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Azure Machine Learning - General Availability for April 2024
Three features now available in GA enable you to seamlessly log inference data to a central location, set up event-driven applications, processes, or workflows based on Azure Machine Learning events, and utilize lifecycle management of features from creation through archival.
General Availability of Azure Logic Apps connectors for IBM Mainframe and Midranges
Target availability: Q2 2024
Exciting news! Our IBM Mainframe and Midrange connectors, including IBM 3270, IBM CICS, IBM DB2, IBM i, IBM MQ, and IBM IMS, are now generally available. These connectors address highly sought-after customer requests, bring capabilities to extend Azure Logic Apps cloud native workloads with some of the oldest systems ever built for Mainframes and Midranges.
March 2024
GA: Azure SQL Trigger support for Azure Functions
You can now build application logic in Azure Function apps which can be driven by the data from Azure SQL database
Azure IoT Edge supports Ubuntu Core Snaps
We are expanding the Azure IoT Edge supported platforms to include Ubuntu Core Snaps on IoT Edge as a Tier 1 supported operating system.
General Availability: Private Link in Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore
Target availability: Q1 2024
Private endpoint for Azure Cosmos DB via Azure Private Link is now available, enhancing security.
General availability: Microsoft Entra ID integration with Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL
Target availability: Q1 2024
Now you can use Microsoft Entra ID authentication on Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL clusters in addition or instead of the native Postgres authentication.
Announcing Try Azure Cosmos DB support in Vercel Integration
Target availability: Q1 2024
We're excited to announce Try Azure Cosmos DB support in our Azure Cosmos DB integration with Vercel.
Generally available: Azure Functions Support for Node.js 20
Develop functions using Node.js 20 locally and deploy them to all Azure Functions plans on Linux and Windows.
February 2024
General availability: Azure SDKs support for Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL
Target availability: Q1 2024
Now you can use Azure SDKs including .NET SDK, Go SDK, Java SDK, JavaScript SDK, and Python SDK to manage the lifecycle of Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL clusters.
General availability: Azure CLI support for Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL
Target availability: Q1 2024
You can now use Azure CLI to manage the whole lifecycle of Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL clusters from provisioning to scaling to configuration changes and starting/stopping cluster compute.
Generally Available: Continuous model monitoring in Azure Machine Learning
Target availability: Q1 2024
Azure Machine Learning model monitoring is now generally available.
January 2024
General availability: PgAudit in Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL
Target availability: Q1 2024
Database session and object audit logging of database activities in Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL.
General availability: Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL Customer-managed keys (CMK)
Target availability: Q1 2024
Customer-managed keys allow you to use your own key for cluster data encryption at rest.
December 2023
Generally Available: Azure Functions support on Apple Silicon Macs
You can now develop Azure Functions locally on the new Apple Silicon Macs.
November 2023
General availability: Change data capture in Azure Cosmos DB analytical store
Target availability: Q4 2023
We are announcing the general availability of the CDC capability from Azure Cosmos DB analytical store.
Generally available: Delete Jobs API to support bulk delete in Azure Digital Twins
GA release for bulk delete support for Azure Digital Twins
GA: Stateful entities in Durable Functions on the isolated worker model for .NET
The stateful entities feature for Durable Functions is now available for .NET apps on the isolated worker model.
Azure Machine Learning - General Availability for November
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.
General availability: Vector search in Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore
Target availability: Q4 2023
Unlock next-level AI applications with native vector similarity search in Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore.
General availability: Free tier on Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore
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.
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