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Public Preview: Azure Site Recovery support for Azure Trusted Launch VMs (Windows OS)
Azure Site Recovery support for Windows Trusted launch VMs
Public preview: Azure Application Gateway v2 Basic SKU
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.
General availability: Azure Bastion Developer SKU
The Bastion Developer SKU represents a novel, cost-effective, and streamlined version of the Bastion service.
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.
Cloud Services (classic) deployment model is retiring on 31 August 2024
Target retirement date: August 31, 2024
Cloud Services (classic) retiring in August 2024.
Announcing the General Availability of GPT-4 Turbo with Vision on Azure OpenAI Service
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.
New version of AKS extension in Visual Studio Code now available
You can now take advantage of new enhancements available in version 1.4.3
Public preview: Initialization taints in AKS
You can now use node initialization taints in AKS e.g. in scenarios where you may need extra time to setup your nodes.
GA: Support for disabling Windows outboundNAT in AKS
You can now manually disable Windows outboundNAT when creating new Windows node pools in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
Public Preview: NFS Azure Files volume mount support in Azure Container Apps
You can now mount NFS file shares in Azure Container Apps.
General availability: Customer-managed keys on existing accounts
Target availability: Q2 2024
Configure customer-managed keys for your existing Azure Cosmos DB account.
Public Preview: SQL Server on Azure VM storage configuration deployment experience with support for Premium SSD v2
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.
General availability: Latest version of the TimeScaleDB extension on Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server
Target availability: Q2 2024
Upgrade to the latest TimeScaleDB extension on Azure for enhanced time-series data handling and improved performance.
General availability: Latest PostgreSQL minor versions supported by Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server
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.
General Availability: Azure Cosmos DB Data Explorer keyboard shortcuts
Target availability: Q2 2024
Work Smarter: Enhance Productivity with Azure Cosmos DB Data Explorer shortcut keys.
General availability: Azure Cosmos DB API for MongoDB RU supports version 5.0 and 6.0
Target availability: Q2 2024
Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB now supports MongoDB v5 and v6.
Public preview: Standby pools for Virtual Machine Scale Sets with flexible orchestration
Standby Pools for Virtual Machine Scale Sets with Flexible Orchestration provides the ability to reduce scale out latency and increase scale out performance.
General Availability: Microsoft Azure now available from new cloud region in Mexico
Microsoft has announced the opening of its first hyper-scale cloud region in Mexico.
Azure Ultra Disk Storage is now available in Italy North
Now available in Italy North region, Azure Ultra Disk Storage provides high-performance along with sub-millisecond latency for your most-demanding workloads.
Generally Available: Azure Red Hat OpenShift v4.14 at install time
Azure Red Hat OpenShift version 4.14 is now available at install time.
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