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22 Oct 2024 Notice From Pixels to Intelligence: Introduction to OCR Free Vision RAG using Colpali For Complex Documents
22 Oct 2024 Notice Deploy Streamlit on Azure Web App
21 Oct 2024 Preview Introducing support for Graph data in Azure Database for PostgreSQL (Preview)
21 Oct 2024 Notice Upload file with non-ASCII filename in Http request via multipart/form-data in Logic App STD
20 Oct 2024 Notice Routing options for VMs from Private Subnets
18 Oct 2024 Preview Announcing the Public Preview of the new XML Compose and Parse with schema actions
18 Oct 2024 Notice How to Test Network on Linux Web App with Limited Tools
18 Oct 2024 Preview Announcing Public Preview of new attach/detach disks API for VMs/VMSS
18 Oct 2024 Notice Ping a specific public bundle in Logic App Standard
18 Oct 2024 Notice Deploy Mkdocs page on Azure Web App
17 Oct 2024 GA Azure Elastic SAN for Azure VMware Solution: now Generally Available
17 Oct 2024 Notice Installation of Argo CD
17 Oct 2024 Notice Building a Contextual Retrieval System for Improving RAG Accuracy
17 Oct 2024 Notice Introducing Pull Request Annotation for CodeQL and Dependency Scanning in GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps
17 Oct 2024 GA ED25519 SSH key support for Linux VMs
17 Oct 2024 GA Azure Cobalt 100 Arm-based Virtual Machines
17 Oct 2024 Preview VM watch for Azure VMs
17 Oct 2024 GA Reduced Pricing for JBoss EAP on App Service
17 Oct 2024 GA ExpressRoute Metro
17 Oct 2024 GA GRS and CRR support for Azure VMs using Premium SSD v2 and Ultra Disk in Azure Backup
17 Oct 2024 GA Azure Elastic SAN for Azure VMware Solution
16 Oct 2024 Notice Azure Database for MySQL - September 2024 updates and latest feature roadmap
16 Oct 2024 Notice Generative AI with JavaScript FREE course
16 Oct 2024 Preview Announcement: Introducing the Logic Apps Hybrid Deployment Model (Public Preview)
16 Oct 2024 Notice Accelerating Java Applications on Azure Kubernetes Service with CRaC
15 Oct 2024 Preview Accelerate metadata heavy workloads with Metadata Caching preview for Azure Premium Files SMB & REST
15 Oct 2024 Notice Secure, High-Performance Networking for Data-Intensive Kubernetes Workloads
14 Oct 2024 Notice Platform API Catalog for Azure API Center
12 Oct 2024 Notice From Zero to Hero: Building Your First Voice Bot with GPT-4o Real-Time API using Python
10 Oct 2024 Notice Automate RAG Indexing: Azure Logic Apps & AI Search for Source Document Processing
10 Oct 2024 Notice Fine-tuning a Hugging Face Diffusion Model on CycleCloud Workspace for Slurm
10 Oct 2024 GA App Service Environment memory intensive pricing tier
10 Oct 2024 GA Storage account default egress limit increase to 200 Gbps
10 Oct 2024 Retirement Announcing upcoming retirement of custom text analytics for health (preview) in Azure AI Language
10 Oct 2024 Retirement Announcing upcoming retirement of custom sentiment analysis (preview) in Azure AI Language
10 Oct 2024 GA Several performance management server parameters now modifiable on Azure Database for PostgreSQL
10 Oct 2024 Preview vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB—up to 32 TiB storage
10 Oct 2024 Preview vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB multishard, cross-region replication
10 Oct 2024 Preview vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB multishard clusters
10 Oct 2024 Preview Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server—support for postgresql_anonymizer extension version 1.3.2
10 Oct 2024 Preview DiskANN indexing on Azure Database for PostgreSQL
10 Oct 2024 GA Redis 7.2 on Azure Cache for Redis Enterprise
10 Oct 2024 GA Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server flexible maintenance
10 Oct 2024 GA Azure Cosmos DB Data Explorer custom column selector and filter history
10 Oct 2024 GA Azure SQL updates for early-October 2024
10 Oct 2024 GA ExpressRoute guided configuration experience
10 Oct 2024 Retirement End of Support Announcement for Azure Load Balancer numberOfProbes property on September 1, 2027.
09 Oct 2024 Notice Make Azure AI Real is back - Join Microsoft AI experts for Season 2 with the Reactor!
09 Oct 2024 Notice Network Connectivity for RISE with SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition on Azure
09 Oct 2024 Notice Azure Landing Zones - Policy Refresh Q1 FY25
09 Oct 2024 Notice Announcing Text PII Redaction Container Release
09 Oct 2024 Notice Microsoft Security announcements and demos at Authenticate 2024
09 Oct 2024 Notice Introducing DiskANN Vector Index in Azure Database for PostgreSQL
09 Oct 2024 Notice Introducing RBAC Authentication and more for the Azure Cosmos DB Integrated Cache
09 Oct 2024 Notice Azure Logic App Standard - Design Considerations
08 Oct 2024 Preview Announcing VS Code Extension of vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB
08 Oct 2024 Notice Azure Integration Services Quarterly Highlights and Insights: 2024’Q3
08 Oct 2024 Notice Share Your Experience with Azure AI and Support a Charity
08 Oct 2024 Notice Azure AI Search October Updates: Nearly 100x Compression with Minimal Quality Loss
08 Oct 2024 Notice AI Content Safety Fast PoC
08 Oct 2024 Notice Introducing New Storage Sizes for vCore-Based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB: Unlock More Capacity and Performance
08 Oct 2024 Notice Introducing Server-Side Test Criteria for Azure Load Testing
08 Oct 2024 Notice Set content-type using logic app standard built-in blob connector
08 Oct 2024 Notice Transition from Alpine Linux to Debian for WordPress on App Service
07 Oct 2024 Notice Logic Apps Aviators Newsletter - October 2024
07 Oct 2024 Preview Public Preview Announcement-On Demand Capacity Reservation in Azure in China
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 Simulate everyday interactions with your app in Azure AI Studio
03 Oct 2024 Preview New evaluations for quality and similarity in Azure AI Studio
03 Oct 2024 Preview Evaluations for protected material (text) in Azure AI Studio
03 Oct 2024 Preview Evaluations for indirect prompt injection attacks in Azure AI Studio
03 Oct 2024 Retirement Azure Spring Apps will be retired on March 31, 2028
03 Oct 2024 Retirement Azure Diagnostic Extensions set to Retire in 18 months
03 Oct 2024 GA Reminder New E-mail templates for Log search alerts - API version 2021-08-01 and up
03 Oct 2024 Retirement Azure Sphere is retiring Legacy service interfaces on September 27th, 2027
03 Oct 2024 GA Switch to Azure Business Continuity Center for at scale BCDR management
03 Oct 2024 GA Save up to 56% on the latest Linux VMs in most Azure regions for a limited time
03 Oct 2024 Preview Azure Virtual Network Monitoring IP address management
03 Oct 2024 Preview Azure NVads V710 v5-series virtual machines
03 Oct 2024 Preview Azure NMads MA35D-Series virtual machines
03 Oct 2024 GA Azure Backup- Reduced Protected Instance Fee for SAP HANA Backup
03 Oct 2024 Retirement Azure Orbital Ground Station Retirement
03 Oct 2024 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