Azure Updates – Number 95 – July 27, 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.
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Azure Updates
Public Preview: Convert to Azure Premium SSD v2 disks
Public Preview: New Azure Monitor Auxiliary Logs Plan
Public Preview: 6th generation Intel-based VMs – Dv6/Ev6
Generally Available: New capabilities added to Azure Monitor Basic Logs plan
Generally Available: AzAcSnap 10 — Azure Application Consistent Snapshot tool updates
Generally Available: Delete or Reset Azure Site Recovery replication appliance
Retirement: App Service Environment v1/v2 will be retired on August 31, 2024
Retirement: Azure Lab Services is being retired on June 28, 2027
Public Preview: Upgrade existing Azure Gen1/Gen2 VMSS to Gen2-Trusted launch
Retirement: Azure Synapse Runtime for Apache Spark 3.2
Retirement: Azure Synapse Runtime for Apache Spark 3.3
Generally Available: Support for .NET 8 using the in-process model in Azure Functions
Generally Available: Redis extension for Azure Functions
Public Preview: Managed Java component (Admin for Spring) in Azure Container Apps
Public Preview: Managed identity support for scaling rules in Azure Container Apps
Generally Available: Azure Container Apps support for peer-to-peer encryption
Generally Available: Support for Azure Key Vault certificates in Azure Container Apps
Generally Available: ExpressRoute Traffic Collector support for provider circuits
Generally Available: ExpressRoute FastPath Support for Vnet Peering & UDR
Generally Available: Azure Virtual Network Manager mesh and direct connectivity
Public Preview: Azure Data Box now supports select cross region transfers
Retirement: API “Microsoft.AlertsManagement alerts 2018-05-05-preview”
General Availability: Pgvector 0.7 support in Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server
General Availability: Major version upgrade support for PostgreSQL 16
General Availability: Multi-select delete in Azure Cosmos DB with Data Explorer
Generally Available: Update records in a Kusto Database
- Kusto databases, either in Azure Data Explorer or in Fabric KQL Database, are optimized for append ingestion.
- In recent years, we’ve introduced the .delete command allowing you to selectively delete records.
- In February we introduced the .update command in public preview. This command allows you to update records by deleting existing records and appending new ones in a single transaction.
- We are proud to announce this command is now Generally Available (GA).
- We believe this command gives you an alternative for your data pipelines. Many loading scenarios involve updating records. For instance, ingesting new data in a staging table to then update the records of a main table with those new records. This is now possible with the .update command.