Ashish Sharma

Azure service updates General availability: Azure Sphere version 22.07 The 22.07 release includes reduced connect-to-cloud time for the OS, resulting in lower energy use; best practices guidance for production-ready applications; and optimized manufacturing scripts. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Public preview: Azure Synapse Analytics Spark elastic pool storage Reduce job failures by using elastic pool storage. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Generally available: Trusted Launch support for DCsv3 and DCdsv3 series Virtual Machines DCsv3 and DCdsv3-series virtual machines (VMs) now supports trusted launch feature. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Generally available: Guided tour experience added to Azure IoT Central You now have the option to take the phone as a device guided tour when creating a new application in Azure IoT Central. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates General availability: VM Applications – Manage and deploy applications to VMs and VMSS VM Apps is a service that simplifies management, sharing, and global distribution of application packages at scale. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Public preview: SQL DB output connector improvements in Stream Analytics You can now configure your Azure Stream Analytics job to write to a SQL table that hasn't yet been created or see schema mismatch detection for an existing SQL table. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Public preview: Share images across subscriptions and tenants with new Compute Gallery feature Using direct shared gallery, a feature of Azure Compute Gallery, you can now share VM images directly with other subscriptions and tenants. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Generally available: Azure Stream Analytics in four new regions Azure Stream Analytics is a fully managed, real-time analytics service designed to help you analyze and process fast moving streams of data. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Generally available: New KMS DNS in Azure Global Cloud All Azure Windows VMs provisioned in Azure Global Cloud from July 2022, are activated via azkms.core.windows.net, which points to two new KMS IP addresses, 20.118.99.224 and 40.83.235.53. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Public preview: Managed attributes in Microsoft Purview data catalog Append organizational metadata to your technical assets by creating and applying managed attributes in the Microsoft Purview data catalog. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Generally available: Rich text editor in Microsoft Purview data catalog Add rich text formatting to asset and term descriptions in the Microsoft Purview data catalog. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates General availability: Microsoft Cost Details API for EA and MCA customers Cost Details API is now generally available for use by EA and MCA customers. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates General availability: NVads A10 v5 Virtual Machines NVads A10 v5 series virtual machines are now generally available. These are ideal for graphic, video, and AI workloads and include GPU portioning, making them perfect for any size workload. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Public preview: Enhanced experience to opt in to improved backup alerting Move to Azure Monitor based alerts for Azure Backup with just a few clicks. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Generally available: Live resize for Premium SSD and Standard SSD Disk Storage Dynamically increase your disk storage capacity without any application downtime with the Azure Disk Storage live resize feature. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates General availability: Azure confidential VMs (DCasv5/ECasv5-series VMs) General availability of Azure confidential Virtual Machines. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Public preview: Azure Monitor for SAP solutions Azure Monitor for SAP solutions allows you to collect and visualize end-to-end SAP telemetry in the Azure portal. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Generally available: CI/CD Guidance for Azure IoT Central CI/CD Guidance and sample code now available for Azure IoT Central deployment pipelines. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Public preview: Cross-region read replicas for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus) Create read replicas of your Hyperscale (Citus) server group in different regions. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Generally available: Basic tier updates for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus) Hyperscale (Citus) Basic tier now supports 16, 32, and 64 vCores and 1 TiB and 2 TiB storage. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Generally available: vCore compute options for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus) Run memory-intensive enterprise applications with higher concurrency and no throttling on the new 96 and 104 vCore compute options. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Generally available: New extensions for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server Install the new extensions and use this functionality for development with Javascript and geographic routing logic with Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Generally available: PostgreSQL 14 with Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server now supports the latest Postgres version 14. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Generally available: Same-zone high availability for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server Deploy high availability within the same zone for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Public preview: Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server data encryption with CMK Encrypt your data with customer-managed keys (CMK) to enable an extra layer of security for data at rest. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Generally available: Virtual machine restore points For customers and Azure partners who are looking to build business continuity and disaster recovery solutions, VM restore points provide a feature rich building blocks available natively on Azure platform. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Public preview: Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage Premium SSD v2 is the next generation Azure Premium SSD Disk Storage. Provision the IOPS and throughput you need without necessarily purchasing additional storage capacity. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Public preview: OVN-Kubernetes network provider for Azure Red Hat OpenShift OVN-Kubernetes Container Network Interface (CNI) for Azure Red Hat OpenShift cluster is now in public preview. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Responsible AI investments and safeguards for Facial Recognition The Cognitive Services team has updated our approach to facial recognition including adding a new Limited Access policy, removing AI classifiers of sensitive attributes and bolstering our investments in fairness and transparency. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Generally available: Azure Site Recovery update rollup 62 - July 2022 Azure update for Azure Site Recovery update rollup 62. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Generally available: Exporting device customizations and cloud properties in Azure IoT Central Device capability customizations and cloud properties are now included in exported device templates in Azure IoT Central. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Generally available: Azure Gateway Load Balancer Gateway Load Balancer enables you to deploy, scale, and enhance the availability of third party network virtual appliances (NVAs) in Azure with ease. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Generally available: Azure IoT Edge 1.3.0 release The Azure IoT Edge release 1.3 is available with support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 and requires that inbound/outbound communication use TLS 1.2 by default. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Public preview: Azure Active Directory authentication for exporting and importing Managed Disks Improve security with the new integration to Azure Active Directory (AD) used to export and import data to Azure Managed Disks. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Public preview: 2022-06-30 Azure IoT Central REST API release is now live The Azure IoT Central REST API now supports to programmatically create enrollment groups, schedule jobs, configure application dashboards, and leverage the REST API for unassociated/unmodeled devices. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates General availability: Application Insights standard test for synthetic monitoring Standard tests are a single request test which also includes SSL certificate validity, proactive lifetime check, HTTP request verb, custom headers, and custom data associated with your HTTP request. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates General availability: Azure Archive Storage now available in South Africa North Reduce spending by storing rarely accessed data to Azure Archive Storage, now in new regions. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Generally available: Azure Digital Twins Data history Data history is an integration feature of Azure Digital Twins. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates General availability: Azure Active Directory authentication for Application Insights Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) authentication for Azure Monitor Application helps ensure that only authenticated telemetry is ingested in your Application Insights resources. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates General availability: Application Insights standard test for synthetic monitoring Standard tests are a single request test which also includes SSL certificate validity, proactive lifetime check, HTTP request verb, custom headers, and custom data associated with your HTTP request. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Public preview: Container Insights now supports Windows Server 2022 Container Insights now supports the Windows Server 2022 operating system. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Public preview: User-assigned Managed Identity support for Azure Monitor Agent Azure Monitor Agent (AMA) provides a secure, cost-effective, simplified, performant way to collect telemetry data from IaaS resources. It now supports installation and authentication at-scale using Managed Identity user-assigned mode. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Generally available: Enabling JBoss EAP on Azure Red Hat OpenShift You can now use jointly developed guidance from Red Hat and Microsoft to get JBoss EAP applications up and running quickly on Azure Red Hat OpenShift. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates General availability: Azure Active Directory authentication for Application Insights Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) authentication for Azure Monitor Application helps ensure that only authenticated telemetry is ingested in your Application Insights resources. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Generally available: 2022-05-31 Azure IoT Central REST API release The Azure IoT Central REST API now enables GA support for creating and managing device groups and organizations, configure file uploads destination, and add organization association to existing endpoints. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Generally available: Resize rows in Azure IoT Central device raw data view You can now resize rows in Azure IoT Central’s device raw data view allowing the ability to analyze more data in a single view. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates General availability: Temporary access pass for Azure Active Directory Temporary Access Pass is now generally available in Public and US Gov clouds. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Public preview: Ephemeral OS disk support for confidential virtual machines Create confidential VMs using Ephemeral OS disks for your stateless workloads. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Generally available: Azure Backup multi-user authorization for recovery services vaults Multi-user authorization for Backup provides enhanced protection for your backup data in recovery services vaults against unauthorized critical operations. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Limited preview: Smart tiering to vault-archive tier for Azure Backup You can now configure your backup policy to move all your eligible and recommended recovery points to vault-archive tier for Azure Virtual Machines, SQL Server/SAP HANA in Azure Virtual Machines. Click here for more information.