Azure Updates – Number 52 – December 3, 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

Community support for Azure Functions Proxies will end on 30 September 2025

Azure SQL Public preview updates for late November 2022

Azure SQL General availability updates for late November 2022

Public preview: Enhanced metrics for Azure Database for PostgreSQL ??? Flexible Server

General availability: Cross-region read replicas for Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL

Generally available: Azure Blob Storage integration with Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL

General availability: Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL Citus 11.1 support

Generally available: PostgreSQL 15 support in Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL

Generally available: Additional Always Free Services for Azure Free Account and PAYG

General availability: 12 months free services for new Azure PAYG customers

Generally available: Azure Blob CSI driver support in AKS

Public preview: Azure SQL Trigger for Azure Functions

Public preview: Durable Functions support for .NET 7.0 isolated model

Public preview: Inbound IP restrictions support in Azure Container Apps

Public preview: GitHub action to build and deploy to Azure Container Apps

Public preview: Azure Pipelines task to build and deploy to Azure Container Apps

Public preview: Build and deploy to Azure Container Apps without a Dockerfile from the Azure CLI

Public preview: Azure HX series and HBv4 series virtual machines

Public preview: Call automation capabilities for Azure Communication Services

Generally Available: New versions supported for languages and frameworks in Azure App Service

Public preview: Go language support on Azure App Service

General availability: Azure Monitor Logs, custom log API and ingestion-time transformations

Generally available Day 0 support for .NET 7.0 on App Service

General availability: Azure Monitor agent custom and IIS logs

Public preview: Premium series hardware for Azure SQL Database Hyperscale

Private preview: Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Backup

Public Preview: Use Azure Quota Rest APIs to manage service limits (quotas)

Public preview: Cross Subscription Restore for Azure Virtual Machines

Public preview: Azure Bastion now support shareable links

Public preview: Add an Azure Cosmos DB custom endpoint in IoT Hub

Azure Blog

Microsoft Cost Management updates November 2022

Voltus and Azure – No power integrity challenge too big to solve

Azure Sentinel Blog

What’s new: Incident tasks

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