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azure: [In preview] Public Preview: New Azure Cosmos DB cost estimator

Azure Updates

2026-06-02

Azure Cosmos DB cost estimator is now in public preview. It helps model throughput, storage, regions, and capacity mode before provisioning an account.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Neural HD voice update (HDv2.5) in Azure AI Speech

Azure Updates

2026-06-02

Azure AI Speech is updating its Neural HD text-to-speech model from DragonHDLatest to HDv2.5 in public preview. The change improves audio quality scores, adds style and paralinguistic tag support for English voices, and lowers word error rate.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Microsoft Purview sensitivity label auditing in Azure AI Search

Azure Updates

2026-06-02

Azure AI Search in public preview now emits audit events for Microsoft Purview sensitivity labels that are carried with indexed documents. This applies when the SharePoint in Microsoft 365 indexer is set to preserve and honor labels, and it records query-time filtering decisions and related label activity.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Microsoft Defender security assessments for Azure Database for PostgreSQL

Azure Updates

2026-06-02

Microsoft Defender security assessments are now in public preview for Azure Database for PostgreSQL. The feature continuously evaluates database security posture to help identify vulnerabilities and misconfigurations.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Microsoft Defender for Cloud support for Azure Container Apps (Serverless Containers Posture)

Azure Updates

2026-06-02

Microsoft Defender for Cloud now supports Azure Container Apps environments in its Serverless Containers Posture experience, available in public preview. This lets security teams manage posture for more of their container estate from one workflow.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: MCP toolkit for Azure DocumentDB

Azure Updates

2026-06-02

Azure DocumentDB adds support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) in public preview. The MCP toolkit lets AI agents and LLM-powered apps connect directly to a DocumentDB database for natural-language querying and document retrieval.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: MCP Server Knowledge Source in Microsoft Foundry IQ

Azure Updates

2026-06-02

Microsoft Foundry IQ now supports external MCP servers as federated knowledge sources in public preview. This lets teams connect sources from systems like Salesforce, Atlassian, and Confluence without indexing all data themselves.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: MAI-Transcribe-1.5 in Microsoft Foundry model catalog

Azure Updates

2026-06-02

Microsoft Foundry has added MAI-Transcribe-1.5 to its model catalog in public preview. The speech-to-text model is described as next generation and offers improved accuracy with a lower word error rate on long-tail locales compared with the previous version.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: MAI-Image-2.5 in Microsoft Foundry model catalog

Azure Updates

2026-06-02

Microsoft Foundry has added MAI-Image-2.5 to the model catalog in public preview. It is described as the next generation of Microsoft’s in-house image generation model, with improvements in photorealism, prompt fidelity, and generation speed over MAI-Image-2.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Knowledge as a Service with Azure Logic Apps.

Azure Updates

2026-06-02

Azure Logic Apps is introducing a public preview aimed at simplifying RAG by providing “Knowledge as a Service.” The update says teams can avoid building and operating the full ingestion, chunking, embeddings, vector store, and retrieval stack themselves.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Introducing AI Assistant in the Azure Cosmos DB extension for Visual Studio Code

Azure Updates

2026-06-02

Azure Cosmos DB extension for Visual Studio Code now includes a public preview AI Assistant. It lets users ask questions in plain English to generate optimized Azure Cosmos DB queries and use chat participant commands.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Integrated embeddings for Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL

Azure Updates

2026-06-02

Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL now has integrated embeddings in public preview. It can automatically generate and maintain embeddings for data, removing the need for a separate embedding pipeline.