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March 2022

Mar 30

General availability: Azure Cognitive Search implements debug sessions

NOW AVAILABLE

Streamline your Cognitive Search operations with debug sessions for building, testing, and modifying skillsets.

  • Azure AI Search
  • Services
  • Features

January 2022

Jan 5

Public preview: Semantic Search update

IN PREVIEW

Semantic Search, a feature of Azure Cognitive Search, is now available for direct configuration in the Azure Portal.

  • Azure AI Search
  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Features

November 2021

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

August 2021

Aug 17

Select Azure Cognitive Search skills will be retired on 31 August 2024

Target retirement date: August 31, 2024

Upgrade your skills to version 3 of Azure Cognitive Search sentiment analysis and entity recognition skills.

  • Azure AI Search
  • Retirements

September 2020

Sep 22

Azure Cognitive Search - Managed identity support and Private Endpoints are GA

NOW AVAILABLE

You can now request Azure Cognitive Search to create an outbound private endpoint connection in order to securely access data from such data sources via indexers . You can also create identity for a search service in Azure Active Directory, then use RBAC permissions to grant the identity permissions to Azure data sources.

  • Azure AI Search
  • Services
  • Compliance

May 2020

May 14

Azure Private Link is now available for multiple new Azure services

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Private Link now supports multiple new Azure services in general availability and preview.

  • Azure Private Link
  • Virtual Network
  • Event Hubs
  • Event Grid
  • Service Bus
  • Azure AI Search
  • Azure Container Registry
  • Azure Backup
  • Azure SignalR Service
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May 14

Azure Private Link is now generally available in US Government regions

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Private Link now includes multiple new services available in GA.

  • Azure Private Link
  • Virtual Network
  • Azure SQL Database
  • Azure Synapse Analytics
  • Azure Synapse Analytics
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  • Azure Database for PostgreSQL
  • Azure Database for MySQL
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  • Azure AI Search
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  • Service Bus
  • Event Grid
  • Azure Container Registry
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  • Azure Data Lake Storage
  • Services
  • Compliance
  • Security

March 2020

Mar 16

Announcing Azure Private Link GA for Azure Services

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Private Link now includes multiple new services available in Preview and GA.

  • Azure Private Link
  • Virtual Network
  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Azure SQL Database
  • Azure Synapse Analytics
  • Storage Accounts
  • Key Vault
  • Azure Database for PostgreSQL
  • Azure Database for MySQL
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  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
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  • Azure AI Search
  • Services
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February 2020

Feb 24

Cognitive Services Bing Speech API is being retired November 1, 2021

Target retirement date: November 01, 2021

To continue providing speech recognition and translation capabilities in your current Bing Speech applications, you’ll need to migrate them to Speech Services and the Speech SDK

  • Azure AI Search
  • Retirements

December 2019

Dec 18

Azure Search meter names will change on February 1, 2020

Effective February 1, 2020, the meter names of Azure Search will change.

  • Azure AI Search
  • Services

July 2019

Jul 24

Azure Search is now integrated with the Azure Government cloud

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Search is now integrated with the Azure Government cloud, enabling U.S. public sector customers to create sophisticated search solutions.

  • Azure AI Search
  • Features

May 2019

May 18

Azure Search Document Cracking Image Extraction Resource GUID name change

Effective July 1, 2019, the Azure Search Document Cracking Image Extraction Resource GUID name will change.

  • Azure AI Search
  • Services
May 18

Azure Search Basic Unit and Standard Unit Resource GUID change

Effective July 1, 2019, the resource GUIDs for Azure Search Basic Unit and Standard S1, S2 and S3 Unit for the Japan East region will change.

  • Azure AI Search
  • Services
May 6

Azure Search now supports complex search types

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Search now supports complex searches for raw datasets that don’t break down neatly.

  • Azure AI Search
  • Features
May 6

The Cognitive Search feature of Azure Search is now available

NOW AVAILABLE

Cognitive Search is an enrichment pipeline that transforms raw, unstructured content into rich searchable information in an Azure Search index.

  • Azure AI Search
  • Features
May 6

New knowledge mining capabilities in Azure Search

Cognitive search capability, the content-understanding feature within Azure Search, now offers a single mechanism to apply a series of pre-built and custom AI models to data. In addition, a new knowledge store capability in cognitive search enables developers to further leverage the insights and metadata they extracted from the cognitive search pipeline. <br> <a href="https://aka.ms/Build2019_AI-ML" data-event="area-build-announcements-clicked-announcement">Read blog</a>

  • Azure AI Search
  • Features

April 2019

Apr 2

Azure Search—New storage optimized service tiers are now in preview

IN PREVIEW

The new L-series tiers offer significantly more storage at a reduced cost per terabyte compared to the standard tiers. This is ideal for internal applications searching over large file repositories, archival scenarios when you have business data going back many years, or e-discovery applications.

  • Azure AI Search
  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Features

February 2019

Feb 7

Blob output partitioning in Azure Stream Analytics

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Stream Analytics users can now partition output to Azure Blob storage based on custom date and time formats.

  • Azure AI Search
  • Azure Stream Analytics
  • Features

December 2018

Dec 11

Connect Cognitive Services subscription to enable unlimited skillset execution

IN PREVIEW

Starting December 21, 2018, you’ll be able to associate your Cognitive Services subscription with an Azure Search skillset. The skillset execution will be charged as part of the Cognitive Services subscription. On December 21, 2018, we’ll also begin charging for image extraction as part of our document-cracking stage. Text extraction from documents will continue to be offered at no additional cost.

  • Azure AI services
  • Azure AI Search
  • Services

May 2017

May 11

Synonyms for Azure Search

IN PREVIEW

Support for synonyms in Azure Search, soon to be in preview, is one of our most requested features on UserVoice. Synonyms functionality will allows for Azure Search to not only return results that match the query terms that were typed into the search box, but also return results that match synonyms of the query terms.

  • Azure AI Search
  • Features

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