Azure Updates – Number 14- July 03, 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

Update PowerShell versions 7.0 and 7.1 to protect against a vulnerability

General availability: Azure Sphere version 21.07 expected on July 21, 2021

General availability: Azure Security Center updates for June 2021

General availability: Skip X.509 certificate proof of possession for IoT Hub and DPS

Soft delete for blobs capability for Azure Data Lake Storage is now in limited public preview

Azure Maps Android SDK is now generally available

Azure Image Builder Service now generally available

VPN NAT now in public preview

Limited Preview: New Azure VMs for confidential workloads

Public preview: Azure Automanage now supports Arc enabled servers

Expansion of the public preview of on-demand disk bursting for Premium SSD to more regions

Introducing the Ingestion Client for Azure Speech

Azure NetApp Files | Regional Capacity Quota

General availability: Azure Digital Twins plugin for Azure Data Explorer??

General availability: Turn your phone into an IoT device with the new IoT Plug and Play mobile app

General availability: Azure DevOps updates for June 2021

General availability: Azure Cognitive Services Text Analytics for Health

Azure Container Registry is now available in West US 3

Azure Sphere OS version 21.06 is now generally available

Azure Maps Mobility Services Preview will be retired on 5 October 2021

Azure Data Lake Storage Gen1: Account creation will be blocked for new customers starting July 5, 2021

Azure Blob storage???NFS 3.0 protocol support generally available

General availability: Expansion of credit-based disk bursting to Azure Standard SSDs E30 and smaller

Azure Database for PostgreSQL ??? Hyperscale (Citus) now offers server group restart feature in public preview

Azure??SQL???public preview updates for??late June 2021??

Azure Machine Learning public preview announcements for June 2021.

Azure??SQL???general availability updates for??late June 2021??

Full text query in diagnostics logs for Azure Cosmos DB in general availability

Azure IoT Edge for Linux now generally available

Azure Database for PostgreSQL ??? Flexible Server: Forced failover in public preview

Azure Key Vault Managed HSM is generally available

Azure Blog

Use New Relic One to effortlessly monitor applications in Azure Spring Cloud

Advancing safe deployment with AIOps???introducing Gandalf

Azure Cost Management and Billing updates ??? June 2021

Bring cloud experiences to data workloads anywhere with Azure SQL enabled by Azure Arc

Streamline your custom image building process with Azure VM Image Builder service

Manage your digital transformation at scale for retail with Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure

Join Microsoft at ISC 2021 and drive innovations with Azure high-performance computing

Deploy apps seamlessly with Red Hat JBoss EAP on Azure App Service???now generally available

Modernize large-scale NFS workloads and eliminate data silos with Azure Blob Storage

Optimize extreme computing performance with Azure FX-series Virtual Machines

Azure Sentinel Blog

What’s new: ASIM Authentication, Process, Registry and enhanced Network schemas

Testing the New Version of the Windows Security Events Connector with Azure Sentinel To-Go!

Moving Azure Activity Connector to an improved method

Join in the Azure Sentinel Hackathon 2021!

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