Azure Updates – Number 49 – October 22, 2022

The post-MS Ignite 2022 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

Community support for Node 16 LTS is ending on 11 September 2023

App Service Environment version 1 and version 2 will be retired on 31 August 2024

Community support for PHP 8.0 is ending on 26 November 2023

Cloud Services (classic) deployment model is retiring on 31 August 2024

Generally available: SFTP support for Azure Blob Storage

General availability: Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage

General availability: OpenTelemetry exporter for Azure Data Explorer

General availability: Stream Analytics no-code editor in Event Hubs

Generally available: Auto Extension upgrade for Arc enabled Servers

General availability: Azure savings plan for compute

General availability: Zone-redundant storage support by Azure Backup

Public preview: Exactly once delivery for Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2

Generally available: Azure Stream Analytics in one new region

In development: Introducing ExpressRoute Metro

Generally available: Kusto Trender

Public preview: Enhanced soft delete for Azure Backup

Public preview: Multi-user authorization for Backup vaults

Public preview: Immutable vaults for Azure Backup

General availability: Azure NetApp Files application volume group for SAP HANA

Generally available: Windows Admin Center for Azure Virtual Machines

General availability: Static IP configurations of private endpoints

General availability: Azure Sphere OS version 22.10 expected on October 25

General availability: Custom network interface name configurations of private endpoints

General availability: Azure Monitor predictive autoscale for Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets

Generally available: Azure Site Recovery update rollup 64 – October 2022

Public preview: Computer Vision Image Analysis 4.0

Public preview: Microsoft Azure Deployment Environments

Generally available: Service Bus Explorer for the Azure portal

Public preview: Support for HANA System Replication in Azure Backup for HANA

Generally available: Control the minimum TLS version used with Azure Service Bus

Public preview: Job diagram simulator in VS Code

Public preview: Oracle to Azure migration with Database Migration Assessment for Oracle

Public preview: Azure Active Directory for Azure Database for PostgreSQL ??? Flexible Server

Azure Machine Learning???Public preview updates for October 2022/Ignite

General availability: Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server with AMD compute

Public preview: MySQL extension for Azure Data Studio

Public preview: Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server auto scale IO

Public preview: Infrastructure encryption using customer managed key for PostgreSQL ??? Flexible Server

General availability: 16MB limit per document in Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB

Generally available: Azure Advisor score across all Azure regions

Generally available: Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL

Public preview: Azure Resource Topology

Public preview: Integration of Azure Monitor Agent with Connection Monitor

Public preview: Azure Migrate – SQL Server migration assessment for migration or modernization

General availability: Azure Stack HCI new features release

Public preview: New Azure Virtual Machine Scale Set and Spot Virtual Machines capabilities

General availability: Azure Monitor Logs – capabilities to add value and lower costs

Public preview: Azure Monitor Logs – create granular level RBAC for custom tables

Public preview: Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus

Public preview: Rules for Azure Kubernetes Service and Log Analytic workspace resources

Generally available: Azure Monitor agent migration tools

Generally available: Azure Monitor agent support for Windows clients

General availability: AMD confidential VM guest attestation

General availability: Confidential VM option for SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines

Public preview: Azure Managed Confidential Consortium Framework

Public preview: Confidential VM option for Azure Virtual Desktop

General availability: AMD-based confidential VMs for Azure Kubernetes Service

Public preview: Azure CNI Overlay mode in Azure Kubernetes Service

Public preview: Kubernetes apps on Azure Marketplace

Public preview: Azure Active Directory workload identity support in AKS

Generally available: Windows server 2022 host support in AKS

Generally available: 5,000 node scale in AKS

Generally available: Event Grid integration with AKS

General availability: Azure DNS Private Resolver ??? hybrid name resolution and conditional forwarding

Public preview: IP Protection SKU for Azure DDoS Protection

Public preview: Azure Kubernetes Service hybrid deployment options

Public preview: Planned maintenance feature for App Service Environment v3

In development: Larger SKUs for App Service Environment v3

In development: Day 0 support for .NET 7

In development: Go language support

Public preview: Stretched clusters for Azure VMware Solution

Generally available: Azure Hybrid Benefit for AKS and Azure Stack HCI

Public preview: Customer-managed keys for Azure VMware Solution

Generally available: Azure Automanage for Azure Virtual Machines and Arc-enabled servers

General availability: User-assigned managed identities for Azure Stream Analytics

General availability: Use managed identities to access Cosmos DB???from Stream Analytics

General availability: Azure Data Explorer output from Azure Stream Analytics

Generally available: Dapr support for managed identity in Azure Container Apps

Public preview: Azure Container Apps Azure Monitor integration

Public preview: Support for hybrid rendering with Next.js apps

Generally available: Dapr secrets API support

Public preview: Physical job diagram for Stream Analytics job troubleshooting

Public preview: Support for HANA Instance snapshot integrated with backint logs

Azure Functions support for Node 12 is ending on 13 December 2022

Integration Services Environment will be retired on 31 August 2024 ??? transition to Logic Apps Standard

General availability: New Azure proximity placement groups feature

Azure Blog

Leverage SFTP support for Azure Blob Storage to build a unified data lake

Azure Virtual WAN simplifies networking needs

Enterprise-grade DDoS protection for SMBs now available in preview

Visualize and monitor Azure & hybrid networks with Azure Network Watcher

Delivering consistency and transparency for cloud hardware security

Announcing Azure DNS Private Resolver general availability

How Microsoft Azure helps drive agility and optimization for your business

Modernize with Microsoft Cloud, the most complete developer platform

Drive efficiency through automation and AI with the Microsoft Cloud

Azure Sentinel Blog

What’s New in Sentinel Threat Hunting

Microsoft Sentinel: What’s New at Microsoft Ignite

UEBA Essentials solution now available in Content Hub!

Public preview announcement: Defender for IOT solution for Microsoft Sentinel

Announcing the enhanced Microsoft Sentinel AWS CloudTrail solution, powered by new MITRE-Based Rules