New Azure features and functionality for October 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 October 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
- Azure Communication Services short code functionality for SMS
- Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB data plane RBAC
- CSI Extensible API for AKS
- Premium SSD v2 disks available on Azure Disk CSI driver
- Azure Storage — Attribute-based access control for standard storage accounts
- SFTP support for Azure Blob Storage
- Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage
- OpenTelemetry exporter for Azure Data Explorer
- Stream Analytics no-code editor in Event Hubs
- Auto Extension upgrade for Arc enabled Servers
- Zone-redundant storage support by Azure Backup
- Kusto Trender
- Azure NetApp Files application volume group for SAP HANA
- Windows Admin Center for Azure Virtual Machines
- Static IP configurations of private endpoints
- Custom network interface name configurations of private endpoints
- Azure Monitor predictive autoscale for Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets
- Control the minimum TLS version used with Azure Service Bus
- Service Bus Explorer for the Azure portal
- Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server with AMD compute
- Azure Advisor score across all Azure regions
- Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL
- Azure Stack HCI new features release
- Azure Monitor Logs – capabilities to add value and lower costs
- Azure Monitor agent migration tools
- Confidential VM option for SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines
- AMD-based confidential VMs for Azure Kubernetes Service
- Windows server 2022 host support in AKS
- 5,000 node scale in AKS
- Event Grid integration with AKS
- Azure DNS Private Resolver – hybrid name resolution and conditional forwarding
- Azure Hybrid Benefit for AKS and Azure Stack HCI
- Azure Automanage for Azure Virtual Machines and Arc-enabled servers
- User-assigned managed identities for Azure Stream Analytics
- Use managed identities to access Cosmos DB from Stream Analytics
- Azure Data Explorer output from Azure Stream Analytics
- Dapr support for managed identity in Azure Container Apps
- Dapr secrets API support
- New Azure proximity placement groups feature
- Simplified disaster recovery for VMware machines using Azure Site Recovery
- Query Store hints Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance
- Smart tiering to vault-archive tier for Azure Backup
Updates
- Azure Sphere OS version 22.10
- AKS support for Ubuntu 22.04
- Azure Site Recovery update rollup 64 – October 2022
Misc
- Dapr extension for AKS and Arc-enabled Kubernetes now support Dapr v1.9.0
- Azure savings plan for compute
- 16MB limit per document in Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB
- ARM64 support in AKS
- Desired state configuration VM Extension for Linux, and Azure Automation DSC support for Linux, will be retired on 30 September 2023
