Azure Updates – Number 78 – December 2, 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

Standard and High-Performance VPN Gateway SKUs will be retired on 30 September 2025

Pod Security Policy is being deprecated with AKS 1.25 and 2023-06-01 API version

Azure Object Anchors Retirement

Azure Spatial Anchors Retirement

Application Insights Availability Tests TLS 1.3 Enablement

General Availability: Azure Automation supports PowerShell 7.2 runbooks

Announcing General Availability of Microsoft Defender for APIs

Public Preview: Create and manage Azure Monitor managed Prometheus rules in Azure portal

Extended support for .NET 6 (LTS) ends on 12 November 2024

Extended support for .NET 7 (STS) ends on 14 May 2024

General Availability – Azure Backup for AKS

Public Preview: Kafka Input and Output with Azure Stream Analytics

Public preview: Schema migration for target Azure SQL DB

Public Preview Preview: Protocol Buffers (Protobuf) with Azure Stream Analytics

General availability: Azure Portal experience for Azure Database Migration Service

General availability: SKU recommendation in Azure SQL Migration extension – Azure Data Studio

General Availability: pgvector 0.5.1 extension

Public Preview: Server logs for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server

General availability: Time travel in Azure Synapse Link for Azure Cosmos DB

General availability: Change data capture in Azure Cosmos DB analytical store

General Availability of Azure App Configuration Kubernetes Provider

General Availability: User and group quota management in Azure NetApp Files

General Availability: Standard network features support in US Gov regions

Generally available: Azure Static Web Apps now supports .NET 8

Public Preview: Encryption using Customer Managed Keys for Backup Vaults

Generally Available: Azure Red Hat OpenShift in Italy North

General availability: Azure Monitor Application Insights Browser SDK Loader for Node.js

General Availability: Encryption at host for Premium SSD v2 and Ultra Disks

Azure Web PubSub support for Socket.IO now generally available

Generally Available: Collect Syslog from AKS nodes using Azure Monitor Container Insights

Part numbers from EA invoice are now added to the cost and usage file.

Part numbers from EA invoice are now added to the cost and usage file.

Generally available: Delete Jobs API to support bulk delete in Azure Digital Twins

General availability: Encryption with customer-managed keys in Azure Health Data Services

Azure Sentinel Blog

Identifying Adversary-in-the-Middle (AiTM) Phishing Attacks through 3rd-Party Network Detection

Microsoft Sentinel: Public preview of Microsoft Defender for Cloud to Defender XDR integration

Elevating Cybersecurity Intelligence with Microsoft Sentinel’s Enrichment Widgets

Microsoft Sentinel Partner Solution Contributions update – Ignite 2023

Introducing a Unified Security Operations Platform with Microsoft Sentinel and Defender XDR