Updates Archives
Monthly updates for September 2022
Public preview: Monitoring for Ampere Altra Arm–based VMs and AKS clusters
Azure Monitor now supports monitoring for Arm–based Azure Virtual Machines and Azure Kubernetes Service with Arm nodes.
General availability: Update on metric alert rules on custom metrics
Metric alert rules that monitor custom metrics can now be saved in four European regions: North Europe, West Europe, Sweden Central, and Germany West Central
Generally available: Action groups can now be saved and processed within Europe
Action groups can now be saved in European regions Sweden Central and Germany West Central (in addition to the default “global” region).
Public preview: gRPC support in Azure App Service
gRPC support is enabled for Linux workloads across App Service.
Generally available: Built-in Azure Monitor alerts for Azure Backup
Learn about the new and improved alerting capabilities offered for Azure Backup, via Azure Monitor.
Public preview: Encrypt managed disks with cross-tenant customer-managed keys
Protect your data by encrypting Premium SSD, Standard SSD, and Standard HDD managed disks with customer-managed keys.
Generally available: API Management DevOps Resource Toolkit v1.0.0
Easily deploy APIs in a CI/CD pipeline with API Management DevOps Resource Toolkit v1.0.0.
General availability: Azure Sphere OS version 22.09 expected on September 22
Participate in the 22.09 retail evaluation now to ensure full compatibility. The OS evaluation period provides 14 days for backward compatibility testing.
Generally available: Azure Dedicated Host support for Ultra Disk Storage
Introducing support for ultra disks on Azure dedicated host.
General availability: Standard network features for Azure NetApp Files
Standard network features for Azure NetApp Files is generally available in 20 regions.
In Development: New options to bring your licenses to a partner’s cloud
Target availability: Q4 2022
On October 1, 2022, Microsoft will implement significant upgrades to our outsourcing and hosting terms that will benefit customers worldwide.
Generally available: Resource instance rules for access to Azure Storage
Resource instance rules enable secure connectivity to Azure Storage by only allowing access from specific resources of select Azure services.
General availability: Up to 45% performance gains in stream processing
Your Stream Analytics jobs get up to 45% performance boost in CPU utilization by default.
General availability: Managed private endpoint support to Synapse SQL output
You can now connect your Stream Analytics jobs running on a dedicated cluster to your synapse dedicated SQL pool using managed private endpoints.
General availability: Azure Database for PostgreSQL output in Stream Analytics
Native output connector for Azure Database for PostgreSQL allows you to easily build real time applications with the database of your choice.
General availability: Authenticate to Service Bus using managed identity
Authenticate your Stream Analytics jobs to connect to Service Bus using system-assigned managed identities.
Public preview: Stream Analytics no-code editor updates in August 2022
New features are now available in Stream Analytics no-code editor public preview including Azure SQL database available as reference data input and output sink, diagnostic logs available for troubleshooting, and new designed ribbon.
Generally available: Azure Data Explorer Kusto Emulator
New Azure Data Explorer offering: the Kusto Emulator is a Docker Container encapsulating the Kusto Query Engine.
Generally available: New Azure Virtual Machines with Ampere Altra Arm-based processors
New general-purpose and memory-optimized Azure VMs, featuring Ampere Altra Arm-based processors, engineered to efficiently run scale-out, cloud-native workloads, are now available.
Public preview: Encrypt storage account with cross-tenant customer-managed keys
Azure Storage now supports customer-managed keys using a key vault on a different Azure Active Directory tenant.
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