Azure Updates – Number 16 – July 31, 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: Web Application Firewall (WAF) bot protection on Application Gateway

General availability: Web Application Firewall (WAF) geomatch custom rules on Application Gateway

Start VM on connect capability in Azure Virtual Desktop enters general availability

Immutable storage with versioning for Blob Storage is now in public preview

Azure Sphere SDK version 21.07 Update 1 is now available

VMware Site Recovery Manager is now generally available for Azure VMware Solution

General availability: Azure ExpressRoute: 3 New Peering Locations Available

Azure Site Recovery update rollup 56 is now generally available – July 2021

General Availability: Azure Stream Analytics Tools for Visual Studio Code

Public preview: Azure Virtual Desktop is now available in the Azure China cloud

Azure Active Directory support for Azure Relay now in public preview

General availability: Azure Sphere version 21.07

General availability: New West US 3 region added to Azure HDInsight

General availability: Azure Monitor Agent and Data Collection Rules now support direct proxies and Log Analytics gateway

General availability: Better integration between Azure Monitor and Grafana

General availability: Public IP information and inter-zone traffic among many new insights in Traffic Analytics

General availability: Python Functions now support custom telemetry in Application Insights

General availability: Built-in Azure Policy support for Network Watcher Traffic Analytics

Azure Database for MySQL ??? Flexible Server Auto-grow storage in public preview

Public preview: Azure App Service Migration Assistant PowerShell-based experience

The public preview of Azure Database for PostgreSQL ??? Flexible Server now supported in new regions

Azure VMware Solution now generally available in the Canada East region

Public preview: IoT Edge Metrics Collector module 1.0.1 release

Announcing the Azure Firewall Premium general availability

Public preview: Scan and view lineage of data stored in Erwin Mart, Google BigQuery and Looker using Azure Purview

Shared disks on Azure Disk Storage are now generally available on all Premium SSD and Standard SSD sizes

Public preview: Alerts, Pacemaker cluster (RHEL OS) and data-size for SAP HANA

Private preview: New telemetry for SAP Application (NetWeaver) in Azure portal

Azure Blog

Advancing your financial services strategy with Azure sustainability

Azure Cost Management and Billing updates ??? July 2021

Optimize your cloud spend with Azure

How cloud computing can improve 5G wireless networks

Next-generation firewall capabilities with Azure Firewall Premium

Azure Sentinel Blog

Understanding API connections for your Azure Sentinel Playbooks

Microsoft Threat Intelligence Matching Analytics

Software Defined Monitoring – Using Automated Notebooks and Azure Sentinel to Improve Sec Ops

What’s new: IdentityInfo table is now in public preview!

What’s New: Updated Azure Sentinel Documentation July Edition