Azure Updates – Number 17 – August 14, 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 IoT Central new and updated features???July 2021

Azure Machine Learning public preview announcements – August 2021

General availability: Azure Sphere OS version 21.08 expected on Aug 25

General availability: GitHub Codespaces

Automatic Azure VM extension upgrade capabilities now generally available

Public preview: Discovery and assessment for ASP.NET web apps with Azure Migrate

Public preview: Containerize apps and migrate to AKS and Azure App Service with Azure Migrate

General availability: Azure VPN Client for macOS

General availability: Introducing global disaster recovery via Azure Site Recovery

Public preview: Azure Percept DK July (2107) software update is available

General availability: Azure ExpressRoute Global Reach: 2 new locations

Az module support in Azure Automation is coming soon

Availability Zone support for Azure Automation is coming soon

Azure Automation Hybrid Worker Extension for Azure and Arc machines is coming soon

Powershell 7 support in Azure Automation is coming soon

Azure AD support for Azure Automation is coming soon

General availability: Azure Managed HSM Private Link

General availability: New Australia Central region added to Azure HDInsight

Public preview: Azure Monitor Scheduled Query Rules API 2021-02-01-preview

Azure??SQL???public preview updates for??early August 2021??

General availability: Lower capacity reservation tier for Azure Monitor dedicated clusters

General availability: Azure Monitor IT Service Management Connector is now certified with ServiceNow Quebec version

Azure Defender for SQL now in general availability on the Azure SQL Virtual Machine blade

Software inventory and agentless dependency analysis generally available with Azure Migrate

General availability: Azure Red Hat OpenShift support for OpenShift 4.7

Azure Database for PostgreSQL ??? Hyperscale (Citus) support for PostgreSQL versions 13.3 and 12.7 in public preview

Private DNS zone integration for Azure Database for PostgreSQL ??? Flexible Server in public preview

Public preview of Azure Database for PostgreSQL ??? Flexible Server now offers reserved instance pricing

Public preview of Azure Database ??? Flexible Server now available in new regions

Public preview of Azure Database for MySQL ??? Flexible Server now offers reserved instance pricing

Private DNS integration zone integration for Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server in public preview

Azure??SQL???general availability updates for??early August 2021??

Azure Database for MySQL ??? Flexible Server: Same-zone high availability in public preview

General availability: Azure Backup now supports Archive Tier for backups of SQL Server in Azure VMs

Azure Security Center: Public preview updates for July 2021

Azure Security Center: General availability updates for July 2021

Azure Blog

How to re-size Azure virtual networks that are peered???now in preview

Azure DDoS Protection???2021 Q1 and Q2 DDoS attack trends

Accelerate application modernization with Azure Migrate: App Containerization

Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare expands portfolio with Azure Healthcare APIs

Advancing Azure Virtual Machine availability transparency

Azure Sentinel Blog

What’s new: Incident advanced search is now public!

What???s new: Fusion Detection for Ransomware

Azure Sentinel SQL Solution Query Deep-Dive

What’s new: Watchlists templates are now in public preview!

What’s new: ASIM File Activity schema