Azure Updates – Number 36 – May 7, 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

Azure VM insights guest health (preview) will be retired on 30 November 2022

Update your IoT Edge devices on Raspberry Pi OS Stretch

Public preview: Control the minimum TLS version used with Azure Service Bus

General availability: Virtual Network NAT health checks available via Resource Health

Generally available: Enhancements to Azure Web Application Firewall

Public preview: Event Grid enables user authorization to create partner topics

Public preview: Static Web Apps support for preview environments in Azure DevOps

General availability: Object replication on premium blob storage and rule limit increased

Azure Video Analyzer (preview) will be retired on 30 November 2022

General availability: Azure Machine Learning announcements for March 2022

Public preview: Azure Machine Learning announcements for March 2022

Public preview: Azure Machine Learning announcements for April 2022

Azure Machine Learning Reinforcement Learning preview will be retired on 30 June 2022

Generally available: Automated key rotation in Azure Key Vault

Public preview: Azure Lab Services April 2022 update

Generally available: Azure Functions Linux Elastic Premium plan increased maximum scale-out limits

Public preview: Azure Compute Gallery feature ???community gallery???

Generally available: Azure SQL Database storage limits increase for selected compute sizes

Azure SQL???Generally available updates for late April 2022

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

Generally available: Azure Database for MySQL ??? Flexible Server higher burstable compute

Generally available: Azure Database for PostgreSQL ??? Hyperscale (Citus) now includes PgBouncer 1.17

Public preview: Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra enhancements

Generally available: Database templates in Azure Synapse Analytics

General availability: Azure Synapse Link now supports existing Azure Cosmos DB containers

General availability: Azure Cosmos DB portal???Azure Synapse Link seamless Power BI

General availability: Unique partial indexes in Azure Cosmos DB API for MongoDB

Public preview: Azure Storage as share in Windows Code in App Service

Public preview: Azure Functions now supports PowerShell 7.2

Public preview: Static Web Apps now supports Gitlab and Bitbucket for CI/CD

Public preview: Azure Static Web Apps now support skipping API builds

Generally available: Scale-down mode in AKS

Generally available: Node pool snapshot

Generally available: Group Managed Service Accounts security policy support on Windows

Public preview: Azure Container Apps built-in authentication Microsoft Azure Container Apps

Generally available: Controls to block domain fronting behavior on customer resources

Azure Blog

Azure Health Data Services: Engineering product for partners

Streamline Azure workloads with ExpressRoute BGP community support

Customize your secure VM session experience with native client support on Azure Bastion

Intelligent application protection from edge to cloud with Azure Web Application Firewall

Announcing new investments to help accelerate your move to Azure

Azure Cost Management and Billing updates ??? April 2022

Enhance your classroom experience with Azure Lab Services???April 2022 update

Azure Sentinel Blog

Using Microsoft Teams Adaptive Cards to enhance incident response in Microsoft Sentinel

Export Microsoft Sentinel Playbooks or Azure Logic Apps with Ease

Transferring Microsoft Sentinel scheduled alert rules between different workspaces using PowerShell

New watchlist actions available for watchlist automation using Microsoft Sentinel SOAR

Announcing the Microsoft Sentinel: Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) 2.0 Solution