Azure-Updates

General availability: ExpressRoute Seamless Gateway Migration

ExpressRoute customers can now deploy a second gateway to the Gateway Subnet. This will enable a seamless migration to an Az-enabled Gateway SKU and upgrade your Public IP configurations.

• ExpressRoute-Gateways
• Azure ExpressRoute
• Pricing & Offerings
• Features

The availability of Azure compute reservations will continue until further notice

Initially planned to end on January 1, 2024, the availability of Azure compute reservation exchanges for Azure Virtual Machine, Azure Dedicated Host and Azure App Service has been extended until further notice.

• Pricing & Offerings

General Availability: Data API builder

Zielverfügbarkeit: Q2 2024

Add a feature-rich data API to an Azure database or on-prem database using Microsoft's open-source Data API builder.

• Azure SQL-Datenbank
• Azure Cosmos DB
• Azure Database for PostgreSQL
• Azure Database for MySQL
• Features

Public preview: Sensitive data protection for Azure Front Door Web Application Firewall

Protect the sensitive data getting stored in your Web Application Firewall (WAF) using log scrubbing on Azure’s global Web Application Firewall running on Azure Front Door.

• Web Application Firewall
• Azure Front Door
• Security
• Features

Introducing GPT-4o: OpenAI’s new flagship multimodal model now in preview on Azure

Zielverfügbarkeit: Q2 2024

Microsoft is thrilled to announce the launch of GPT-4o, OpenAI’s new flagship model, now available on Azure AI in preview. This groundbreaking multimodal model integrates text, vision, and audio capabilities, setting a new standard for generative and conversational AI experiences. GPT-4o is available now in Azure OpenAI Service, in preview, with support for text and image. Azure OpenAI Service customers can explore GPT-4o’s extensive capabilities through a preview playground in Azure OpenAI Studio starting today in two regions in the US. This initial release focuses on text and vision inputs to provide a glimpse into the model's potential, paving the way for further capabilities like audio.

• Azure OpenAI-Dienst
• Azure AI Services
• Services
• Features

Azure Front Door server variable enhancement generally available

Azure Front Door supports capturing URL path and URL case transformation in rules set and server variable.

• Azure Front Door
• Security
• Services
• Features

Generally Available: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS for Azure Virtual Machines

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, the latest Ubuntu LTS release from Canonical, is now available for Azure Virtual Machines (VMs)

• Virtuelle Linux-Computer
• Open Source
• Operating System

Public Preview: Azure Site Recovery support for Azure Trusted Launch VMs (Windows OS)

Azure Site Recovery support for Windows Trusted launch VMs

• Azure Site Recovery
• Management
• Features
• Compliance

Public preview: Azure Application Gateway v2 Basic SKU

Designed for customers, especially developers or small enterprises who are looking for a cost-effective Application Load Balancer solution and don’t require high scalability and the advanced features.

• Application Gateway
• Security
• Services

General availability: Azure Bastion Developer SKU

The Bastion Developer SKU represents a novel, cost-effective, and streamlined version of the Bastion service.

• Azure Bastion
• Security
• Regions & Datacenters
• Services
• Features

Cloud Services (classic) deployment model is retiring on 31 August 2024

Einstellung am: August 31, 2024

Cloud Services (classic) retiring in August 2024.

• Retirements

Announcing the General Availability of GPT-4 Turbo with Vision on Azure OpenAI Service

Zielverfügbarkeit: Q2 2024

We are thrilled to announce the general availability of GPT-4 Turbo with Vision on the Azure OpenAI Service, which processes both text and image inputs and replaces several preview models. This multimodal model has already been used by customers in various industries to enhance efficiencies and innovate, with case studies to be featured at the upcoming Build conference. For deployment details and future enhancements, including JSON mode and function calling for image inputs, please refer to our Azure OpenAI Service resources and updates.

• Azure OpenAI-Dienst
• Azure KI Vision
• Services
• Microsoft Build
• Features

New version of AKS extension in Visual Studio Code now available

You can now take advantage of new enhancements available in version 1.4.3

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Visual Studio-Code
• SDK and Tools
• Open Source

Public preview: Initialization taints in AKS

You can now use node initialization taints in AKS e.g. in scenarios where you may need extra time to setup your nodes.

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Features

GA: Support for disabling Windows outboundNAT in AKS

You can now manually disable Windows outboundNAT when creating new Windows node pools in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Security
• Features

Public Preview: NFS Azure Files volume mount support in Azure Container Apps

You can now mount NFS file shares in Azure Container Apps.

• Azure Container Apps
• Features

General availability: Customer-managed keys on existing accounts

Zielverfügbarkeit: Q2 2024

Configure customer-managed keys for your existing Azure Cosmos DB account.

• Azure Cosmos DB
• Features

Public Preview: SQL Server on Azure VM storage configuration deployment experience with support for Premium SSD v2

Zielverfügbarkeit: Q2 2024

Customers can now choose Premium SSD v2 for the Ebdsv5 and Ebsv5 virtual machine series with the additional ability to opt-in for NVMe support.

• SQL Server auf Azure Virtual Machines
• Features

General availability: Latest version of the TimeScaleDB extension on Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server

Zielverfügbarkeit: Q2 2024

Upgrade to the latest TimeScaleDB extension on Azure for enhanced time-series data handling and improved performance.

• Azure Database for PostgreSQL
• Features