Azure Updates – Number 22 – October 23, 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 Log Analytics in West US 3, Korea South, and Canada East

Public preview: Azure Spring Cloud RBAC config server and registry access and Nginx logs and metrics

General availability: Azure Spring Cloud application health monitoring and end-to-end TLS/SSL

Public preview: Visual Studio Code for the Web

General availability: Azure Stack HCI new feature update

Public preview: Azure Percept DK September (2109) software update is available

General availability: Azure Monitor Query SDK

General availability: Cross region replication for Azure NetApp Files

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

Azure HDInsight support for Restricted Public Connectivity is generally available

Azure HDInsight support for Azure Private Link is generally available

Announcing Azure Synapse Analytics pre-purchase plans, now generally available

Azure Maps iOS SDK is now in public preview

Azure Machine Learning now generally available in West US 3

General availability: Azure Monitor application insights in Azure Spring Cloud

Generally available: IP-based website protection for Azure Static Web Apps

Public preview: Customize Azure Static Web Apps authentication with a serverless function

Public preview: IPv6 for Kubenet

Public preview: AKS out of tree cloud provider controller manager

Public preview: AKS support for WebAssembly System Interface (WASI) workloads

Public preview: AKS support for??Kubernetes 1.22

Public preview: HTTPS proxy configuration support

Azure??SQL???Public preview updates for??October 2021??

New centralized management experience for Azure Hybrid Benefit for SQL Server in public preview

Azure Database for PostgreSQL ??? Flexible Server: Ddsv4 and Edsv4 SKUs in public preview

Azure Database for PostgreSQL ??? Hyperscale (Citus): Azure Private Link support in public preview

Azure Machine Learning announcements – Oct 2021 generally available capabilities

Azure Database for MySQL ??? Flexible Server: Geo-redundant backup and restore in public preview

Azure Machine Learning announcements – Oct 2021 public preview capabilities

Azure Firewall Premium now generally available in five new Azure regions

Generally available: Service Tag Discovery API

General availability: Azure Translator now supports more than 100 languages and dialects

Azure Blog

Join us on Azure IaaS Day: Learn to increase agility and resiliency of your infrastructure

5 reasons to join the Modernize Apps and Data with Azure and Power Apps free virtual event

The Enclave Device Blueprint for confidential computing at the edge

Join us at NAFEMS World Congress to learn more about Azure HPC and AI Supercomputing

Increase ROI and business impact with Azure Machine Learning

Empower an adaptive IT environment with Inside Azure for IT

Humana leverages Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare to develop advanced predictive models

Unleashing the true potential of 5G with cloud networks

Empowering cloud sustainability with the Microsoft Emissions Impact Dashboard

Unlock opportunities to engage customers at scale

Azure Sentinel Blog

What???s New: Azure Sentinel Threat Intelligence Workbook

MITRE ATT&CK technique coverage with Sysmon for Linux

A Quick Guide on Using Sysmon for Linux in Azure Sentinel

Automating the deployment of Sysmon for Linux ???? and Azure Sentinel in a lab environment ????

Analyzing Endpoints Forensics – Azure Sentinel Connector