Azure Updates – Number 2 – January 30, 2021

A summary update on Azure News that includes updates released from Microsoft Azure related to Azure, Architecture, Compute, and Sentinel topics. 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 for the previous 2 week snapshot.

Azure Updates

General availability: Azure Machine Learning Output Datasets

Public preview: Azure Machine Learning Data Labeling ??? Image Instance Segmentation

Azure Sphere version 21.01 is now available

Azure Service Fabric Mesh Preview Retirement

Azure API Management Updates – January, 2021

Resource instance rules for access to Azure Storage now in public preview

Azure Cognitive Services Translator – Inuktitut language text translation now available

99.99% uptime for Azure Active Directory Premium customers is coming April 1st, 2021

Germany West Central Availability Zones now generally available

South Central US Availability Zones now generally available

Confluent Cloud Integration with Azure is now generally available

Python 3.9 in Azure Functions is now in public preview

Azure Data Factory is now available in two additional regions

General availability: Azure HDInsight extends capabilities for encryption of data in transit and at rest

New Azure Cloud Services deployment model in public preview

Generally available: Copy Blob support over private endpoints in Azure Storage

Azure Boards – New enhancements to Delivery Plans 2.0

Public preview: Automatic Cluster Upgrades in AKS

Public preview: Azure Log Analytics in UAE Central & Japan West

Public preview: Application Insight in Japan West

Public preview: Prevent Shared Key authorization on Azure Storage accounts

Azure Automation is now available in Switzerland West

General availability: Azure Log Analytics in Germany West Central, UAE North, & Switzerland West

General availability: Application Insight in Germany West Central, UAE North, & Switzerland West

App Service Authentication portal experience is now in public preview

Azure Monitor Network Insights is now generally available

Changes in Azure Monitor Logs for the AzureDiagnostics table is now available

Automatic tracking of click events with Application Insights is now available

Public preview of Linux Diagnostics Agent 4.0

General availability: Optional Uptime SLA for Azure Kubernetes Service private clusters

Public preview: Azure Key Vault CSI driver support in Azure Kubernetes Service

Azure Cosmos DB: Multiple region Availability Zones support with single-region write now generally available

LIKE keyword support now generally available in Azure Cosmos DB

Azure Cosmos DB Management with PowerShell cmdlets is now generally available

Confidential computing using Always Encrypted with secure enclaves now in public preview

Azure IoT Edge for Linux on Windows available for public preview

Azure Site Recovery update rollup 53 is now available – January 2021

The Azure Quota REST API to manage service limits (quotas) is now generally available

Azure Monitor ITSM Connector for ServiceNow ITOM with Secure Export

Backup for Azure Managed Disk is in limited preview

Azure Backup: Encryption at rest using customer-managed keys is now generally available

Azure Blog

Automate application lifecycle management with GitHub Actions

Azure Cost Management and Billing updates ??? January 2021

Azure Availability Zones in the South Central US datacenter region add resiliency

Introducing seamless integration between Microsoft Azure and Confluent Cloud

4 reasons customers are asking service partners for Azure Lighthouse

Build regionally resilient cloud services using the Azure Resource Manager

Key customer benefits of the expanded SAP and Microsoft partnership

Azure Sentinel Blog

Protecting your DocuSign Agreements with Azure Sentinel

Bring Threat Intelligence from IntSights Using TAXII Data Connector

What???s new: Dedicated clusters for Azure Sentinel

What???s new: Managed Identity for Azure Sentinel Logic Apps connector

Handling ingestion delay in Azure Sentinel scheduled alert rules