Azure Updates – Number 46 – September 10, 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

In Development: New options to bring your licenses to a partner???s cloud

Generally available: Resource instance rules for access to Azure Storage

General availability: Up to 45% performance gains in stream processing

General availability: Managed private endpoint support to Synapse SQL output

General availability: Azure Database for PostgreSQL output in Stream Analytics

General availability: Authenticate to Service Bus using managed identity

Public preview: Stream Analytics no-code editor updates in August 2022

Generally available: Azure Data Explorer Kusto Emulator

Generally available: New Azure Virtual Machines with Ampere Altra Arm-based processors

Public preview: Encrypt storage account with cross-tenant customer-managed keys

General availability: Managed identity to connect Azure Cache for Redis to storage

Public preview: Node.js 18 in Azure Functions

Azure SQL???General availability updates for late August 2022

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

Generally available: Unity Catalog for Azure Databricks

General availability: Azure Cosmos DB integrated cache

Public preview: App Configuration references for App Service and Azure Functions

Generally available: Azure Functions extension for Event Grid blob trigger

Public preview: Azure Storage Explorer support for Azure App Configuration resources

Generally available: Enterprise-grade edge for Azure Static Web Apps

Generally available: API Management custom widget support in developer portal

General availability: Azure Communication Services support for Teams identities

Generally available: Enterprise-ready Azure Monitor change analysis capability released

Public preview: Enterprise VMware Cloud Director Service for Azure VMware Solution

Generally available: Live resize for Premium SSD and Standard SSD Disk Storage

Public preview: Azure Arc-enabled servers in Azure China

Generally available: Azure Arc-enabled servers in South Africa North

Public preview: Ephemeral OS disks supports host-based encryption using customer managed key

Generally available: IoT Edge 1.4

Generally available: Prevent a lifecycle management policy from archiving recently rehydrated blobs

General availability: ExpressRoute IPv6 Support for Global Reach

Azure Blog

Elevate your visualizations with Azure Managed Grafana???now generally available

Microsoft Cost Management updates ??? August 2022

Azure private MEC???A thriving partner ecosystem

Announcing new enhancements for Azure VMware Solution

Azure Virtual Machines with Ampere Altra Arm???based processors???generally available

Azure Sentinel Blog

Power of Threat Intelligence sprinkled across Microsoft Sentinel

Troubleshoot??Amazon Web Services??S3 connector issues

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