Azure Updates – Number 31 – February 26, 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

Generally available: Updated navigation menu in Azure IoT Central

Generally available: Utilize multiple backups per day for Azure Files in Azure Backup

Public preview: Azure Spring Cloud Enterprise

Public preview: Elastic and Azure Spring Cloud integration

Generally available: Azure NetApp Files new region and cross-region replication

Public preview: Azure NetApp Files – application consistent snapshot tool v5.1

Public preview: WordPress enhancements for App Service

Generally available: Direct enterprise agreement on Azure Cost Management and Billing

Generally available: Log Analytics data export in Azure Monitor

General availability: Custom retention for AzureActivity and Usage data tables

Public preview: New capabilities for Azure Monitor logs

Public preview: Cost Management anomaly detection for subscriptions

General availability: Application Gateway mutual authentication

General availability: Localization available in Azure Purview

Public preview: Resource configuration changes

Public preview: Cross region virtual machine restore points

General availability: Automatically delete a VM and its associated resources simultaneously

In development: Price sheet download as a zip file

Generally available: New learning content on the Azure IoT Central homepage

Public preview: Azure Machine Learning February 2022 announcements

Generally available: Azure Database for PostgreSQL ??? Hyperscale (Citus) new certifications

General availability: Azure Database for PostgreSQL ??? Hyperscale (Citus) additional regions available

Generally available: Virtual Machine level disk bursting supports additional VM types

Public preview: Azure Tables extension for Azure Functions

General availability: Developer portal widget for embedding custom HTML code

Generally available: Alert processing rules in Azure Monitor

Public preview: App Service Environment v3 Migration Feature

Public preview: Azure Monitor predictive autoscale for Azure virtual machine scale sets

Generally available: Hotpatch for Windows Server virtual machines

Public preview: Kubernetes v1.23 support in AKS

Now available: CIS benchmarks for Kubernetes

General availability: Azure tags support in AKS

General availability: Azure Sphere version 22.02 expected on Feb 28, 2022

Public preview: OCR supports 164 languages in the Cognitive Services Computer Vision

Azure Blog

Seamless integration of Logz.io observability platform with Microsoft Azure

Observability from cloud to edge in Azure

Azure Spring Cloud Enterprise is now available in preview

Manage Linux anywhere with improved Azure Hybrid Benefit and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform on Azure

Microsoft Azure???s first Azure HPC + AI Day

Advancing Azure Virtual Machine availability monitoring with Project Flash

Azure Sentinel Blog

Joint forces – MS Sentinel and the MITRE framework

New! Normalization is now built-in Microsoft Sentinel

What’s New: Search, Basic Ingestion, Archive, and Data Restoration are Now in Public Preview

What???s Next in Microsoft Sentinel?

Microsoft Sentinel – SAP User Master Data