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Customers can now utilize Azure Backup for AKS to recover their containerized applications and data during a regional disaster scenario.

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Provision up to 10 read replicas in universal regions on Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server.

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General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in early-October 2023.   

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Use Azure Private Link for private connectivity with MySQL – Flexible Server.

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Now you can easily leverage your data stored in Azure Cosmos DB for Mongo DB vCore for Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) with Azure OpenAI models using the "Use your data" feature in Azure OpenAI Studio.

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We’re thrilled to announce the public preview launch of our latest Azure API Management pricing tiers: Basic v2 and Standard v2. These new tiers address highly sought-after customer requests, bring quality-of-service enhancements, and offer a flexible starting point for API Management, allowing organizations of any size to embark on their API journey.

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Use ExpressRoute Traffic Collector to enable collection of flow logs for traffic sent over your ExpressRoute direct circuit.

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On the 15-Jan we are going to fix those 2 values in LSA payload to contain the correct values according to our other alerts services.

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Azure Files now supports an expanded character set enabling file and directory names with all valid Unicode characters.

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Azure Chaos Studio has Query-Based Dynamic Targets.

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Azure Service Bus SDK libraries that don’t conform to Azure SDK guidelines will be retired and support will end.

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Log Analytics agent–based VM insights will be retired.

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Azure Cache for Redis support for TLS 1.0/1.1 will be retired on 30 September 2024.

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The Explanation and Fairness Dashboard will be retired on 14 March 2025, please transition to the Responsible AI Dashboard (generally available) by that date.  The Responsible AI dashboard will have feature parity and new additional features. You can still create and view the Explanation and Fairness dashboards with our open-source offerings (InterpretML and Fairlearn respectively), which are free for public use on GitHub and will continue to be maintained. 

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On 30 March 2024, the Azure Cosmos DB preview of built-in Jupyter notebooks will be retired. If you’re using notebooks to interact with your Azure Cosmos DB account, transition to run these notebooks using Visual Studio Code’s support for Jupyter notebooks, or your preferred notebooks client.

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Deprecation of Azure Activity Logs legacy solution and auto migration

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Migrate from Bing Speech to Speech Services and the Speech SDK by 3 November 2023

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Older control plane APIs in Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Hubs, and Azure Relay will be retired.

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Customers can now use custom backups, to back up their web app’s files and configuration data to a firewall-protected storage account.

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Azure IoT Hub now supports the ability to setup an Azure Cosmos DB account as a custom endpoint. This will help route device data from IoT Hub to Azure Cosmos DB directly.

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