Azure updates

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
• Security
• Services
• 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
• Security
• Services

Generally available: Immutable vaults for Azure Backup

Target availability: Q1 2023

Immutable vaults help you protect your backups against threats like ransomware attacks and malicious actors by ensuring that your backup data cannot be deleted before its intended expiry time.

• Azure Backup
• Security
• Management
• Features

Private Preview: Azure Backup enables vaulted backups for Azure Files for comprehensive data protection.

Target availability: Q1 2023

You can now transfer the backups of Azure Files to the vault to get complete protection against various data loss scenarios.

• Azure Files
• Security
• Features

Public Preview: Azure Backup enables vaulted backups for Azure Blob for comprehensive data protection.

Target availability: Q1 2023

Enable scheduled backups for Azure Blob using Azure Backup to ensure business continuity and recovery from inadvertent or malicious deletion or ransomware attacks.

• Security
• Features

GA: Create disks from CMK-encrypted snapshots across subscriptions and in the same tenant

To ease manageability, we are making disks encrypted with customer-managed keys (CMK) more flexible by allowing creation of disks and snapshots from CMK-encrypted source across subscriptions. 

• Security
• Features

Public Preview: Customer-managed keys for Azure NetApp Files volume encryption

Azure NetApp Files volumes now support encryption with customer-managed keys (CMK), using Azure Key Vault for key storage, to enable an extra layer of security for data at rest.

• Azure NetApp Files
• Security
• Regions & Datacenters
• Features

Azure Backup: Enhanced experience for creating and managing private endpoints for Recovery Services vaults is now available

Azure Backup now provides an improved experience for creating and using private endpoints for your Recovery Services vaults.

• Azure Backup
• Security
• Management
• Features

Public preview: VBS enclaves for Always Encrypted in Azure SQL Database

VBS enclaves enable you with the flexibility to use Always Encrypted with secure enclaves in all Azure SQL Database offerings.

• Azure SQL Database
• Security
• Management
• Features

General availability: Trusted launch for Azure VMs in Azure for US Government regions

Allows you to enable secure boot, vTPM, virtualization-based security, and Microsoft Defender for Cloud integration, providing additional layers of defense against sophisticated threats.

• Virtual Machines
• Security
• Regions & Datacenters
• Features

General Availability: Azure Sphere support for European Data Boundary

Azure Sphere Security Service EU data processing and storage is now generally available.

• Azure Sphere
• Security
• Services
• Compliance

General availability: Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server data encryption with CMK

Encrypt your data with customer-managed keys to enable an extra layer of security for data at rest.

• Azure Database for MySQL
• Security
• Open Source
• Features

Public Preview: Azure Sphere support for European Data Boundary

Azure Sphere Security Service EU data processing and storage (Public Preview) 

• Azure Sphere
• Security
• Services
• Compliance

Public preview: Azure Bastion now support shareable links

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

• Security
• Features