Azure Updates – Number 88 – April 20, 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.

Microsoft Sentinel Blog

Setting up Sentinel for Kubernetes Monitoring

Ingesting Non-Microsoft Cloud Security Data into Microsoft Sentinel for Gov & DIB customers part 2

Ingesting Non-Microsoft Cloud Security Data into Microsoft Sentinel for Government & DIB Customers

Enhance the ingestion of AWS CloudWatch logs into Microsoft Sentinel with AWS Lambda

[What’s New] Easily migrate to Microsoft Sentinel with the new SIEM migration experience

Azure Updates

.Net Standard user-defined functions for Azure Stream Analytics will be retired on 30 September 2024.

Support of Azure Notification Hubs? Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) legacy API will be deprecated by July 2024.

Azure Advisor will no longer display aggregated potential yearly savings beginning 30 September 2024

App Service Environment version 1 and version 2 will be retired on 31 August 2024

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

Five Azure classic networking services will be retired on 31 August 2024

Generally available: Bulk delete operation for the FHIR service in Azure Health Data Services

Public Preview ? DR for Shared Disks ? Azure Site Recovery

Azure Data Box Disk is now available with hardware encryption

General availability: HBv4-series & HX-series VMs are now available in Sweden Central.

Azure Machine Learning data collector is now generally available

GA: Azure Monitor log search alerts support managed identities

Using Azure Virtual Network Manager network groups in security admin rules is now in public preview

Action recommended: Prepare for model version retirement in Azure OpenAI

Azure Machine Learning – General Availability for April 2024

General availability: Azure Virtual Network encryption availability in all regions

Announcing Public Preview of Query editor in Azure Monitor Metrics

Generally available: Azure Site Recovery update rollup 73 – April 2024

Azure Event Grid support for last will & testament (LWT) capabilities now in Public Preview

GA: New Property for Disks-LastOwnershipUpdateTime

General availability: Azure SQL updates for mid-April 2024

Azure Red Hat OpenShift April 2024 updates

General availability: Extensible key management using Azure Key Vault for SQL Server on Linux

General Availability: Virtual private network (VPN) with Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra

General Availability: Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server networking with Azure Private Link

Public Preview: Long-term retention for Azure Database for MySQL ? Flexible Server

Generally available: Defender for Cloud supports Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server

Public Preview: Mirroring Azure Cosmos DB in Microsoft Fabric

Run Azure Load Testing on Azure App Service web apps

Native Delta Lake Output Now Generally Available in Azure Stream Analytics

Azure Load Testing availability in Fairfax (USGov Virginia)

App Service virtual network integration multi plan subnet join

General Available: Azure Synapse Runtime for Apache Spark 3.4 is now GA

Public preview: Backup and restore of virtual machines with private endpoint enabled disks

Microsoft Security Copilot Blog

Data Protection for SAP Solutions

Armchair Architects: How to choose a LLM partner for your AI project

Microsoft Fabric: Integration with ADO Repos and Deployment Pipelines – A Power BI Case Study.

Support tip: Migrate your classic Conditional Access policies

Access Releases 11 Issue Fixes in Version 2403 (Released March 27th, 2024)