Azure updates

Generally available: Kafka Connect support in Azure Event Hubs

With Kafka Connect support GA, users can seamlessly and reliably stream data between Azure Event Hubs and external systems such as databases, key-value stores, file systems and other data sources.

• Event Hubs
• Features

Generally Available – Custom domain support for self-hosted gateway configuration endpoint v2

We are announcing the support of custom domain for the self-hosted gateway configuration endpoint v2.

• API Management
• Features

GA Azure API Management Self-hosted gateway authentication using Azure Active Directory

New authentication method for the Self-hosted gateway with the configuration endpoint

• API Management
• Features

Generally available: Managed Identities support for Capture in Event Hubs

Users now can use managed identities when capturing event streams to storage services such as Azure Storage Services or Azure Data Lake storage 2.

• Event Hubs
• Features

Generally available: Kafka compaction support in Azure Event Hubs

Log compaction in Event Hubs introduces a key-based retention mechanism where the most recent value associated with each event key in an event hub or Kafka topic is retained.

• Event Hubs
• Features

Public Preview: Azure Files geo-redundancy for standard large file shares

Target availability: Q2 2023

Azure Files geo-redundancy for large file shares is now in public preview for standard SMB file shares.

• Azure Files
• Storage Accounts
• Features

Generally Available: Exactly Once Delivery to ADLS Gen2 Output

Azure Stream Analytics supports for end-to-end exactly once semantics when writing to Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2.

• Azure Stream Analytics
• Features

Public Preview: Azure AI Content Safety

Azure AI Content Safety is a new Azure AI service that identifies harmful online content, categorizes it and assigns severity scores to support human content moderator workloads.

• Azure Cognitive Services
• Services
• Microsoft Build

Private Preview: Kafka Input and Output with Azure Stream Analytics

Target availability: Q2 2023

You can connect directly to Kafka to ingest from Kafka clusters or output data to Kafka clusters in your Azure Stream Analytics (ASA) job.

• Azure Stream Analytics
• Microsoft Build
• Open Source
• Features

Virtual Network Integration Support (Public Preview) for Azure Stream Analytics

ASA is thrilled to announce public preview of Virtual Network Integration support for Azure Stream Analytics! 

• Microsoft Build
• Features
• Security

Azure Stream Analytics is Launching a New Competitive Pricing Model!

Up to 80% price reduction in Azure Stream Analytics

• Pricing & Offerings
• Microsoft Build

Public preview: Soft delete of Recovery Points for Azure Backup

Azure Backup's soft delete of recovery points allows you to recover any recovery points that may have been accidentally or maliciously deleted owing to operations that could lead to deletion of one or more recovery points.

• Azure Backup
• Microsoft Ignite
• Features
• Security

Generally Available: Exactly Once Delivery to Event Hub Output

Stream Analytics now supports end-to-end exactly once semantics when writing to Event Hub output.

• Azure Stream Analytics
• Event Hubs
• Features

Public Preview: Azure Cosmos DB SDKs OpenTelemetry and Application Insights integration

Monitoring your applications is easier than ever with new support for OpenTelemetry and improved Application Insights integration.

• Azure Cosmos DB
• Microsoft Build
• Features

Optimize your reservation purchases with reservation utilization alerts.

Target availability: Q2 2023

Activate reservation utilization alerts and take control of your Azure reservation strategy.

• Microsoft Cost Management
• Management
• Features

Optimize your reservation purchases with reservation utilization alerts.

Target availability: Q2 2023

Activate reservation utilization alerts and take control of your Azure reservation strategy.

• Microsoft Cost Management
• Management
• Features

General Availability: Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus

Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus is now Generally Available.

• Azure Monitor
• Managed Prometheus
• Azure Managed Grafana
• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes
• Management
• Pricing & Offerings
• Microsoft Build
• Open Source

Public Preview: Dynamic Blob container name

Azure Stream Analytics offers dynamic blob container name to give customers the flexibility to customize container names in Blob storage output.

• Features

Public Preview: Azure Stream Analytics Schema Registry Integration

Azure Stream Analytics can now fetch schema from the Schema Registry and deserialize data from Event Hub inputs for Avro format.

• Azure Stream Analytics
• Event Hubs
• Features