Azure Updates – Number 23 – Special November 2021 Microsoft Ignite Edition
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.
This week’s update includes all the special releases centered around Microsoft Ignite – November 2021 Edition!
Azure Updates
General availability: Azure Site Recovery now supports failover of multiple IP configurations Public preview: Azure Data Explorer is now supported as an output for Azure Stream Analytics job Azure VMware Solution now generally available in the Germany West Central Azure region General availability: New Azure Data Explorer output plugin for Telegraf Private preview: Azure OpenAI Service combines access to powerful GPT-3 language models with Azure???s enterprise capabilities PowerShell 7.1 runbook support in Azure Automation available in public preview Azure Automation support for Managed Identities is now generally available Public preview: Azure Virtual Network Manager General availability: Run IBM WebSphere Liberty and Open Liberty on ARO and AKS General availability: Run Oracle WebLogic Server on Azure Kubernetes Service General availability: API Management and Event Grid Integration Azure trusted launch for Virtual Machines now generally available Azure Machine Learning – Ignite, November 2021 public preview announcements General availability: Bastion Standard SKU Public preview: ExpressRoute private peering support for BGP communities Public preview: ExpressRoute FastPath improvements Automatic VM guest patching is now generally available Logic Apps Standard Plan updates in general availability General availability: Native support for WebSocket APIs Public preview: GraphQL passthrough support in Azure API Management Public preview: Azure Virtual Machines DCsv3 and DCdsv3-series now available Public preview: New Azure Arc capabilities in November 2021 General availability: Azure Monitor container insights for Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes Azure SQL???general availability updates for early November 2021 Private preview: New Azure Arc capabilities in November 2021 Azure Applied AI Services | Azure Cognitive Search updates now generally available Azure Applied AI Services | Azure Video Analyzer updates in public preview Public preview: Near real-time analytics for telemetry, time series, and log data on Azure Synapse Additional ML options for Spark on Azure Synapse now in public preview Public preview: Azure Chaos Studio – Systematically improve resilience with controlled chaos General availability: IoT Central – Organizations Public preview: OpenID Connect integration between Azure AD and GitHub Actions Autoscale public preview is now available for Azure Virtual Desktop Azure Virtual Desktop for Azure Stack HCI public preview is now available Public preview: Azure Purview???s Integration with Microsoft Defender for Cloud New orchestration mode for Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets now generally available Limited preview: New Azure Virtual Machines deliver increased storage throughput for data-intensive workloads General availability: New Azure Virtual Machines deliver increased performance for a broad range of workloads Azure App Service Environment v3 support for Windows Containers is now generally available Azure App Service – Diagnostic settings feature reaches general availability General availability: Version updates for Azure App Configuration libraries Azure Service Bus large message support reaches general availability General availability: Provisioned throughput increase for Azure Ultra Disk Storage General availability: Centralized management of keys for encrypting Azure disks New capabilities introduced for disk pool (public preview) for Azure VMware Solution Public preview: Cross-region snapshot copy for Azure Disk Storage Live resize of Azure Disk Storage in public preview Open Service Mesh add-on for AKS is now generally available Azure SQL: Public preview updates for early November 2021 General availability: AKS support for Secrets Store CSI driver Public preview: Industry-aware analytics with database templates in Azure Synapse Azure Service Operator v2 release is now generally available Public preview: Self-service Access Management in Azure Purview Public preview: Azure Container Registry connected registry for IoT Edge Public preview: Explore your Amazon RDS data in Azure Purview Public preview: Azure Container Apps Azure Synapse Link for Azure Cosmos DB: Custom partitioning support in public preview Azure Machine Learning public preview announcement Ignite, November 2021 Public preview: gMSAv2 security policy support for Kubernetes workloads on Windows Public preview updates to Azure SQL Managed Instance boosts performance, scale, and flexibility Azure Cognitive Service for Language now generally available General availability: New troubleshooting experiences in Network Insights for VPN Gateway & Azure Firewall General availability: Event Hubs Premium General availability: Log Analytics Workspace Insights in Azure Monitor Public preview: Manage your Log Analytics data export rules in Azure portal Cost saving recommendations in Azure Advisor for Azure Cosmos DB now generally available Azure Cosmos DB: Server side retries for Cassandra API in public preview General availability: EventHub action in Azure Monitor action groups Public preview: Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Exporters Azure Cosmos DB Logic Apps Standard Connector in public preview Azure Cosmos DB: Partial document update now in general availability Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra service now generally available Provisioned throughput spending limit for Azure Cosmos DB in general availability Link feature in Azure SQL Managed Instance now in limited public preview On-demand disk bursting for Azure Premium SSDs now generally available Public preview: Dapr extension for AKS Azure Cache for Redis: Redis 6.0 supported in general availability Public preview: AKS node pool user start/stop feature Install Azure Service Operator via Visual Studio Code extension for AKS New indexing metrics for Azure Cosmos DB in general availability Public preview: NAT gateway integration with AKS Azure Backup: Multi-user authorization for Backup is now in public preview General availability: Stream Analytics now offers support for Availability Zones with Dedicated Cluster Public preview: Metrics and Metric alerts for Azure Backup Gateway Load Balancer now in public preview Logic Apps Standard Plan updates in public preview Querying Delta Lake files using T-SQL in Azure Synapse Analytics is generally available Public preview: Multiple backups per day for Azure Files General availability: Ephemeral OS disks for Azure VMs support additional VM sizes General availability: Logz.io for Microsoft Azure General availability: Azure Functions extensions for Blobs, Queues, Event Hubs, Service Bus, and Event Grid General availability: Azure Data Explorer Insights Zerto Disaster Recovery for Azure VMware Solution Azure Spot Virtual Machines: Try to restore functionality now generally available Extended regional availability for Private Link NSG Support Extended regional availability for Private Link UDR Support Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2021 RTM for OEMs Azure Red Hat OpenShift now available in public preview in Azure Government General availability: Azure governance policy for Azure Key Vault General availability: ExpressRoute IPv6 Support for Private Peering General availability: Azure Sphere version 21.10 General availability: Azure Backup now supports Archive Tier through Azure Portal Azure Monitor Log Analytics and Application Insights support for Availability Zones is now generally available in West US 2 General availability: Azure Advisor recommendations for Azure Data Explorer Clusters
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