Azure Updates – Number 94 – July 13, 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 blog is undergoing maintenance this summer and has impacted some features, including a URL change, and loss of features (hopefully temporary!). Here is a manual pull of the July releases to date so that the blog post has the most updates aggregated into one post for you! I hope everyone is enjoying their summer this year! Thank you for reading my posts!
Retirement: Azure Cloud Services Guest OS Families 2, 3, and 4
Generally Available: Encryption using Customer Managed Keys for Backup Vaults
Generally Available: Backup and restore of virtual machines with private endpoint enabled disks
Generally Available: Azure Elastic SAN Feature Updates
Generally Available: Azure Site Recovery support for Azure Trusted Launch VMs (Windows OS)
Generally Available: Run your Databricks jobs with serverless compute for workflows
Generally Available: Interactive Serverless Compute
Generally Available: DLT with serverless compute
Public Preview: Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) integration with Virtual WAN
In Development: ExpressRoute resiliency enhancements
Public Preview: Online migration for MongoDB in Azure Data Studio
Public Preview: Azure SQL updates for early-July 2024
Public Preview: Azure cross-subscription Load Balancer
Private Preview: Azure Backup for Elastic SAN
Retirement: Onco-Phenotype model within Azure AI Health Insights
Public Preview: Azure Machine Learning Announcement
Generally Available: Azure Machine Learning Announcement
Generally Availabile: Spain Central region added to Azure HDInsight
Generally Available: Azure Log Alerts support for Azure Data Explorer
Public Preview: Force detach zone redundant data disks during zone outage
Public Preview: ED25519 SSH key support for Linux virtual machines
Public Preview: Continuous Performance Diagnostics for Windows VMs to enhance VM Troubleshooting
Public Preview: Windows Server 2025 now available
Public Preview: Redis 7.2 on Azure Cache for Redis Enterprise
Public Preview: Online migration in migration service Azure Database for PostgreSQL
Public Preview: Extension version sync for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server
Generally Available: IOPS scaling for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server
Generally Available: Azure SQL updates for late-June 2024
Public Preview: Geo-Replication for Azure Service Bus Premium
Public Preview: JavaScript (JS) Challenge on Azure WAF integrated with Azure Application Gateway
Public Preview: Azure Container Apps available in Azure Government Cloud Virginia
Azure Container Apps is now available in public preview in Azure Government Cloud Virginia.
Generally Available: Announcing kube-egress-gateway for Kubernetes
Generally Available: OS Security Patch channel for Linux in AKS
Generally Available: az command invoke in AKS
Public Preview: Upgrade Policies for Virtual Machine Scale Sets with Flexible Orchestration
Generally Available: Azure Monitor Log Enablement Policy Expansion
Generally Available: Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry-based Distro adds Live Metrics
Generally Available: Azure Virtual Network Manager mesh and direct connectivity
Generally Available: Run load tests in debug mode on Azure Load Testing
Generally Available: Azure Monitor, Log Analytics dedicated clusters now supported in Azure portal
Public Preview: Announcing Foundation Model Training
Generally Available: Run Azure Load Testing on Azure Functions
Azure support plan offer being discontinued on June 30, 2024
General Availability: vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB now supports Mongo Ver 7.0
Public Preview: Azure Cosmos DB continuous backup for accounts using Azure Synapse Link