New Azure features and functionality for May 2023
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 April 2023 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 Files scalability improvement for Azure Virtual Desktop and other workloads that open root directory handles
- Resource-centric log queries in the Azure Monitor Query libraries
- NLog Sink for Azure Data Explorer
- Azure CNI powered by Cilium
- Logic Apps (Standard) adds support for .NET Framework extensibility in XSLT data
- Apache MirrorMaker 2 support in Azure Event Hubs
- New Azure Event Grid events for Azure API Management Self-hosted gateway
- Kafka Connect support in Azure Event Hubs
- Custom domain support for self-hosted gateway configuration endpoint v2
- Managed Identities support for Capture in Event Hubs
- Kafka compaction support in Azure Event Hubs
- Exactly Once Delivery to ADLS Gen2 Output
- Exactly Once Delivery to Event Hub Output
- Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus
- V2 programming model for Azure Functions using Python
- Database Migration Assessment for Oracle
- Azure Database for MySQL connector for Power Platform and Azure Logic Apps
- Cost-optimizations with transformations on Log Analytics for troubleshooting Cosmos DB
- Microsoft Azure Deployment Environments
- Database Schema Conversion Toolkit for Oracle
- Azure Cosmos DB serverless container with 1 TB storage
- Azure Cosmos DB hierarchical partition keys
- Azure Monitor announces managed services for Prometheus
- Linked backends for Azure Static Web Apps
- SQL Bindings for Azure Functions
- Kubernetes marketplace
- Generation 2 VM for Windows
- Azure Linux support in AKS
- Enhanced document expiration with Time to Live (TTL) on any field
- Azure Cosmos DB burst capacity
- Azure Data Explorer adds new geospatial capabilities
- Routing Intent and Virtual WAN Integrated Firewall NVAs
- Seamlessly upgrade your Application Gateway V2 WAF configuration to a policy
- Microsoft Azure Payment HSM Service now supports two host IP network interfaces
- Azure Monitor for SAP solutions
- Policy analytics for Azure Firewall
- Azure Center for SAP solutions
- Azure Automation supports Python 3.8 runbooks
- Azure Bastion now support shareable links
- Azure Pipelines task to build and deploy to Azure Container Apps
- Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server major version upgrade
- GitHub action to build and deploy to Azure Container Apps
- Azure Monitor Agent supports Linux Hardening for CIS and SELinux
- Azure VMware Solution on Azure Government
- Inbound ICMPv4 pings are now supported on Azure Load Balancer
- Azure IoT Edge supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
- Ebsv5 and Ebdsv5 NVMe-enabled VM sizes
- Azure Backup Server V4
- Serverless SQL for Azure Databricks
- Azure Event Hubs Dedicated self-serve scalable clusters for mission critical Kafka, AMQP and HTTPs workloads
Updates
- Azure Key Vault Access Configuration Update
- AKS DevX Extension Updates for Visual Studio Code
- Azure Site Recovery update rollup 67 – May 2023
- AzAcSnap 8 — Azure Application Consistent Snapshot tool updates
- Azure SQL – updates for mid-May 2023
Misc
- How to set up a CI/CD Pipeline with GitHub Actions for Stream Analytics Jobs
- New Azure App Service plans fuel greater choice and savings
