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April 2024

Apr 24

General availability: Application Gateway Web Application Firewall (WAF) inspection limit & size enforcement

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure’s regional Web Application Firewall (WAF) running on Application Gateway now supports greater control over request body inspection, and maximum size limits for request bodies and file uploads.

  • Web Application Firewall
  • Application Gateway
  • Security
  • Features
Apr 24

Generally Available: Index Advisor in Azure Cosmos DB helps optimize your index policy for NoSQL queries

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q2 2024

Reduce RU-costs and improve query speeds with Index Advisor!

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Features
Apr 24

General availability: Semantic caching with vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q2 2024

Leverage historical LLM responses with Azure Cosmos DB and LangChain!

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Features
Apr 24

Public preview: Filtered vector search in vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q2 2024

Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB improves its vector search capabilities with filtered vector search, now in preview.

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Features
Apr 24

General availability: Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server enhanced disaster recovery features

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q2 2024

Explore advanced disaster recovery with Virtual Endpoints and seamless role-swapping in Azure Database for PostgreSQL.

  • Azure Database for PostgreSQL
  • Features
Apr 24

General availability: Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL geo-redundant backup and restore

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q2 2024

Store cluster backup in another region. Restore cluster in the primary or another region.

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Features
Apr 24

General availability: HNSW vector index in vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q2 2024

The HNSW vector index is now generally available in vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB.

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Features
Apr 24

General availability: Virtual network flow logs

NOW AVAILABLE

Gain visibility of IP traffic flowing through your virtual networks

  • Network Watcher
  • Virtual Network
  • Azure Virtual Network Manager
  • Services
  • Features
Apr 23

Azure Virtual Network Manager security admin rule generally available in all public regions

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Virtual Network Manager's security admin rule configuration is now generally available in all public regions, empowering users to enforce security rules across their virtual networks globally.

  • Azure Virtual Network Manager
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Features
Apr 22

Public Preview: Azure Monitor Agent Upload to Storage and Event Hubs

IN PREVIEW

Azure Monitor Agent can now upload to Azure Storage and Event Hubs.

  • Log Analytics
  • Azure Monitor
  • Management
  • Features
Apr 19

Public Preview – DR for Shared Disks – Azure Site Recovery

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q2 2024

Now you can use the benefits of Shared Disk for your mission-critical applications such as SQL FCI, SAP ASCS, Scale-out File Servers, etc., while ensuring business continuity and disaster recovery with Azure Site Recovery.

  • Compliance
  • Services
  • Management
  • Features
Apr 17

Azure Machine Learning - General Availability for April 2024

NOW AVAILABLE

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.

  • Azure Machine Learning
  • Features
Apr 16

General availability: Azure Virtual Network encryption availability in all regions

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Virtual Network encryption is a feature of Azure Virtual Networks. Virtual network encryption allows you to seamlessly encrypt and decrypt traffic between Azure Virtual Machines.

  • Virtual Network
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Services
  • Features
Apr 15

Announcing Public Preview of Query editor in Azure Monitor Metrics

IN PREVIEW

Public Preview of Query editor in Azure Monitor Metrics is now Available! Get started with Query editor to access advanced querying capabilities within Azure Monitor Metrics. With the Query Editor's seamless integration of the widely adopted Prometheus Query Language (PromQL), customers can unlock advanced querying capabilities within their Azure Monitor Workspace. With PromQL, you can now efficiently analyze Prometheus metrics, identify trends, troubleshoot issues, and optimize resource utilization for better performance and reliability.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Metrics
  • Managed Prometheus
  • Features
Apr 15

Generally available: Azure Site Recovery update rollup 73 - April 2024

NOW AVAILABLE

This article describes the improvements for the latest version of Azure Site Recovery components. 

  • Features
Apr 15

Azure Event Grid support for last will & testament (LWT) capabilities now in Public Preview

IN PREVIEW

Ensures predictable and reliable flow of communication among MQTT clients during unexpected disconnections.

  • Event Grid
  • Features
Apr 15

GA: New Property for Disks-LastOwnershipUpdateTime

NOW AVAILABLE

Introducing LastOwnershipUpdateTime for Disks in Azure Portal, PowerShell, and CLI. It indicates the last state change time for the Disk, useful for tracking its current state and when it was last updated.

  • Managed Disks
  • Azure Disk Storage
  • Features
Apr 11

General availability: Azure SQL updates for mid-April 2024

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q2 2024

General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in mid-April 2024.

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Features
Apr 10

Azure Red Hat OpenShift April 2024 updates

NOW AVAILABLE

New features include support for ARO in Azure Terraform provider, ability to bring your own NSG, new GPU instance types for Day 2 operations, and more!

  • Azure Red Hat OpenShift
  • Features
Apr 10

General availability: Extensible key management using Azure Key Vault for SQL Server on Linux

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q2 2024

Extensible key management (EKM) using Azure Key Vault in SQL Server on Linux is now generally available from SQL Server 2022 CU12 onwards.

  • SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines
  • Features

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