Azure Updates – Number 23 – Special November 2021 Microsoft Ignite Edition

A summary update on Azure News that includes updates released from Microsoft Azure related to Azure, Architecture, Compute, and Sentinel topics. I’ll provide links to all the resource updates with each item. Hopefully this will save you some time digging around to find recent releases and changes.

Updates will 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 or Azure Updates Blog to see all the updates.

This week’s update includes all the special releases centered around Microsoft Ignite – November 2021 Edition!

Azure Updates

General availability: Azure Site Recovery now supports failover of multiple IP configurations

Public preview: Azure Data Explorer is now supported as an output for Azure Stream Analytics job

Azure VMware Solution now generally available in the Germany West Central Azure region

General availability: New Azure Data Explorer output plugin for Telegraf

Private preview: Azure OpenAI Service combines access to powerful GPT-3 language models with Azure???s enterprise capabilities

PowerShell 7.1 runbook support in Azure Automation available in public preview

Azure Automation support for Managed Identities is now generally available

Public preview: Azure Virtual Network Manager

General availability: Run IBM WebSphere Liberty and Open Liberty on ARO and AKS

General availability: Run Oracle WebLogic Server on Azure Kubernetes Service

General availability: API Management and Event Grid Integration

Azure trusted launch for Virtual Machines now generally available

Azure Machine Learning – Ignite, November 2021 public preview announcements

General availability: Bastion Standard SKU

Public preview: ExpressRoute private peering support for BGP communities

Public preview: ExpressRoute FastPath improvements

Automatic VM guest patching is now generally available

Logic Apps Standard Plan updates in general availability

General availability: Native support for WebSocket APIs

Public preview: GraphQL passthrough support in Azure API Management

Public preview: Azure Virtual Machines DCsv3 and DCdsv3-series now available

Public preview: New Azure Arc capabilities in November 2021

General availability: Azure Monitor container insights for Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes

Azure SQL???general availability updates for early November 2021

Private preview: New Azure Arc capabilities in November 2021

Azure Applied AI Services | Azure Cognitive Search updates now generally available

Azure Applied AI Services | Azure Video Analyzer updates in public preview

Public preview: Near real-time analytics for telemetry, time series, and log data on Azure Synapse

Additional ML options for Spark on Azure Synapse now in public preview

Public preview: Azure Chaos Studio – Systematically improve resilience with controlled chaos

General availability: IoT Central – Organizations

Public preview: OpenID Connect integration between Azure AD and GitHub Actions

Autoscale public preview is now available for Azure Virtual Desktop

Azure Virtual Desktop for Azure Stack HCI public preview is now available

Public preview: Azure Purview???s Integration with Microsoft Defender for Cloud

New orchestration mode for Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets now generally available

Limited preview: New Azure Virtual Machines deliver increased storage throughput for data-intensive workloads

General availability: New Azure Virtual Machines deliver increased performance for a broad range of workloads

Azure App Service Environment v3 support for Windows Containers is now generally available

Azure App Service – Diagnostic settings feature reaches general availability

General availability: Version updates for Azure App Configuration libraries

Azure Service Bus large message support reaches general availability

General availability: Provisioned throughput increase for Azure Ultra Disk Storage

General availability: Centralized management of keys for encrypting Azure disks

New capabilities introduced for disk pool (public preview) for Azure VMware Solution

Public preview: Cross-region snapshot copy for Azure Disk Storage

Live resize of Azure Disk Storage in public preview

Open Service Mesh add-on for AKS is now generally available

Azure SQL: Public preview updates for early November 2021

General availability: AKS support for Secrets Store CSI driver

Public preview: Industry-aware analytics with database templates in Azure Synapse

Azure Service Operator v2 release is now generally available

Public preview: Self-service Access Management in Azure Purview

Public preview: Azure Container Registry connected registry for IoT Edge

Public preview: Explore your Amazon RDS data in Azure Purview

Public preview: Azure Container Apps

Azure Synapse Link for Azure Cosmos DB: Custom partitioning support in public preview

Azure Machine Learning public preview announcement Ignite, November 2021

Public preview: gMSAv2 security policy support for Kubernetes workloads on Windows

Public preview updates to Azure SQL Managed Instance boosts performance, scale, and flexibility

Azure Cognitive Service for Language now generally available

General availability: New troubleshooting experiences in Network Insights for VPN Gateway & Azure Firewall

General availability: Event Hubs Premium

General availability: Log Analytics Workspace Insights in Azure Monitor

Public preview: Manage your Log Analytics data export rules in Azure portal

Cost saving recommendations in Azure Advisor for Azure Cosmos DB now generally available

Azure Cosmos DB: Server side retries for Cassandra API in public preview

General availability: EventHub action in Azure Monitor action groups

Public preview: Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Exporters

Azure Cosmos DB Logic Apps Standard Connector in public preview

Azure Cosmos DB: Partial document update now in general availability

Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra service now generally available

Provisioned throughput spending limit for Azure Cosmos DB in general availability

Link feature in Azure SQL Managed Instance now in limited public preview

On-demand disk bursting for Azure Premium SSDs now generally available

Public preview: Dapr extension for AKS

Azure Cache for Redis: Redis 6.0 supported in general availability

Public preview: AKS node pool user start/stop feature

Install Azure Service Operator via Visual Studio Code extension for AKS

New indexing metrics for Azure Cosmos DB in general availability

Public preview: NAT gateway integration with AKS

Azure Backup: Multi-user authorization for Backup is now in public preview

General availability: Stream Analytics now offers support for Availability Zones with Dedicated Cluster

Public preview: Metrics and Metric alerts for Azure Backup

Gateway Load Balancer now in public preview

Logic Apps Standard Plan updates in public preview

Querying Delta Lake files using T-SQL in Azure Synapse Analytics is generally available

Public preview: Multiple backups per day for Azure Files

General availability: Ephemeral OS disks for Azure VMs support additional VM sizes

General availability: Logz.io for Microsoft Azure

General availability: Azure Functions extensions for Blobs, Queues, Event Hubs, Service Bus, and Event Grid

General availability: Azure Data Explorer Insights

Zerto Disaster Recovery for Azure VMware Solution

Azure Spot Virtual Machines: Try to restore functionality now generally available

Extended regional availability for Private Link NSG Support

Extended regional availability for Private Link UDR Support

Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2021 RTM for OEMs

Azure Red Hat OpenShift now available in public preview in Azure Government

General availability: Azure governance policy for Azure Key Vault

General availability: ExpressRoute IPv6 Support for Private Peering

General availability: Azure Sphere version 21.10

General availability: Azure Backup now supports Archive Tier through Azure Portal

Azure Monitor Log Analytics and Application Insights support for Availability Zones is now generally available in West US 2

General availability: Azure Advisor recommendations for Azure Data Explorer Clusters

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