Azure Updates – Number 24 – November 20, 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

Dynamic allocation for Apache Spark in Azure Synapse now generally available

General availability: Increased connection limit for VPN Gateways

Public preview: Azure Virtual Machines DCv3-series now available in Europe West and North

General availability: New Sweden Central region added to Azure HDInsight

Azure VMware Solution now generally available in the France Central Azure Region

Public preview: Azure SQL bindings for Azure Functions

JetStream Disaster Recovery for Azure VMware Solution now generally available

General availability: Azure Machine Learning updates – November 2021

Public preview: Azure Machine Learning updates – November 2021

Virtual machines selector now generally available

Public preview: Monitor Spring Boot apps in Azure Spring Cloud with AppDynamics

Public preview: Azure Spring Cloud start and stop, bring your own persistent storage, and Service Connector

SFTP support for Azure Blob Storage – now in public preview

General availability: Copy data to/from Azure Data Explorer using Azure Data Factory or Synapse Analytics

General availability: Azure API Management updates- October 2021

East Asia Availability Zones now generally available

Public preview: Run Command ??? Execute PowerShell or shell scripts on Virtual Machines and Scale Sets

General availability: Microsoft Azure available from new cloud region in Sweden

General availability: NFSv4.1 support on Azure Files

Azure VMware Solution is now generally available in Japan West Azure Region

Public preview: VM Applications ??? Manage and deploy applications to Virtual Machines and Scale Sets

General availability: Citrix supports Virtual Apps and Desktop Service on Azure VMware Solution

General availability: Azure Archive rehydration priority update

SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines: Multi subnet high availability generally available

Azure??SQL???Public preview updates for??mid-November 2021

Azure Database for PostgreSQL ??? Hyperscale (Citus) support for Citus 10.2 generally available

Azure Security Center: General availability updates for October 2021

Azure Security Center: Public preview updates for October 2021

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

Azure Cosmos DB: Names indexes for Cassandra API now in general availability

Azure Cosmos DB: Glowroot support for Cassandra API in general availability

Azure Backup for Azure Database for PostgreSQL ??? Single Server: Long-term retention??generally available

Azure Database for MySQL ??? Flexible Server: Terraform support is generally available

Azure Database for PostgreSQL ??? Hyperscale (Citus): PostgreSQL 14 support in general availability

Application Insights auto-instrumentation for .NET6 App Services

Azure App Service support for .Net 6 now generally available

Azure Web PubSub service now generally available

Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server is now generally available

Public preview: Azure Bastion native client support

Public preview: Azure Sphere expands SoC portfolio with NXP i.MX 93-CS family

General availability: Azure Data Explorer cache policy hot windows

PowerShell on Linux SKU in Azure Functions is now available in public preview

Generally available: Azure Functions runtime 4.0

.NET 6.0 in Azure Functions is now generally available

General availability: Build and deploy full-stack .NET 6.0 apps with Azure Static Web Apps

General availability: ExpressRoute now supports Azure Virtual Desktop Shortpath RDP over Private Peering

Azure Blog

Forging a path from telco to cloud with Microsoft Azure

Microsoft and AT&T are accelerating the enterprise customer???s journey to the edge with 5G

Bringing commercial innovations in chip design to national security

Build real-time web apps with Azure Web PubSub???now generally available

Join Azure at the Design Automation Conference (DAC)

Microsoft expands its AI-supercomputer lineup with general availability of the latest 80GB NVIDIA A100 GPUs in Azure, claims 4 spots on TOP500 supercomputers list

Enhance third-party NVA availability with Azure Gateway Load Balancer???now in preview

5 reasons to attend the Azure IaaS Day digital event

Discover what???s new to Microsoft database services???recap from Microsoft Ignite

Azure high-performance computing at Supercomputing 2021

Azure Sentinel Blog

Creating your first Microsoft Sentinel Notebook

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How to use Microsoft Sentinel Near Real Time detections

Introducing Microsoft Sentinel Content hub!

Detecting Emerging Threats with Microsoft Sentinel Fusion

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