Ashish Sharma

Azure service updates General availability: Web Application Firewall (WAF) bot protection on Application Gateway Try the bot protection rule set alongside your OWASP core rule set (CRS), now generally available for Azure Web Application Firewall running on Application Gateway. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates General availability: Web Application Firewall (WAF) geomatch custom rules on Application Gateway Try geomatch custom rules to block or allow traffic based on geo-location, now generally available for Azure Web Application Firewall on Application Gateway. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Start VM on connect capability in Azure Virtual Desktop enters general availability Start VM on Connect will help you optimize the costs of your deployment by offering a configuration setting in the service to start stopped or deallocated VMs when needed. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Immutable storage with versioning for Blob Storage is now in public preview Set time-based policies or legal holds on data so that the data becomes non-erasable and non-modifiable and protect all versions of a blob. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Azure Sphere SDK version 21.07 Update 1 is now available This SDK update fixes a bug in the 21.07 SDK that was released earlier this month.  Click here for more information.

Azure service updates VMware Site Recovery Manager is now generally available for Azure VMware Solution Azure VMware Solution (AVS) customers are now be able to take advantage of VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) for disaster recovery scenarios including; On-premise VMware to AVS, and Primary AVS to Secondary AVS private cloud environments. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates General availability: Azure ExpressRoute: 3 New Peering Locations Available ExpressRoute lets you extend your on-premises networks into the Microsoft cloud over a private connection with the help of a connectivity provider. The service is now available in 3 new peering locations. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Azure Site Recovery update rollup 56 is now generally available - July 2021 The latest Azure Site Recovery update provides improvements, fixes, updated replication support, and download links for Site Recovery components. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates General Availability: Azure Stream Analytics Tools for Visual Studio Code Azure Stream Analytics Tools for Visual Studio Code is for developers to easily author, test, debug, and manage Azure Stream Analytics jobs. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Public preview: Azure Virtual Desktop is now available in the Azure China cloud Get started today with Azure Virtual Desktop in public preview in Azure China cloud. Deploy and scale Windows desktops and apps on Azure in minutes. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Azure Active Directory support for Azure Relay now in public preview Azure Relay now supports authentication and authorization via Azure AD as a public preview offering. With Azure AD, you don't need to store tokens in your code. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates General availability: Azure Sphere version 21.07 The 21.07 update includes heap memory allocation tracking, time sync changes, and support for service principles. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates General availability: New West US 3 region added to Azure HDInsight HDInsight is now generally available for West US 3 customers. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates General availability: Azure Monitor Agent and Data Collection Rules now support direct proxies and Log Analytics gateway If you use a proxy server or Log Analytics gateway to communicate to Azure Monitor, you can now start using the new Azure Monitor Agent (AMA) and Data Collection Rules (DCR) in these network configurations. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates General availability: Better integration between Azure Monitor and Grafana Customers using Grafana for visualizing Azure Monitor metrics can now enable additional data sources and have easier authentication using managed identity. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates General availability: Python Functions now support custom telemetry in Application Insights Azure Monitor is releasing a new PyPI package that expands distributed tracing support in Application Insights for Python Functions. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates General availability: Public IP information and inter-zone traffic among many new insights in Traffic Analytics Azure Network Watcher Traffic Analytics solutions is used to monitor network traffic. It now provides WHOIS and Geographic data for all Public IPs interacting with your deployments and further adds DNS domain, threat type & threat description for Malicious IPs. Now, it also supports inter-zone traffic and VMSS level traffic insights. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates General availability: Built-in Azure Policy support for Network Watcher Traffic Analytics Traffic Analytics can now be enabled using Built-in Azure Policy, thus improving your deployment experience. Now organizations can enforce org wide standards and manage traffic monitoring at scale using these policies. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server Auto-grow storage in public preview With auto-grow storage enabled, your storage automatically grows when storage consumed on the Flexible Server is nearing its provisioned limit. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Public preview: Azure App Service Migration Assistant PowerShell-based experience The PowerShell-based experience for the Azure App Service Migration Assistant is now in public preview. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates The public preview of Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server now supported in new regions Provision new Flexible Server deployments in new regions for Azure Database for PostgreSQL, a managed service running the open source Postgres database on Azure. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Azure VMware Solution now generally available in the Canada East region Azure VMware Solution has expanded availability to Canada East. With this release Canada East is now the second region within the Canadian sovereign area to become available (joining Canada Central). Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Public preview: IoT Edge Metrics Collector module 1.0.1 release This update provides security and reliability improvements, and support for government and regional clouds. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Announcing the Azure Firewall Premium general availability Utilize next-generation firewall capabilities in Azure Firewall Premium Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Public preview: Scan and view lineage of data stored in Erwin Mart, Google BigQuery and Looker using Azure Purview Azure Purview now supports automated scanning from Erwin, BigQuery and Looker soureces to extract schema and lineage between data. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Shared disks on Azure Disk Storage are now generally available on all Premium SSD and Standard SSD sizes Shared disks can now be leveraged on smaller Premium SSDs from 4GiB to 128 GiB and all Standard SSDs from 4 GiB to 32 TiB. This expands shared disk support to Ultra Disk, Premium SSD, and Standard SSD enabling you to optimize for different price and performance options based on your workload needs. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Public preview: Alerts, Pacemaker cluster (RHEL OS) and data-size for SAP HANA SAP on Azure customers can now set threshold-based alerts on SAP application, databases and clusters though Azur portal with few clicks. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Private preview: New telemetry for SAP Application (NetWeaver) in Azure portal SAP on Azure customers can now view SAP Application telemetry like short dumps, SDF/SMON and STO3 in Azure portal. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Azure VMware Solution now generally available in the Australia Southeast region Azure VMware Solution has expanded availability to Australia Southeast. With this release Australia Southeast is now the second region within the Australian sovereign area to become available (joining Australia East). Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Azure Automation support for User Assigned Managed Identities is now in public preview Use user-assigned identities for Azure Automation runbook jobs. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates General availability: Azure IoT Central new and updated features—June 2021 June updates include dashboard enhancements, the IoT Plug and Play smartphone app including updated quickstarts, rule condition enhancements, a new responsive UI, and a new Learn module. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Session and cache provider using Azure Cosmos DB in general availability Use Azure Cosmos DB as a session state and cache provider through Microsoft.Extensions.Caching.Cosmos extension package for global scaling and low latency. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Limited preview: Migrate your Azure Data Lake Storage from Gen1 to Gen2 using the Azure Portal Use this simple experience to migrate your data from Azure Data Lake Storage Gen1 to Gen2 to speed up your time to insights. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Azure Maps Creator v1 will be retired on 6 September 2021 Transition to Azure Maps Creator v2 by 6 September 2021 Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Public preview: Azure Service Bus support for large messages You can now send and receive message payloads of up to 100MB in Azure Service Bus premium tier namespaces. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates General availability: Deliver a secure hybrid workplace with Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 Learn about our new announcements and product updates for Azure Virtual Desktop at Microsoft Inspire 2021. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates General availability: Azure Spring Cloud Pricing Model Change Upcoming changes to base units in Azure Spring Cloud Basic and Standard will result in lower costs for many customers. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Free Extended Security Updates only on Azure for Windows Server 2012 /R2and SQL Server 2012 Learn how you can take advantage of free Extended Security only Azure for workloads running on Windows Server 2012/R2 and SQL Server 2012 releases. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Public preview: API Management and Event Grid integration Azure API Management has now been updated to publish events to Event Grid. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Azure SQL enabled by Azure Arc generally available on July 30, 2021 Bring cloud data management to data workloads on-premises, at the edge, and in multicloud environments. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Public preview: Azure Spring Cloud New Relic One integration and additional feature updates Azure Spring Cloud now supports New Relic One for performance monitoring (in preview), reduced minimum app instance sizes, automated app deployments with Terraform and Azure Pipelines, and Azure Virtual Network in Azure China. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates General availability: Application Insights integration with App Services for Java & Node.js apps Integration of Azure Monitor application insights with App Services now enables you to monitor your Java & Node.js apps directly from Azure portal, without making any changes to your code, with just a click of a button. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Azure Machine Learning public preview announcements July 2021 New features Custom Containers in Managed Online Endpoints and Job Creation UI are now available in preview in Azure Machine Learning. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Confidential computing using Always Encrypted with secure enclaves for Azure SQL Database in general availability Always Encrypted with secure enclaves helps prevent malicious admins and malware from exfiltrating sensitive data, while enabling in-place encryption and rich confidential computations, including pattern matching, range comparisons, and sorting. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Call recording in public preview for Azure Communication Services Call recording for Azure Communication Services helps to simplify and improve the recording process during calls. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Insights and workbooks for Azure Cosmos DB now in general availability Now generally available, Azure Monitor insights and Azure Monitor workbooks make it easier to visualize and customize metrics for dynamic monitoring of your Azure Cosmos DB resource. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Azure AD authentication for Application Insights Azure Monitor application insights now supports Azure Active Directory authentication. helping you ensure that only authenticated telemetry is ingested. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Public preview: Create AKS clusters without local user accounts You can now disable local user accounts when creating Azure Active Directory integrated Azure Kubernetes Service clusters. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Public preview: New Application Insights standard test for synthetic monitoring Azure Monitor Application Insights is introducing a new availability test to handle most of your single request test scenarios. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates General availability: New Azure Monitor built-in policy for Log Analytics workspace and linked automation account A new Azure Monitor built-in policy gives you control to provision central Log Analytics workspaces and linked automation account across your subscriptions consistently. Click here for more information.