New Azure features and functionality for March 2022
It’s been a busy month as far as new Azure features and functionality go! Just in case you’ve missed something, we’ve collected all of the announcements from March 2022 in one place. Be sure to give this list a read through, as there’s a wealth of exciting new functions and updates to check out!
General Availability
- Bring your own IP ranges to Azure
- Azure Data Explorer supports Conditional Access
- Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus) now FedRAMP High compliant
- Always Encrypted for Azure Cosmos DB
- Azure Cognitive Search implements debug sessions
- Cross-region snapshot copy for Azure Disk Storage
- Node.js 16 in Azure Functions
- Support or Calico network policy for Windows node pools
- Access time-based lifecycle management rules for Data Lake Storage Gen2
- The new Azure Front Door – a modern cloud CDN service
- Copy data directly to Archive Storage with Data Box
- On-demand capacity reservation with Azure Site Recovery safeguards VMs failover
- Azure Bastion native client support
- On-demand capacity reservations for Azure Virtual Machines
- Azure Batch supports Spot Virtual Machines
- Azure Data Explorer supports multiple databases per data connection
- Azure Machine Learning user-defined functions in Azure Stream Analytics
- Inbound NAT rule now supports port management for backend pools
- Connect and manage devices in Azure IoT Central without models
- Azure HBv3 virtual machines for HPC now upgraded
- Enablement of combined security information registration for Azure Active Directory
- Best practices assessment for SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines
- New extensions for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server
- New high availability regions—Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server
- Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server supports PostgreSQL minor versions
- Azure Database for PostgreSQL—Hyperscale (Citus) supports PostgreSQL minor versions
- Support for private links in Azure Monitor agent
- Pin analytics tile to dashboards in Azure IoT Central
- Support for Private Link in Azure Digital Twins
- Azure Chaos Studio Key Vault and Classic Cloud Services faults
- SOAP and XML request and response validation
- Specify API language runtime version in Azure Static Web Apps
- Azure Backup protects Azure Files snapshots via lease feature integration