Azure Updates – Number 62- April 22, 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

Support has ended for Gen 4 hardware on Azure SQL Database

Cognitive Services Custom Commands feature is being retired on April 30, 2026

App Service Environment version 1 and version 2 will be retired on 31 August 2024

General Availability: Support for Linux clients to use identity-based access to Azure file shares over SMB

Azure CycleCloud 8.4.0 release

Public preview: Azure Container Apps available in Azure China

Generally Available: Kubernetes 1.26 support in AKS

Public preview: AKS service mesh addon for Istio

Generally Available: Long term support version in AKS

Public preview: Fail Fast Upgrade on API Breaking change detection

Generally Available: Azure CNI Overlay for Linux

OpenCost for AKS cost visibility

GA: Azure Active Directory workload identity with AKS

Azure Service Operator stable release version 2.0 now available

Hotpatch is now available on preview images of Windows Server VMs on Azure with the Desktop Experience installation mode

Generally Available: Azure App Service – New Premium v3 Offerings

Public Preview: Isovalent Cilium Enterprise through Azure Marketplace

Regional expansion: Azure Elastic SAN Public Preview is now available in more regions.

Azure Storage Mover is now Generally Available

General Availability: Azure CNI Overlay

Retirement notice: transition to the Authentication methods policy for Azure Active Directory

Connect Azure Stream Analytics to Azure Data Explorer using managed private endpoint.

Use Stream Analytics to process exported data from Application Insights

Generally available: Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL REST APIs

Generally available: Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL cluster compute start and stop

Azure SQL???General availability updates for mid-April 2023

Azure Machine Learning – General Availability for April

Public preview: Node Resource Group (NRG) lockdown

General Availability: Azure App Health Extension – Rich Health States

General availability: Improved scaling model for Azure Functions with Target Based Scaling

General availability: Azure DevOps 2023 Q1

General availability: Read replicas for Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server

Azure SQL???Public preview updates for mid-April 2023

Generally Available: Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server in the Australia Central region.

Generally Available: New burstable SKUs for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server

Public preview: Azure Container Apps offers new plan and pricing structure

Public Preview of query performance insight for Azure Database for PostgreSQL- Flexible Server

Generally available: Static Web Apps support for Python 3.10

Public preview: Azure Functions V4 programming model for Node.js

Public preview: Azure Container Apps supports user defined routes (UDR) and smaller subnets

General Availability: App Configuration geo-replication

Private Preview: Enable Trusted launch on your existing Azure Gen2 VMs

General Availability: NGINXaaS – Azure Native ISV Service

Public Preview: Azure Chaos Studio is now available in Sweden Central region

Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus has updated our AKS add-on to support Windows nodes

Azure Blog

Unleash the power of APIs: Strategies for innovation

4 cloud cost optimization strategies with Microsoft Azure

Inside Azure for IT: 3 cloud strategies to navigate market uncertainty

Isovalent Cilium Enterprise in Azure Marketplace

Announcing the general availability of Azure CNI Overlay in Azure Kubernetes Service

How 5G and wireless edge infrastructure power digital operations with Microsoft

Manage your APIs with Azure API Management???s self-hosted gateway v2

5 reasons to join us at Securely Migrate and Optimize with Azure

The future of healthcare is data-driven

Announcing Project Health Insights Preview: Advancing AI for health data

Azure Sentinel Blog

Announcing Microsoft Sentinel All-in-One v2

Advanced Workbook Concepts with Workbooks 202

What’s new with Microsoft Sentinel at Secure

What???s new: Sentinel Solution for SAP BTP

What???s New: Introducing Microsoft Sentinel Network Session Essentials solution