, high-availability, and long-term data retention.
Public Preview: Azure Log Alerts support for Azure Data Explorer
Azure Monitor Log Alerts is expanding to support monitoring based on data that stored in Azure Data Explorer (ADX) tables, empowering customers to leverage ADX without compromising their service monitoring.
Generally Available: Linked backends for Azure Static Web Apps
You can now link your backend APIs to your Static Web Apps applications for seamless routing and integrated security.
Public preview: Azure Functions for cloud-native microservices
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.
Generally Available: SQL Bindings for Azure Functions
With input and output bindings for SQL, you can now can quickly write Azure Functions that read and write from your databases.
Public preview: ASP.NET Core integration in Azure Functions .NET isolated model
Use familiar ASP.NET Core types to construct HTTP-triggered functions in the isolated worker model.
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