Azure updates

March 2021

2 Mar

Backup Center is now generally available

NOW AVAILABLE

Backup Center enables centralized backup management allowing you to monitor, operate, govern, and optimize data protection at scale.

Azure Backup
Management
Features
Microsoft Ignite

2 Mar

Public preview: Dynamic IP allocation & enhanced subnet support in AKS

IN PREVIEW

You can now dynamically allocate IPs and define subnets for agent nodes and pods.

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Features
Microsoft Ignite

2 Mar

New Enterprise and Enterprise Flash tiers for Azure Cache for Redis now generally available

NOW AVAILABLE

The Enterprise and Enterprise Flash tiers for Azure Cache for Redis offer powerful new features, including Active Geo-Replication, higher availability, and Redis Module support.

Azure Cache for Redis
Management
Features
Microsoft Ignite

2 Mar

Azure Spring Cloud: General availability of Managed Virtual Network and Autoscale

NOW AVAILABLE

Two related features: Managed Virtual Network and Autoscale for Azure Spring Cloud are now generally available.

Azure Spring Cloud
Features
Microsoft Ignite

2 Mar

Advance notifications for Azure SQL Database now in public preview

IN PREVIEW

Prepare for planned maintenance events on your Azure SQL Database resources and minimize the impact of database failovers on your sensitive workloads with advance notifications (preview).

Azure SQL Database
Management
Microsoft Ignite

2 Mar

General availability: Deploy WebLogic on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) using custom Docker images

NOW AVAILABLE

You can now deploy Oracle WebLogic Server (WLS) domains to Azure in a Kubernetes native fashion using custom Docker images and Azure Container Registry (ACR).

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Features
Microsoft Ignite

2 Mar

Azure Load Balancer support for IP-based backend pool management is now generally available

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Load Balancer support for adding and removing resources from a backend pool via IP address is now generally available. This enables IP addresses to be reserved as part of a backend pool before the associated resources are created.

Load Balancer
Management
Features
Microsoft Ignite

2 Mar

New planned datacenter region in China (China North 3)

IN DEVELOPMENT

The new data center region China north 3 will be launched in China in 2022. The new region will have Availability Zones to improve the high availability and tolerance to datacenter failures.

Microsoft Ignite
Regions & Datacenters

2 Mar

Azure Monitor Alerts for Azure Backup is in public preview

IN PREVIEW

Manage your backup-related alert lifecycles in a manner that is consistent with native Azure management principles

Management
Microsoft Ignite

2 Mar

Backup Reports is now generally available

NOW AVAILABLE

Gain visibility into backup job statistics, consumption trends and optimization opportunities across your Recovery Services vaults.

Azure Backup
Management
Microsoft Ignite

2 Mar

On-demand disk bursting for Premium SSDs now in public preview

IN PREVIEW

On-demand disk bursting is available in preview for Premium SSDs, allowing you to scale performance to meet demand whenever needed and optimize costs.