Azure Updates

Add a feature-rich data API to an Azure database or on-prem database using Microsoft's open-source Data API builder. ​Add a feature-rich data API to an Azure database or on-prem database…

Protect the sensitive data getting stored in your Web Application Firewall (WAF) using log scrubbing on Azure’s global Web Application Firewall running on Azure Front Door. ​Protect the sensitive data…

Microsoft is thrilled to announce the launch of GPT-4o, OpenAI’s new flagship model, now available on Azure AI in preview. This groundbreaking multimodal model integrates text, vision, and audio capabilities,…

Azure Front Door supports capturing URL path and URL case transformation in rules set and server variable. ​Azure Front Door supports capturing URL path and URL case transformation in rules…

Azure Site Recovery support for Windows Trusted launch VMs

Designed for customers, especially developers or small enterprises who are looking for a cost-effective Application Load Balancer solution and don’t require high scalability and the advanced features.

Classic Networking Services retiring in August 2024.

We are thrilled to announce the general availability of GPT-4 Turbo with Vision on the Azure OpenAI Service, which processes both text and image inputs and replaces several preview models.…

You can now use node initialization taints in AKS e.g. in scenarios where you may need extra time to setup your nodes. ​You can now use node initialization taints in…

You can now manually disable Windows outboundNAT when creating new Windows node pools in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). ​You can now manually disable Windows outboundNAT when creating new Windows node…

You can now mount NFS file shares in Azure Container Apps. ​You can now mount NFS file shares in Azure Container Apps. 

Configure customer-managed keys for your existing Azure Cosmos DB account. ​Configure customer-managed keys for your existing Azure Cosmos DB account. 

Customers can now choose Premium SSD v2 for the Ebdsv5 and Ebsv5 virtual machine series with the additional ability to opt-in for NVMe support. ​Customers can now choose Premium SSD…

Upgrade to the latest TimeScaleDB extension on Azure for enhanced time-series data handling and improved performance. ​Upgrade to the latest TimeScaleDB extension on Azure for enhanced time-series data handling and…

Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server now supports minor versions 16.2, 15.6, 14.11, 13.14, and 12.18. ​Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server now supports minor versions 16.2, 15.6,…

Work Smarter: Enhance Productivity with Azure Cosmos DB Data Explorer shortcut keys. ​Work Smarter: Enhance Productivity with Azure Cosmos DB Data Explorer shortcut keys. 

Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB now supports MongoDB v5 and v6. ​Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB now supports MongoDB v5 and v6. 

Standby Pools for Virtual Machine Scale Sets with Flexible Orchestration provides the ability to reduce scale out latency and increase scale out performance. ​Standby Pools for Virtual Machine Scale Sets…

Now available in Italy North region, Azure Ultra Disk Storage provides high-performance along with sub-millisecond latency for your most-demanding workloads.

Azure Red Hat OpenShift version 4.14 is now available at install time. ​Azure Red Hat OpenShift version 4.14 is now available at install time. 

Azure Storage Actions is a fully managed platform that helps you automate data management operations for object storage and data lakes. The preview is now available in 14 more regions.…

Azure Front Door supports removing sensitive data from Azure Front Door access log. ​Azure Front Door supports removing sensitive data from Azure Front Door access log. 

Azure API Center is now generally available, providing a centralized solution to manage the challenges of API sprawl, which is exacerbated by the rapid proliferation of APIs and AI solutions.…

Azure Classic roles will be retired by 31st August, 2024 – transition to using only additional email addresses for Azure Autoscale Notifications as Azure Autoscale is dependent on the Azure…

Beginning May 3, 2024, Azure will start enabling the root management group for tenants that have not enabled it yet. Using Azure management groups leverages best practices when applying Azure…

UDR management in Azure Virtual Network Manager is now in public preview, enabling users to describe their desired routing behavior via configuration, simplifying the management of routing behaviors at scale.…

Announcing the exciting feature updates for Azure Spring Apps in Q1 2024. Save up to 47% with Azure Savings plan. ​Announcing the exciting feature updates for Azure Spring Apps in…

HDInsight is now generally available in Mexico Central.  Azure HDInsight is a managed, full-spectrum, open-source analytics service in the cloud for enterprises. You can use open-source frameworks such as Hadoop, Apache…

Azure HDInsight on AKS is now available for preview in seven new regions - East US 2 EUAP, West US, Japan East, Australia East, Canada Central, North Europe, Brazil South.…

Azure Chaos Studio is now supporting resource tags. ​Azure Chaos Studio is now supporting resource tags. 

We are announcing public preview Azure Monitor pipeline (for edge). With this, we are now extending our Azure Monitor pipeline capabilities from the cloud to the edge, enabling seamless and…

ACR now supports expanded registry capacity of up to 40TiB and optimized geo-replication performance. ​ACR now supports expanded registry capacity of up to 40TiB and optimized geo-replication performance. 

Introducing redeploying capability for Azure dedicated hosts ​Introducing redeploying capability for Azure dedicated hosts 

Enhancing network and resource health visualization with unified and dynamic topology across subscriptions, regions, and resource groups integrated with actionable connectivity and traffic insights

Azure Deployment Environments is adding a new extensibility model that empowers customers to customize deployment workflows using Bicep, Terraform, Pulumi, or any other infrastructure-as-code (IaC) framework of their choice. ​Azure…

Viewing changes to your Azure resources just became easier! With Azure Resource Graph’s Change Analysis, you can now view all your resource changes across all your tenants and subscriptions in…

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. ​Azure’s regional…

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

Leverage historical LLM responses with Azure Cosmos DB and LangChain! ​Leverage historical LLM responses with Azure Cosmos DB and LangChain! 

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

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

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

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

Gain visibility of IP traffic flowing through your virtual networks

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…

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

Learn how to continue calculating aggregated potential yearly savings.

Classic Networking Services retiring in August 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…

Azure Data Box Disk is now Generally Available with hardware encryption.