Latest Azure Updates

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04 Nov 2024 Notice Automating document indexing into Azure Cosmos DB with Logic Apps
04 Nov 2024 Notice Tools and Resources to Improve Developer Productivity
04 Nov 2024 Notice Optimizing Docker Images for Java Applications on Azure Container Apps
02 Nov 2024 Notice Introducing the modern web app pattern for .NET
01 Nov 2024 Retirement Update on classic storage account retirement and upcoming changes for classic storage customers
01 Nov 2024 GA Announcing the general availability of sidecar extensibility in Azure App Service
01 Nov 2024 Notice Modernising Registrar Technology: Implementing EPP with Kotlin, Spring & Azure Container Apps
31 Oct 2024 Notice Simplifying Migration to Fabric Real-Time Intelligence for Power BI Real Time Reports
31 Oct 2024 Notice Customize the Phi-3.5 family of models with LoRA fine-tuning in Azure
31 Oct 2024 Notice Upcoming Changes to Instance Size Flexibility Ratios for Reserved VM Instances for M-series: What Yo
31 Oct 2024 Notice Introducing the Data-Bound Reference Layer in Azure Maps Visual for Power BI
31 Oct 2024 Notice Configure File in Azure Static Web Apps
31 Oct 2024 Preview Edit network features for Azure NetApp Files with no downtime
31 Oct 2024 Preview API Management & API Center Synchronization
31 Oct 2024 GA Live Resize for Azure Premium SSD v2 and Ultra Disks
31 Oct 2024 GA App Service multi plan subnet join
31 Oct 2024 Retirement Change Analysis (classic) API in Azure Monitor is retiring
31 Oct 2024 Retirement Azure Health Data Services Retirement of Qatar Central Region
31 Oct 2024 Retirement Azure Stream Analytics PowerBI output connector
31 Oct 2024 GA Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage is now available in more regions
31 Oct 2024 GA Bot Manager Ruleset 1.1 on Azure WAF with Azure Application Gateway
31 Oct 2024 GA App Insights Code Optimizations
30 Oct 2024 Notice Announcing Serverless Support for Socket.IO in Azure Web PubSub service
29 Oct 2024 GA Application Insights Code Optimizations for .NET is now generally available
29 Oct 2024 Notice Deploy Intelligent SpringBoot Apps Using Azure OpenAI and Azure App Service
28 Oct 2024 Notice No new Azure DevOps OAuth apps beginning February 2025
28 Oct 2024 Notice Boosting Power BI Performance with Azure Databricks through Automatic Aggregations
25 Oct 2024 Notice Grant Graph API Permission to Azure Automation System assigned Managed Identity
25 Oct 2024 Notice Introduction to OCR Free Vision RAG using Colpali For Complex Documents
24 Oct 2024 Notice Azure at KubeCon North America 2024 | Salt Lake City, Utah - November 12-15
24 Oct 2024 Notice Using Entra profile information in Azure DevOps
24 Oct 2024 Notice Azure Adaptive Cloud Pre-Days at Microsoft Ignite 2024
24 Oct 2024 GA Azure App Configuration – Premium pricing plan now generally available
24 Oct 2024 Preview Immutable WORM Storage for Backups in Azure Recovery Services Vaults
24 Oct 2024 Preview Azure Functions support for Node.js 22
24 Oct 2024 GA FinOps toolkit 0.6 - September 2024
24 Oct 2024 GA Set fail criteria on server metrics in Azure Load Testing
24 Oct 2024 GA In-place scaling for Enterprise caches
24 Oct 2024 GA Azure SQL updates for late-October 2024
23 Oct 2024 GA Announcing Azure OpenAI Global Batch General availability: At scale processing with 50% less cost!
23 Oct 2024 Notice Overcoming Asymmetrical Routing in Azure Virtual WAN: A Collaborative Journey
22 Oct 2024 Notice Launching the Arc Jumpstart Newsletter: October 2024 Edition
22 Oct 2024 Notice Migrating Azure Data Factory’s Snowflake Connector from Legacy to latest V2
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!