Monthly recap of Azure updates

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An easy-to-scan roundup of our newest, most important highlights. Let’s have a look what interested Azure updates are share. Read carefully through the updates, especially the products and support that are announced as becoming retired.

This month two important updates. Good to take in mind that the EU Data Boundary became Generally Available. Also take notice Azure Time Series Insights has been retired.

Top 5 you don’t want to miss

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1. The Azure Time Series Insights has been retired. Read the article below to migrate towards Azure Data Explorer.
2. Activity log alerts can now run in EU Data Boundary, which is important for customers within the EU and have sovereignty requirements that need to comply with the GDPR, such as EU personal data only stored procesed within the EU.
3. We can now monitor Azure Site Recovery with Azure Monitor to provide insights & reporting on health and aspects like replication failures.
4. Filtering within Container Insights became even better with supporting Kubernetes Metadata and Logs based filters in Azure Monitor.
5. Closing this list with the Public Preview of Azure Bastion Premium, which add capabilities like session recording and possiblity to use Private Endpoints.

Look at the comprehensive list below for more information.

Azure updates

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• We’re retiring Azure Time Series Insights on 7 July 2024 – transition to Azure Data Explorer
• Public Preview: Analyze data using Log Analytics Simple mode
• Feature Update: Azure Action Groups
• Public preview: Azure Load Balancer now supports Admin State
• Public preview: Azure NetApp Files support for Active Directory connection per NetApp account
• Azure Virtual Network Manager’s virtual network verifier is now in public preview
• Public preview: Azure Bastion Premium
• Public Preview: Kubernetes Metadata and Logs Filtering in Azure Monitor - Container Insights
• General Availability: Azure NetApp Files backup
• Public preview: Azure Load Balancer health event logs
• Generally Available: Azure Chaos Studio supports a new Pause Process fault for Windows virtual machines
• Public preview: Advanced Container Networking Services for Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS)
• General availability: Azure NetApp Files support for large volumes up to 500TiB in size
• General availability: Activity log alerts can now run in EU Data Boundary
• General Availability: VM Hibernation for General Purpose VMs
• General Availability: Azure API Center Extension for VS Code
• Public Preview: Azure HDInsight on AKS is now available for preview in 6 new regions
• Visual Studio Code extension for sAzure Web PubSub now in preview
• Public preview: Azure NetApp Files application volume group for Oracle
• Monitor effectively using Azure Monitor for Azure Site Recovery