AzureTracks Azure News Update
Andrew Posted on 10:38 am

Azure Updates – Number 4 – Feb 27, 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. Presented is a subset of news that is highlighted here, visit Azure Blog or Azure Updates Blog to see all the updates.

Azure Updates

Azure Site Recovery update rollup 54 is now generally available – February 2021
We are retiring Classic Azure Migrate on 29 February 2024
Action required: Switch to Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 by 29 February 2024
Update the Azure Cosmos DB Java SDK by 29 February 2024
Start using new alerts in Azure Monitor for Azure Government Cloud
Start using new alerts in Azure Monitor for Azure China 21Vianet
Azure Stack Edge Pro FPGA is retiring on 29 February 2024
Microsoft plans to establish first datacenter region in Indonesia
Azure Batch rendering VM images & licensing will be retired on 29 February 2024
We are retiring Azure Cognitive Services Text Analytics v2.x on 29 February 2024
Please upgrade your Azure AD Connect sync to a newer version by 29 February 2024
Azure Batch Transcription and Customization Rest API v2 will be retired by 29 February 2024
Azure Application Gateway analytics will be retired on 29 February 2024
Update your Azure Media Services REST API and SDKs to v3 by 29 February 2024
Update your scripts to use Az PowerShell modules by 29 February 2024
We’re retiring Classic Application Insights on 29 February 2024
AKS legacy Azure AD integration will be retired on 29 February 2024
Jenkins plug-ins for Azure are being retired on 29 February 2024
We’re retiring Azure Network Watcher Connection Monitor (classic) on 29 February 2024
We’re retiring Network Performance Monitor on 29 February 2024
Azure Automation is now available in UAE Central
Azure Batch ???CloudServiceConfiguration??? pools will be retired on 29 February 2024
The G5 and GS5 Azure VMs will no longer be hardware-isolated on 28 February 2022
The???GS5???Azure Virtual Machines will no longer be SAP HANA Certified???on???28???February???2022???
Community support for Python 3.6 is ending on 23 December 2021
The E64i_v3 & E64is_v3 Azure VMs will not be hardware-isolated on 28 February 2022
Azure Database for PostgreSQL ending support for PostgreSQL version 9.6 on 11 November 2021
Earlier versions of Analysis Services client libraries will retire on 30 June 2021
General availability: Data flows in Azure Data Factory and Azure Synapse now support Reserved Instances
General availability: Azure Cognitive Services Translator releases nine new languages
Azure Image Builder Service now generally available
Email one-time passcode authentication on by default starting October 2021
General availability: Web Application Firewall for Azure Front Door managed ruleset refresh
Web Application Firewall Integration with Azure Front Door Standard and Premium SKU
General availability support for Java Message Service (JMS) 2.0 API on Azure Service Bus Premium
Datadog integration with Azure: Public Preview
Azure Sphere OS version 21.02 is now available for evaluation
Azure Front Door Standard and Premium now in public preview
General Availability: Azure Red Hat OpenShift support for OpenShift 4.6
Azure Purview available in public preview in South Central US and Canada Central
General availability: Azure Machine Learning updates???for native terminal
Azure Dav4-series VMs are available in Azure HDInsight
Azure Database for PostgreSQL ??? Hyperscale (Citus) audit logging via pgAudit now in public preview
Azure NetApp Files | Volume hard quota change
Public preview: Application Insights work item integration for Azure DevOps & GitHub
Generally available: Application Insights synthetic monitoring SLA report template
Application Insights availability troubleshooting report for URL tests
Public preview: Application Insights auto-instrumentation for .NET5 App Services
Cross Region Restore of Azure VMs now generally available
New disk bursting metrics
Additional IOPS feature for MySQL – Flexible Server??in preview??
API Management Diagnostics now available in public preview
More ways to use composite indexes in Azure Cosmos DB now generally available
Log Replay Service for Azure SQL Managed Instance in public preview
Machine Learning on Azure SQL Managed Instance now available
Azure IoT Edge 1.1.0 release is now generally available
.NET Core support for Analysis Services client libraries is generally available
US Gov Virginia Availability Zones now generally available
Automatic Azure VM extension upgrade capabilities now in public preview
Azure Firewall Premium now in public preview
Azure role-based access control (RBAC) for Azure Key Vault data plane authorization is now generally available
Standard Load Balancer and IP addresses metadata now available through Azure Instance Metadata Service (IMDS)

Azure Blog

Demystifying cloud economics
E-commerce on Azure increases security with Payment Card Industry Three-Domain Secure compliance
Azure Cost Management and Billing updates – February 2021
Automating quota management with Azure Quota REST API
Accelerating Department of Defense mission workloads with Azure
Migrate SAP systems faster with Cloud Move for Azure by SNP
Introducing private Azure marketplace – simplified app governance and deployment
A deep dive into serverless applications on Power Apps and Azure
Azure Front Door enhances secure cloud CDN with intelligent threat protection
Azure Automation 2020 recap and what’s new

Azure Sentinel Blog

Jupyter Notebook Pivot Functions
Handling false positives in Azure Sentinel
Use Microsoft Azure Sentinel and Anomali Match for actionable threat detection
What’s new: User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) insights in the entity page!
The Toolkit for Data-Driven SOCs