AzureTracks Azure News Update
Andrew Posted on 4:25 am

Azure Updates – Number 40 – June 18, 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

Public preview: Azure Virtual Network Manager in nine new regions
Public preview: ExpressRoute Direct and Circuit in different subscriptions
Public preview: Windows Admin Center in the Azure portal
General availability: Azure WAF policy and DDoS management in Azure Firewall Manager
General availability: Azure Data Explorer connector for Power Automate, Logic Apps, and Power Apps
Public preview: Private link support in Azure Application Gateway
Public preview: Expanded feature regional availability for standard network features
General availability: Feature general availability and feature expansion of regional availability
General availability: Azure Databricks available in new regions
General availability: Azure SDK for Go
Public preview: Azure Load Testing supports splitting input data across test engines
Public preview: Azure Load Testing support for user specified JMeter properties
Public preview: Azure Load Testing support for customer-managed keys
Public preview: Azure Load Testing supports quick start tests with web URL
Public preview: Azure Load Testing support for user-assigned managed identities
Generally available: Azure Container Apps support for custom domains and TLS certificates
Public preview: Linux portal editing for applications
Public preview: Mount Azure Files and ephemeral storage in Azure Container Apps
Public preview: Microsoft Graph API integration with Azure Event Grid
Static Web Apps CLI now available
Generally available: API Management reusable policy fragments
Public preview: API Management authorizations
Public preview: Azure Arc-enabled System Center Virtual Machine Manager
Generally available: Azure Monitor Agent available on latest Linux distros
Public preview: Connection Monitor Support for virtual machine scale sets
Public preview: Network Watcher packet capture support for virtual machine scale sets
Azure SQL???Generally available updates for early June 2022
Public preview: Microsoft Purview access policies for Azure SQL Database
Public preview: Azure Cosmos DB serverless container storage limit increase to 1TB
Public preview: Linux emulator with Azure Cosmos DB API for MongoDB??
Public preview: 16MB limit per document in API for MongoDB??
Public preview: Azure NetApp Files datastores for Azure VMware Solution
General availability: Trusted launch support for virtual machines using Ephemeral OS disks
Public preview: ExpressRoute IPv6 Support for Global Reach
General availability: Updates for resource configuration changes

Azure Blog

Simplify and centralize network security management with Azure Firewall Manager
Discover how you can innovate anywhere with Azure Arc
Azure powers rapid deployment of private 4G and 5G networks
MLOps Blog Series Part 1: The art of testing machine learning systems using MLOps
Supporting openEHR with Azure Health Data Services
Achieve seamless observability with Dynatrace for Azure
Learn what???s new in Azure Firewall
Find the clarity and guidance you need to realize cloud value
Improve outbound connectivity with Azure Virtual Network NAT
Top 5 reasons to attend Azure Hybrid, Multicloud, and Edge Day

Azure Sentinel Blog

Microsoft Threat Intelligence Matching Analytics: IP Detections
I’m Being Attacked, Now What?
Import Pulsedive Feed into Microsoft Sentinel
Plan, Track, and Configure Your Microsoft Sentinel Deployment/Migration with This New Workbook
Announcing the Microsoft Sentinel Hackathon Spring 2022 winners