Azure Updates – Number 41 – July 3, 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: Microsoft Purview data sharing for Azure Storage

General availability: MATCH clause for Query

Generally available: Export device data under an organization in Azure IoT Central

Public preview: Multiple backups per day for Azure Virtual Machines

Public preview: Create an additional 5000 Azure Storage accounts within your subscription

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

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

General availability: Azure Key Vault secrets provider on Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes

Generally available: Windows IoT on Arm64

General availability: Azure Machine Learning announcements for June 2022

Public preview: Link feature in Azure SQL MI for SQL Server 2016

General availability: Azure Advisor support for Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server

Public preview: Azure Data Studio MongoDB extension for Azure Cosmos DB

Public preview: Continuous backup enhancements in Azure Cosmos DB

Public preview: Azure Cosmos DB SQL API Go SDK improvements

Generally available: Azure Cosmos DB Core (SQL) API Query Engine improvements

Generally available: Improved Try Azure Cosmos DB for free experience

Public preview: AKS release tracker

Public preview: New API backend options in Azure Static Web Apps

Public preview: Azure Functions support for Python 3.10

Public preview: Custom certificate authorities

Public preview: Kubernetes release 1.24 support in AKS

Generally available: HTTP proxy support for AKS clusters

Public preivew: App Service support for .NET 7

Private preview: App Service hybrid connections manager for Linux

General availability: Microcontroller-based device security platform

General availability: Embedded Wireless Framework

General availability: Edge Secured-Core for Windows IoT

Public preview: Service Bus Explorer capabilities in the Azure Portal

Generally available: API Management self-hosted gateway version 2

Generally available: API Management Content Security Policy and CORS configuration support

Generally available: Update properties for devices without models in Azure IoT Central

Generally available: Durable Functions for Node.js

Public preview: Durable Functions for Java

Public preview: SMB Continuous Availability shares for??Citrix??App Layering

Public preview: Resource governance for client applications in Azure Event Hubs

Public preview: Apache Parquet capturing support in Azure Event Hubs

Azure Blog

MLOps Blog Series Part 3: Testing scalability of secure machine learning systems using MLOps

Microsoft Cost Management updates ??? June 2022

Azure Orbital Ground Station as Service extends life and reduces costs for satellite operators

MLOps Blog Series Part 2: Testing robustness of secure machine learning systems using machine learning ops

See how 3 industry-leading companies are driving innovation in a new episode of Inside Azure for IT

Responsible AI investments and safeguards for facial recognition

Azure IoT increases enterprise-level intelligent edge and cloud capabilities

Azure Sentinel Blog

Become a Microsoft Sentinel Automation Ninja!

Import Anomali ThreatStream Feed into Microsoft Sentinel

Migration to Microsoft Sentinel made easy

Microsoft Sentinel Automation Tips & Tricks ??? Part 1: Automation rules

Correlating Microsoft Defender for Cloud alerts in Sentinel