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azure: [Launched] Generally Available: OneLake catalog integration for Azure AI Search knowledge sources

Azure Updates

2026-06-02

Azure AI Search's OneLake catalog integration for knowledge sources is now generally available. Customers can register a OneLake item once and reuse it across multiple knowledge sources and agents, with existing OneLake item-level permissions honored.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Monitor HTTP traffic in Azure Container Apps

Azure Updates

2026-06-02

Azure Container Apps now provides a dedicated Azure Monitor diagnostic setting category, ContainerAppHTTPLogs, for detailed HTTP access logs on incoming traffic. The new category is intended for high-volume request data alongside existing platform-level logs.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: MCP Toolkit for Azure Cosmos DB

Azure Updates

2026-06-02

The MCP Toolkit for Azure Cosmos DB is now generally available. It provides a standardized way to connect AI agents and copilots to Cosmos DB operational data and capabilities.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Managed virtual network for evaluations in Microsoft Foundry

Azure Updates

2026-06-02

Microsoft Foundry now generally supports managed virtual networks for evaluations. This lets cloud evaluation jobs reach models and agents protected by private endpoints using a Foundry-managed VNET for outbound connectivity.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Managed identity for Foundry billing calls from Azure AI Search

Azure Updates

2026-06-02

Azure AI Search now supports managed identity authentication for billing operations against Microsoft Foundry resources instead of the previous key-based flow. Customers can use either a system-assigned or user-assigned identity on the search service.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: LLM Speech API in Azure AI Speech

Azure Updates

2026-06-02

Azure AI Speech has made the LLM Speech API generally available. It adds LLM-based transcription and translation for audio files, supports 25 languages across 90+ locales, and includes accuracy, region, and enhancement updates.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Improved PDF batch document translation in Azure AI Translator

Azure Updates

2026-06-02

Azure AI Translator’s batch document translation for PDF is now generally available with improvements for PDF translation. It uses Azure AI Document Intelligence to recover structure from both digital-native and scanned PDFs before translating the recognized text.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Image translation inside Office documents for batch document translation

Azure Updates

2026-06-02

Azure AI Translator batch document translation now supports translating text embedded in images inside Word .docx files. The service detects image regions, performs OCR, translates the text, and re-renders it in place.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Image file translation for batch document translation in Azure AI Translator

Azure Updates

2026-06-02

Azure AI Translator batch document translation now generally supports image files as input. It performs OCR on supported image formats and translates the extracted text into the target language.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Graceful failover with zero data loss guarantee

Azure Updates

2026-06-02

Azure DocumentDB now generally available supports graceful failover that promotes replica clusters with a zero data loss guarantee. It is an addition to the existing force promote option, which promotes immediately.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: GitHub Copilot integration in Schema Designer for the MSSQL extension

Azure Updates

2026-06-02

GitHub Copilot integration in Schema Designer for the MSSQL extension is now generally available in Visual Studio Code. It adds AI-assisted capabilities to the visual schema design experience.

azure: [Launched] Generally available: Generally available: Managed system node pools in AKS Automatic

Azure Updates

2026-06-02

AKS Automatic now provides managed system node pools, so Azure provisions and operates the system pool infrastructure instead of requiring customer management. This reduces ongoing work for scaling, patching, and availability.