Azure Updates – Number 55- January 14, 2023

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 Automation Visual Studio Code Extension

General availability: IoT Edge Metrics Collector 1.1

General Availability: Azure Active Directory authentication for exporting and importing Managed Disks

Generally available: Azure Ultra Disk Storage in Switzerland North and Korea South

General Availability: AzAcSnap 7 — Azure Application Consistent Snapshot tool updates

Public preview: Azure Synapse Runtime for Apache Spark 3.3

At-scale monitoring for Azure Site Recovery with Backup center

Public Preview: Azure Cosmos DB to Azure Data Explorer Synapse Link

Public preview: Capture Event Hubs data with Stream Analytics no-code editor in Delta Lake format

Azure VM backup: General availability updates for Dec, 2022

Generally Available: Azure Red Hat OpenShift in Brazil Southeast

General availability: Apache log4J2 sink to Azure Data Explorer

General Availability: Azure Sphere support for European Data Boundary

Public Preview: IT Service Management Connector (ITSMC) is now certified with ServiceNow Tokyo version

Azure Backup for SAP HANA: General availability updates for Dec 2022

Private Preview: Featured Clothing

General availability: Encryption using CMK for Azure Database for PostgreSQL ??? Flexible Server

Public preview: Azure Cosmos DB V2 Connector for Power BI

Azure Blog

Azure Confidential Computing on 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable Processors with Intel TDX

Microsoft named a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Public Cloud Development and Infrastructure Platforms, 2022

Microsoft named a Leader in 2022 Gartner?? Magic Quadrant for Insight Engines

Azure Sentinel Blog

What’s New: Fusion Incident Investigation Notebook

A Look at Different Options for Storing and Searching Sentinel Archived Logs

Switching to Key Vault Secrets usage for Function App based Microsoft Sentinel Data Connectors

MSTICPy Hack Month – February 2023

What’s New: More NEW Microsoft Sentinel SOAR solutions