Azure Updates – Number 35 – April 23, 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: App Service – Networking capabilities added to Basic pricing tier

Public preview: App Service – Configure networking in Azure Portal during app creation

General availability: Windows Server guest licensing offer for Azure Stack HCI

Generally available: Rehydrate an archived blob to a different storage account

Public preview: Stable URLs for preview environments in Azure Static Web Apps

General availability: Azure Archive Storage now available in Switzerland North

Public preview: Azure Monitor and Azure Managed Grafana integrations

In development: Azure Media Services low-latency live streaming

Generally available: Azure SQL Migration extension for Azure Data Studio

General availability: Azure Cosmos DB autoscale RU/s entry point is 4x lower

Public preview: Azure Cosmos DB API for MongoDB unique index re-indexing

General availability: Zone redundancy for Azure SQL Database general purpose tier

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

Public preview: Azure SQL Database Hyperscale reverse migration to general purpose tier

Public preview: Azure Monitoring Agent supports custom and IIS logs

Generally available: Azure Static Web Apps support for private endpoints

Public preview: Metrics and alerts support in Azure Container Apps

Public preview: Health probes support in Azure Container Apps

Public preview: Visual Studio support for Azure Container Apps

Public preview: Visual Studio Code extension for Azure Container Apps

Generally available: IBM WebSphere on Azure with evaluation licensing

Public preview: Managed identities support in Azure Container Apps

Public preview: Support for Windows clients using Azure Monitor agent

Generally available: Java 17 and Tomcat 10.0 on Azure App Service

Generally available: new result set grid in Azure Monitor log analytics

Public preview: Azure Monitor activity log insights

Public preview: Redesign of alerts summary (landing) page

Public preview: Recommended alert rules for virtual machines

Generally available: Migrate devices across templates at scale in Azure IoT Central

General availability: Azure Sphere OS version 22.04

Generally available: Service tags support for user-defined routing

Generally available: Customize application text labels in Azure IoT Central

Generally available: Azure Databricks Delta Live Tables

General availability: Glossary terms in Azure Purview data catalog search

Generally available: DNS reservations to prevent subdomain takeover in Cloud Services deployments

Azure Blog

Microsoft announces new collaboration with Red Button for attack simulation testing

How Microsoft measures datacenter water and energy use to improve Azure Cloud sustainability

Azure Purview is now Microsoft Purview

Enhance your data visualizations with Azure Managed Grafana???now in preview

Feathr: LinkedIn???s feature store is now available on Azure

Unlock cloud savings on the fly with autoscale on Azure

Optimize your cloud investment with Azure Reservations

Accelerate your AI applications with Azure NC A100 v4 virtual machines

Azure Sentinel Blog

Use the bulk update feature with Microsoft Sentinel Watchlists

Announcing the search and filter UI enhancements in Watchlists

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