Azure Roadmap

Azure Relay now supports authentication and authorization via Azure AD as a public preview offering. With Azure AD, you don't need to store tokens in your code.

The 21.07 update includes heap memory allocation tracking, time sync changes, and support for service principles.

HDInsight is now generally available for West US 3 customers.

Customers using Grafana for visualizing Azure Monitor metrics can now enable additional data sources and have easier authentication using managed identity.

If you use a proxy server or Log Analytics gateway to communicate to Azure Monitor, you can now start using the new Azure Monitor Agent (AMA) and Data Collection Rules (DCR) in these network configurations.

Azure Network Watcher Traffic Analytics solutions is used to monitor network traffic. It now provides WHOIS and Geographic data for all Public IPs interacting with your deployments and further adds DNS domain, threat type & threat description for Malicious IPs. Now, it also supports inter-zone traffic and VMSS level traffic insights.

Traffic Analytics can now be enabled using Built-in Azure Policy, thus improving your deployment experience. Now organizations can enforce org wide standards and manage traffic monitoring at scale using these policies.

Azure Monitor is releasing a new PyPI package that expands distributed tracing support in Application Insights for Python Functions.

Provision new Flexible Server deployments in new regions for Azure Database for PostgreSQL, a managed service running the open source Postgres database on Azure.

With auto-grow storage enabled, your storage automatically grows when storage consumed on the Flexible Server is nearing its provisioned limit.

The PowerShell-based experience for the Azure App Service Migration Assistant is now in public preview.

Azure VMware Solution has expanded availability to Canada East. With this release Canada East is now the second region within the Canadian sovereign area to become available (joining Canada Central).

This update provides security and reliability improvements, and support for government and regional clouds.

Utilize next-generation firewall capabilities in Azure Firewall Premium

Azure Purview now supports automated scanning from Erwin, BigQuery and Looker soureces to extract schema and lineage between data.

Shared disks can now be leveraged on smaller Premium SSDs from 4GiB to 128 GiB and all Standard SSDs from 4 GiB to 32 TiB. This expands shared disk support to Ultra Disk, Premium SSD, and Standard SSD enabling you to optimize for different price and performance options based on your workload needs.

SAP on Azure customers can now set threshold-based alerts on SAP application, databases and clusters though Azur portal with few clicks.

SAP on Azure customers can now view SAP Application telemetry like short dumps, SDF/SMON and STO3 in Azure portal.

Azure VMware Solution has expanded availability to Australia Southeast. With this release Australia Southeast is now the second region within the Australian sovereign area to become available (joining Australia East).

Use user-assigned identities for Azure Automation runbook jobs.