Azure Updates – Number 71 – August 27, 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

Quick create Azure Front Door endpoints for Azure Storage accounts

General Availability: Improve VM resiliency with Azure Advisor’s Availability Zone recommendation.

General Availability: AzAcSnap 9 ??? Azure Application Consistent Snapshot tool updates

Public preview: Rate-limit rules for Application Gateway Web Application Firewall

Generally available: Cross Subscription Restore for Azure Virtual Machines

Retirement: Azure Container Apps preview API versions 2022-06-01-preview and 2022-11-01-preview

Generally available: 40MB/s/TiB and 500MB/s/TiB performance tiers for Azure Managed Lustre

General availability: Azure Front Door Standard/Premium in Azure Government

Public Preview: Custom NFSv4.1 ID Domain in Azure NetApp Files

Public Preview: Azure Elastic SAN Updates: Private endpoints & shared volumes

Generally Available: SDK type bindings in Azure Functions

Generally Available: Application Insights integration for the Azure Functions .NET worker

Generally Available: Durable Functions for Python v2 Programming Model

Generally Available: Kubernetes 1.27 support in AKS

Generally available: Azure Key Vault references for secrets in Azure Container Apps

Generally Available: Private Link service integration

Generally available: Secrets volume mounts for Azure Container Apps

Generally available: Session affinity for Azure Container Apps

Generally available: Init containers in Azure Container Apps

Generally Available: Cross Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) in Azure Container Apps

Public Preview: Azure Active Directory integration with Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL

General availability: Simplified flush operation for caches using active geo-replication

General availability: 99th percentile latency metric in Azure Cache for Redis

Public Preview: Storage auto-grow & online disk scaling for Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server

General availability: Terraform support for Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL

Public preview: Azure VNet flow logs

General Availability: Incremental snapshots for Premium SSD v2 Disk and Ultra Disk Storage

Azure Machine Learning – Public Preview for August

Public Preview: Azure NetApp Files Cloud Backup for Virtual Machines

Generally available: Azure Load Testing in Japan East and Brazil South

Public preview: Azure Mv3 Medium Memory (MM) Virtual Machines

General Availability : Help API provides access to self-help diagnostics

Public Preview: Azure Backup now supports Cross Region Restore for PostgreSQL backups

Public preview: New Monitoring and Logging Updates in Azure Firewall

General availability: New Monitoring and Logging Updates in Azure Firewall

Azure Sphere (Integrated) Public Preview

Azure Blog

Microsoft and Accenture partner to tackle methane emissions with AI technology

Cloud Cultures, Part 2: Global collaboration in Sweden

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

Azure Sentinel Blog

Introducing Microsoft Sentinel Optimization Workbook

Manage Access to Microsoft Sentinel Workbooks with Lower Scoped RBAC

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