Azure Updates – Number 9 – April 24, 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 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
Thu, 22 Apr 2021 Public preview: Enhancements to encryption using customer managed keys for Azure Backup Wed, 21 Apr 2021 Public preview: Azure Purview is now available in the UK South and Australia East region Tue, 20 Apr 2021 Action required: upgrade your AML cluster to Ubuntu 18.04 LTS by 30 April 2021 Tue, 20 Apr 2021 Azure Purview resource set pattern rules available in public preview Tue, 20 Apr 2021 General availability: Application Gateway URL Rewrite Tue, 20 Apr 2021 Azure Data Factory announces Data Flow general availability in two new Azure regions Mon, 19 Apr 2021 Azure Virtual Machines DCsv2-series now available in public preview in Azure Government Mon, 19 Apr 2021 Announcing general availability of new M-series Msv2/Mdsv2 Medium Memory VMs for memory-optimized workloads Fri, 16 Apr 2021 Open source API Portal now generally available Thu, 15 Apr 2021 General availability: Azure Sphere version 21.04 expected on April 29, 2021 Thu, 15 Apr 2021 User data through Azure Instance Metadata Service now generally available Thu, 15 Apr 2021 General availability: Event source start options in Azure Time Series Insights Gen2 Wed, 14 Apr 2021 Azure Automation support for System Assigned Managed Identities is now in public preview Wed, 14 Apr 2021 Apache Spark 3.0 is now available for public preview in HDInsight 4.0. Wed, 14 Apr 2021 Public preview – Support for multiple currencies on Retail Rates API for all Azure products/services Wed, 14 Apr 2021 Cognitive Services – New Computer Vision API v3.2 now generally available Wed, 14 Apr 2021 General availability: Log analytics workspace name uniqueness is now per resource group Wed, 14 Apr 2021 General availability: New Azure Policy built-in definitions for data encryption in Azure Monitor Wed, 14 Apr 2021 Public preview: Functions upgrade in Azure Monitor log analytics Wed, 14 Apr 2021 Public preview: Cognitive Services- Anomaly Detector now supports multivariate anomaly detection??? Wed, 14 Apr 2021 Reduce dataflow execution time with cluster reuse public preview in Azure Data Factory Wed, 14 Apr 2021 Public preview of Microsoft Build of OpenJDK Wed, 14 Apr 2021 Public preview of SAP NetWeaver, North Europe, and new updates in cluster monitoring Wed, 14 Apr 2021 Azure IoT Edge nesting capabilities are now generally available Wed, 14 Apr 2021 Azure??SQL???general availability updates for??April??14, 2021?? Wed, 14 Apr 2021 Azure Database for PostgreSQL ??? Hyperscale (Citus) same region read replicas in public preview Wed, 14 Apr 2021 Azure Database for PostgreSQL ??? Hyperscale (Citus) Basic in public preview Wed, 14 Apr 2021 Azure Database for PostgreSQL ??? Hyperscale (Citus) maintenance schedules in public preview Wed, 14 Apr 2021 MSIX app attach in Azure portal now generally available Wed, 14 Apr 2021 Public preview: Azure Machine Learning VS Code Integration Wed, 14 Apr 2021 Azure API Management support for Availability Zones now generally available Tue, 13 Apr 2021 General availability: Azure IoT Central new and updated features???March 2021 Mon, 12 Apr 2021 General availability: Lustre?? HSM tools now available to import from or export to Azure Storage. Mon, 12 Apr 2021 Azure IoT Edge 1.2.0 release is now generally available Mon, 12 Apr 2021 Azure Maps Weather Services are now generally available Mon, 12 Apr 2021 General availability: Azure Blob storage supports objects up to 200 TB in size Mon, 12 Apr 2021 Log Analytics Windows Agent for Winter 2021 now generally available
Azure Blog
Thu, 22 Apr 2021 Azure Trivia is back and it’s bigger, better, and faster than ever Thu, 22 Apr 2021 Microsoft brings Azure supercomputing to UK Met Office Wed, 21 Apr 2021 Why wait? SaaS-delivered data management for the pace of change Tue, 13 Apr 2021 Empowering operators on their cloud migration journey Tue, 13 Apr 2021 Digital event: 5 reasons to attend Azure Storage Day Tue, 13 Apr 2021 The blueprint to securely solve the elusive zero-touch provisioning of IoT devices at scale Mon, 12 Apr 2021 Microsoft powers transformation at NVIDIA GTC — GPU technology conference Mon, 12 Apr 2021 Build secure manufacturing operations with nesting capabilities for Azure IoT Edge
Azure Sentinel Blog
