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Azure portal now offers in context observability for AKS object overviews
View your key performance metrics for your AKS resources in context with the Azure Portal
Public preview: Managed Prometheus visualizations for Azure Monitor container insights
Container insights now supports out of the box visualizations using only managed Prometheus.
Preview: Windows gRPC support is now available on App Service
gRPC support for App Service Windows now in preview
Public preview: Azure Log Analytics enhances resilience with workspace replication across regions
Target availability: Q2 2024
Azure Log Analytics is announcing Workspace Replication, a new capability that enhances workspace resilience by enabling you to switch your workspace operation to another region if your primary region isn’t healthy.
Expanding extensibility model to Pulumi in Azure Deployment Environments
Expanding extensibility model to Pulumi in Azure Deployment Environments
Public preview: Azure Firewall integration in Microsoft Copilot for Security
The Azure Firewall integration helps analysts perform detailed investigations of the malicious traffic intercepted by the IDPS feature of their firewalls across their entire fleet using natural language questions in the Copilot for Security standalone experience.
Public preview: Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) integration in Microsoft Copilot for Security
Increase your security posture and receive an analysis of the top Azure WAF rules triggered, top offending IPs in the environment, SQL injection and Cross-site scripting attacks blocked by WAF, along with natural language explanation of the analysis.
Public preview: Aspire dashboard support in Azure Container Apps
You can now access the Aspire dashboard in Azure Portal for your Azure Container Apps project.
Public preview: Azure Functions support for HTTP streams in Python
Use HTTP streams in Python for processing large data streaming OpenAI responses and delivering dynamic content
Azure Static Web Apps offers new Dedicated plan in preview
Enterprise-grade features for advanced use cases
New Azure Event Grid capabilities support IoT solutions, event sources
Additional support for Azure Event Hubs means customers can run existing Kafka workloads
Microsoft Dev Box introduces new ready-to-code and enterprise management capabilities
Dev Box has been updated with several new developer productivity and enterprise management capabilities.
Public Preview - Azure Compute Fleet
Target availability: Q2 2024
Azure Compute Fleet is a game changer in scaling and optimizing Azure compute resources across different virtual machine (VM) types, availability zones, and pricing models to achieve desired scale, performance, and cost.
Public Preview Azure OpenAI Semantic Caching policy in Azure API Management
Target availability: Q2 2024
We're excited to announce the Public Preview for the Azure OpenAI Semantic Caching policy in Azure API Management! This innovative feature empowers customers to optimize token usage by leveraging semantic caching, which intelligently stores completions for prompts with similar meanings.
GA Circuit Breaker in Azure API Management
Target availability: Q2 2024
The circuit breaker, now generally available in Azure API Management, is seamlessly integrated to provide customers with an easy-to-use solution for enhancing the resilience of their API environments.
GA OData API type in Azure API Management
Target availability: Q2 2024
We're thrilled to announce the general availability of the OData API type in Azure API Management. This exciting addition extends Azure API Management's capabilities to include OData APIs, allowing users to apply standard API protections such as authentication, authorization, and rate limiting, alongside OData-specific policies for request validation.
GA Load Balancer in Azure API Management
Target availability: Q2 2024
The General Availability of the Load Balancer feature in Azure API Management is here! Now, customers can effortlessly create a pool of backends and efficiently distribute the load across multiple endpoints. By establishing backend pools, users can seamlessly balance the load across various backends when integrating multiple backends for an API.
GA Support for gRPC APIs in Azure API Management Self-hosted Gateway
Target availability: Q2 2024
We're thrilled to announce the general availability of gRPC support in Azure API Management through the self-hosted gateway. This exciting feature empowers customers to seamlessly manage their gRPC services as APIs within Azure API Management.
GA Import Azure OpenAI enpoints as an APIs in Azure API Management
Target availability: Q2 2024
We're excited to announce the General Availability of the Import Azure OpenAI as an API feature in Azure API Management! With this new capability, customers can seamlessly import Azure OpenAI endpoints as an API with just a single click, streamlining the entire process.
GA Azure OpenAI Emit Token Metric policy in Azure API Management
Target availability: Q2 2024
We're thrilled to announce the General Availability of the Azure OpenAI Emit Token Metric policy in Azure API Management! This new feature enables customers to effortlessly configure token usage metrics to be sent directly to Azure Application Insights, providing insights into the utilization of Azure OpenAI models across various applications and teams.
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