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April 2024

19 Apr

Public Preview – DR for Shared Disks – Azure Site Recovery

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q2 2024

Now you can use the benefits of Shared Disk for your mission-critical applications such as SQL FCI, SAP ASCS, Scale-out File Servers, etc., while ensuring business continuity and disaster recovery with Azure Site Recovery.

  • Services
  • Management
  • Features
  • Compliance
15 Apr

Generally available: Azure Site Recovery update rollup 73 - April 2024

NOW AVAILABLE

This article describes the improvements for the latest version of Azure Site Recovery components. 

  • Features

February 2024

27 Feb

Enable replication for added VMware VM data disks

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Site Recovery now supports enabling replication for data disks that you add to a VMware VM that's already enabled for disaster recovery.

  • Azure Site Recovery
  • Management
  • Features
1 Feb

Private Preview: Azure Site Recovery support for Azure Trusted Launch VMs (Windows OS)

IN PREVIEW

Azure Site Recovery support for Azure Trusted Launch VMs

  • Azure Site Recovery
  • Management
  • Features
  • Compliance

January 2024

30 Jan

Public Preview: Azure Business Continuity Center is now available in all regions

IN PREVIEW

Azure Business Continuity Center is now available in all regions

  • Azure Backup
  • Management
22 Jan

Private Preview: Support for Azure VMs using Premium SSD v2 in Azure Site Recovery

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q1 2024

Private preview for the support for Azure VMs using Premium SSD v2 in Azure Site Recovery.

  • Azure Site Recovery
  • Management
  • Compliance

December 2023

28 Dec

Generally available: Azure Site Recovery update rollup 70 - December 2023

NOW AVAILABLE

This article describes the improvements for the latest version of Azure Site Recovery components. 

  • Features
5 Dec

Generally available: Azure Site Recovery update rollup 69 - November 2023

This article describes the improvements for the latest version of Azure Site Recovery components. 

  • Features

October 2023

25 Oct

Public preview: Built-in Azure Monitor alerts for Azure Site Recovery

IN PREVIEW

Learn about the new and improved alerting capabilities offered for Azure Site Recovery, via Azure Monitor

  • Azure Backup
  • Azure Monitor
  • Management

August 2023

29 Aug

Generally available: Azure Site Recovery Higher Churn Support

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Site Recovery High Churn Support

  • Azure Site Recovery
  • Features
10 Aug

Generally available: Azure Site Recovery update rollup 68 - August 2023

NOW AVAILABLE

This article describes the improvements for the latest version of Azure Site Recovery components. 

  • Features
3 Aug

Private Preview – DR for Shared Disks – Azure Site Recovery

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q3 2023

Now you can protect, monitor, and recover your WSFC-clusters as a single unit across its DR Lifecycle, while also generating cluster-consistent recovery points – which are consistent across all the disks (including the Shared Disk) of the cluster.

  • Services
  • Features
2 Aug

Public preview: Azure SQL updates for early-August 2023

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q3 2023

Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in early-August 2023

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Azure SQL Managed Instance
  • Azure SQL
  • Features

May 2023

17 May

Generally available: Azure Site Recovery update rollup 67 - May 2023

NOW AVAILABLE

This article describes the improvements for the latest version of Azure Site Recovery components. 

  • Features

April 2023

5 Apr

Generally available: Large disk support for disaster recovery of Hyper-V VMs using Site Recovery

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q2 2023

You can now enable disaster recovery for Hyper-VMs with data disks up to 32 TB in size.

  • Azure Site Recovery
  • Management

March 2023

31 Mar

Classic experience to protect VMware machines using Azure Site Recovery will be retired on 30 March 2026

Target retirement date: March 30, 2026

Azure Site Recovery’s classic experience to protect VMware VMs will be retired on 30 March 2026

  • Azure Site Recovery
  • Retirements
27 Mar

Generally available: Azure Site Recovery - Migrate Azure Automation account's authentication from Run As accounts to Managed Identity

NOW AVAILABLE

This article describes a new feature update for Azure Site Recovery. 

  • Management
  • Features
27 Mar

Generally available: Simpler way to renaming Network Interface (NIC) and Disks for protected VMs in Azure Site Recovery

NOW AVAILABLE

This article describes a new feature update for Azure Site Recovery. 

  • Management
  • Features
9 Mar

Private Preview: Azure Backup enables vaulted backups for Azure Files for comprehensive data protection.

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q1 2023

You can now transfer the backups of Azure Files to the vault to get complete protection against various data loss scenarios.

  • Azure Files
  • Security
  • Features
9 Mar

Public Preview: Azure Backup enables vaulted backups for Azure Blob for comprehensive data protection.

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q1 2023

Enable scheduled backups for Azure Blob using Azure Backup to ensure business continuity and recovery from inadvertent or malicious deletion or ransomware attacks.

  • Security
  • Features

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