Azure Updates – Number 64 – May 20, 2023

May long weekend edition! 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 Standard Network Features – Edit Volumes

Public preview: Rolling Upgrades with MaxSurge for Virtual Machine Scale Sets

Generally available: Azure Site Recovery update rollup 67 – May 2023

General availability: Azure Data Explorer adds new geospatial capabilities

General Availability: Routing Intent and Virtual WAN Integrated Firewall NVAs

Azure Backup Reports now includes support for more workloads

Public preview: Optimize your workloads for reliability using new workbook template in Azure Advisor

General availability: Seamlessly upgrade your Application Gateway V2 WAF configuration to a policy

App Service now supports Custom Error pages in public preview

Transition to Azure AD to query data from Azure Monitor application insights by 31 March 2026

Switch to Azure AD authentication for application insights by 30 September 2025

Microsoft Azure Payment HSM Service now supports two host IP network interfaces

Public preview: Azure Container Storage

General Availability : Azure Monitor for SAP solutions

Private preview: Azure Backup support for confidential VMs using Customer Managed Keys

Generally available: Policy analytics for Azure Firewall

General Availability: Azure Center for SAP solutions

We’re retiring Speech-to-text REST preview API v3.1-preview.1 on May 12, 2023

General Availability: Azure Automation supports Python 3.8 runbooks

Alert processing rules fields update

General Availability: AzAcSnap 8 ??? Azure Application Consistent Snapshot tool updates

Generally available: Azure Bastion now support shareable links

Azure VMware Solution now available in Qatar with AV36P

Public Preview: Database-is-alive metrics for monitoring Azure Postgres Flexible Server database availability.

Public preview: Init containers in Azure Container Apps

Public Preview: Cross Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) in Azure Container Apps

Public Preview ??? Azure Cache for Redis now supports aAAD based authentication and authorization

GA: Azure Pipelines task to build and deploy to Azure Container Apps

General Availability: Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server major version upgrade

Public preview: 99th percentile latency metric in Azure Cache for Redis

Public Preview: Troubleshooting guides for Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server

GA: GitHub action to build and deploy to Azure Container Apps

Azure Advisor data in Azure Resource Graph is now available in Azure China and US Government clouds

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

Azure SQL???Public preview updates for early-May 2023

Public Preview: Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Distro for ASP.NET Core, JavaScript (Node.js), Python

Generally available: Azure Monitor Agent supports Linux Hardening for CIS and SELinux

Azure VMware Solution on Azure Government

General availability: Azure Sphere OS version 23.05 expected on May 24

Public Preview: App Service Minimum TLS Cipher Suite Now on Azure Portal

General availability: Inbound ICMPv4 pings are now supported on Azure Load Balancer

Generally available: Azure DNS Private Resolver is available in 8 additional regions

Generalized Azure Compute Gallery custom image support in Update management center

Public preview: Always Serve for Azure Traffic Manager

Preview: Automatic Scaling for App Service Web Apps

Azure Blog

New and upcoming capabilities with Elastic Cloud (Elasticsearch)???An Azure Native ISV Service

What???s new with Azure Files

Insights from the 2023 Open Confidential Computing Conference

Azure Sentinel Blog

Create, Edit, and Monitor Data Collection Rules with the Data Collection Rule Toolkit

Announcing Public Preview of Microsoft Sentinel in Azure China 21Vianet

What???s New: Introducing Microsoft Sentinel DNS Essentials solutions.

RSAC 2023: Microsoft Sentinel empowering the SOC with next-gen SIEM

Announcing Microsoft Sentinel All-in-One v2