Updates Archives
Monthly updates for July 2023
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.
Updated default TLS policy for Azure Application Gateway
The default TLS policy for new deployments of Azure Application Gateway is now set to AppGwSslPolicy20220101.
Azure DevOps July 2023 updates
Target availability: Q3 2023
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.
Generally available: Event Grid upgrade enhancements for AKS
Target availability: Q3 2023
You can now receive and programmatically handle AKS generated upgrade events in Event Grid
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.
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.
Hotpatch is now generally available on Windows Server VMs on Azure with the Desktop Experience installation mode
Hotpatch is now available for Windows Server Azure Edition VMs using the newly released images. Hotpatch is a feature that allows you to patch and install OS security updates to Windows Server Azure Edition VMs on Azure without requiring a reboot!
General availability: Partial document update in the Azure Cosmos DB Python SDK
Target availability: Q3 2023
Modify just the required fields without having to replace the whole document with partial document update in the Azure Cosmos DB Python SDK.
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.
Generally available: Autoscale Stream Analytics jobs
Generally available: Autoscale Stream Analytics jobs
Microsoft Dev Box is now generally available
Target availability: Q3 2023
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.
General availability: ExpressRoute private peering support for BGP communities
Target availability: Q3 2023
Set BGP community tags on traffic sent from Azure to on-premises over ExpressRoute, enabling a greater variety of hybrid network designs.
General availability: Call automation capabilities for Azure Communication Services
Target availability: Q2 2023
A new set of APIs are in preview, to help developers build server-based, calling workflows.
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.
Azure SQL—General availability updates for early July 2023
Target availability: Q3 2023
General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in early July 2023.
Azure Managed Lustre now generally available
Reduce infrastructure setup with a managed file system optimized for HPC and AI workloads.
Generally available: Azure Digital Twins supports Digital Twins Definition Language version 3
ADT supports defining models using the Digital Twins Definition Language version 3 (DTDL v3)
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.
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).
Azure Service Fabric 9.0 Tenth Refresh Release
This release includes bug fixes and quality improvements.
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