Skip to main content

Azure updates

Get the latest updates on Azure products and features to meet your cloud investment needs. Subscribe to notifications to stay informed.

RSS feed
Product category
Status:

November 2023

Nov 15

Public preview: Microsoft Copilot for Azure

IN PREVIEW

Simplify how you design, operate, optimize, and troubleshoot apps and infrastructure from cloud to edge with Microsoft Copilot for Azure.

  • Azure AI services
  • Services
  • Microsoft Ignite

May 2023

May 24

Public Preview: Azure AI Content Safety

IN PREVIEW

Azure AI Content Safety is a new Azure AI service that identifies harmful online content, categorizes it and assigns severity scores to support human content moderator workloads.

  • Azure AI services
  • Services
  • Microsoft Build
May 12

We're retiring Speech-to-text REST preview API v3.1-preview.1 on May 12, 2023

Target retirement date: May 12, 2023

We recently made the Speech-to-text REST API version 3.1 generally available. With this release, we'll retire the preview version v3.1-preview.1 on May 12, 2023.

  • Azure AI services
  • Services
  • Retirements
  • SDK and Tools
  • Features

April 2023

Apr 26

Continuous Language ID in Azure Speech Service

NOW AVAILABLE

Continual Language ID makes transcription and translation easier by identifying up to 10 languages in a single piece of audio continuously.

  • Azure AI services
  • Features

November 2022

Nov 30

Generally available: Additional Always Free Services for Azure Free Account and PAYG

NOW AVAILABLE

With an Azure free account, you can explore with free amounts of 55+ always free services.

  • Azure AI services
  • Azure Web PubSub
  • Azure Resource Mover
  • Azure Container Apps
  • Services
Nov 30

General availability: 12 months free services for new Azure PAYG customers

NOW AVAILABLE

With an Azure free account, you can explore with free amounts of 55+ always free services.

  • Media Services
  • Azure Container Registry
  • Service Bus
  • Load Balancer
  • Virtual Machines
  • Key Vault
  • Azure SQL Database
  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Azure Database for PostgreSQL
  • Azure Database for MySQL
  • Azure Blob Storage
  • Azure Files
  • Azure AI services
  • Azure AI Vision
  • Services
  • Security
Nov 9

General availability: Multivariate Anomaly Detection

NOW AVAILABLE

Multivariate Anomaly Detection will allow you to evaluate multiple signals and the correlations between them to find sudden changes in data patterns.

  • Azure AI services
  • Services
  • Features

July 2022

Jul 15

Responsible AI investments and safeguards for Facial Recognition

NOW AVAILABLE

Target retirement date: July 01, 2023

The Cognitive Services team has updated our approach to facial recognition including adding a new Limited Access policy, removing AI classifiers of sensitive attributes and bolstering our investments in fairness and transparency.

  • Azure AI services
  • Azure AI Video Indexer
  • Services
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Compliance
  • Retirements
  • Features

June 2022

Jun 1

General availability: Conversational language understanding

NOW AVAILABLE

Conversational language understanding includes multilingual transformer-based models as the underlying model architecture and results in significant accuracy improvements over its predecessor, LUIS.

  • Azure AI services
  • Features

May 2022

May 24

Public preview: Azure Applied AI Services enhancements

IN PREVIEW

Enhancements in preview include Power Virtual Agents to enable sophisticated conversational flows; Azure Form Recognizer helps to streamline patient check-in and verification; Azure Metrics Advisor has simplified service customization.

  • Azure AI services
  • Services
  • Microsoft Build
May 24

Public preview: Azure Cognitive Services updates

IN PREVIEW

Azure Cognitive Services is announcing the following preview updates at Build: Azure OpenAI Service and summarization capabilities in Azure Cognitive Service for Language.

  • Azure AI services
  • Services
  • Microsoft Build
May 24

Generally available: Azure Cognitive Service for Language

NOW AVAILABLE

Cognitive Service for Language now includes custom named entity recognition and custom text classification.

  • Azure AI services
  • Microsoft Build
  • Features
May 12

Generally available: OCR supports 164 languages in the Cognitive Services Computer Vision

NOW AVAILABLE

Computer Vision Read API for Optical Character Recognition (OCR) announced the general availability of the new model with support for 164 languages. It’s also available as a Docker container.

  • Azure AI Vision
  • Azure AI services
  • Features

February 2022

Feb 2

Public preview: Anomaly Detector adds synchronous multivariate detection and improved anomaly interpretation

IN PREVIEW

Start using Anomaly Detector’s multivariate detection synchronously for quicker response, easier operations, and more informative result interpretation to help you analyze root causes.

  • Azure AI services
  • Features

November 2021

Nov 3

Private preview: Azure OpenAI Service combines access to powerful GPT-3 language models with Azure’s enterprise capabilities

IN PREVIEW

Apply advanced language models to a variety of use cases with Azure OpenAI Service.

  • Azure AI services
  • Services
  • Microsoft Ignite
Nov 2

Azure Applied AI Services | Azure Cognitive Search updates now generally available

Azure Cognitive Search has expanded language and regional availability.

  • Azure AI services
  • Azure AI Search
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
Nov 2

Azure Cognitive Service for Language now generally available

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Cognitive Service for Language provides high-quality natural language capabilities, from sentiment analysis and entity extraction to automated question answering.

  • Azure AI services
  • Services
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features

October 2021

Oct 18

OCR (Read) supports 122 languages in the Cognitive Services Computer Vision public preview

IN PREVIEW

Computer Vision Read API for Optical Character Recognition (OCR), part of Cognitive Services, announces its public preview with new languages including Russian, Bulgarian, other Cyrillic and more Latin languages. This release also highlight handwritten OCR support for many languages, along with enhancements for digital PDFs and Machine Readable Zone (MRZ) text in identity documents.

  • Azure AI Vision
  • Azure AI services
  • Features
Oct 11

General availability: Azure Translator now supports more than 100 languages and dialects

NOW AVAILABLE

Translator now supports more than 100 languages and dialects to help you streamline your translation workflows.

  • Azure AI services
  • Features

July 2021

Jul 6

Public Preview: Form Recognizer container support

IN PREVIEW

Announcing the public preview release of Form Recognizer containers. Form Recognizer is now also available in the following docker containers - Layout, Business Card, ID Document, Receipt, Invoice and Custom containers for you to run locally.

  • Azure AI services
  • Features

Azure at Microsoft Build

Resources

Read the Azure blog for latest news and announcements.

Blog

Get answers to your questions from Microsoft and Community experts.

Community support

Read commonly asked questions on Azure updates.

FAQ

Find the latest news, updates, and resources for Azure partners.

Azure Partner Zone

Tell us what you think of Azure and what you want to see in the future.

Provide feedback

Azure is available in more regions than any other cloud provider.

Check product availability in your region