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May 2024

May 13

Public Preview: Azure Site Recovery support for Azure Trusted Launch VMs (Windows OS)

IN PREVIEW

Azure Site Recovery support for Windows Trusted launch VMs

  • Azure Site Recovery
  • Compliance
  • Management
  • Features
May 13

Public preview: Azure Application Gateway v2 Basic SKU

IN PREVIEW

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.

  • Application Gateway
  • Security
  • Services
May 13

General availability: Azure Bastion Developer SKU

NOW AVAILABLE

The Bastion Developer SKU represents a novel, cost-effective, and streamlined version of the Bastion service.

  • Azure Bastion
  • Security
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Services
  • Features
May 10

Five Azure classic networking services will be retired on 31 August 2024

Target retirement date: August 31, 2024

Classic Networking Services retiring in August 2024.

  • Virtual Network
  • Retirements
May 10

Cloud Services (classic) deployment model is retiring on 31 August 2024

Target retirement date: August 31, 2024

Cloud Services (classic) retiring in August 2024.

  • Retirements
May 10

Announcing the General Availability of GPT-4 Turbo with Vision on Azure OpenAI Service

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q2 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. This multimodal model has already been used by customers in various industries to enhance efficiencies and innovate, with case studies to be featured at the upcoming Build conference. For deployment details and future enhancements, including JSON mode and function calling for image inputs, please refer to our Azure OpenAI Service resources and updates.

  • Azure OpenAI Service
  • Azure AI Vision
  • Microsoft Build
  • Services
  • Features
May 8

New version of AKS extension in Visual Studio Code now available

NOW AVAILABLE

You can now take advantage of new enhancements available in version 1.4.3

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Visual Studio Code
  • Open Source
  • SDK and Tools
May 8

Public preview: Initialization taints in AKS

IN PREVIEW

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

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Features
May 8

GA: Support for disabling Windows outboundNAT in AKS

NOW AVAILABLE

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

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Security
  • Features
May 8

Public Preview: NFS Azure Files volume mount support in Azure Container Apps

IN PREVIEW

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

  • Azure Container Apps
  • Features
May 8

General availability: Customer-managed keys on existing accounts

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q2 2024

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

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Features
May 8

Public Preview: SQL Server on Azure VM storage configuration deployment experience with support for Premium SSD v2

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q2 2024

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.

  • SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines
  • Features
May 8

General availability: Latest version of the TimeScaleDB extension on Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q2 2024

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

  • Azure Database for PostgreSQL
  • Features
May 8

General availability: Latest PostgreSQL minor versions supported by Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q2 2024

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
  • Features
May 8

General Availability: Azure Cosmos DB Data Explorer keyboard shortcuts

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q2 2024

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

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Features
May 8

General availability: Azure Cosmos DB API for MongoDB RU supports version 5.0 and 6.0

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q2 2024

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

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Features
May 7

Public preview: Standby pools for Virtual Machine Scale Sets with flexible orchestration

IN PREVIEW

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

  • Virtual Machine Scale Sets
  • Virtual Machines
  • Features
May 7

General Availability: Microsoft Azure now available from new cloud region in Mexico

NOW AVAILABLE

Microsoft has announced the opening of its first hyper-scale cloud region in Mexico.

  • Security
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Services
May 7

Azure Ultra Disk Storage is now available in Italy North

NOW AVAILABLE

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

  • Ultra Disk Storage
  • Managed Disks
  • Azure Disk Storage
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Features
May 7

Generally Available: Azure Red Hat OpenShift v4.14 at install time

NOW AVAILABLE

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

  • Services
  • Features

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