Azure Updates – Number 13 – June 18, 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

General availability: Azure Data Explorer adds new geospatial capabilities

Azure Blob index tags now generally available

General availability: Cross region Restore of SQL/SAP HANA running in Azure VM

General availability: Maintenance control for Virtual Machine Scale Sets OS image upgrades

General availability: Azure Data Explorer and subnet delegation

Azure Data Lake Storage static website is now generally available

Public preview: Alerts based smart detection for Application Insights

New Azure private MEC solution announced

Azure Virtual Machines DCsv2-series are now available in Australia

General availability: Azure IoT Central new and updated features???May 2021

Microsoft Azure available from new cloud regions in Arizona

Azure Monitor Agent and Data Collection Rules now generally available

General availability: Support for SQL Server in data flows using Azure Data Factory & Azure Synapse

Azure Dev Spaces retired on May 15, 2021

Call recording for Azure Communication Services coming soon

Direct routing for Azure Communication Services coming soon

Azure Maps Elevation API is now in general availability

Five more free services available with an Azure free account

Azure IoT Edge integration with Azure Monitor is now in public preview

General availability: Confidential Computing price reduction on DCsv2 virtual machines

General availability: Azure Sphere OS version 21.06 expected on June 23

General availability: 6 new Locales added to Speech service to support speech transcription

Azure Defender for Azure Database for MySQL ??? Single Server now generally available

Azure Defender for Azure Database for PostgreSQL ??? Single Server in general availability??

Azure Database for MariaDB Azure Defender in general availability

Azure Database for MariaDB: Planned Maintenance Notifications in general availability

Azure Database for MySQL ??? Single Server: Planned maintenance notifications in general availability

Azure SQL: Public preview updates for early June 2021

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Azure Database for MySQL ??? Flexible Server standby server selection in public preview

Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus) now compliant with additional certifications

Azure Database for PostgreSQL ??? Single Server: Planned Maintenance Notifications in general availability

General availability: Application Insights Node.js pre-aggregated standard metrics

Public preview: Syslog event collection from Azure Monitor Agent for Linux distros

General availability: Enterprise-scale landing zone reference implementation for AKS

Azure Cache for Redis zone redundancy for Premium tier now generally available

Azure Migrate private endpoint support available in public preview

Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server: Support for Postgres 13 (public preview)

Open source API portal now generally availabile

Azure Database for PostgreSQL ??? Flexible Server supports PostgreSQL minor versions (public preview)

General availability: Update in Policy Compliance for Resource Type Policies

Azure Backup: Upgrade to TLS 1.2 or above for secure MARS agent backups by September 1, 2021

General availability: ExpressRoute Global Reach Pricing Reduction

General availability: Key Rotation and Expiration Policies for Azure Storage

Azure Maps Creator is now generally available

Azure Blog

Unlocking the enterprise opportunity with 5G, edge compute, and cloud

Expanding cloud services: Microsoft launches its sustainable datacenter region in Arizona

5 reasons to attend the Azure Hybrid and Multicloud Digital Event

Why customers, including SAP, choose Azure for their SAP solutions

Advancing in-datacenter critical environment infrastructure availability

Azure API for FHIR enables health organizations to deliver CMS Patient Access and Provider Directory APIs

Azure Virtual Desktop: The flexible cloud VDI platform for the hybrid workplace

Azure Sentinel Blog

What’s New: Azure Sentinel Watchlist Support for ARM Templates!

Enhanced Azure Sentinel Alert remediation in the SOC Process Framework

What???s New: Azure Sentinel Update Watchlist UI Enhancements

What’s new: Azure Sentinel Information Model DNS Schema and normalized content now public

Microsoft Defender Security Insights in Azure Sentinel