Azure Updates – November 29-December 03 2021

Get the latest updates on Azure products and features to meet your cloud investment needs.

Nov 29 General availability: Wildcard listener on Application Gateways

Application Gateway now supports wildcard characters for multi-site listeners.

Nov 29 General availability: VPN Gateway NAT

Azure VPN Gateway NAT (Network Address Translation) can be used to connect on-premises networks or branch offices to an Azure virtual network with overlapping IP addresses.

Nov 29 General availability: Secure Data Egress via Managed Identity in Azure IoT Central

Azure IoT Central now supports System Assigned Managed Identity allowing you to configure secure data exports.

Nov 30 General availability: Data transformation at Export in Azure IoT Central

This update allows the ability for you to transform device data in IoT Central into your preferred structure and export that transformed data to an external destination.

Nov 30 General availability: Azure HDInsight API version updated

New HDInsight API adds new networking and availability features that help you build more resilient and secure networks.

Nov 30 Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server: Geo-redundant backup and restore in public preview

Strengthen your business continuity and disaster recovery plan with geo-redundant backup and restore for Flexible Server on Azure Database for PostgreSQL, a managed service running the open source Postgres database.

Nov 30 Azure Load Testing now available in public preview

You can now generate high scale load with ease and integrate it into existing CI/CD workflows.

Nov 30 Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server now generally available

Use the Flexible Server deployment option allowing better control, flexibility, zone-redundant high availability, and cost optimization on Azure Database for PostgreSQL, a managed service running the open source PostgreSQL database.

Nov 30 Public preview: Azure NetApp Files application volume group for SAP HANA

With Azure NetApp Files application volume group (AVG) for SAP HANA, you are able to deploy all volumes required to install and operate an SAP HANA system according to best practices.

Dec 1 General availability: New capabilities in Network Watcher Diagnostic tools to evaluate AVNM Security rules

Through updates to Network Watcher Diagnostic tools, you now have the ability to view and evaluate AVNM security rules in addition to the existing support of NSG security rules.

Dec 1 Azure Communication Services: Short code functionality for SMS now available in public preview

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

Dec 1 General availability: AKS node image auto-upgrade

AKS now handles the routine task of node image upgrade for you.

Dec 1 General availability: AKS auto-certificate rotation

You no longer need to monitor and manually rotate non-CA certificates on the AKS control .plane and agent nodes for compliance or policy reasons.

Dec 1 General availability: Create AKS clusters without local user accounts

Disable local accounts for AKS cluster and use AAD only for more secure cluster access.

Dec 1 General availability: Audit Logs of Azure Monitor log queries

Azure Monitor logs is announcing a new capability to collect audit logs about query execution.

Dec 1 Public preview: Azure Monitor action rules are now ‘alert processing rules’

We are enhancing the preview of alert processing rules with capabilities for richer at-scale management.

Dec 1SQL Server IaaS Agent extension for Linux SQL VMs generally available

SQL Server IaaS Agent extension license management capabilities are now available for Ubuntu Linux virtual machines.

Dec 1 IaaS Agent extension full mode no restart for SQL VMs generally available

SQL Server IaaS Agent extension can now be upgraded to full mode from lightweight mode without any service disruptions.

Dec 2 Public preview: Measure product effectiveness with new user analytics experience in Application Insights

A new experience based on Google’s “HEART framework” helps you measure product effectiveness.

Dec 2 Public preview: FSLogix profiles support for Azure AD-joined VMs for Azure Virtual Desktop

Create an Azure Files share to store FSLogix profiles and configure it to support Azure AD authentication.

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