Azure Updates – Number 69 – July 29, 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

Speech-to-text REST API v3.0 will be retired by 31 March 2026.

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

The Classic VMs retirement deadline is now September 6, 2023

Public preview: Azure Application Gateway for Containers

Public Preview: Firmware analysis in Defender for IoT

Windows Server end-of-support (EOS): Upgrade seamlessly with Azure Migrate (Public preview)

Preview: Azure Boost

Public preview: Bring your own key on Ephemeral OS disk for AKS

Public preview: Network observability add-on for AKS

Public preview: Support for Python 3.11 in Azure Functions

Public Preview: OData API type in Azure API Management

Generally available: Event Grid upgrade enhancements for AKS

Azure Machine Learning – Public Preview for July

Azure Machine Learning – General Availability for July

General availability: IoT Hub Service Upgrade

Public Preview : Crash Consistent VM Restore points

New Extended Security Updates (ESUs) enabled by Azure Arc

Public Preview: Vector search, a feature of Azure Cognitive Search

Hotpatch is now generally available on Windows Server VMs on Azure with the Desktop Experience installation mode

General availability: Partial document update in the Azure Cosmos DB Python SDK

General availability: Always Serve for Azure Traffic Manager

Public preview: Stream Analytics No-Code Editor available in Azure Stream Analytics Portal

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

Azure Blog

Azure Sentinel Blog

Taking Entity Investigation to the Next Level: Microsoft Sentinel???s Upgraded Entity Pages

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