Latest Azure Updates

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04 Oct 2024 Notice Announcing Azure Cosmos DB Integration with LangChain.js!
04 Oct 2024 Notice What is Microsoft Entra  (and why use it)?
04 Oct 2024 Notice Introducing the Use Cases Mapper workbook
03 Oct 2024 Notice Optimize Azure Landing Zone with Azure Virtual Network Manager IP Address Management
03 Oct 2024 Preview Announcing UNLIMITED Public Preview of Metadata Caching for Azure Premium SMB/REST File Shares
03 Oct 2024 Notice Introducing the Azure NMads MA35D: Exclusive Media Processing Powerhouse in the Cloud
03 Oct 2024 Notice Join Microsoft at Devoxx Belgium 2024!
03 Oct 2024 Preview Public Preview: Simulate everyday interactions with your app in Azure AI Studio
03 Oct 2024 Preview Public Preview: New evaluations for quality and similarity in Azure AI Studio
03 Oct 2024 Preview Public Preview: Evaluations for protected material (text) in Azure AI Studio
03 Oct 2024 Preview Public Preview: Evaluations for indirect prompt injection attacks in Azure AI Studio
03 Oct 2024 Retirement Retirement: Azure Spring Apps will be retired on March 31, 2028
03 Oct 2024 Retirement Retirement: Azure Diagnostic Extensions set to Retire in 18 months
03 Oct 2024 GA Generally Available: Reminder New E-mail templates for Log search alerts - API version 2021-08-01 and up
03 Oct 2024 Retirement Retirement: Azure Sphere is retiring Legacy service interfaces on September 27th, 2027
03 Oct 2024 GA Generally Available: Switch to Azure Business Continuity Center for at scale BCDR management
03 Oct 2024 GA Generally Available: Save up to 56% on the latest Linux VMs in most Azure regions for a limited time
03 Oct 2024 Preview Public Preview: Azure Virtual Network Monitoring IP address management
03 Oct 2024 Preview Public Preview: Azure NVads V710 v5-series virtual machines
03 Oct 2024 Preview Public Preview: Azure NMads MA35D-Series virtual machines
03 Oct 2024 GA Generally Available: Azure Backup- Reduced Protected Instance Fee for SAP HANA Backup
03 Oct 2024 Retirement Retirement: Azure Orbital Ground Station Retirement
03 Oct 2024 Retirement Retirement: End of life for NCv3-series VM family support in Azure Batch pools
02 Oct 2024 Notice Recap of Logic Apps Community Day 2024
02 Oct 2024 Notice 10 Days Left: Share Your Experience with Azure AI and Support a Charity
01 Oct 2024 GA ExpressRoute Metro is now generally available!!
01 Oct 2024 Notice Announcing the stable release of the Azure OpenAI library for .NET
01 Oct 2024 Notice VoiceRAG: An App Pattern for RAG + Voice Using Azure AI Search and the GPT-4o Realtime API for Audio
01 Oct 2024 GA ExpressRoute guided configuration of multi-site circuits and connections is generally available
01 Oct 2024 Preview Public Preview of Azure Migrate from VMware to Azure Stack HCI
01 Oct 2024 Preview Announcing Private Preview: Read and Read/Write Privileges with Secondary Users for vCore-Based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB
01 Oct 2024 Notice Announcing Reduced Pricing for JBoss EAP on App Service
01 Oct 2024 Notice The Azure Multimodal AI & LLM Processing Solution Accelerator
01 Oct 2024 Notice How to Migrate from WP Engine to WordPress on App Service?
01 Oct 2024 Notice Deprecation of the macOS-12 Hosted Pipeline Image
01 Oct 2024 Notice Custom Policy- Reusable Logs Templates
01 Oct 2024 Notice Azure Kubernetes Service Baseline - The Hard Way, Part Deux
01 Oct 2024 Notice Exploring Responsible AI
30 Sep 2024 GA Announcing the General Availability (GA) of Native Authentication for Microsoft Entra External ID
30 Sep 2024 Notice Introducing seamless authentication with Power Pages and Microsoft Entra External ID
30 Sep 2024 Preview New HD voices preview in Azure AI Speech: contextual and realistic output evolved
30 Sep 2024 Notice Build and deploy full-stack Java Web Applications on Azure Container Apps with JHipster
27 Sep 2024 Notice Announcing the Availability of Phi-3.5-MoE in Azure AI Studio and GitHub
27 Sep 2024 Preview Mirroring Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server in Microsoft Fabric - Private Preview
27 Sep 2024 Notice Azure Boards, September Update
26 Sep 2024 Preview Announcing the public preview of the new Azure FXv2-series Virtual Machines
26 Sep 2024 Retirement Retirement: Open Service Mesh extension for Arc-enabled Kubernetes will be retired on September 30, 2027
26 Sep 2024 Retirement Retirement: Azure Maps Spatial APIs V1 & 2022-08-01 will be retired on September 30th, 2025.
26 Sep 2024 Preview Public Preview: Azure Functions .NET 9 support in Linux plans
26 Sep 2024 Retirement Retirement: Deprecation of Virtual Network Injection for Azure Data Explorer
26 Sep 2024 Preview Public Preview: Introducing Reporting and Microsoft Entra ID Authentication for Microsoft Playwright Testing
26 Sep 2024 Preview Public Preview: Virtual machines node pools support in AKS
26 Sep 2024 Retirement Retirement: Open Service Mesh add-on for AKS will be retired on September 30, 2027
26 Sep 2024 GA Generally Available: Long-term support for version 1.27 and 1.30 in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
26 Sep 2024 Preview Retirement: AKS GPU image (preview) will retire on Jan 10, 2025
26 Sep 2024 GA Generally Available: FIPS mutability support in AKS
26 Sep 2024 GA Generally Available: Extended support: PHP 8.1 on App Service
26 Sep 2024 Retirement Retirement: Extended support for Python 3.9 ends October 2025 – upgrade your apps to Python 3.10
26 Sep 2024 Retirement Retirement: Extended support for PHP 8.2 ends December 31st, 2026 – upgrade apps to PHP 8.3
26 Sep 2024 Retirement Retirement: Azure Machine Learning data drift detection will retire on September 1st, 2025
26 Sep 2024 GA Generally Available: Azure Cosmos DB dynamic scaling—per region and per partition autoscale
26 Sep 2024 GA Generally Available: Azure confidential VMs with NVIDIA Tensor Core GPUs
26 Sep 2024 Preview Public Preview: New FX series VMs - FXmsv2 and FXmdsv2
26 Sep 2024 Retirement Retirement: Azure Load Balancer Inbound NAT rule V1 for Azure VMs and Azure VMSS will be retired
26 Sep 2024 Retirement Retirement: Azure Front Door support for TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 will end by 1 Dec 2024
26 Sep 2024 Retirement Retirement: Azure CDN Standard from Microsoft (classic) will be retired on 30 September 2027
26 Sep 2024 Retirement Retirement: Azure Application Gateway support for TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 will end by 31 August 2025
26 Sep 2024 GA Generally Available: gRPC and frontend mTLS now available for Application Gateway for Containers
26 Sep 2024 Retirement Retirement: Intent Recognition an Azure AI Speech feature will be retired on September 30th, 2025
26 Sep 2024 Retirement Retirement: Network security group flow logs in Azure Network Watcher will be retired
26 Sep 2024 Retirement Retirement: Azure AI Speaker Recognition
26 Sep 2024 Retirement Retirement: Retirement of Classic Alerts for Azure Site Recovery
26 Sep 2024 Retirement Retirement: Conversation Transcription Multi Channel Diarization
26 Sep 2024 Retirement Retirement: VpnGw1-5 (Non-AZ SKUs) will be retired on Sep 30, 2026 – gateways will be automatically migrated to AZ SKUs
26 Sep 2024 Retirement Retirement: Transition from Helm Repositories to OCI Artifacts for Storing Helm Charts
26 Sep 2024 Retirement Retirement: Azure Automanage Best Practices Retirement. Migrate to Azure Policy
26 Sep 2024 GA Generally Available: V5 reservations for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server
26 Sep 2024 GA Generally Available: Smaller Enterprise tier cache instance for Azure Cache for Redis
26 Sep 2024 GA Generally Available: Online migration from Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Single Server to Flexible Server
26 Sep 2024 GA Generally Available: Latest PostgreSQL minor versions supported by Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server
25 Sep 2024 GA Announcing the General Availability of Azure CycleCloud Workspace for Slurm
25 Sep 2024 Preview Announcing Public Preview of Windows Server Hotpatch enabled by Azure Arc
25 Sep 2024 GA Announcing the GA of Dynamic Scaling (Per Region and Per Partition Autoscale)
25 Sep 2024 Notice Announcing Cost and Performance Improvements with Azure Cosmos DB’s Binary Encoding
24 Sep 2024 Notice Build and secure your apps with Azure App Service and Defender for Cloud
24 Sep 2024 Notice Correction capability helps revise ungrounded content and hallucinations
24 Sep 2024 Preview Multimodal Public Preview Blog
24 Sep 2024 Preview Watermarks in preview in Azure OpenAI Service
24 Sep 2024 Notice Enhance the reliability of your generative AI with new hallucination correction capability
24 Sep 2024 Preview Protected Material Detection for Code now in Preview in Azure AI Content Safety
24 Sep 2024 Preview Announcing the public preview of Hybrid Azure AI Content Safety (AACS)
24 Sep 2024 Preview Azure AI Confidential Inferencing Preview
23 Sep 2024 Notice Secure & scalable quick starts for Azure Functions using Azure Developer CLI
20 Sep 2024 Notice Boost Your Development with Azure Tools for Visual Studio Code
20 Sep 2024 Notice Document Ingestion for Gen AI Applications using Logic Apps from 1000+ data sources!