Azure Updates – Number 89 – May 4, 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.

May the 4th be with you!

Microsoft Sentinel Blog

Examining the Deception infrastructure in place behind code.microsoft.com

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

Azure Updates

Action needed: Update Azure Autoscale Notifications to using additional email addresses for notifications

Azure Governance Update – Management Groups

Azure Virtual Network Manager user-defined route (UDR) management now in public preview

Generally available: Azure IoT Edge v1.5.0 (LTS) release

Azure Spring Apps Feature Update Q1 2024: Save up to 47% with Azure savings plan

General availability: Mexico Central region added to Azure HDInsight

Public Preview: Azure HDInsight on AKS is now available for preview in 7 new regions

Generally Available: Azure Chaos Studio supports Resource tags

Public preview: Azure Monitor pipeline (at edge)

Infrastructure and quality enhancements for Azure Container Registry

Public Preview: Azure Dedicated Host – Redeploy

General availability: Improved network topology experience in Network Watcher and Azure Monitor Network Insights

Updated Retirement Notice: Azure Data Catalog will now be retired on 15 May 2024

Public preview: Extensibility model in Azure Deployment Environments

Public preview: Azure Change Analysis New Portal Experience

General availability: Application Gateway Web Application Firewall (WAF) inspection limit & size enforcement

Generally Available: Index Advisor in Azure Cosmos DB helps optimize your index policy for NoSQL queries

General availability: Semantic caching with vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB

Public preview: Filtered vector search in vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB

General availability: Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server enhanced disaster recovery features

General availability: Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL geo-redundant backup and restore

General availability: HNSW vector index in vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB

General availability: Virtual network flow logs

Azure Virtual Network Manager security admin rule generally available in all public regions

The billing meter for Azure Databricks materialized views and streaming tables will change 1 May 2024

Public Preview: Azure Monitor Agent Upload to Storage and Event Hubs

Microsoft Security Copilot Blog

Startup Showcase: 3-2-1-GoCheck

All about SQL drivers and access tokens

How to enforce usage of Privileged Access Workstations for Admins

Create the Future at Microsoft Azure HPC + AI Infrastructure Summit with AMD.

Introducing Mistral Small: Empowering Developers with Efficient LLMs on Azure AI Models as a Service