Azure Updates – 28 – January 15, 2022

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 22.01 expected on Jan 26

Announcing price reductions for Azure confidential computing

Public preview: Azure Static Web Apps enterprise-grade edge

General availability: Multiple custom BGP APIPA addresses for active VPN gateways

Generally available: Load Balancer SKU upgrade through PowerShell script

Azure Ultra Disk Storage is now generally available in West US 3

Azure Backup – Automation updates – 2021

Generally available: Azure Policy support for Azure Site Recovery

Azure Traffic Manager: Additional IP addresses for endpoint monitoring service.

Public preview: Semantic Search update

Azure SQL???Public preview updates for early January 2022

General availability: Microsoft Defender for Cloud updates for December 2021

Generally available: Support for copying dashboards added to Azure IoT Central

Generally available: Data mapping for transforming data at ingress in Azure IoT Central

Generally available: Display limits on tiles increased to 100 homogeneous devices

Azure Blog

5 reasons to attend the Azure Virtual Desktop Master Class

Accelerate your websites with Azure Static Web Apps enterprise-edge

Accelerate the in-vehicle digital experience with Azure Cognitive Services

Azure Cost Management and Billing 2021 year in review

Improving the cloud for telcos: Updates of Microsoft???s acquisition of AT&T???s Network Cloud

Azure Sentinel Blog

Single Sign On Support for authentication in Microsoft Sentinel Notebooks

Defending Critical Infrastructure with the Microsoft Sentinel: IT/OT Threat Monitoring Solution

Get Hands-On KQL Practice with this Microsoft Sentinel Workbook

What???s New: Detecting Apache Log4j vulnerabilities with Microsoft Sentinel

Advanced KQL Framework Workbook – Empowering you to become KQL-savvy