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Azure Updates – Number 57 – February 11, 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

General availability: Azure Sphere OS version 23.02 expected on February 21
Now available: “Find my partner” for Azure Data Explorer
In development: New planned datacenter region in Saudi Arabia (Saudi Arabia Central)
General availability: Automatic Backup for App Service Environment and Azure Functions Dedicated Hosting
Azure Digital Twins Control-Plane Preview API Retirement (2020-03-31)
Azure Digital Twins Control-Plane Preview API Retirement (2021-06-31)
General Availability: Managed Run Command ??? Execute PowerShell or shell scripts on Virtual Machines and Scale Sets
General Availability: Microsoft Azure Load Testing is now Generally Available
Public Preview: Azure Digital Twins
Generally available: Azure Digital Twins in West US 3, Qatar, Japan, and Korea
Generally available: New storage backend for Durable Functions ??? Microsoft Netherite & MSSQL
Generally Available: Azure Functions support for Node.js 18
Generally Available: Azure Kubernetes Service introduces two pricing tiers: Free and Standard
Now Available: Azure Databricks is generally available in China North 3
Public preview: User-assigned managed identities for routing events for Azure Digital Twins
Generally available: Azure Digital Twins in West US 3, Qatar, Japan, and Korea
General availability: Trusted launch for Azure VMs in Azure for US Government regions
Azure Web PubSub Premium tier reaches General Availability
Azure Red Hat OpenShift on Azure Government is now Generally Available
Azure SQL Gen 4 hardware approaching end of life 31 March 2023
Generally available: Apply Azure storage access tiers to append blobs and page blobs with blob type conversion
Chaos studio – Public preview updates for January 2023???

Azure Blog

Automate your attack response with Azure DDoS Protection solution for Microsoft Sentinel
Secure your application traffic with Application Gateway mTLS
Tune in today: Learn Live experts are ready to accelerate your skilling
Azure Red Hat OpenShift for Microsoft Azure Government???now generally available
Roundup of AI breakthroughs by Microsoft and NVIDIA
Microsoft named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide MLOps Platforms 2022 Vendor Assessment
Scale Azure Firewall SNAT ports with NAT Gateway for large workloads
Microsoft Azure Load Testing is now generally available
Azure Native NGINXaas makes traffic management secure and simple???now generally available
Azure high-performance computing powers energy industry innovation

Azure Sentinel Blog

Automate your attack response with Azure DDoS Protection solution for Microsoft Sentinel
Secure your application traffic with Application Gateway mTLS
Tune in today: Learn Live experts are ready to accelerate your skilling
Azure Red Hat OpenShift for Microsoft Azure Government???now generally available
Roundup of AI breakthroughs by Microsoft and NVIDIA
Microsoft named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide MLOps Platforms 2022 Vendor Assessment
Scale Azure Firewall SNAT ports with NAT Gateway for large workloads
Microsoft Azure Load Testing is now generally available
Azure Native NGINXaas makes traffic management secure and simple???now generally available
Azure high-performance computing powers energy industry innovation