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Monthly updates for August 2021
General availability: Azure Backup Offline backup with Azure Data Box
The capability to seed large initial Microsoft Azure Recovery Services (MARS) backups offline to recovery services vault using Azure Data Box is now generally available.
Azure Security Center: General availability updates for August 2021
New enhancements and updates released for general availability (GA) in Azure Security Center in August 2021.
Azure Blob storage - Last access time tracking now generally available
This feature helps administrators control costs through the automatic tiering and deletion of blobs via tiering including when the data was last read.
General availability: Azure Archive Storage events for easy rehydration of archived blobs
React to rehydration events on Azure Archive Storage with Azure Event Grid.
General availability: CSI storage driver support on Azure Kubernetes Service
Natively leverage storage systems in Kubernetes using Container Storage Interface storage drivers.
Azure Cosmos DB: Continuous backup with point in time restore now in general availability
Continuous backup mode for the Core (SQL) API and Azure Cosmos DB API for MongoDB feature means you can now perform your own granular restore capabilities.
Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Hyperscale (Citus): Columnar compression now generally available
Included with Citus 10, columnar compression is now supported in the Hyperscale (Citus) option in Azure Database for PostgreSQL, a managed service running the open source Postgres database on Azure.
Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Hyperscale (Citus): Same region read replicas now generally available
Now you can create read replicas of your Hyperscale (Citus) server group for enhanced read scalability with Azure Database for PostgreSQL, a managed service running the open source Postgres database.
Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Hyperscale (Citus): Basic tier now generally available
You can now run Hyperscale (Citus) on a single node with Hyperscale (Citus) Basic for Azure Database for PostgreSQL, a managed service running the open source Postgres database.
Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Hyperscale (Citus): Support for Citus 10 now generally available
The support of Citus 10, with columnar storage and more, is now included in Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus), a managed service running the open source Postgres database on Azure.
Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server: New regions now available in public preview
You can now provision Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server in five new regions
Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server: Eight new regions supported
The public preview Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server (Preview) is now supported in eight additional regions.
Azure Blob storage - Inventory generally availability
Administrators can enable a daily or weekly inventory to be created to gain understanding of their blobs and containers.
Placement polices now in public preview for Azure VMware Solution
Placement policies enable admins to specify constraints or rules when allocating Virtual Machines within an Azure VMware Solution private cloud. With this update the creation and assignment of vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) rules for running Virtual Machines in an Azure VMware Solution SDDC has been simplified and is now executable directly from the Azure Portal for cloud admin roles.
General availability: Azure IoT Central new and updated features—July 2021
July updates include enhancements to device information displays and new features to help you manage your IoT Edge devices.
Azure Machine Learning public preview announcements - August 2021
New features Cross Location Compute, Hierarchical Time Series, and Compute Instance auto-shutdown and auto-start capabilities are now available in preview in Azure Machine Learning.
Azure SQL—public preview updates for early August 2021
Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL Managed Instance in early August 2021.
General availability: Lower capacity reservation tier for Azure Monitor dedicated clusters
Leverage advanced features in Azure Monitor like customer-managed key, Lockbox, infrastructure encryption for lower capacity reservation commitment.
General availability: Azure Monitor IT Service Management Connector is now certified with ServiceNow Quebec version
The Azure IT Service Management Connector is certified on the Quebec version of ServiceNow, enabling alerts integration with ITSM products.
Software inventory and agentless dependency analysis generally available with Azure Migrate
You can inventory installed applications, roles and features and perform dependency analysis on discovered Windows & Linux servers without installing any agents.
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