Azure Updates – Number 53 – December 17, 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 NetApp Files cross-zone replication

General availability: Azure Arc-enabled servers in Azure China

Generally Available: Azure Dedicated Host – Restart

General availability: Feature enhancements to Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF)

Public preview: Build a business case with Azure Migrate

General availability: Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server data encryption with CMK

General availability: Azure AD authentication with Azure Database for MySQL ??? Flexible Server

General availability: Azure Cosmos DB Azure Functions extension version 4

Generally available: Updated API names for Azure Cosmos DB

General availability: Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL now available in new regions

Public Preview: Materialized view for Azure Cosmos DB for Apache Cassandra

General availability: JSON support in Azure Cache for Redis Enterprise tiers

Public Preview: Azure Site Recovery Higher Churn Support

Public preview: Azure Arc enabled Azure Container Apps

Public preview: Azure Functions support for Python 3.10

Generally Available: Azure Functions Extension Bundle v4

Generally Available: Durable Functions support for Java

Generally Available: Azure Functions support for Java 17

Public preview: New UX for the AKS DevX Extension for Visual Studio Code

Generally available: Static Web Apps Diagnostics

Generally Available: Kubernetes 1.25 support in AKS

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

Public preview: Performance improving features for Azure Service Bus premium

Public preview: Use tag inheritance for cost management

Public preview: Log compaction support in Azure Event Hubs

General availability: Stream Analytics no-code editor updates in December 2022

Public preview: Processor diagram in Physical Job Diagram for Stream Analytics job troubleshooting

Public preview: New Memory Optimized VM sizes – E96bsv5 and E112ibsv5

General Availability: Azure Automation Hybrid Runbook Worker Extension

Generally available: Azure Site Recovery update rollup 65 – November 2022

Azure Blog

Learn how Microsoft datacenter operations prepare for energy issues

Microsoft Azure CLX: A personalized program to learn Azure

Forrester study finds 228 percent ROI when modernizing applications on Azure PaaS

Microsoft sponsors OWASP ModSecurity CRS to improve application security

Start learning Azure today with new role-based skill guides

Azure Storage Mover???A managed migration service for Azure Storage

Microsoft Azure’s defense in depth approach to cloud vulnerabilities

3 key cloud adoption trends in migrating and modernizing workloads

Improve speech-to-text accuracy with Azure Custom Speech

Microsoft and Isovalent partner to bring next generation eBPF dataplane for cloud-native applications in Azure

Azure Sentinel Blog

MSTICPy Hack Month – January 2023

What’s New: More NEW Microsoft Sentinel SOAR solutions

Azure Active Directory Identity Protection user account enrichments removed: how to mitigate impact

What???s new: Run playbooks on entities on-demand

Arm Your Microsoft Sentinel Platform with Industry-Leading Cyber Threat Intelligence from CYFIRMA