Azure Updates – Number 1 – January 04, 2021

A summary update on Azure News that includes updates released from Microsoft Azure related to Azure, Architecture, Compute, and Sentinel topics. Every 2 weeks I’ll be posting a summary of the recent updates in these areas. I’ll provide links to all the resource updates with each item. Hopefully this will save you some time digging around to find recent releases and changes.

Updates will include preview and general availability announcements, news, and technical articles published in the listed topic areas.

Azure Updates

Azure Defender for SQL (in Azure Security Center)???News and updates for December 2020

Azure Security Center???News and updates for December 2020

NCas_T4_v3-Series VMs are now generally available

Public preview | Azure NetApp Files : Application Consistent Snapshot tool (AzAcSnap)

Azure Automation is now available in Germany West Central

Public preview: Support of Azure Container Registry across Availability Zones

Ingress logs are now available for Azure Time Series Insights environments

Azure Automation Python 3 runbook support is now available in public preview

Azure Monitor for Containers support for Private Clusters now in public preview

RabbitMQ Extension for Windows and Linux is now generally available

4 common analytics scenarios to build business agility

Azure Sentinel

The Ninja Training 2021 edition is out!

Azure Defender for IoT Raw-Data and ICS MITRE ATT&CK Matrix Mapping via Azure Sentinel

The FAQ companion to the Azure Sentinel Ninja training

New Year – New Official Azure Sentinel PowerShell Module!

Ingestion Cost Alert Playbook

Compute and Azure Architecture have no updates within the last 2 weeks as of publication.