Azure Updates – Number 20 – September 25, 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 Sphere OS version 21.09

Azure Functions runtime 4.0 is now in public preview

Public preview: Distributed tracing for Java apps on Azure Functions Linux

Announcing general availability of Azure AD-joined VMs support

Azure SQL Database: General availability updates for late September 2021

Azure Database for PostgreSQL ??? Hyperscale (Citus) now includes PgBouncer version 1.16

Azure Database for MySQL: Azure Pipelines support in public preview

Azure Resource Health for Azure Database for PostgreSQL ??? Flexible Server in public preview

Azure Database for PostgreSQL ??? Flexible Server: Azure Pipelines in public preview

Azure Database for PostgreSQL ??? Flexible Server: Terraform support in public preview

Public preview: At-scale management of Azure Monitor alerts in Backup center

General availability: Oracle consistent snapshots using Azure VM Backup

Public preview: Management Group Scope for Azure Reservations

General availability: Azure Archive Storage now available in three new regions: Norway East, UAE North, and Germany West Central

Azure Stream Analytics: 3 new regions are now generally available

General Availability: Azure Virtual Desktop is now available in the Azure China cloud

Azure VMware Solution achieves FedRAMP High Authorization

JetStream Disaster Recovery for Azure VMware Solution now in public preview

Azure Monitor Agent and Data Collection Rules now support Windows Server 2022

Public preview of v4 Cosmos DB extensions for Azure Functions

General availability: Azure Red Hat OpenShift support for OpenShift 4.8

Public preview: Custom policy definitions for AKS clusters

Public preview: Scale-down mode in AKS

General availability: AKS Run command

Azure??SQL???General availability updates for??mid-September 2021??

Azure Database for PostgreSQL???????Hyperscale (Citus): Japan West region now available

Azure Database for PostgreSQL ??? Hyperscale (Citus) support for Citus 10.1 is generally available

Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus) supports PostgreSQL 11.13, 12.8, and 13.4 minor versions

Azure Cosmos DB: Azure Functions extension version 4.0 in public preview

Azure Machine Learning public preview announcements ??? Sep 2021

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

Azure Blog

Enable industrial device connectivity with thousands of partner-provided Azure IoT Plug and Play device profiles

GAIA-X gets new support with European Eclipse Data Connector

Join us behind the scenes at Azure, thanks to the Well-Architected Framework

Video analytics at the edge, an ideal technology for 5G cloud monetization

Azure Sentinel Blog

Azure Sentinel To-Go! A Linux ???? Lab with AUOMS Set Up to Learn About the OMI Vulnerability ????

Azure Sentinel Notebooks Ninja Part 3: Overview of the Pre-built Notebooks – the Grand List

Hunting for OMI Vulnerability Exploitation with Azure Sentinel

Unusual MIRAI variant looks for mining infrastructure

Azure Sentinel Notebooks Ninja Part 2: Getting Started with Azure Sentinel Notebooks