Azure Updates – Number 70 – August 12, 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: Support for new custom error pages in Application Gateway

WordPress on App Service: Integration with Azure Communication Services Email

Generally available: Azure Site Recovery update rollup 68 – August 2023

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

Generally available: Azure Blob Storage Cold Tier

Public preview: Azure Storage Mover support for SMB and Azure Files

Public Preview: Azure Chaos Studio has User-Assigned Managed Identity and Custom Role Assignment

General availability | Azure NetApp Files: SMB Continuous Availability (CA) shares

Public Preview: Azure Chaos Studio is now available in Southeast Asia region

Public Preview: Azure Chaos Studio supports new faults for App Service and Virtual Machines

Azure Load Testing: Run tests for up to 24 hours

Azure Load Testing: Create and manage tests and test runs using Azure CLI

Azure Load Testing: Run tests with 100,000 virtual users

General availability: JBoss EAP on App Service Clustering

Private Preview ??? DR for Shared Disks ??? Azure Site Recovery

Azure Red Hat OpenShift August 2023 updates

Generally available: Zone Redundant Storage for Azure Disks is now available in East Asia

General availability: Autoscale IOPS in Azure Database for MySQL ??? Flexible Server

General availability: PostgreSQL 15 support in Azure Database for PostgreSQL ??? Flexible Server

General availability: Azure SQL updates for early-August 2023??

Public preview: Azure SQL updates for early-August 2023

Public Preview: Intra-account container copy in Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB

General Availability: Major version upgrade in Azure Database for PostgreSQL ??? Flexible Server

General availability: JSON support for active geo-replication on Azure Cache for Redis

Generally Available: Azure Monitor container insights offers customizable cost optimization settings

Public preview: Route Server hub routing preference

Public preview: Route Server hub routing preference

Enhanced Security and Compliance add-on for Azure Databricks now Generally Available

Generally available: Cloud Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) by Palo Alto Networks – an Azure Native ISV Service

Public preview: Assess cost optimization opportunities using new workbook template in Azure Advisor

Azure Blog

Efficiently store data with Azure Blob Storage Cold Tier — now generally available

7 ways generative AI is bringing bionic business to manufacturing

Scale generative AI with new Azure AI infrastructure advancements and availability

Optimize the cost of .NET and Java application migration to Azure cloud

Modernize and monetize your network investments with Microsoft Azure Operator Nexus

Microsoft Cost Management updates—July 2023

Azure Sentinel Blog

Help Protect your Exchange Environment With Microsoft Sentinel

Automate tasks management to protect your organization against threats

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.