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Public Preview: Azure Monitor Agent Upload to Storage and Event Hubs

Azure Monitor Agent can now upload to Azure Storage and Event Hubs.

• Log Analytics
• Azure Monitor
• Management
• Features

Azure Advisor will no longer display aggregated potential yearly savings beginning 30 September 2024

Target retirement date: April 19, 2024

Learn how to continue calculating aggregated potential yearly savings.

• Azure Advisor
• Retirements

General availability: HBv4-series & HX-series VMs are now available in Sweden Central.

HBv4 virtual machines (VMs) are optimized for various HPC workloads such as computational fluid dynamics, finite element analysis, frontend and backend EDA, rendering, molecular dynamics, computational geoscience, weather simulation, and financial risk analysis. HX-series Virtual Machines (VMs) are optimized for large memory HPC workloads such as backend EDA, finite element analysis, computational geoscience, and big data analytics.

• Virtual Machines
• Regions & Datacenters
• Services

General availability: Azure Virtual Network encryption availability in all regions

Azure Virtual Network encryption is a feature of Azure Virtual Networks. Virtual network encryption allows you to seamlessly encrypt and decrypt traffic between Azure Virtual Machines.

• Virtual Network
• Regions & Datacenters
• Services
• Features

GA: New Property for Disks-LastOwnershipUpdateTime

Introducing LastOwnershipUpdateTime for Disks in Azure Portal, PowerShell, and CLI. It indicates the last state change time for the Disk, useful for tracking its current state and when it was last updated.

• Managed Disks
• Azure Disk Storage
• Features

Public preview: Backup and restore of virtual machines with private endpoint enabled disks

Azure Backup can now help you back up virtual machines using private endpoint-enabled disks. You can now also specify network settings to be used by the restored disks while initiating the restore process.

• Azure Backup
• Security
• Management
• Features