Azure Updates – Number 37 – May 21, 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: Azure Backup support for trusted launch Azure Virtual Machines

Generally available: Easily manage your Azure IoT Central dashboards using a catalog

Public preview: Container Storage Interface extensible API for AKS

Public preview: AKS Private Link Service integration

Public preview: Key Management System integration

Generally available: Open Service Mesh extension for Azure Arc

Public preview: HostProcess Containers

Generally available: Industrial IoT Connectivity Partners integrate with Azure IoT Central

Public preview: Additional support for managed identity authentication in Azure Stream Analytics

Public preview: Azure DNS Private Resolver ??? Hybrid name resolution and conditional forwarding

General availability: Azure Data Lake Storage Gen1 to Gen2 using Azure Portal

Generally available: OCR supports 164 languages in the Cognitive Services Computer Vision

Azure SQL???Generally available updates for early May 2022

Generally available: Minor versions upgrade for Azure Database for MySQL ??? Flexible Server

Generally available: IT Service Management Integration with secure webhook

Public preview: Azure Container Apps now support log streaming and console connect

Public preview: Static Web Apps support skipping API builds via Azure pipelines

Public preview: Improved Azure DevOps support in Static Web Apps

Generally available: Azure Compute Gallery support for trusted launch Virtual Machines

Generally available: Azure IoT Edge supports Debian Bullseye on ARM32v7

Generally available: Azure Arc-enabled servers support for private endpoints

Public preview: Azure Virtual Machines DCsv3 in Australia, Japan, US, and Asia

Azure Blog

Announcing Azure DNS Private Resolver: Now in preview

Microsoft and AT&T demonstrate 5G-powered video analytics

Microsoft session highlights from SAP Sapphire 2022

Manage Red Hat workloads seamlessly on Azure

Accelerating innovation in the diabetic foot market with Azure Health Data Services

Join us and the developer community to celebrate Azure Static Web Apps

Announcing new voices and emotions to Azure Neural Text to Speech

Azure Sentinel Blog

Announcing the Microsoft Sentinel: NIST SP 800-53 Solution

What’s new: Similar incidents in Microsoft Sentinel

Automating bulk onboarding of Azure IaaS and PaaS resources into Microsoft Sentinel

Search, Investigate, & Respond to Indicators of Compromise with the Threat Intelligence Workbook

What???s new: Closer integration between Microsoft Sentinel and Microsoft 365 Defender