Updates Archives
Monthly updates for August 2022
Public preview: Azure Monitor basic logs, archive, restore and search jobs
Azure Monitor Logs is in public preview in four new regions: US Virgina Gov, US Arizona Gov, China East 3, and China North 3.
Generally available: Azure Monitor container insights agent renaming
Container insights agent is being renamed from OMSAgent to Azure Monitor agent, along with some related resource name changes. Please update your alerts, queries, and scripts to avoid any issues.
Public preview: AKS DevX extension for Visual Studio Code
Easily create Dockerfiles, deployment files, and GitHub Actions through Visual Studio Code using the AKS DevX extension.
Generally available: Kubernetes 1.24 support
Take advantage of the latest Kubernetes 1.24 features with AKS.
Generally available: Azure Dedicated Host Support
You can now use Azure Dedicated Hosts with AKS.
Generally available: Key management system integration with AKS
Securely manage your keys in production using bring your own key (BYOK) encrypted etcd and key management system (KMS).
Public preview: Blob CSI support in AKS
You can now use built in storage classes for NFS and BlobFuse to provision new persistent volumes backed by Azure Blob storage.
Public preview: Automated deployments in AKS
You can now hook up a GitHub Action to your Kubernetes application and deploy it to AKS.
Generally available: Azure API Management - expanded support for Azure Policy definitions
Support for 11 policy definitions increases security of Azure API Management services and APIs that they expose.
Generally available: Azure API Management support for MSAL in developer portal
Enable a secure OAuth 2.0 authorization code flow when using Azure Active Directory or Azure Active Directory B2C identity providers.
Generally available: Azure Monitor Logs data export supports application insights tables
Investigate alert incidences with Azure Monitor Logs connector scoped to the exact time range of alert.
General availability: Dapr release 1.8 support in Azure Container Apps
You can now use Dapr release 1.8 with Azure Container Apps.
Generally available: Azure Red Hat OpenShift new regions
Azure Red Hat OpenShift is now available in West Central US, Australia Central, and Sweden Central.
Public preview: Microsoft Dev Box
Self-service, high-performance workstations in the cloud that are preconfigured and ready-to-code for developers’ projects and tasks.
General availability: Microsoft Azure available from new cloud region in Qatar
The first hyperscale datacenter region in Qatar is now available.
Generally available: Azure Site Recovery update rollup 63 - August 2022
This update provides the improvements for the latest version of Azure Site Recovery components.
Generally available: Azure Databricks in West US 3
Azure Databricks, a data analytics platform optimized for the Microsoft Azure cloud services platform, is now generally available in West US 3.
General availability: Upgrade VMware VMs protected by Site Recovery to modernized experience
Introducing the migration capability to move existing replications from classic to modernized experience for disaster recovery of VMware virtual machines, enabled using Azure Site Recovery.
Public preview: Update management center in Azure
Update management center is the next iteration of the Azure Automation Update Management solution. It works out of the box, with zero onboarding steps and has no dependency on Azure Automation and Log Analytics.
Public preview: Serverless SQL for Azure Databricks
Serverless SQL for Azure Databricks provides instant compute to users for their BI and SQL workloads without waiting for clusters to start up or scale out.
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