Azure updates

General availability: Azure Automation supports Availability zones

Azure Automation now supports Availability zones to provide improved resiliency and reliability to the service, runbooks and other automation assets.

• Services
• Features

Generally available: Increasing Azure Synapse Analytics Spark performance up to 77%

Faster Azure Synapse Analytics Spark performance at no cost.

• Azure Synapse Analytics
• Services
• Pricing & Offerings
• Regions & Datacenters
• Features
• Open Source

General availability: IoT Hub Service Upgrade

All IoT Hubs will be going through a service upgrade between November 2022 and April 2023 with potential impact to your IoT Hub.

• Azure IoT Hub
• Services

Generally available: 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.

• Services

General availability: Microsoft Azure Payment HSM Service

Secure your digital payment system in the cloud with Azure Payment HSM.

• Services
• Security

Generally available: Device Update for IoT Hub

Use Device Update for IoT Hub to publish, distribute, and manage over-the-air updates for everything from tiny sensors to gateway-level devices.

• Azure IoT Hub
• Services
• Features

Generally available: Logic Apps Standard Support for Functions Runtime V4

Target availability: Q4 2022

Logic apps Standard support for Azure Functions runtime version 4.x – is now generally available.

• Logic Apps
• Services
• SDK and Tools
• Features

Generally available: Azure Communication Services short code functionality for SMS

Execute high-volume SMS campaigns in seconds with easy, automated short code functionality.

• Services
• SDK and Tools

Public preview: Azure Load Testing in West Europe

Azure Load Testing is in public preview in West Europe.

• Azure Load Testing
• Services

General availability: Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage

Premium SSD v2 is the next generation Azure Premium SSD Disk Storage. It offers the most advanced general-purpose block storage solution with the best price-performance.

• Azure Disk Storage
• Services
• Pricing & Offerings
• Microsoft Ignite

General availability: Static IP configurations of private endpoints

Azure private endpoint support of statically defined IP addresses is now generally available allowing you to provide static IP addresses when configuring your private endpoints.

• Azure Private Link
• Virtual Network
• Services
• Security
• Microsoft Ignite
• Features

General availability: Custom network interface name configurations of private endpoints

Azure private endpoint (PE) support of custom network interface (NIC) names is now generally available. With this feature you can now deploy PE NICs without the GUID suffix.

• Azure Private Link
• Virtual Network
• Services
• Security
• Microsoft Ignite
• Features

Public preview: Computer Vision Image Analysis 4.0

Get results from all Image Analysis visual features including Read (OCR) with only need one API call.

• Azure AI Vision
• Services
• Features

Public preview: Support for HANA System Replication in Azure Backup for HANA

Now, if a HANA database fails over with HANA System Replication, backups are automatically continued from the new primary, with Azure Backup for HANA.

• Azure Backup
• Services
• Microsoft Ignite
• Features

Generally available: Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL

Build distributed PostgreSQL applications that scale globally with cross-region read replicas with Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL.

• Azure Cosmos DB
• Azure Database for PostgreSQL
• Services
• Management
• Microsoft Ignite
• Features
• Open Source

General availability: Confidential VM option for SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines

Run your SQL Server workloads on the latest AMD-backed confidential virtual machines, ensuring protection of data in use.

• SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines
• Services
• Pricing & Offerings
• Security
• Microsoft Ignite
• Features

Preview: Azure Managed Confidential Consortium Framework

Confidential Consortium Framework is a new Azure service that lets you use open-source for building and managing multi-party applications that require decentralized trust and governance in a trusted network.

• Services
• Pricing & Offerings
• Security
• SDK and Tools
• Microsoft Ignite
• Open Source

General availability: AMD-based confidential VMs for Azure Kubernetes Service

Announcing the general availability of confidential node pools on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) with AMD SEV-SNP confidential VMs.

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Services
• Security
• Operating System
• Microsoft Ignite
• Features
• Open Source