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News

Responsible AI practices and the Innovation Challenge Hackathon NEW

Microsoft's Lucio Tiberi will present on Microsoft's Responsible AI standard, its importance and how it is being put into practice in our industry....

AI and machine learning

The Azure Podcast

Episode 494 - Inside Azure Resource Manager NEW

We are fortunate to have Vlad Joanovic to give us the valuable insights into ARM. He shares the importance of ARM in Azure, provides details on performance...

Azure, Analytics, Azure Resource Manager, Azure ExpressRoute, App Service

Apps on Azure Blog

Introducing Rich Reporting and Troubleshooting for Microsoft Playwright Testing NEW

Today, we're excited to introduce rich reporting and easy troubleshooting for the Microsoft Playwright Testing service! Microsoft Playwright Testing is a managed service built for running Playwright tests easily at scale. Playwright is...

Azure, Integration

Apps on Azure Blog

Announcing multi-region load tests and support for Locust framework in Azure Load Testing NEW

We are excited to announce the launch of two new features in Azure Load Testing: multi-region load tests and support for Locust framework. Azure Load Testing is a fully managed service for performance testing that helps developers and...

Azure, Azure Load Testing, App Service, Python, Azure Functions

Apps on Azure Blog

General Availability of Kubernetes Event-Driven Autoscaler (KEDA) in Azure Portal NEW

Kubernetes Event-Driven Autoscaler (KEDA) is an open-source, lightweight component that allows users to autoscale container workloads on events in external scalers. KEDA extends the functionality of the native Kubernetes Horizontal Pod...

Azure, Azure Kubernetes Service, Service Bus

Azure Architecture Blog

Azure OpenAI chat baseline architecture in an Azure landing zone NEW

The excitement surrounding Microsoft Build 2024 brings into focus the significant steps required to integrate AI and ML innovations into Azure workloads effectively. An essential resource for this integration journey is the Azure...

Azure, AI and machine learning

Apps on Azure Blog

Karpenter: Run your Workloads upto 80% Off using Spot with AKS NEW

Introduction At last year's KubeCon North America, Microsoft announced the adoption of Karpenter in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) as an alternative to the Cluster Autoscaler (CA), referred to as Node Autoprovisioning (NAP). While...

Azure, Azure Kubernetes Service, Virtual Machine Scale Sets, Azure Resource Manager, Azure CLI

Updates

5/22/2024

Public preview: Managed Prometheus visualizations for Azure Monitor container insights NEW

Azure portal now offers in context observability for AKS object overviews NEW

Public preview: Azure Log Analytics enhances resilience with workspace replication across regions NEW

Preview: Windows gRPC support is now available on App Service NEW

5/21/2024

Expanding extensibility model to Pulumi in Azure Deployment Environments NEW

Public preview: Azure Firewall integration in Microsoft Copilot for Security NEW

Public preview: Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) integration in Microsoft Copilot for Security NEW

Public preview: Aspire dashboard support in Azure Container Apps NEW

Public preview: Azure Functions support for HTTP streams in Python NEW

Azure Static Web Apps offers new Dedicated plan in preview NEW

New Azure Event Grid capabilities support IoT solutions, event sources NEW

Microsoft Dev Box introduces new ready-to-code and enterprise management capabilities NEW

Public Preview Azure OpenAI Semantic Caching policy in Azure API Management NEW

GA Circuit Breaker in Azure API Management NEW

GA OData API type in Azure API Management NEW

GA Load Balancer in Azure API Management NEW

GA Support for gRPC APIs in Azure API Management Self-hosted Gateway NEW

GA Azure OpenAI Emit Token Metric policy in Azure API Management NEW

GA Import Azure OpenAI enpoints as an APIs in Azure API Management NEW

Public Preview Azure Logic Apps Standard] .NET 8 Custom Code Support NEW

GA Azure OpenAI Token Limit Policy in Azure API Management NEW

GA Improved Onboarding Experience on VS Code for Azure Logic Apps Standard NEW

Public Preview Azure Logic Apps Standard Support for Zero Downtime deployment scenarios NEW

Public Preview Azure Logic Apps Standard Deployment Scripting Tools in VS Code NEW

Public Preview Azure Logic Apps Monitoring Dashboard for Workflow Monitoring, Troubleshooting, and Resubmissions NEW

GA EDI capabilities in Azure Logic Apps Standard NEW

Public Preview Azure Integration Account Enhancements NEW

Public Preview Azure Service Bus Enhancements NEW

Public Preview: Next-Gen Dashboards Experience in Azure Portal NEW

Public preview: Dynamic sessions in Azure Container Apps NEW

Public Preview: Set Java log levels in Azure Container Apps NEW

Public Preview: Monitor apps with Java metrics in Azure Container Apps NEW

Generally Available: Azure Functions Support for HTTP Streams in Node.js NEW

Generally Available: Azure Functions extension for Dapr NEW

Public preview: Get started with Azure Functions using Visual Studio Code for the Web NEW

Public Preview: Azure Functions brings new flexibility with Azure Functions Flex Consumption NEW

Public preview: Azure Functions extension for OpenAI NEW

Public preview: SDK type bindings for Azure Blog Storage with Azure Functions in Python NEW

Generally Available: Azure Functions can now run on Azure Container Apps NEW

Public preview: KEDA in the Azure Portal NEW

Public preview: Kubernetes version 1.30 support in AKS NEW

Generally Available: Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager workload orchestration NEW

Public preview: Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager support for property-based scheduling and override NEW

Draft now supports best practices via deployment safeguards NEW

Public preview: Deployment safeguards mutations in enforcement mode for AKS NEW

Public preview: AKS Automatic NEW

Generally Available: Automated deployments for AKS NEW

Public Preview: Microsoft Copilot now offers supportability in Azure Database for MySQL NEW

Generally Available: 32TB storage support in Azure Database for MySQL Flexible Server Business Critical NEW

Public Preview - On-demand backup and Export in Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server NEW

Generally Available: Accelerated logs in Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server NEW

General availability: Azure SQL updates for late-May 2024 NEW

Public Preview: Azure SQL updates for late-May 2024 NEW

Public Preview: New Azure SQL Database skills introduced to Microsoft Copilot in Azure NEW

Public preview - Major version upgrade support for PostgreSQL 16 NEW

Public Preview: In-database embeddings in Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server NEW

Public Preview: Index recommendations in Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server NEW

Public preview: Change from serverless to provisioned capacity mode NEW

General Availability: Azure AI extension in Azure Database for PostgreSQL NEW

General Availability: Azure Cosmos DB Vercel integration NEW

Public Preview: DiskANN vector indexing and search in Azure Cosmos DB NoSQL NEW

Public Preview: vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB cross-region disaster recovery (DR) NEW

General availability: Azure Cosmos DB Go SDK NEW

Public preview: Azure Cache for Redis Enterprise now offers a 1GB E1 SKU NEW

General availability: Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL integrations in LangChain and Semantic Kernel NEW

General availability: Azure Cache for Redis triggers and bindings for Azure Functions NEW

General availability: Computed properties in Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL NEW

Experimentation capabilities for Azure App Configuration now in public preview NEW

General availability: Azure Cache for Redis now supports Microsoft Entra ID authentication and authorization NEW

Preview: Azure Cobalt 100 Arm-based Virtual Machines NEW

Azure Machine Learning - Public Preview for Build 2024 NEW

Azure Machine Learning - General Availability for Build 2024 NEW

Update on Inter-Availability Zone Data Transfer Pricing NEW

Videos

Microsoft DevRadio YouTube Channel

Responsible AI practices and the Innovation Challenge Hackathon NEW

Microsoft's Lucio Tiberi will present on Microsoft's Responsible AI standard, its importance and how it is being put into practice in our industry....

AI and machine learning