Ashish Sharma

Azure service updates Generally available: Cloud Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) by Palo Alto Networks - an Azure Native ISV Service The first ISV next-generation firewall service natively integrated in Azure is now generally available. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Public preview: Assess cost optimization opportunities using new workbook template in Azure Advisor Review cost optimization insights for your Azure environment and identify savings using the new Cost Optimization workbook template in Azure Advisor. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Updated default TLS policy for Azure Application Gateway The default TLS policy for new deployments of Azure Application Gateway is now set to AppGwSslPolicy20220101. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Azure DevOps July 2023 updates In July, we've delivered multiple improvements across Azure DevOps services. You can now dismiss dependency scanning alerts in Advanced Security that you believe to be a false positive or acceptable risk. In Azure Repos, we changed the default behavior to remove "Edit policies" permission when creating a new branch. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Speech-to-text REST API v3.0 will be retired by 31 March 2026. Speech-to-text REST API v3.0 will be retired by 31 March 2026. Update your code that uses Speech-to-text REST API. We recently updated the Speech-to-text REST API to version 3.1. Version 3.1 builds on the capabilities of the previous version and adds new features including language identification and multi-speaker diarization. With these enhancements, we'll retire version 3.0 of the API on 31 March 2026. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Azure SQL—Public preview updates for mid-July 2023 Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in mid-July 2023 Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Public Preview: Firmware analysis in Defender for IoT The new firmware analysis feature in Defender for IoT enables security teams to get deeper visibility into IoT/OT devices by providing better insights into the foundational software they are built on. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates General availability: Partial document update in the Azure Cosmos DB Python SDK Modify just the required fields without having to replace the whole document with partial document update in the Azure Cosmos DB Python SDK. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Public Preview: Firmware analysis in Defender for IoT The new firmware analysis feature in Defender for IoT enables security teams to get deeper visibility into IoT/OT devices by providing better insights into the foundational software they are built on. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Windows Server end-of-support (EOS): Upgrade seamlessly with Azure Migrate (Public preview) With Azure Migrate, seamlessly upgrade legacy Windows servers while migrating to Azure, minimizing effort, downtime, and risk. By creating a copy of the server in Azure and performing the upgrade there, the impact on the original server is minimized, ensuring a secure and efficient transition. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Public preview: Support for Python 3.11 in Azure Functions Take advantage of Python 3.11 features with Azure Functions Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Public Preview: OData API type in Azure API Management We are excited to announce the public preview of the OData API type in Azure API Management. This new capability extends the benefits and capabilities of Azure API Management to OData APIs, including the ability to secure them with standard API protections, such as authentication, authorization, and rate limiting, in combination with OData-specific policies for request validation. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Azure Machine Learning - Public Preview for July New features now available in Public Preview enable you to create AI workflows that connect to various language models and data sources and use prompt flow and Azure OpenAI models to build LLM applications. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Azure Machine Learning - General Availability for July A new feature now available in GA enables you to create compute clusters in locations that are different from the location of the workspace. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates General availability: IoT Hub Service Upgrade All IoT Hubs will be going through a service upgrade between July 2023 and November 2023 with potential impact to your IoT Hub. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Public Preview : Crash Consistent VM Restore points For Azure partners and customers seeking to develop business continuity and disaster recovery solutions, crash-consistent VM restore points serve as feature-rich building blocks, offering an agentless solution available natively on the Azure platform. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates New Extended Security Updates (ESUs) enabled by Azure Arc At Inspire, we are announcing Extended Security Updates (ESUs) enabled by Azure Arc. Customers will be able to purchase and seamlessly deploy ESUs through Azure Arc in on-premises or multicloud environments, right from the Azure portal. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Public Preview: Vector search, a feature of Azure Cognitive Search With Vector search, Developers can store, index, and deliver search applications over vector representations of organizational data including text, images, audio, video, and more. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates General availability: Partial document update in the Azure Cosmos DB Python SDK Modify just the required fields without having to replace the whole document with partial document update in the Azure Cosmos DB Python SDK. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates General availability: IoT Hub Service Upgrade All IoT Hubs will be going through a service upgrade between July 2023 and November 2023 with potential impact to your IoT Hub. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Public Preview : Crash Consistent VM Restore points For Azure partners and customers seeking to develop business continuity and disaster recovery solutions, crash-consistent VM restore points serve as feature-rich building blocks, offering an agentless solution available natively on the Azure platform. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Public Preview: Vector search, a feature of Azure Cognitive Search With Vector search, Developers can store, index, and deliver search applications over vector representations of organizational data including text, images, audio, video, and more. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates General availability: Always Serve for Azure Traffic Manager Always Serve feature for Azure Traffic Manager (ATM) is now generally available. This feature allows you to disable endpoint health checks from an ATM profile and always serve traffic to that given endpoint. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Public preview: Stream Analytics No-Code Editor available in Azure Stream Analytics Portal The no-code editor is now available in Azure Stream Analytics portal to enable building your Stream Analytics jobs effortlessly, no coding required. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Public Preview: Customer Managed Failover for ADLS Gen 2 Customer-managed failover now supports ADLS Gen 2 Click here for more information.

Azure service updates General availability: Always Serve for Azure Traffic Manager Always Serve feature for Azure Traffic Manager (ATM) is now generally available. This feature allows you to disable endpoint health checks from an ATM profile and always serve traffic to that given endpoint. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Retirement notice: Azure Media Services is being retired on 30 June 2024 Azure Media Services will be retired on 30 June 2024 - transition to a Microsoft partner solution or Azure Video Indexer Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Generally available: Autoscale Stream Analytics jobs Generally available: Autoscale Stream Analytics jobs Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Microsoft Dev Box is now generally available Microsoft Dev Box is generally available now. Dev Box is a virtualized solution that empowers developers to quickly spin up self-service workstations preconfigured for their tasks while maintaining centralized management to maximize security and compliance. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates General availability: ExpressRoute private peering support for BGP communities Set BGP community tags on traffic sent from Azure to on-premises over ExpressRoute, enabling a greater variety of hybrid network designs. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates General availability: Call automation capabilities for Azure Communication Services A new set of APIs are in preview, to help developers build server-based, calling workflows. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Datadog – An Azure Native ISV Service – the most desired new features now available Explore new capabilities with Datadog – An Azure Native ISV Service, that include a scalable solution to monitor resources in multiple subscriptions, configuration for Cloud Security Posture Management and ability to mute the monitor for expected VM shutdowns. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Azure AD is becoming Microsoft Entra ID Microsoft Entra ID is the new name for Azure Active Directory (Azure AD). No action is required from you. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Azure AD is becoming Microsoft Entra ID Microsoft Entra ID is the new name for Azure Active Directory (Azure AD). No action is required from you. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates General availability: Azure Data Explorer adds support for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and CosmosDB SQL external tables Azure Data Explorer has released three new types of external tables: PostgrSQL, MySQL, and CosmosDB SQL. These new external tables allow users to query data from these sources directly within Azure Data Explorer using the Kusto Query Language (KQL). Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Azure SQL—General availability updates for early July 2023 General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in early July 2023. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Azure Managed Lustre now generally available Reduce infrastructure setup with a managed file system optimized for HPC and AI workloads. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Azure’s cross-region Load Balancer is now generally available Azure Load Balancer support for cross-region load balancing is now generally available. You can now load balance across Azure regions enabling a globally redundant architecture via Azure Load Balancer. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Public preview: Azure Virtual Network encryption Azure Virtual Network encryption allows you to seamlessly encrypt and decrypt traffic between Azure Virtual Machines. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Public Preview: Azure Monitor Logs improved table-level RBAC Today we announce an improvement to the table-level RBAC used to assign permissions to specific tables Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Public preview: Azure Monitor application insights configurable Real User Monitoring for Java The new “browserSdkLoader” configuration in the Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Java Distro makes it easier than ever to enable Real User Monitoring (RUM) in Application Insights. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Public preview: Azure Monitor Agent Health experience The Azure Monitor Agent Health experience is now available in preview. Identify data collection problems across your organization before they start impacting your business. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Public Preview: Azure Monitor Agent supports VM Insights in Azure Government Cloud Azure Government Cloud customers can now enable VM Insights via the new Azure Monitor Agent, to monitor the client workload on the VMs or VMSS. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Public preview: Sensitive Data Protection for Application Gateway Web Application Firewall logs Protect the sensitive data getting stored in your Web Application Firewall (WAF) logs using log scrubbing on Azure’s regional Web Application Firewall running on Application Gateway. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Azure Service Fabric 9.1 Fifth Refresh Release This release includes bug fixes and quality improvements. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Public Preview: Azure Monitor Agent supports VM Insights in Azure Government Cloud Azure Government Cloud customers can now enable VM Insights via the new Azure Monitor Agent, to monitor the client workload on the VMs or VMSS. Click here for more information.

Azure service updates Public preview: Sensitive Data Protection for Application Gateway Web Application Firewall logs Protect the sensitive data getting stored in your Web Application Firewall (WAF) logs using log scrubbing on Azure’s regional Web Application Firewall running on Application Gateway. Click here for more information.

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