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Azure Updates – Number 97 – September 7, 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

What’s new: Multi-tenancy in the unified security operations platform experience in Public Preview
Comprehensive coverage and cost-savings with Microsoft Sentinel?s new data tier
Revolutionizing log collection with Azure Monitor Agent
Microsoft Sentinel & Cyberint Threat Intel Integration Guide
Frequently asked questions about the unified security operations platform

Azure Updates

Retirement: Azure App Service Environment v1/v2 is retired as of August 31, 2024
Generally Available: Auto-renewal of certificates for on-premises to Azure Site Recovery
Public Preview: Expanded GenAI Gateway capabilities in Azure API Management
Public Preview: Azure Container Storage enabled by Azure Arc Edge Volumes
Generally Available: Azure Storage Mover with Bandwidth Management
Generally Available: VMSS Automatic Instance Repairs – Reimage, Restart Repair Actions
Public Preview – Templates Support in Azure Logic Apps Standard
Public Preview – Out of box monitoring dashboards for Logic Apps Standard
Public Preview: Entra ID support for SSH connections in portal
Retirement: Azure API Management STV1 compute platform is retired as of August 31, 2024
Retirement: Azure Logic Apps Integration Service Environment is retired as of August 31, 2024
Generally Available: Azure Public IPs are zone redundant by default
Public Preview – Managed linting support in API Center
Generally Available: Azure Red Hat OpenShift Now Supports Clusters Up to 250 Nodes
Retirement: Azure API Management STV1 compute platform is retired as of August 31, 2024
Retirement: Azure Logic Apps Integration Service Environment is retired as of August 31, 2024
Retirement: Azure HDInsight on AKS will retire on January 31, 2025
Generally Available: Larger Enterprise tier cache instances for Azure Cache for Redis
Retirement: Migrating to TLS 1.2+ with the Deprecation of Outdated Security Protocols
Retirement: Azure Monitor experience (preview) in HDInsight is retiring by February 1, 2025
Public Preview: JavaScript (JS) Challenge on Azure WAF integrated with Azure Front Door
Generally Available: Azure NetApp Files storage with cool access for all service levels
Generally Available: Workspaces in Azure API Management
Public Preview: Instance Mix on Virtual Machine Scale Sets
Generally Available: Attach and detach of VMs on Virtual Machine Scale Sets for a single fault domain
Generally Available: Azure Sphere (Integrated) announces Locate Device feature
Retirement: Azure API Management STV1 compute platform is retired as of August 31, 2024
Retirement: Azure Logic Apps Integration Service Environment is retired as of August 31, 2024
Public Preview: Customer managed planned failover for Azure Storage

Microsoft Security Copilot Blog

Copy Data to Azure SQL Database from Mainframe Db2 using Microsoft Fabric Data pipelines
Deploying .NET Apps to Azure Container Apps with One Command, azd up
MVP?s Favorite Content: Dynamics 365, Intune, Entra, Viva
(Preview) Dynamic watermarking available on Android and iOS with new date-time variable
Generative AI powered by your SQL?data