Microsoft rolls back change to Azure AD Graph API
Microsoft announced in March and again this week that due to user feedback the planned decommissioning of the Azure AD Graph API, originally scheduled for the 30th of June 2022 will be delayed until the end of the year. Updates of the planned retirement date will be released at some point in the middle of this year.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/migrate-azure-ad-graph-overview
Azure Data Explorer supports Azure private endpoints
As of the 7th April you can now use private endpoints for Azure Data Explorer Cluster on a VNet. In effect, this means that any traffic flowing over this VNet from the client to the data explorer will use the Microsoft Backbone, removing any exposure to the public internet.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/adx-pe/
Azure Backup support for metrics and metric alerts for Azure Blobs is in Public Preview
This preview feature enables the following capabilities:
- Monitor restore job health of your backed up blobs via Azure Monitor and backup centre.
- Write custom alert rules on metrics for the thresholds and granularity that you are interested in.
- Route fired metric alerts to various notification channels that Azure Monitor supports, such as email, ITSM, webhook, logic apps, and so on.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/azure/backup/metrics-overview
Support for capacity reservation in AKS in Public Preview
This feature allows you to reserve a capacity for an AKS instance without the requirement of leveraging 1-3 year reserved instances. Providing you with a dedicated and guaranteed level of compute capacity (subject to SLA’s).
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/use-multiple-node-pools#associate-capacity-reservation-groups-to-node-pools-preview
Increased storage throughput for Azure VMs increasing throughput by 300%
The new memory optimised Ebs v5 and Ebds v5 Azure VM, are now generally available. These new VMs feature the latest 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Platinum 8370C (Ice Lake) processor in a hyper-threaded configuration. These VMs can deliver up to a 300% increase in VM-to-Disk Storage throughput and IOPS compared to the previous generation D/Ev4 VM series.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/blog/increase-remote-storage-performance-with-azure-ebsv5-vms-now-generally-available/
