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November 2023

Nov 15

GA: Stateful entities in Durable Functions on the isolated worker model for .NET

NOW AVAILABLE

The stateful entities feature for Durable Functions is now available for .NET apps on the isolated worker model.

  • Azure Functions
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
Nov 15

Azure Functions brings new flexibility with unlimited execution time

IN DEVELOPMENT

You can now request for access to try out Flex Consumption, a new Azure Functions hosting plan that provides fast scaling and networking features with a serverless billing model.

  • Azure Functions
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
Nov 15

Public Preview: Azure IoT Operations

IN PREVIEW

Azure IoT Operations is now in Public Preview. Azure IoT Operations addresses an enterprise’s fundamental needs, but also wrangles edge data to generate local insights and brings interoperability and scalability to IoT solutions.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Azure Arc
  • Windows for IoT
  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Microsoft Ignite
Nov 15

Azure Machine Learning - Public Preview for November

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q4 2023

Three features now available in public preview enable you to choose which models/datasets are right for you without having to run any job, seamlessly read/write data from a Fabric datastore; and Model-as-a-Service with inference APIs and hosted fine-tuning. 

  • Azure Machine Learning
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
Nov 15

Azure Machine Learning - General Availability for November

NOW AVAILABLE

Five features now available in GA enable you to search thousands of OSS LLMs, provide a feature set specification and let the system handle the rest, and lower. compute management overhead and setup costs. You can also now deploy complex compute graphs under batch endpoints, and use one platform to build, tune, evaluate, deploy, and test AI workflows.  

  • Azure Machine Learning
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
Nov 15

General availability: Free tier on Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q4 2023

Unlock your potential with our free tier. Start building, testing, and growing your projects without any upfront costs. Scale up when you're ready for more.

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
Nov 15

General availability: Vector search in Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q4 2023

Unlock next-level AI applications with native vector similarity search in Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore.

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
Nov 15

General Availability: Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q4 2023

Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore offers a fully-managed database for your MongoDB workloads and AI applications, backed by native Azure integrations, flexible pricing, and seamless migration capabilities.

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
Nov 15

Public preview: Priority-based execution in Azure Cosmos DB

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q4 2023

Priority-based execution in Azure Cosmos DB enables customers to prioritize critical high priority requests for execution during high traffic, while potentially throttling low priority requests.

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
Nov 15

Public preview: Cross-account container copy for Azure Cosmos DB NoSQL API

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q4 2023

You can use offline cross-account container copy to migrate data across Azure Cosmos DB NoSQL API accounts seamlessly using Azure CLI.

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
Nov 15

Public Preview: Azure Open AI “Use your data” integration with Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q4 2023

Now you can easily leverage your data stored in Azure Cosmos DB for Mongo DB vCore for Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) with Azure OpenAI models using the "Use your data" feature in Azure OpenAI Studio.

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
Nov 15

Public preview: Dynamic scaling per partition and per region

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q4 2023

Autoscale gets even better with two new improvements -- scaling per partition and per region!

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
Nov 15

Public preview: Microsoft Copilot for Azure capability now available in Azure Cosmos DB

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q4 2023

Turn your questions into Azure Cosmos DB NoSQL queries with Microsoft Copilot for Azure.

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
Nov 15

Public Preview: Azure Cosmos DB Migration for MongoDB extension - Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore migration capability

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q4 2023

Migrate MongoDB workloads to Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore using Azure Cosmos DB Migration for MongoDB extension in Azure Data Studio.

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
Nov 15

MQTT broker feature, PubSub capabilities now available for Azure Event Grid

NOW AVAILABLE

Bi-directional communication and flexible consumption patterns - at scale.

  • Event Grid
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
Nov 14

GA: Azure Functions supports .NET 8 in the isolated worker model

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Functions now supports .NET 8, using the isolated worker model.

  • Azure Functions
  • Features

October 2023

Oct 25

GA: Performance optimizations for the isolated worker model in .NET Azure Functions

NOW AVAILABLE

Major cold start improvements are available to .NET apps on the Azure Functions isolated worker model.

  • Azure Functions
  • Features
Oct 25

GA: Service Bus message settlement in isolated worker model for .NET Azure Functions

NOW AVAILABLE

Functions using the ServiceBusTrigger can perform message settlement actions in the isolated worker model for .NET applications

  • Azure Functions
  • Features
Oct 25

General availability: Azure Synapse Link for existing MongoDB collections

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q4 2023

Azure Synapse Link for Azure Cosmos DB enables near real time analytics, now available for existing MongoDB collections in Azure Cosmos DB for Mongo DB.

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Features
Oct 25

General availability: Azure Synapse Link compatibility with Cosmos DB continuous backup

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q4 2023

Now Azure Cosmos DB customers using continuous backup can enable Synapse Link in their database accounts.

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Features

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