Azure Updates – Number 66 – June 17, 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: IT Service Management Connector (ITSMC) is now certified with ServiceNow Utah version

General availability: Azure Queue Storage SDK for Go

General availability: Azure Blob Storage SDK for Go

General availability: Azure Event Hubs SDK for Go

Public Preview: ??Azure NetApp Files Availability zone volume placement enhancement ??? Populate existing volume

General availability: Azure HX Virtual Machines for HPC

General availability: Azure HBv4 Virtual Machines for HPC

Azure VMware Solution now available in North Switzerland

Public preview: Assess impact of service retirements using new workbook template in Azure Advisor

Public Preview: GraphQL resolvers for Azure Cosmos DB, Azure SQL in Azure API Management

Azure Virtual Desktop Insights Powered by the Azure Monitor Agent

General availability: Query performance insights for Azure Database for PostgreSQL ??? Flexible Server

Public preview: Introducing NGads V620 Series VMs optimized for cloud gaming

General Availability: Online migrations for Azure Database for MySQL instances

General availability: MySQL extension for Azure Data Studio

Public preview: Confidential Virtual Machines (VM) support in Azure Virtual Desktop

Generally available: Azure Monitor container insights for AKS cluster with ARM64 nodes

General availability: Troubleshooting guides for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server

Public Preview: App Service support for .NET 8

Public preview: Add-on and node image in AKS release tracker

Public preview: Custom Image Templates for Azure Virtual Desktop

Public Preview: Azure Cache for Redis now supports up to 30 shards

Azure HDInsight for Apache Spark 3.3 is now available for public preview

Enhanced autoscale capabilities added to HDInsight clusters

General availability: Poland Central region added to Azure HDInsight

Microsoft Azure Load Testing – additional Azure components for server-side monitoring

Generally available: Pgvector extension on Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL

Microsoft Azure Load Testing – configure auto stop criteria

Azure HDinsight Spark 2.4 approaching EOL

Generally Available: Managed identity authentication in Azure Monitor container insights

Public preview: Azure Cache for Redis trigger for Azure Functions

Public Preview: Azure Data Explorer bindings for Azure Functions

Public Preview: Azure Cosmos DB Vercel integration

Generally Available: Azure VMware Solution Stretched Clusters with Customer-Managed Keys

General availability: Read replica HA enabled Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server

Public preview: Power BI integration with Azure Database for PostgreSQL ??? Flexible Server

GA: Application Insights Distributed tracing support for Java Function Apps

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

Generally available: Zone Redundant Storage for Azure Disks is now available in Japan East and Korea Central

Generally Available: Azure Monitor Alert resources now visible in the Azure portal

Microsoft Azure Load Testing supports setting up quick start tests using requests per second

General availability: Azure Cache for Redis with Web App Marketplace offer

Public Preview: Redis extension for Azure Functions

New Instance Types for Azure Red Hat OpenShift are now available

General availability: 32 TB storage in Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server

Available: Reduced pricing for Azure Video Indexer

General availability of Azure Front Door integration with managed identities

Generally available: Azure OpenAI Service in UK South

General availability: Azure Sphere version 23.05 is delayed to 20 June, and the updated OS has been issued to Retail Eval

General availability: Azure Front Door Migration from classic to standard/premium

General availability: Azure Front Door upgrade from standard to premium

General availability: Inbound ICMPv6 pings and traceroute are now supported on Azure Load Balancer

Public preview: Azure Front Door Standard/Premium in Azure Government

Announcing the new Azure Container Registry libraries

Public preview: Azure Container Instances(ACI) Spot containers

Public Preview: Azure AD Support for Azure Files SMB shares REST API

Generally available: Private Link support for Application Gateway

Generally available: Multiple backups per day for Azure Virtual Machines

General availability: New KQL function to enrich your data analysis with geographic context

Generally available: Azure Data Explorer Kusto Emulator on Linux

Public Preview: Azure Chaos Studio is now available in West US 2 region

Azure Blog

All quiet on the western front!

Azure Sentinel Blog

Introducing the Microsoft Sentinel Triage Assistant (STAT)

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