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Azure Updates – Number 48 – October 8, 2022

With Microsoft Ignite 2022 coming next week - I'll have all the updates for Azure Infrastructure and Microsoft Sentinel here at the end of the week, once the Ignite Book of News is published! Now with our regularly scheduled Azure News updates: 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

Azure Percept DK Retirement Announcement
Public preview: Azure Firewall Basic
Generally available: Query Store hints Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance
Generally available: Azure Ultra Disk Storage in China North 3
Azure Machine Learning???General availability updates for September 2022
Azure Machine Learning???Public preview updates for September 2022
General availability: Smart tiering to vault-archive tier for Azure Backup
Azure Batch Low Priority VMs will be retired on 30 September 2025
Support for PostgreSQL 11 in Azure Database PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus) ends on 9 November 2023
The application insights Java 2.X SDK will be retired on 30 September 2025
DevOps Starter is being retired. Use Azure Developer CLI for quick-start deployments to Azure
Azure CycleCloud 7 will be retired on 30 September 2023
Azure Static Web Apps support for Node 12 ends on 3 December 2022
Azure Batch Job/Pool Lifetime Statistics API will be retired on 30 April 2023
Support for Azure API Management self-hosted gateway version 0 and version 1 ends??1 October 2023
Azure Batch TLS 1.0/1.1 will be retired on 31 March 2023
Azure Monitor ITSM connector for creating ServiceNow events will be retired on 30 September 2025
Azure Monitor ITSM connector for creating ServiceNow alerts will be retired on 30 September 2025
Action required: Migrate to Azure Database for MySQL Flexible Server by 16 September 2024
Azure Basic Load Balancer will be retired on 30 September 2025???upgrade to Standard Load Balancer
App Service support for Ruby is ending 12 April 2023???
Upgrade your Azure Cache for Redis instances to use Redis version 6 by 30 June 2023
Migrate to conversational language understanding before Language Understanding (LUIS) is retired on 1 October 2025
Update your Azure SDK libraries for .NET and Golang by 30 September 2023
Public preview: New Azure Maps Creator feature – custom styling
Public preview: Policy analytics for Azure Firewall
Azure SQL???General availability updates for late September 2022
General availability: Azure SQL Database Hyperscale reverse migration to general purpose tier
Azure SQL???Public preview updates for late September 2022
General availability: Backup and restore in Azure Database for PostgreSQL ??? Flexible Server
Public preview: Azure AD authentication with Azure Database for MySQL ??? Flexible Server
Generally available: Azure Functions Linux Elastic Premium plan increased maximum scale-out limits
Generally available: Azure Functions .NET Framework support in the isolated worker model
Public preview: Java 17 Support in Azure Functions
Public preview: Automatic backup for App Service Environment V2 and V3
Generally available: Backup and restore updates for App Service
Generally available: Azure Red Hat OpenShift landing zone accelerator
Public preview: Billing has started for Azure Monitor Logs data archive
General availability: Azure Sphere version 22.09
General availability: Azure Policy built-in definitions for Azure NetApp Files
General availability: Azure NetApp Files new regions and cross-region replication
Azure unmanaged disks will be retired on 30 September 2025
Support for PostgreSQL version 11 in Azure Database PostgreSQL Single Server ends on 9 November 2024
Support for PostgreSQL version 11 in Azure Database PostgreSQL Flexible Server ends on 9 November 2024
Continuous delivery setting of Azure VM will be retired on 31 March 2023 ??? Use Azure DevOps to create pipelines
Deployment Center setting of Azure Kubernetes service (AKS) will be retired on 31 March 2023 ??? Use Automated Deployments to create pipelines

Azure Blog

Scalable management of virtualized RAN with Kubernetes
Cost optimization using Azure Migrate
Azure Firewall Basic now in preview
Microsoft and INT deploy IVAAP for OSDU Data Platform on Microsoft Energy Data Services
Advancing anomaly detection with AIOps???introducing AiDice
Strengthen your security with Policy Analytics for Azure Firewall
Ensure zone resilient outbound connectivity with NAT gateway
Cost Management updates???September 2022
RoQC and Microsoft simplify cloud migration with Microsoft Energy Data Services
New Azure for Operators solution accelerator offers a fast path to network insights

Microsoft Sentinel Blog

Announcing the enhanced Microsoft Sentinel AWS CloudTrail solution, powered by new MITRE-Based Rules
Anomaly detection on the SAP audit log using the Microsoft Sentinel for SAP Solution
IoT Entity Page – Enhance IoT/OT Threat Monitoring in Your SOC with Sentinel and Defender for IoT
Data Collection Rules Creation Impacting Sentinel UEBA ML Model
Introduction to Machine Learning Notebooks in Microsoft Sentinel