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Public preview: Change Actor
Change Actor allows you to see who initiated the change and with which client that change was made, for changes across all your tenants and subscriptions.
January 2024
General availability: Azure Data Explorer adds new geospatial capabilities
Kusto now has three new geospatial functions: geo_polygon_to_h3cells(), geo_angle() and geo_azimuth(). These functions are designed to help you better understand and analyze your geospatial data.
November 2023
Public preview: Azure Database for PostgreSQL extension for Azure AI
Target availability: Q4 2023
Leverage integrated Azure AI services to build intelligent apps in Azure Database for PostgreSQL.
Public Preview: Azure Monitor Agent JSON log collection
Target availability: Q4 2023
Azure Monitoring Agent team has released for public preview JSON log collection. New collection types enable customers to migrate from other competing data collection services to Azure Monitor.
July 2023
Retirement notice: Azure Media Services is being retired on 30 June 2024
Target retirement date: June 30, 2024
Azure Media Services will be retired on 30 June 2024 - transition to a Microsoft partner solution or Azure Video Indexer
May 2023
Announcing the public preview of custom Text Analytics for health
Target availability: Q2 2023
Custom Text Analytics for health is the newest healthcare NLP offering from Cognitive Services for Language. It allows you to add a layer of customization on top of Text Analytics for health using state-of-the-art machine learning models to build your own healthcare entity extraction model with your specific domain data. The model's authoring experience can be performed either using the graphical user interface on the Language Studio or programmatically using the REST APIs. The feature is now in public preview allowing you to make 5,000 text records of predictions per language resource for free using the Standard (S) pricing tier.
February 2023
Public Preview: Azure Communication Services Chat for Bot Framework
Build conversational AI experiences with Azure Communication Services. Use virtual chat agents to manage growing customer service needs and provide in-chat intelligence with the help of smart assistants.
December 2022
General availability: Feature enhancements to Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF)
Azure’s WAF now supports multiple new features - SQLi and XSS detection queries, new built-in Azure policies, and increased exclusions limit with support for exclusions on bot manager rule set.
November 2022
General availability: Azure Monitor agent custom and IIS logs
Azure Monitor agent team has shipped custom log collection and IIS log collection.
October 2022
Generally available: Azure Communication Services short code functionality for SMS
Execute high-volume SMS campaigns in seconds with easy, automated short code functionality.
Public preview: Computer Vision Image Analysis 4.0
Get results from all Image Analysis visual features including Read (OCR) with only need one API call.
Azure Media Services Face Detector Retirement on September 14, 2023
Target retirement date: September 14, 2023
Retirement of the Azure Media Services Face Detector on September 14, 2023
Azure Media Services Video Analyzer Retirement on September 14, 2023
Target retirement date: September 14, 2023
Retirement of the Azure Media Services VideoAnalyzer preset on September 14, 2023
Azure Media Redactor Retirement on September 14, 2023
Target retirement date: September 14, 2023
Retirement of the Azure Media Redactor on September 14, 2023.
August 2022
Generally available: vRealize Log Insight Cloud with Azure VMware Solution integration
vRealize Log Insights Cloud with Azure VMware Solution support is now generally available.
July 2022
Public preview: Azure Spring Apps feature updates
New Azure Spring Apps updates and features for basic/standard and enterprise tiers are in preview.
April 2022
Public preview: Azure Monitoring Agent supports custom and IIS logs
New collection types supported by Azure Monitoring Agent that extends beyond the standard data available today.
December 2021
Azure Communication Services: Short code functionality for SMS now available in public preview
Execute high-volume SMS campaigns in seconds with easy, automated short code functionality.
November 2021
Azure Cognitive Service for Language now generally available
Azure Cognitive Service for Language provides high-quality natural language capabilities, from sentiment analysis and entity extraction to automated question answering.
October 2021
Querying Delta Lake files using T-SQL in Azure Synapse Analytics is generally available
Querying Delta Lake format using the T-SQL language in Azure Synapse is generally available.
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