Azure updates

Public Preview: AMD confidential VM option for Azure Data Explorer (ADX)

Users can now run their most sensitive data workloads in ADX clusters on AMD-based confidential VM SKUs.

• Azure Data Explorer
• Microsoft Build
• Security
• Features

Azure Key Vault Access Configuration Update

Target availability: Q2 2023

Azure RBAC is now the recommended authorization system for the Azure Key Vault data plane.

• Security

General Availability: Routing Intent and Virtual WAN Integrated Firewall NVAs

Routing intent supports inter-region/inter-hub traffic inspection and branch-to-branch traffic inspection for Azure Virtual WAN.

• Security
• Features

General availability: Seamlessly upgrade your Application Gateway V2 WAF configuration to a policy

Azure’s regional Web Application Firewall (WAF) on Application Gateway now supports a fully automated experience when upgrading your WAF from configuration to policy.

• Application Gateway
• Web Application Firewall
• Security
• Features

Microsoft Azure Payment HSM Service now supports two host IP network interfaces

Azure Payment HSM Service now supports two host IP network interfaces

• Azure Payment HSM
• Services
• Security
• Features

Generally available: Azure Bastion now support shareable links

Target availability: Q2 2023

Shareable links allows users to connect to target resources via Azure Bastion without access to the Azure portal.

• Security
• Features

Public Preview: App Service Minimum TLS Cipher Suite Now on Azure Portal

Disable Weak TLS Cipher Suites for Your App Service Web Apps (Preview)

• App Service
• App Service (Linux)
• Security
• Features

Public Preview: Palo Alto Networks SaaS Cloud NGFW Integration with Virtual WAN

The first security software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution to be integrated in Azure Virtual WAN, allowing you to protect your workloads with a highly available NGFW.

• Services
• Pricing & Offerings
• Security
• Features

Preview: Introducing DCesv5 and ECesv5-series Confidential VMs with Intel TDX

Today, we’re excited to announce the expansion of our Confidential VM family with the launch of the DCesv5-series and ECesv5-series in preview. Featuring 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, these VMs are backed by an all-new hardware-based Trusted Execution Environment called Intel® Trust Domain Extensions (TDX). Organizations can use these VMs to seamlessly bring confidential workloads to the cloud without any code changes to their applications.

• Pricing & Offerings
• Regions & Datacenters
• Security

GA: Azure Active Directory workload identity with AKS

You can now use AAD workload identity with AKS in production

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Security
• Features

Private Preview: Enable Trusted launch on your existing Azure Gen2 VMs

Use this preview to enable Trusted launch on your existing Gen2 VMs to improve foundational security of your Gen2 VMs.

• Services
• Security
• Features

General availability: IP Protection SKU for Azure DDoS Protection

IP Protection provides cost-effective, enterprise-grade DDoS protection designed to meet the needs of SMB.

• Azure DDoS Protection
• Services
• Security

Public preview: Private Application Gateway v2

Target availability: Q1 2023

Application Gateway v2 is introducing support for private IP only frontend configurations, enhanced control over NSG rules, and support for forced tunneling/route table rules to virtual appliances.

• Application Gateway
• Security
• Features

Retirement Announcement: Assigning alert trigger playbooks within Microsoft Sentinel analytics rules

Target retirement date: March 15, 2026

Effective 15 March 2026, adding playbooks within Microsoft Sentinel analytics rules creation/edit will be deprecated.

• Microsoft Sentinel
• Security
• Retirements

Generally Available: Durable Functions support of managed identity for Azure Storage

You can now use an identity-based connection to access Azure Storage, instead of embedding secrets in connection strings.

• Azure Functions
• Security
• Features

Generally available: Azure Firewall Basic

Azure Firewall Basic provides cost-effective, enterprise-grade network security for small and medium businesses (SMBs).

• Azure Firewall
• Services
• Security
• Features

Public preview: Illumio for Azure Firewall

Illumio for Azure Firewall enables organizations to understand application traffic and dependencies and apply consistent protection across environments - limiting exposure, containing breaches, and improving efficiency.

• Azure Firewall
• Services
• Security