Azure Updates – Number 45 – August 27, 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 Data Explorer supports native ingestion from Amazon S3

Generally available: UAE North Availability Zones

Public preview: Four new features in no code editor in Event Hubs

Generally available: Public IP Capability for Azure VMware Solution

Generally available: vRealize Log Insight Cloud with Azure VMware Solution integration

Generally available: Azure VMware Solution now in Sweden Central

Generally available: JetStream DR for AVS supports Azure NetApp Files datastores

General availability: Network security groups support for private endpoints

General availability: User-defined routes support for private endpoints

Public preview: Microsoft Azure Load Testing supports private endpoints testing

Azure SQL???General availability updates for mid-August 2022

Generally available: Hierarchical forecasting for Azure Machine Learning

Azure Machine Learning???Public preview updates for August 2022

Public preview: Azure Database for PostgreSQL

General availability: Server logs for Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server

General availability: Reserved instance pricing for Azure Cache for Redis Enterprise

Public preview: Backup database with S3-compatible storage for Arc-enabled SQL MI

Public preview: App Configuration geo replication support

Public preview: Use managed identity-based authentication to enable Azure Monitor container insights

Public preview: Azure Monitor basic logs, archive, restore and search jobs

Generally available: Azure Monitor container insights agent renaming

Public preview: AKS DevX extension for Visual Studio Code

Generally available: Kubernetes 1.24 support

Generally available: Azure Dedicated Host Support

Generally available: Key management system integration with AKS

Public preview: Blob CSI support in AKS

Public preview: Automated deployments in AKS

Generally available: Azure API Management – expanded support for Azure Policy definitions

Generally available: Azure API Management support for MSAL in developer portal

Generally available: Azure Monitor Logs data export supports application insights tables

General availability: Dapr release 1.8 support in Azure Container Apps

Generally available: Azure Red Hat OpenShift new regions

Public preview: Microsoft Dev Box

General availability: Microsoft Azure available from new cloud region in Qatar

Azure Blog

Enhance Azure Firewall policy management with Tufin SecureTrack integration

Microsoft named a Leader in 2022 Gartner?? Magic Quadrant??? for Data Integration Tools

High availability solutions on Microsoft Azure by SLES for SAP Applications

Dive deep into NAT gateway???s SNAT port behavior

Gain Deeper Insights with Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform

Azure Data Explorer: Log and telemetry analytics benchmark

Announcing Microsoft Dev Box Preview

Azure Sentinel Blog

Enabling AD FS Security Auditing ???? and Shipping Event Logs to Microsoft Sentinel ???????

What’s New: SOC Process Framework is Now Live in Content Hub!

Hunting for Teams Phishing with Microsoft Sentinel, Defender, Microsoft Graph and MSTICPy

Azure resource entity page – your way to investigate Azure resources

New ingestion-SampleData-as-a-service solution, for a great Demos and simulation