Azure Updates – Number 34 – April 9, 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

Update: Azure AD Graph retirement date

Generally available: Diagnostic audit logs for Automation accounts

General availability: Azure Backup now supports vault-archive tier for Azure VMs

General availability: Azure Data Explorer supports Azure private endpoints

Generally available: Azure storage table access using Azure Active Directory

Generally available: Support for Private Link in Azure IoT Central

Public preview: Azure Backup supports metrics and metric alerts for Azure Blobs

Public preview: Capacity reservation support in AKS

Generally available: Azure Virtual Machines increase storage throughput by up to 300%

Public preview: Azure Virtual Machines DCsv3 available in Switzerland and West US

Generally available: Azure Data Explorer Inline script deployment with ARM Template

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

Public preview: Arm64-based Azure VMs can deliver up to 50% better price-performance

Generally available: Apache Kafka 2.4 in Azure HDinsight

Generally available: Apache Spark 3.1.2 in Azure HDinsight

Public preview: Azure Bastion support for Kerberos authentication

Public preview: Simplified compute node communication

Public preview: Azure Arc integration with VMware vSphere and Azure VMware Solution

Generally available: Azure Stream Analytics in 10 new regions

General availability: Bring your own IP ranges to Azure

General availability: Azure Data Explorer supports Conditional Access

Azure SQL???Public preview updates for late March 2022

Public preview: Azure SQL Migration extension with Azure PowerShell and CLI support

General availability: Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus) now FedRAMP High compliant

Public preview: Azure Cosmos DB partition key advisor notebook

General availability: Always Encrypted for Azure Cosmos DB

General availability: Azure Cognitive Search implements debug sessions

Public preview: Edge Device Image Builder

Generally available: Cross-region snapshot copy for Azure Disk Storage

General availability: Azure Ultra Disk Storage in Sweden Central

Generally available: Node.js 16 in Azure Functions

Generally available: Support or Calico network policy for Windows node pools

Public preview: Azure dedicated host support in AKS

Public preview: Node auto-drain for AKS

Azure classic storage accounts will be retired on 31 August 2024

NV-series and NV Promo Azure Virtual Machines retirement extended to 31 August 2023

ND-series Azure Virtual Machines retirement extended to 31 August 2023

Update: NV-series and NV_Promo Azure Virtual Machines will be retired on 31 August 2023

Update: ND-series Azure Virtual Machines will be retired on 31 August 2023

Update: NC v2-series Azure Virtual Machines will be retired on 31 August 2023

NC v2-series Azure Virtual Machines retirement extended to 31 August 2023

NC-series Azure Virtual Machines retirement extended to 31 August 2023

Update: NC-series Azure Virtual Machines will be retired on 31 August 2023

Generally available: Access time-based lifecycle management rules for Data Lake Storage Gen2

Generally available: The new Azure Front Door ??? a modern cloud CDN service

App Service Environment version 1 and version 2 will be retired on 31 August 2024

IoT connector preview feature in Azure API for FHIR retiring on 30 September 2022

Generally available: Copy data directly to Archive Storage with Data Box

In development: New planned datacenter region in India (India South Central)

Generally available: On-demand capacity reservation with Azure Site Recovery safeguards VMs failover

General availability: Azure Bastion native client support

General availability: On-demand capacity reservations

Generally available: Azure Batch supports Spot Virtual Machines

Public preview: Azure Percept DK March (2203) software update

Azure Blog

Azure delivers strong MLPerf inferencing v2.0 results from 1 to 8 GPUs

The future is on FHIR for SAS and Microsoft Azure

Increase remote storage performance with Azure Ebsv5 VMs???now generally available

Empowering space development off the planet with Azure

Now in preview: Azure Virtual Machines with Ampere Altra Arm-based processors

Join us at the Innovate for Impact digital event

Bring your own IP addresses (BYOIP) to Azure with Custom IP Prefix

Diversifying the telecommunications supply chain with Open RAN

Accelerate silicon design innovation on Azure with Synopsys Cloud

Azure Cost Management and Billing updates ??? March 2022

Azure Sentinel Blog

Next Evolution of the Microsoft Sentinel Zero Trust (TIC 3.0) Solution

Microsoft Sentinel Ninja Training – the March 2022 update

Participate in the Microsoft Sentinel Hackathon Spring 2022!

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

Common scenarios using Watchlists (with query examples)!