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Azure Updates – Number 100 – October 19, 2024

🎉 Celebrating Our 100th Azure Updates Post! 🎉

I am thrilled to announce to have reached a significant milestone – our 100th Azure Updates blog post! It’s been an incredible journey, and I couldn’t have done it without your support and enthusiasm!

Over the past few years, we’ve shared countless updates, tips, and insights to help you make the most of Azure’s ever-evolving ecosystem. From groundbreaking new features to essential best practices, the goal has always been to keep you informed and empowered.

Highlights from Our Journey:

  • Innovative Features: We’ve covered the launch of game-changing features like Azure Arc, Azure Synapse Analytics, and Azure AI. Each update has brought new possibilities and opportunities for your cloud journey.
  • Community Engagement: Your feedback & engagement have been invaluable. We’ve loved hearing your success stories, challenges, and ideas. Together, we’ve contributed to a vibrant and supportive Azure community.
  • Experience & Insights: Sharing knowledge and experience, providing you with in-depth analyses, tutorials, and best practices to help you navigate the Azure landscape with confidence.

As we celebrate this milestone, I want to express our heartfelt gratitude to each and every one of you. Your passion for Azure inspires us to keep pushing the boundaries and delivering the best content possible.

Here’s to the next 100 posts and beyond! I can’t wait to continue this journey with you, exploring the limitless potential of Azure together.

Stay tuned for more exciting updates, and as always, happy cloud computing! ☁️🚀

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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

Save money on your Sentinel ingestion costs with Data Collection Rules
What to do if your Sentinel Data Connector shows as [DEPRECATED]
Cowrie honeypot and its Integration with Microsoft Sentinel.
Introducing the Use Cases Mapper workbook
Level Up Your Security Skills with the New Microsoft Sentinel Ninja Training!

Azure Updates

Generally Available: ED25519 SSH key support for Linux VMs
Generally Available: Azure Cobalt 100 Arm-based Virtual Machines
Public Preview: VM watch for Azure VMs
Generally Available: Reduced Pricing for JBoss EAP on App Service
Generally Available: ExpressRoute Metro
Generally Available: GRS and CRR support for Azure VMs using Premium SSD v2 and Ultra Disk in Azure Backup
Generally Available: Azure Elastic SAN for Azure VMware Solution
Retirement: Older versions of EA Azure Price Sheet – Download by Billing Account API
Generally Available: App Service Environment memory intensive pricing tier
Generally Available: Storage account default egress limit increase to 200 Gbps
Retirement: Announcing upcoming retirement of custom text analytics for health (preview) in Azure AI Language
Retirement: Announcing upcoming retirement of custom sentiment analysis (preview) in Azure AI Language
Generally Available: Several performance management server parameters now modifiable on Azure Database for PostgreSQL
Public Preview: vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB—up to 32 TiB storage
Public Preview: vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB multishard, cross-region replication
Public Preview: vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB multishard clusters
Public Preview: Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server—support for postgresql_anonymizer extension version 1.3.2
Public Preview: DiskANN indexing on Azure Database for PostgreSQL
Generally Available: Redis 7.2 on Azure Cache for Redis Enterprise
Generally Available: Dedicated gateway RBAC support and a new request option
Generally Available: Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server flexible maintenance
Generally Available: Azure Cosmos DB Data Explorer custom column selector and filter history
Generally Available: Azure SQL updates for early-October 2024
Generally Available: ExpressRoute guided configuration experience
Generally Available: Private endpoint support without NVA source network address translation
Retirement: End of Support Announcement for Azure Load Balancer numberOfProbes property on September 1, 2027.
Generally Available: Custom IPv4 Prefixes (BYOIP) can be used in a Global/Regional configuration

Microsoft Security Copilot Blog

Microsoft Copilot for Security Achieves HITRUST Certification

Older than 2 weeks Honourable Mention:

Case Study: Harnessing Copilot for Security in Defending Against Cyberthreats