Build5Nines Weekly - October 26, 2022

Here's your weekly dose of the latest cloud and enterprise news and other community content for the week! Build5Nines Weekly provides your go-to source to keep up-to-date on all the latest Microsoft Azure news and updates. Included within this newsletter are blog articles, podcasts, videos, and more from Microsoft and the greater community over the past week.

Now let's get to the weeks top news, blog articles, videos, podcasts, and more within the Cloud & Enterprise space!

The Weeks Top Links

Here are some of the most notable links from the week:

• Microsoft starts shipping its Windows on Arm device for developers: Windows Dev Kit 2023 via ZDNET | microsoft RSS
• GitHub Hits $1 Billion in Annual Recurring Revenue via Paul Thurrott
• Azure DevOps Server 2022 RC2 now available via Gloridel Morales
• All eyes on Microsoft’s Azure, Cloud numbers in Q1 FY’23 via ZDNET | microsoft RSS

Microsoft Azure Service Updates

Here’s a list of the Microsoft Azure Service Updates from over the past week:

• Generally available: Azure Communication Services short code functionality for SMS
• Azure SQL General availability updates for late October 2022
• Public preview: Azure Load Testing supports authenticating with client certificates
• Azure SQL Public preview updates for late October 2022
• Public preview: Read replicas for Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server
• Public preview: Improved passive geo-replication for Azure Cache for Redis
• General availability: Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB data plane RBAC
• Public preview: Azure CNI Powered by Cilium
• Public preview: Azure Synapse Link for Azure Cosmos DB Gremlin API
• Public preview: Mariner container optimized OS
• Public preview: Azure Load Testing is now HITRUST certified
• Public preview: K8s 1.25 support
• Public preview: TCP support
• Public preview: Azure Load Testing in West Europe
• Public preview: New metrics capabilities in OpenTelemetry-based Application Insights
• Public preview: V2 programming model for Azure Functions using Python
• Generally available: CSI Extensible API for AKS
• Dapr extension for AKS and Arc-enabled Kubernetes now support Dapr v1.9.0
• Public preview: ASO makes it easy to manage database and connection
• Public preview: IPVS load balancer support in AKS
• Public preview: AKS image cleaner
• Generally available: Premium SSD v2 disks available on Azure Disk CSI driver
• Public preview: Vertical Pod Autoscaler
• Generally available: AKS support for Ubuntu 22.04
• Generally available: Azure Storage — Attribute-based access control for standard storage accounts
• Generally available: Custom IP Prefixes (BYOIP) now available in US Government regions
• Public preview: Availability zone volume placement for Azure NetApp Files
• Community support for Node 16 LTS is ending on 11 September 2023
• App Service Environment version 1 and version 2 will be retired on 31 August 2024
• Community support for PHP 8.0 is ending on 26 November 2023
• Continuous delivery setting of Azure VMSS will be retired on 31 March 2023 – Use Azure DevOps to create pipelines
• Cloud Services (classic) deployment model is retiring on 31 August 2024
• Generally available: SFTP support for Azure Blob Storage
• General availability: Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage
• General availability: OpenTelemetry exporter for Azure Data Explorer

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