Azure Updates – Number 65 – June 3, 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: Introducing NGads V620-series VMs optimized for cloud gaming

General Availability: Isovalent Cilium Enterprise through Azure Marketplace

Generally available: Jobs API to support bulk import in Azure Digital Twins

Generally available: 8TB memory Mv2 Virtual Machine

General availability: Azure Load Balancer per VM limit removal

Azure Support Plan Offer extended to December 31, 2023

Generally available: Azure Files scalability improvement for Azure Virtual Desktop and other workloads that open root directory handles

Now Available: Resource-centric log queries in the Azure Monitor Query libraries

Generally available: Zone Redundant Storage for Azure Disks is now available in more regions.

General availability: Azure Sphere version 23.05 is delayed, new OS will be issued to Retail Eval

General availability: NLog Sink for Azure Data Explorer

Public Preview: Azure Data Explorer bindings for Azure Functions

Setting Up a CI/CD Pipeline with GitHub Actions for Stream Analytics Jobs

General availability: Azure CNI powered by Cilium

Public Preview ??? Support for WebSocket APIs in Azure API Management Self-hosted Gateway???

Public Preview: Data mapping designer in Azure Logic Apps (Standard)

PublicPreview: Azure API Management: API Center

GA: Logic Apps (Standard) adds support for .NET Framework extensibility in XSLT data.

Generally available: Apache MirrorMaker 2 support in Azure Event Hubs

Public Preview: JSON Schema support in Azure Event Hubs Schema Registry for Kafka applications

Generally Available ??? New Azure Event Grid events for Azure API Management Self-hosted gateway

Generally available: Kafka Connect support in Azure Event Hubs

Generally Available ??? Custom domain support for self-hosted gateway configuration endpoint v2

GA Azure API Management Self-hosted gateway authentication using Azure Active Directory

Generally available: Managed Identities support for Capture in Event Hubs

Generally available: Kafka compaction support in Azure Event Hubs

Public Preview: Azure Files geo-redundancy for standard large file shares

Generally Available: Exactly Once Delivery to ADLS Gen2 Output

Public Preview: Azure AI Content Safety

Private Preview: Kafka Input and Output with Azure Stream Analytics

Virtual Network Integration Support (Public Preview) for Azure Stream Analytics

Azure Stream Analytics is Launching a New Competitive Pricing Model!

Public preview: Soft delete of Recovery Points for Azure Backup

Generally Available: Exactly Once Delivery to Event Hub Output

Public Preview: Azure Cosmos DB SDKs OpenTelemetry and Application Insights integration

Optimize your reservation purchases with reservation utilization alerts.

Optimize your reservation purchases with reservation utilization alerts.

General Availability: Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus

Public Preview: Dynamic Blob container name

Public Preview: Azure Stream Analytics Schema Registry Integration

Public Preview: App Service automatic scaling support in portal UX

Optimize your reservation purchases with reservation utilization alerts.

Preview: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9.2 support for AMD confidential VMs

AMD Confidential VM option for Azure Databricks

Public Preview: AMD confidential VM option for Azure Data Explorer (ADX)

Build 2023: New Azure App Service plans fuel greater choice and savings

Generally Available: V2 programming model for Azure Functions using Python

Azure Key Vault Access Configuration Update

Database Migration Assessment for Oracle – GA

Public Preview: Time-travel for Azure??Synapse Link for Cosmos DB

Available: Azure Database for MySQL connector for Power Platform and Azure Logic Apps

General availability: Confidential containers on Azure Container Instances (ACI)

Generally Available: Cost-optimizations with transformations on Log Analytics for troubleshooting Cosmos DB

Azure SQL Managed Instance ???Public preview updates for late-May 2023

Database Migration Service Pack for Oracle – Preview

Microsoft Azure Deployment Environments is now generally available.

Public preview: Automated deployments in AKS now supports Draft

Public Preview: Vector search in Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore

General Availability ??? Database Schema Conversion Toolkit for Oracle

Public Preview ??? Data Migration for Oracle

Generally Available: Azure Cosmos DB serverless container with 1 TB storage

Generally Available: Azure Cosmos DB hierarchical partition keys

Public Preview: Azure Cosmos DB all versions and deletes change feed mode

Public Preview: Materialized views for Cosmos DB NoSQL API

Public preview: Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus for Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes

Public Preview: Azure Monitor Container insights introduces “Cluster Optimization” workbook

Generally Available: Azure Monitor announces managed services for Prometheus

Public Preview: Azure Log Alerts support for Azure Data Explorer

Generally Available: Linked backends for Azure Static Web Apps

Public preview: Azure Functions for cloud-native microservices

Generally Available: SQL Bindings for Azure Functions

Public preview: ASP.NET Core integration in Azure Functions .NET isolated model

Public Preview: Azure Event Grid now includes MQTT protocol support and HTTP pull-style message delivery.

New capabilities available in Microsoft Dev Box

Public Preview: GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps

Public preview: Secrets volume mounts for Azure Container Apps

Public preview: Free managed TLS certificates for Azure Container Apps

Public preview: Serverlessly run on-demand, scheduled, and event-driven jobs on Azure Container Apps

AKS DevX Extension Updates for Visual Studio Code

Public preview: Multi-cluster update support in Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager

Public preview: Custom node config for Windows

Generally Available: Kubernetes marketplace

Generally Available: Generation 2 VM for Windows

Generally Available: Azure Linux support in AKS

Public preview: New features in Azure Container Storage

Public preview: Azure SQL Database Hyperscale elastic pools

Generally Available: Enhanced document expiration with Time to Live (TTL) on any field.

Public Preview: In-Account restore for continuous backup accounts

Public Preview: Azure Cosmos DB computed properties

Generally Available: Azure Cosmos DB burst capacity

Azure Machine Learning – Public Preview for Build

Azure Machine Learning – General Availability for Build

Announcing the public preview of custom Text Analytics for health

Azure Blog

Lonely this week!

Azure Sentinel Blog

NCS Case Study – End-to-End Integration of Custom BYOML model with Sentinel

Revolutionize your SAP Security with Microsoft Sentinel’s SOAR Capabilities

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.