New Azure features and functionality for November 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 November 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 Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL Citus 11.1 support
- Cross-region read replicas for Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL
- Azure Blob Storage integration with Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL
- PostgreSQL 15 support in Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL
- New versions supported for languages and frameworks in Azure App Service
- Day 0 support for .NET 7.0 on App Service
- Azure Monitor agent custom and IIS logs
- Cross Zonal Restore of Azure Virtual Machines from Azure Backup
- Azure SQL Managed Instance backup portability to SQL Server 2022
- Azure Synapse Link for SQL
- Azure SQL Managed Instance link for SQL Server 2022
- TLS 1.3 with Application Gateway
- Per Rule Actions on regional Web Application Firewall
- Bot Manager Rule Set 1.0 on regional Web Application Firewall
- Encrypt managed disks with cross-tenant customer-managed keys
- Multivariate Anomaly Detection
- Retryable writes in Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB
- New cost recommendations for Virtual Machine Scale Sets
- Static Web Apps support for preview environments in Azure DevOps
- Static Web Apps support for Gitlab and Bitbucket
- Static Web Apps support for stable URLs for preview environments
- Static Web Apps support for skipping API builds
- Azure NetApp Files datastores for Azure VMware Solution
- Manage your Log Analytics Tables in Azure Portal
- Block domain fronting behavior on newly created customer resources
- Functions now supports .NET 7 in an isolated worker process
- Azure Static Web Apps now fully supports .NET 7
- New node sizing for Azure VMware Solution
- Virtual Machine software reservations
- Default Rule Set 2.1 for Azure Web Application Firewall
- Ephemeral OS disk support for confidential virtual machines
- Encrypt storage account with cross-tenant customer-managed keys
- Microsoft Azure Payment HSM Service
- Azure Databricks SQL Pro
- Device Update for IoT Hub
Updates
- Azure SQL updates for late November 2022
- Azure SQL updates for mid-November 2022
- Azure SQL Managed Instance feature wave updates for November 2022
- Azure Sphere TKS updated; OS version 22.11 expected December 1
- Azure Machine Learning updates for November 2022
- Azure IoT Edge for Linux on Windows (EFLOW) update
- Increasing Azure Synapse Analytics Spark performance up to 77%
- IoT Hub Service Upgrade
Misc
- Additional Always Free Services for Azure Free Account and PAYG
- 12 months free services for new Azure PAYG customers
- DR secondary free with SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines
