Azure Updates – Number 68 – July 15, 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

Retirement notice: Azure Media Services is being retired on 30 June 2024

Generally available: Autoscale Stream Analytics jobs

Public Preview: Azure Dedicated Host – Resize

Microsoft Dev Box is now generally available

General availability: ExpressRoute private peering support for BGP communities

General availability: Call automation capabilities for Azure Communication Services

Datadog ??? An Azure Native ISV Service ??? the most desired new features now available

Public preview: Latest generation burstable VMs – Bsv2, Basv2, and Bpsv2

Azure AD is becoming Microsoft Entra ID

Azure SQL???General availability updates for early July 2023

Azure Managed Lustre now generally available

Generally available: Azure Digital Twins supports Digital Twins Definition Language version 3

Azure???s cross-region Load Balancer is now generally available

General availability: Azure Data Explorer adds support for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and CosmosDB SQL external tables

Public preview: Azure Virtual Network encryption

Azure Service Fabric 9.0 Tenth Refresh Release

Azure Service Fabric 9.1 Fifth Refresh Release

Generally available: Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage is now available in more regions.

Public Preview: Ingest events from Azure Event Hubs to Azure Monitor Logs

Public Preview: Azure Monitor Pod Sandboxing support in Container insights

Public preview: Managed private endpoint for Azure Managed Grafana

Public Preview: Azure Monitor Logs improved table-level RBAC

Public preview: Azure Monitor application insights configurable Real User Monitoring for Java

Public preview: Azure Monitor Agent Health experience

Public Preview: Azure Monitor Agent supports VM Insights in Azure Government Cloud

Public preview: Sensitive Data Protection for Application Gateway Web Application Firewall logs

General Availability: Azure Native New Relic Service

General availability: Azure Archive Storage now available in Sweden Central

Azure Blog

Azure Sentinel Blog

Future Proof your SOC with the Power of the Azure Ecosystem and Defender Threat Intelligence

Introducing the new Microsoft Sentinel simplified pricing.

[What???s New] Microsoft Sentinel Content Hub GA and OOTB Content Centralization

Detect threats on your Power Platform based no-code/low-code applications with Microsoft Sentinel

What???s new: Monitor and optimize the execution of your scheduled analytics rules