Azure Updates – Number 51 – November 19, 2022

A summary update on Azure News that includes updates released from Microsoft Azure related to Azure, Architecture, Compute, and Sentinel topics. Every update is linked to it’s original Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Sentinel or other blog source. Hopefully this will save you some time digging around to find recent releases and changes.

Updates 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

Public preview: Azure SQL trigger for Azure Functions

General availability: Arm-based VMs now available in four additional Azure regions

General availability: DR secondary free with SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines

Public preview: License Geo-redundant Disaster Recovery for SQL Managed Instance for free

Generally available: Azure SQL Managed Instance backup portability to SQL Server 2022

Generally available: Azure Synapse Link for SQL

Generally available: Azure SQL Managed Instance link for SQL Server 2022

Public preview: Azure SQL Managed Instance feature wave updates for November 2022

General availability: Azure SQL Managed Instance feature wave updates for November 2022

Azure SQL???Public preview updates for mid-November 2022

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

General availability: Azure Sphere TKS updated; OS version 22.11 expected December 1

General availability: TLS 1.3 with Application Gateway

General availability: Per Rule Actions on regional Web Application Firewall

General availability: Bot Manager Rule Set 1.0 on regional Web Application Firewall

Public preview: Use Azure Quota REST APIs to manage service limits (quotas)

Generally available: Encrypt managed disks with cross-tenant customer-managed keys

Limited preview: Azure Backup support for confidential VMs using Platform Managed Keys

Azure Resource Manager ??? Migrating to TLS 1.2 with Deprecation of Outdated Security Protocols

Public preview: Microsoft Azure Managed HSM TLS Offload Library

Public preview: Azure Front Door integration with managed identities

Public preview: Azure Maps Creator feature – Wayfinding

Public preview: Azure Front Door zero downtime migration

Public preview: Upgrade from Azure Front Door Standard to Premium tier

Azure Machine Learning???Generally availability updates for November 2022

Azure Percept DK Retirement Announcement

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

General availability: Azure Database for PostgreSQL ??? Flexible Server in new China regions

General availability: Multivariate Anomaly Detection

Public preview: Azure SQL Database offline migrations in Azure SQL Migration extension

General availability: Retryable writes in Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB

Public preview: Intra-account container copy for Azure Cosmos DB

General availability: New cost recommendations for Virtual Machine Scale Sets

Generally available: Static Web Apps support for preview environments in Azure DevOps

Generally available: Static Web Apps support for Gitlab and Bitbucket

Generally available: Static Web Apps support for stable URLs for preview environments

Generally available: Static Web Apps support for skipping API builds

Public preview: Azure Static Web Apps now Supports Node 18

Generally available: Azure NetApp Files datastores for Azure VMware Solution

Public preview: Rotate SSH keys on existing AKS nodepools

Generally available: Azure IoT Edge for Linux on Windows (EFLOW) update

General availability: Manage your Log Analytics Tables in Azure Portal

General availability: Azure Automation supports Availability zones

Generally available: Increasing Azure Synapse Analytics Spark performance up to 77%

Generally available: Block domain fronting behavior on newly created customer resources

Generally available: Functions now supports .NET 7 in an isolated worker process

Generally available: Azure Static Web Apps now fully supports .NET 7

Generally available: New node sizing for Azure VMware Solution

General availability: Virtual Machine software reservations

Public preview: Exporting ISE and Consumption Logic Apps to Standard SKU

General availability: Default Rule Set 2.1 for Azure Web Application Firewall

Azure Blog

Expanding AI technology for unstructured biomedical text beyond English

Microsoft named a Leader in 2022 Gartner?? Magic Quadrant??? for Full Life Cycle API Management

Any developer can be a space developer with the new Azure Orbital Space SDK

Announcing new capabilities for Azure Firewall

AI and the need for purpose-built cloud infrastructure

NBA and Microsoft team up to transform fan experiences with cloud application modernization

Empowering ISVs to build and sell with the Microsoft Cloud

How IoT, AI, and Digital Twins are helping achieve sustainability goals

Do more with less using new Azure HX and HBv4 virtual machines for HPC

New Project Flash Update: Advancing Azure Virtual Machine availability monitoring

Azure Sentinel Blog

What’s new: Monitor the health of your automation rules and playbooks

Update to Microsoft Sentinel’s Technical Playbook for MSSPs is now available (v1.5.1)

Microsoft is named a Leader in the 2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Security Information and Event

Upcoming changes to the CommonSecurityLog table

What’s New in Sentinel Threat Hunting