Azure Updates – Number 7 – March 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

Public preview: Service Tags for User Defined Routing

General availability: Stream Analytics runs on Azure Stack Hub

General availability: New VM series supported by Azure Batch

General availability: IoT Hub Azure portal extension update

Public preview: Announcing the new Power BI embedded analytics playground

AzCopy v10.9.0 now in public preview: import from GCP to Azure Block Blobs

Public preview: IPv6 Support for ExpressRoute Private Peering

Azure Automation is now available in UK West

Azure Container Registry now available in Norway East region

General availability: Publishing VM Images from Shared Image Gallery to Azure Marketplace

General availability: Enhanced Azure Dashboards experience for pinned Log Analytics parts

HBv3-Series VMs now generally available in East US, South Central US, and West Europe

Azure Sphere OS version 21.03 is now available for evaluation

Directory scoped shared access signatures (SAS) generally available

Azure Data Explorer performance update (EngineV3) is now generally available

Public preview: App Service Managed Certificates now supports apex domains

Service Broker message exchange for Azure SQL Managed Instance in public preview

General availability: Azure Data Explorer (ADX) Performance Updates

Machine Learning Services on Azure SQL Managed Instance now generally available

General availability: Dynamic data masking granular permissions for Azure SQL and Azure Synapse Analytics

Azure Monitor SQL insights for Azure SQL in public preview

Long-term backup retention (LTR) for Azure SQL Managed Instance in public preview

Generally available: Monitor your spending through forecasted cost alerts with Azure Cost Management and Billing

Azure API Management support for request and response validation policies has??reached general availability.??

Limited preview: Make workloads on AMD-backed virtual machines confidential without recompiling code

Azure Storage Explorer v1.18.0 is now generally available

General availability: Media Services adds new “StandBy” mode for Live Events to speed up start times from warm state

General availability: Media Services introduces new security features

Azure IoT Central new and updated features???February 2021

Brazil South Availability Zones now generally available

Azure expands PCI DSS certification

Azure Blog

Scale cloud adoption with modular designs for enterprise-scale landing zones

5 reasons Databricks runs best on Azure

Strengthen and optimize compliance in Azure Security Center

Expanding our DR scenarios to new zonal capabilities with Azure Site Recovery

Advancing Azure business continuity management

Perform at-scale, agentless SQL Server discovery and assessment with Azure Migrate

Learn about the latest innovations: Inside Azure Datacenter Architecture

Limited-time free quantities offer for Azure Synapse Analytics

Our commitment to expand Azure Availability Zones to more regions

Accelerate your cloud adoption with the start small and expand landing zone

Azure Sentinel Blog

Web Shell Threat Hunting with Azure Sentinel

Best practices for migrating detection rules from ArcSight, Splunk and QRadar to Azure Sentinel

What???s new: Automation rules

Monitoring the Software Supply Chain with Azure Sentinel

What???s new: Alert Enrichment ??? Custom Details and Entity Mapping