Azure Updates – Number 91 – June 1, 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

Public Preview: Log Analytics Workspace Replication

Configuring archive period for tables at Mass for Data Retention within Log Analytics Workspace

PART 3 – Ingesting AWS GovCloud Microsoft Sentinel in Azure Commercial

SOC optimization: unlock the power of precision-driven security management

Microsoft Sentinel: Delivering value to your SOC

Azure Updates

We’re retiring Azure Time Series Insights on 7 July 2024 transition to Azure Data Explorer

Public Preview: Analyze data using Log Analytics Simple mode

Feature Update: Azure Action Groups

Public preview: Azure Load Balancer now supports Admin State

Public preview: Azure NetApp Files support for Active Directory connection per NetApp account

Azure Virtual Network Manager’s virtual network verifier is now in public preview

Public preview: Azure Bastion Premium

Public Preview: Kubernetes Metadata and Logs Filtering in Azure Monitor – Container Insights

General Availability: Azure NetApp Files backup

Public preview: Azure Load Balancer health event logs

Generally Available: Azure Chaos Studio supports a new Pause Process fault for Windows virtual machines

Public preview: Advanced Container Networking Services for Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS)

General availability: Azure NetApp Files support for large volumes up to 500TiB in size

General availability: Activity log alerts can now run in EU Data Boundary

General Availability: VM Hibernation for General Purpose VMs

General Availability: Azure API Center Extension for VS Code

Public Preview: Azure HDInsight on AKS is now available for preview in 6 new regions

Visual Studio Code extension for sAzure Web PubSub now in preview

Public preview: Azure NetApp Files application volume group for Oracle

Monitor effectively using Azure Monitor for Azure Site Recovery

Preview: Introducing Reporting Capabilities for Azure Site Recovery

Announcing General Availability of Graph Semantics in Kusto

Azure Firewall: New Regions Availability

Public preview of the App Configuration Extension for AKS

Azure portal now offers in context observability for AKS object overviews

Public preview: Managed Prometheus visualizations for Azure Monitor container insights

Preview: Windows gRPC support is now available on App Service

Public preview: Azure Log Analytics enhances resilience with workspace replication across regions

Expanding extensibility model to Pulumi in Azure Deployment Environments

Public preview: Azure Firewall integration in Microsoft Copilot for Security

Public preview: Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) integration in Microsoft Copilot for Security

Public preview: Aspire dashboard support in Azure Container Apps

Public preview: Azure Functions support for HTTP streams in Python

Azure Static Web Apps offers new Dedicated plan in preview

New Azure Event Grid capabilities support IoT solutions, event sources

Microsoft Dev Box introduces new ready-to-code and enterprise management capabilities

Public Preview – Azure Compute Fleet

Public Preview Azure OpenAI Semantic Caching policy in Azure API Management

GA Circuit Breaker in Azure API Management

GA OData API type in Azure API Management

GA Load Balancer in Azure API Management

GA Support for gRPC APIs in Azure API Management Self-hosted Gateway

GA Azure OpenAI Emit Token Metric policy in Azure API Management

GA Import Azure OpenAI enpoints as an APIs in Azure API Management

GA Azure OpenAI Token Limit Policy in Azure API Management

GA Improved Onboarding Experience on VS Code for Azure Logic Apps Standard

Public Preview Azure Logic Apps Standard] .NET 8 Custom Code Support

Public Preview Azure Logic Apps Standard Support for Zero Downtime deployment scenarios

Public Preview Azure Logic Apps Standard Deployment Scripting Tools in VS Code

Public Preview Azure Logic Apps Monitoring Dashboard for Workflow Monitoring, Troubleshooting, and Resubmissions

GA EDI capabilities in Azure Logic Apps Standard

Public Preview Azure Service Bus Enhancements

Public Preview Azure Integration Account Enhancements

Public preview: Dynamic sessions in Azure Container Apps

Public Preview: Next-Gen Dashboards Experience in Azure Portal

Public Preview: Set Java log levels in Azure Container Apps

Public Preview: Monitor apps with Java metrics in Azure Container Apps

Generally Available: Azure Functions Support for HTTP Streams in Node.js

Generally Available: Azure Functions extension for Dapr

Public Preview: Azure Functions brings new flexibility with Azure Functions Flex Consumption

Public preview: Get started with Azure Functions using Visual Studio Code for the Web

Public preview: Azure Functions extension for OpenAI

Public preview: SDK type bindings for Azure Blog Storage with Azure Functions in Python

Generally Available: Azure Functions can now run on Azure Container Apps

Generally Available: Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager workload orchestration

Generally Available: KEDA in the Azure Portal

Public preview: Kubernetes version 1.30 support in AKS

Draft now supports best practices via deployment safeguards

Public preview: Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager support for property-based scheduling and override

Public preview: Deployment safeguards mutations in enforcement mode for AKS

Generally Available: Automated deployments for AKS

Public preview: AKS Automatic

Generally Available: 32TB storage support in Azure Database for MySQL Flexible Server Business Critical

Public Preview: Microsoft Copilot now offers supportability in Azure Database for MySQL

Generally Available: Accelerated logs in Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server

General availability: Azure SQL updates for late-May 2024

Public Preview – On-demand backup and Export in Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server

Public preview – Major version upgrade support for PostgreSQL 16

Public Preview: Azure SQL updates for late-May 2024

Public Preview: New Azure SQL Database skills introduced to Microsoft Copilot in Azure

Public Preview: In-database embeddings in Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server

Public Preview: Index recommendations in Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server

Public preview: Change from serverless to provisioned capacity mode

General Availability: Azure AI extension in Azure Database for PostgreSQL

General Availability: Azure Cosmos DB Vercel integration

Public Preview: DiskANN vector indexing and search in Azure Cosmos DB NoSQL

General availability: Azure Cosmos DB Go SDK

Public Preview: vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB cross-region disaster recovery (DR)

General availability: Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL integrations in LangChain and Semantic Kernel

Public preview: Azure Cache for Redis Enterprise now offers a 1GB E1 SKU

General availability: Azure Cache for Redis triggers and bindings for Azure Functions

General availability: Computed properties in Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL

Experimentation capabilities for Azure App Configuration now in public preview

General availability: Azure Cache for Redis now supports Microsoft Entra ID authentication and authorization

Azure Machine Learning – General Availability for Build 2024

Preview: Azure Cobalt 100 Arm-based Virtual Machines

Azure Machine Learning – Public Preview for Build 2024

Update on Inter-Availability Zone Data Transfer Pricing

Public Preview: Migrate virtual machine backups using standard backup policy to enhanced backup policy

Microsoft Security Copilot Blog

Navigating the Future with Microsoft Copilot

Universal API Center – a truly comprehensive API catalog that warmly welcomes all your APIs!

Affordable Innovation: Unveiling the Pricing of Phi-3 SLMs on Models as a Service

June 2024, Viva Glint release update

Create a Jenkins pipeline to deploy Desktop Apps as MSIX – Part 2: Packaging a Visual Studio solutio