Azure Updates – Number 33 – March 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

Operator Assistance in Azure MFA will be retired on 30 September 2023

Classic data export in Azure IoT Central will be retired by 31 March 2023

Public preview: User-assigned managed identities in Stream Analytics

Public preview: Intelligent cache for Apache Spark in Azure Synapse

Generally available: Azure Data Explorer supports multiple databases per data connection

General availability: Azure Machine Learning user-defined functions in Azure Stream Analytics

Templates functionality preview version in Azure portal will be retired on 31 March 2025

Review your VNET configurations that may be affected by IP address changes

Azure Time Series Insights will be retired on 31 March 2025

General availability: Inbound NAT rule now supports port management for backend pools

Update your Azure App Service apps to use Microsoft .NET 6 before 3 December 2022

Azure QnA Maker will be retired on 31 March 2025

Transition to using connection strings for data ingestion by 31 March 2025

Community support for Node 14 LTS is ending on 30 April 2023

Azure Data Lake Analytics will be retired on 29 February 2024

Generally available: Connect and manage devices in Azure IoT Central without models

In development: New planned datacenter region in Finland (Finland Central)

Public preview: Azure Container Registry on Azure Stack Hub

Public preview: Azure Kubernetes Service on Azure Stack Hub

General availability: Azure HBv3 virtual machines for HPC now upgraded

Five Azure classic networking services will be retired on 31 August 2024

Select Azure Dedicated Host SKUs will be retired on 31 March 2023

Extended support for Microsoft .NET Core 3.1 will end on 3 December 2022

IoT Hub on Azure Stack Hub public preview will be retired on 30 September 2022

Migrate to MQTT broker on Azure IoT Edge by 31 March 2023

Update your Azure SDK libraries by 31 March 2023

General availability: Enablement of combined security information registration for Azure Active Directory

Public preview: Azure Private Link support in Azure API Management

Premium Container SKU (public preview) will be retired on 30 June 2022

Azure Container Monitoring will be retired on 31 March 2025

Community support for Node 12 LTS is ending on 30 April 2022

Community support for .NET 5 is ending on 8 May 2022

Generally available: Azure Site Recovery update rollup 61 – March 2022

Generally available: Best practices assessment for SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines

Azure SQL???Public preview updates for mid-March 2022

General availability: Azure Database for MySQL???Flexible Server – New US government region

General availability: New extensions for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server

General availability: New high availability regions???Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server

General availability: Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server???new US government regions

General availability: Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server supports PostgreSQL minor versions

General availability: Azure Database for PostgreSQL???Hyperscale (Citus) supports PostgreSQL minor versions

Public preview: Clustering Support for JBoss EAP on Azure App Service

Generally available: Support for private links in Azure Monitor agent

Public preview: Azure SignalR Service Premium Tier

Public preview: Azure App Configuration soft delete capability

Public preview: Protect Azure Static Web Apps environments with a password

Generally available: Azure Database for MySQL ??? Flexible Server in two new regions

Public preview: Azure Synapse Link for Azure Cosmos DB partitioning Spark 3.1

Public preview: Trusted launch support for Virtual Machines using Ephemeral OS disks

Generally available: Pin analytics tile to dashboards in Azure IoT Central

General availability: Support for Private Link in Azure Digital Twins

Azure Blog

RISE with SAP on the Microsoft Cloud: A year in review

Cloud migration for medical imaging data using Azure Health Data Services and IMS

Manage port forwarding for backend pool with Azure Load Balancer

5 reasons to attend the Modernize and Migrate with Hybrid Cloud Flexibility digital event

Accelerate graphics-heavy workloads using NVads A10 v5 Azure

Azure confidential computing with NVIDIA GPUs for trustworthy AI

Azure HBv3 VMs for HPC now generally available with AMD EPYC CPUs with AMD 3D V-Cache

Secure your APIs with Private Link support for Azure API Management

Learn how Microsoft Circular Centers are scaling cloud supply chain sustainability

Microsoft launches Azure Health Data Services to unify health data and power AI in the cloud

Azure Sentinel Blog

Update Microsoft Sentinel VIP Users Watchlist from Azure AD group using playbooks

Common scenarios using Watchlists (with query examples)!

How to use Microsoft Sentinel’s SOAR capabilities with SAP

What???s new: Unified Microsoft SIEM and XDR GitHub Community

Microsoft Sentinel Support for Ingestion-Time Data Transformations