Azure Updates – Number 43 – July 30, 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 Sphere version 22.07

Public preview: Azure Synapse Analytics Spark elastic pool storage

Generally available: Trusted Launch support for DCsv3 and DCdsv3 series Virtual Machines

Generally available: Guided tour experience added to Azure IoT Central

General availability: VM Applications ??? Manage and deploy applications to VMs and VMSS

Public preview: SQL DB output connector improvements in Stream Analytics

Public preview: Share images across subscriptions and tenants with new Compute Gallery feature

Generally available: Azure Stream Analytics in four new regions

Generally available: New KMS DNS in Azure Global Cloud

Public preview: Managed attributes in Microsoft Purview data catalog

Generally available: Rich text editor in Microsoft Purview data catalog

General availability: Microsoft Cost Details API for EA and MCA customers

General availability: NVads A10 v5 Virtual Machines

Public preview: Enhanced experience to opt in to improved backup alerting

General availability: Azure confidential VMs (DCasv5/ECasv5-series VMs)

Public preview: Azure Monitor for SAP solutions

Generally available: CI/CD Guidance for Azure IoT Central

Public preview: Azure Marketplace for Arc-enabled Azure Stack HCI

Public preview: Remote support for Arc-enabled Azure Stack HCI

Public preview: Arc-enabled guest VMs with extensions for Azure Stack HCI

Public preview: Azure Stack HCI version 22H2

Generally available: Tag filtering in Azure Advisor

Public preview: Azure Spring Apps feature updates

Public preview: Azure Load Testing – additional metrics for pass/fail criteria

Public preview: Azure Load Testing now displays load engine health metrics

Generally available: Calico for Windows on AKS

Public preview: API Server VNet integration

Generally available: Azure Functions support for PowerShell 7.2

Generally available: Bring your own Container Network Interface plugin

Pubic preview: .NET 7 support for Azure Functions in isolated process model

Generally available: Azure Event Grid partner events

Public preview: Microsoft Azure Web PubSub Premium Tier

General availability: Azure Confidential Ledger

Generally available: Azure SignalR Service Premium Tier

Generally available: Premium-series hardware for Azure SQL Managed Instance

General availability: Citus 11 support for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus)

General Availability: Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server – On demand backups

Public preview: Cross-region read replicas for Azure Database for PostgreSQL ??? Hyperscale (Citus)

Generally available: Basic tier updates for Azure Database for PostgreSQL ??? Hyperscale (Citus)

Generally available: vCore compute options for Azure Database for PostgreSQL ??? Hyperscale (Citus)

Generally available: New extensions for Azure Database for PostgreSQL ??? Flexible Server

Generally available: PostgreSQL 14 with Azure Database for PostgreSQL ??? Flexible Server

Generally available: Same-zone high availability for Azure Database for PostgreSQL ??? Flexible Server

Public preview: Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server data encryption with CMK

Generally available: Virtual machine restore points

Public preview: TLS 1.3 support on Application Gateway

Public preview: Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage

Public preview: OVN-Kubernetes network provider for Azure Red Hat OpenShift

Azure Blog

Azure empowers easy-to-use, high-performance, and hyperscale model training using DeepSpeed

Microsoft Cost Details API now generally available for EA and MCA customers

Migrate and modernize with Azure to power innovation across the entire digital estate

Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage in preview

Azure Sentinel Blog

Discover the power of UEBA anomalies in Microsoft Sentinel

Microsoft Sentinel Solution for Dynamics 365 News ??? New OOB analytics rules templates available now!

Microsoft Sentinel Automation Tips & Tricks ??? Part 3: Send email notification options

What’s New in Notebooks – MSTICPy v2.0.0

Microsoft Sentinel Automation Tips & Tricks ??? Part 2: Playbooks