Azure Updates – Number 83 – February 10, 2024

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, Sentinel Blog, or the Microsoft Security Copilot Blog to see all the updates.

Azure Sentinel Blog

Upcoming Content Hub AMA supported Data Connectors

Create Tasks Repository in Microsoft Sentinel

What’s New: CrowdStrike Falcon Data Replicator V2 Data Connector is now Generally Available!

Unleash the full potential of User and Entity Behavior Analytics with our updated workbook

Querying Watchlists

Azure Updates

Public Preview: Azure NetApp Files Standard Network Features – Edit Volumes in US Gov Regions

Generally available: Support for up to 100 TB of storage for the FHIR service

Azure Ultra Disk Storage is now available in Canada East

General availability: Topology

Mount Azure Storage as a local share in App Service Linux Now supports NFS

Announcing General Availability to migrate Virtual Network injected Azure Data Explorer Cluster to Private Endpoints

Support for log alert rules that use cross-workspace queries with resource names or qualified name identifiers will be retired on 31 May 2024

Azure Virtual Network Manager security admin rule generally available in 30 regions

Azure Virtual Network Manager topology view now generally available

Private Preview: Azure Site Recovery support for Azure Trusted Launch VMs (Windows OS)

Generally Available: Azure Stack HCI latest feature release

Generally Available: Continuous model monitoring in Azure Machine Learning

Announcing General Availability of Azure Monitor Metrics Data Plane API

Public Preview: Azure API Center ? January Updates

Public preview: Istio add-on for AKS now supports plug-in certificate authority (CA)

Generally Available: Support for Cross Region Restore for PostgreSQL backups

Public preview: Upgrade support in Istio add-on for AKS

Public Preview: New major version of durable Functions extension

Public Preview: Azure Functions Support for Java 21 on Linux

Generally Available: Azure Container Apps supports additional TCP ports

Public Preview: Distributed tracing v2 for durable Functions

Visual Studio Code extension update for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Public preview: Node OS API options feature for AKS

Public preview: Disable Secure Shell (SSH) support in AKS

Generally Available: Outbound type migration in AKS

Generally Available: Kube-reserved resource optimization in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

General availability: PgAudit in Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL

General Availability: Read replica in special regions with Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server

General availability: Azure SQL updates for late-January 2024

General Availability: Server logs for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server

Public preview: Azure SQL updates for late-January 2024

General availability: Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL Customer-managed keys (CMK)

General availability: Israel Central region added to Azure HDInsight

General availability: Italy North region added to Azure HDInsight

Public preview: ExpressRoute guided portal experience for multi-site resiliency

Public Preview: Azure Business Continuity Center is now available in all regions

Improved exports experience

Generally available: Up to 50 test fail criteria in Azure Load Testing

Azure Red Hat OpenShift January 2024 updates

Preview: Selectable search parameter capability for the FHIR service in Azure Health Data Services

Cloud Services (classic) deployment model is retiring on 31 August 2024

Microsoft Security Copilot Blog

More Speaking in Ciphers and other Enigmatic Tongues with a focus on SCHANNEL hardening.

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Streamlining Azure Marketplace Deployments with MODM