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Public Preview: Migrate virtual machine backups using standard backup policy to enhanced backup policy
Azure Backup now supports migrating virtual backups using standard backup policy to enhanced backup policy.
App Service Environment version 1 and version 2 will be retired on 31 August 2024
Target retirement date: August 31, 2024
Migrate to App Service Environment v3 by 31 August 2024.
Upcoming changes to Databricks materialized views and streaming tables in Databricks SQL
Azure Databricks materialized views and streaming tables Billing change
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.
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.
General Availability: Data API builder
Target availability: Q2 2024
Add a feature-rich data API to an Azure database or on-prem database using Microsoft's open-source Data API builder.
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.
Introducing GPT-4o: OpenAI’s new flagship multimodal model now in preview on Azure
Target availability: 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 Front Door server variable enhancement generally available
Azure Front Door supports capturing URL path and URL case transformation in rules set and server variable.
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)
Public Preview: Azure Site Recovery support for Azure Trusted Launch VMs (Windows OS)
Azure Site Recovery support for Windows Trusted launch VMs
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.
General availability: Azure Bastion Developer SKU
The Bastion Developer SKU represents a novel, cost-effective, and streamlined version of the Bastion service.
Cloud Services (classic) deployment model is retiring on 31 August 2024
Target retirement date: August 31, 2024
Cloud Services (classic) retiring in August 2024.
Announcing the General Availability of GPT-4 Turbo with Vision on Azure OpenAI Service
Target availability: 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.
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
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.
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).
Public Preview: NFS Azure Files volume mount support in Azure Container Apps
You can now mount NFS file shares in Azure Container Apps.
General availability: Customer-managed keys on existing accounts
Target availability: Q2 2024
Configure customer-managed keys for your existing Azure Cosmos DB account.
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