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Andrew Posted on 10:46 am

Azure Updates – Number 18 – August 29, 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

Azure Functions support for Node 8 is ending on 28 February 2022
Azure Functions support for Python 3.6 is ending on 30 September 2022
Azure Synapse Analytics Compute Optimized data flows will be retired on 31 August 2024
General availability: Azure Sphere OS version 21.08
Hard coded IP address for Azure Site Recovery will be retired on 31 August 2024
Retiring version Async 2.x of the Azure Cosmos DB Java SDK on 31 August 2024
Multi-step web tests will be retired on 31 August 2024
ND-series Azure Virtual Machines will be retired by 31 August 2022
Community support for Azure Database PostgreSQL version 10 ends on 10 November 2022
Java 7 will be retired from App Service on 29 July 2022
Transition to new work item integration in Application Insights by 31 August 2022
Machine Learning Studio (classic) will retire on 31 August 2024
Cloud Services (classic) deployment model is retiring on 31 August 2024
Azure Data Factory Compute Optimized data flows will be retired on 31 August 2024
Community support for PHP 7.3 is ending on 6 December 2021
Basic and Standard A-series VMs will retire on 31 August 2024
Azure AD B2C redirect URL login.microsoftonline.com will be retired on 31 August 2022
Public preview: Apply settings inside machines using Azure Policy’s guest configuration
Azure expands HITRUST certification across 51 Azure regions
Windows 11 public preview is now available on Azure Virtual Desktop
NC v2-series Azure Virtual Machines will be retired by 31 August 2022
Version 2.x of the???Azure Cosmos DB???.NET SDK will be retired on 31 August 2024
Tomcat 7 reached End-of-Support on 23 March 2021
H-series Azure Virtual Machines will be retired by 31 August 2022
Release annotations using API keys will be retired on 31 August 2024
Azure Blob storage – Last access time tracking now generally available
General availability: Azure Archive Storage events for easy rehydration of archived blobs
General availability: New VM series supported by Azure Batch
We’re retiring the Log Analytics agent in Azure Monitor on 31 August 2024
NV-series and NV_Promo Azure Virtual Machines will be retired by 31 August 2022
General availability: Public DNS support for private Azure Kubernetes Service clusters
Azure Static Web Apps adds public preview support for Private Endpoints
Mounting Azure Storage as a local share for web apps deployed on App Service is generally available
General availability: AKS support for Kubernetes 1.21
Enhanced troubleshooting experiences now generally available for additional resources in Network Insights
General availability: CSI storage driver support on Azure Kubernetes Service
Public preview: Application Insights auto-instrumentation of .NET apps on Linux
Azure Database for PostgreSQL ??? Hyperscale (Citus): Managed PgBouncer now generally available
Azure Database for PostgreSQL ??? Hyperscale (Citus): Server group restart now generally available
Azure Cosmos DB: Continuous backup with point in time restore now in general availability
Azure Database for PostgreSQL | Scheduled maintenance for Hyperscale (Citus) now generally available
Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus): Columnar compression now generally available
Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus): Same region read replicas now generally available
Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus): PostgreSQL 12 & 13 now generally available
Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus): Support for Citus 10 now generally available
Azure Database for PostgreSQL ??? Flexible Server: New regions now available in public preview
Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus): Basic tier now generally available
Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server: Eight new regions supported
Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server: Standby Zone selection in public preview
Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server: Burstable credit metrics in public preview
Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server: Burstable credit metrics in public preview
NC-series Azure Virtual Machines will be retired by 31 August 2022
HB-series Azure Virtual Machines will be retired by 31 August 2024
Azure Blob storage – Inventory generally availability
Migrate your Azure IoT Central apps to version 3 before 1 March 2022
Upgrade???to Text-to-Speech Neural Voice??? by 31 August 2024
Update Java SDK 3.x to Java SDK 4.x by 31 August 2024
Select Azure Cognitive Search skills will be retired on 31 August 2024
Azure Monitor???s Baseline and CalculateBaseline APIs will be retired on 30 November 2021
Placement polices now in public preview for Azure VMware Solution

Azure Blog

Optimize your private mobile network and accelerate innovation with hyperscale cloud
Genomics testing on the ISS with HPE Spaceborne Computer-2 and Azure
Solve your toughest business problems with analytics and machine learning
Microsoft named a Leader in The Forrester Wave???: Streaming Analytics, Q2 2021
Discover and assess ASP.NET apps at-scale with Azure Migrate
Innovate securely with Azure
Azure Government Top Secret now generally available for US national security missions

Azure Sentinel Blog

Becoming an Azure Sentinel Notebooks ninja – the series!
Ingestion Cost Spike detection App
What’s new: Azure Sentinel Ninja Training Knowledge Check
What’s new: Azure Sentinel new onboarding/offboarding API
What’s new: Incident advanced search is now public!