Azure

This new Azure Virtual Desktop feature prevents sensitive information from being captured in screen captures and screen shares.
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On-demand capacity reservations, now in public preview, enable you to reserve compute capacity for one or more VM size(s) in an Azure region or Availability Zone for any length of time.
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This release provides improved quality and simplified Azure customer experience, giving you the opportunity to combine the functionality of Availability Sets and Virtual Machine Scale Sets.
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This new feature provides high availability for web applications to enhance business continuity and support disaster recovery strategies.
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Storage capacity reservations for Azure Files enable you to significantly reduce the total cost of ownership of storage by pre-committing to storage utilization. To achieve the lowest costs in Azure, you should consider reserving capacity for all production workloads.
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Server Message Block (SMB) Multichannel enables you to improve the IO performance of your SMB client 2-4x, increasing performance and decreasing total cost of ownership.
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Server Message Block (SMB) 3.1.1 is the most secure and highly performant version of SMB. With SMB 3.1.1 support for Azure Files, you now can require AES-256-GCM for Windows 10, version 21H1 and newer clients.
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Azure Route Server enables network appliances to exchange route information with Azure virtual networks dynamically.
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Network Security Group support on Private Endpoint (PE) will allow you to improve granular security requirements for traffic destined to a private endpoint. This will assist in meeting specific compliance and security requirements for managing your PE powered workloads.
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User Defined Routes support on Private Endpoint will make configuring custom routes to traffic destined to a Private Endpoint easier for your large workloads. Learn more about how to use this feature in select regions.
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With August updates, we added support for environment variables in Linux scale set agents. Now you can change the working directory of a Linux agent to use a faster drive than the OS drive. In addition, you can set a proxy to be used by the agent.
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All 1.x versions of Azure AD Connect will be retired next year.
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The availability zones feature in Azure API Management has been updated to provide better support in four new regions, in addition to other API Management updates.
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Azure Policy and AKS teams announce the public preview of custom policy support for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters. With this feature is enabled, you can create and assign custom policy definitions and constraint templates to their AKS clusters, see enhanced error state information for troubleshooting, use embedded constraint template inside policy definitions, and more.
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Azure Kubernetes policies now surface error states to you, providing important information about potential errors in your environment.
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Azure Monitor support for Availability Zones (AZ) is now available on West US 2 and East US 2. Currently, only workspaces created on dedicated clusters can have AZ support, by selecting to use Availability Zones when creating the cluster.
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You can now write cross service queries between Azure Monitor and Azure Data Explorer, to access relevant data where you need it.
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Azure Disk Storage now enables you to automatically rotate keys for encryption of your data.
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Azure Premium SSDs now enables you to change performance tiers without any downtime to your applications.
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The limit has increased to 30,000 requests per hour in the Standard tier
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