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Azure Updates – Number 12 – June 5, 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

Sat, 05 Jun 2021General availability: ExpressRoute Global Reach Pricing Reduction
Fri, 04 Jun 2021General availability: Key Rotation and Expiration Policies for Azure Storage
Fri, 04 Jun 2021Azure Maps Creator is now generally available
Thu, 03 Jun 2021Now Available: Pricing changes to Azure Sentinel and Azure Monitor to help you reduce costs
Thu, 03 Jun 2021Public preview: Identity-based connections in Azure Functions with latest Azure SDK triggers and bindings
Wed, 02 Jun 2021Azure Digital Twins Explorer available in public preview
Wed, 02 Jun 2021General availability: Azure API Management Premium tier price reduction for incremental purchased units
Wed, 02 Jun 2021Azure Security Center: Public preview updates for May 2021
Wed, 02 Jun 2021Azure Security Center: General availability updates for May 2021
Tue, 01 Jun 2021Azure Site Recovery update rollup 55 is now generally available – April 2021
Thu, 27 May 2021Query Delta Lake files using T-SQL in Azure Synapse Analytics (public preview)
Thu, 27 May 2021Cognitive Services – Form Recognizer adds new version in general availability
Thu, 27 May 2021General availability: Azure Log Analytics in South India
Thu, 27 May 2021General availability: Application Insight in South India
Thu, 27 May 2021Azure Storage Blob inventory public preview is now available in all public regions
Wed, 26 May 2021Public preview: Introducing new Durable Functions storage provider options
Wed, 26 May 2021PowerShell support in Durable Functions is now generally available
Wed, 26 May 2021Azure Security Center integration with GitHub Actions, in public preview
Tue, 25 May 2021Public preview: Scan and view lineage of data stored in Hive Metastore Database using Azure Purview
Tue, 25 May 2021Spot Virtual Machines are now generally available on Azure Databricks
Tue, 25 May 2021Event Hubs Premium now available in public preview
Tue, 25 May 2021Azure Database for MySQL ??? Flexible Server: Azure Free offer coming soon
Tue, 25 May 2021The Microsoft Build of OpenJDK??is now generally available
Tue, 25 May 2021Azure SQL Database ledger available in public preview
Tue, 25 May 2021Partial document update for Azure Cosmos DB in private preview
Tue, 25 May 2021General availability: Run Enterprise Java with Red Hat JBoss EAP for Azure Virtual Machines
Tue, 25 May 2021General availability: Enabling IBM WebSphere Application Server on Azure Virtual Machines
Tue, 25 May 2021Public preview: Native support for WebSocket APIs in Azure API Management
Tue, 25 May 2021Public preview: Azure Confidential Ledger
Tue, 25 May 2021Azure Machine Learning public preview announcement //Build, May 2021
Tue, 25 May 2021Azure IoT Verified telemetry is now in public preview
Tue, 25 May 2021Public preview: Azure Cognitive Services Text Analytics Adds Question Answering Feature
Tue, 25 May 2021General availability: Logic Apps with new hosting options
Tue, 25 May 2021General availability: Azure Cognitive Services Translator Document Translation feature
Tue, 25 May 2021Introducing Developer Velocity Lab to improve developers??? work and well-being
Tue, 25 May 2021General availability: Improved Python support in Visual Studio Code with Pylance
Tue, 25 May 2021App Service Managed Certificates now generally available
Tue, 25 May 2021Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) on Azure Stack HCI is now generally available
Tue, 25 May 2021Azure Applied AI Services public preview updates for Build 2021
Tue, 25 May 2021General availability: Azure Applied AI Services
Tue, 25 May 2021Azure Machine Learning general availability announcements //Build, May 2021
Tue, 25 May 2021Azure Machine Learning Managed Online and Batch Endpoints now in public preview //Build 2021.
Tue, 25 May 2021Public preview: Log Analytics workspace insights from Azure Monitor
Tue, 25 May 2021Public preview: Export Azure Monitor logs to multiple destinations
Tue, 25 May 2021Public preview: Save and share log analytics queries with new query packs in Azure Monitor
Tue, 25 May 2021Public preview: Easily onboard Application Insights for Java apps on Azure App Services
Tue, 25 May 2021Azure Communication Services Calling SDK for Windows Apps in public preview
Tue, 25 May 2021Traversal Using Relays Around NAT (TURN) is now in public preview for Azure Communication Services
Tue, 25 May 2021Azure Communication Services UI Library available in public preview
Tue, 25 May 2021Public preview: Cluster auto-upgrade now respects planned maintenance windows
Tue, 25 May 2021Public preview: Run Event Grid on Kubernetes in Azure or anywhere with Azure Arc
Tue, 25 May 2021Public preview: AKS support for containerd for Windows server containers
Tue, 25 May 2021Public preview: Kubernetes 1.21 support in AKS
Tue, 25 May 2021Preview: AKS support for FIPS compliant nodes
Tue, 25 May 2021AKS support for regulated industries
Tue, 25 May 2021General availability: Encryption at host support in AKS
Tue, 25 May 2021Always Encrypted for Azure Cosmos DB in public preview
Tue, 25 May 2021General availability: Azure RBAC for Kubernetes Authorization in AKS
Tue, 25 May 2021Azure Cosmos DB role-based access control (RBAC) now in general availability
Tue, 25 May 2021Cost-optimized diagnostics feature for Azure Cosmos DB in public preview
Tue, 25 May 2021Azure Cosmos DB Linux emulator in public preview
Tue, 25 May 2021Azure Cosmos DB integrated cache now in public preview
Tue, 25 May 2021Azure Cosmos DB serverless now in general availability
Tue, 25 May 2021Expanded Azure Cosmos DB free tier now in general availability
Tue, 25 May 2021Public preview: Azure Database for PostgreSQL ??? Hyperscale (Citus) support for Citus 10
Tue, 25 May 2021Azure Database for PostgreSQL ??? Flexible Server: Azure Free offer coming soon
Tue, 25 May 2021Public preview: Run App Service on Kubernetes or anywhere with Azure Arc
Tue, 25 May 2021Public preview: Azure Database for PostgreSQL ??? Hyperscale (Citus) columnar compression
Tue, 25 May 2021Public preview: Azure Database for PostgreSQL ??? Hyperscale (Citus) support for PostgreSQL 12 and 13
Mon, 24 May 2021Azure Stack HCI now available in China
Mon, 24 May 2021Azure Stack HCI 60-Day Free Trial Now Available

Azure Blog

Tue, 01 Jun 2021Azure announces general availability of scale-out NVIDIA A100 GPU Clusters: the fastest public cloud supercomputer
Tue, 01 Jun 2021Azure Cost Management and Billing updates ??? May 2021
Tue, 01 Jun 2021Progress on our commitment to sustainable backup power in datacenters by 2030
Wed, 26 May 2021Azure at Microsoft Build recap: build amazing things on your terms, anywhere
Wed, 26 May 2021Converging the physical and digital with digital twins, mixed reality, and metaverse apps
Wed, 26 May 2021Power your business applications data with analytical and predictive insights
Wed, 26 May 2021New Azure capabilities to simplify deployment and management
Wed, 26 May 2021Gain flexibility to run open-source applications your way with Microsoft Azure
Tue, 25 May 2021Build cloud-native applications that run anywhere
Tue, 25 May 2021Azure is the home for your enterprise Java applications

Azure Sentinel Blog

Wed, 2 Jun 2021 07:08:25 PDTAnnouncing pricing changes to Azure Sentinel and Azure Monitor Log Analytics to help you save costs
Wed, 2 Jun 2021 00:57:43 PDTWhat???s new: customize entity page timeline!
Tue, 1 Jun 2021 16:08:39 PDTWhat???s new: Detect credential leaks using built-in Azure Sentinel notebooks!
Wed, 26 May 2021 05:32:57 PDTAzure Sentinel PowerShell Module Az.SecurityInsights has been released to GA!
Tue, 25 May 2021 09:11:55 PDTWho Watches the SOC Team? Enabling Audit/Risk Teams to Monitor the SOC