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General Availability - Azure Backup for AKS
Azure Backup is announcing General Availability of Azure Backup for AKS allowing customers to protect their applications by providing ability to backup and restore AKS clusters.
Public Preview: Encryption using Customer Managed Keys for Backup Vaults
Encryption of data in Backup vaults using Customer Managed Keys is now in Public Preview.
October 2023
Public preview: Built-in Azure Monitor alerts for Azure Site Recovery
Learn about the new and improved alerting capabilities offered for Azure Site Recovery, via Azure Monitor
Private Preview: Regional Disaster Recovery by Azure Backup for AKS
Customers can now utilize Azure Backup for AKS to recover their containerized applications and data during a regional disaster scenario.
September 2023
Preview: Save Azure Backup Recovery Services Agent (MARS) passphrase to Azure Key Vault
Azure Backup customers using the Recovery Services Agent (MARS) can now save your encryption passphrase directly to Azure Key Vault.
General availability: Selective Disk Backup and Restore in Enhanced Policy for Azure VM Backup
We are adding the “Selective Disk Backup and Restore” capability in Enhanced Policy of Azure VM Backup.
Preview: Cross Region Restore (CRR) for Recovery Services Agent (MARS) using Azure Backup
Cross Region Restore for Recovery Services Agent for Azure Backup customers is now supported and is available for preview in all Azure public regions.
August 2023
Public Preview: Azure NetApp Files Cloud Backup for Virtual Machines
Azure NetApp Files datastores now supports Cloud Backup for Virtual Machines in preview
Public Preview: Azure Backup now supports Cross Region Restore for PostgreSQL backups
Cross Region Restore for PostgreSQL backups fore Azure Backup customers is now supported and is available in multiple public regions.
July 2023
Public Preview : Crash Consistent VM Restore points
For Azure partners and customers seeking to develop business continuity and disaster recovery solutions, crash-consistent VM restore points serve as feature-rich building blocks, offering an agentless solution available natively on the Azure platform.
General availability: Azure Archive Storage now available in Sweden Central
Reduce spending by storing rarely accessed data to Azure Archive Storage, now in new regions.
June 2023
Generally available: Multiple backups per day for Azure Virtual Machines
Protect Azure Virtual Machines with Recovery Point Objective (RPO) as low as four hours.
May 2023
Public preview: Soft delete of Recovery Points for Azure Backup
Azure Backup's soft delete of recovery points allows you to recover any recovery points that may have been accidentally or maliciously deleted owing to operations that could lead to deletion of one or more recovery points.
Public preview: New features in Azure Container Storage
Azure Container Storage, a unique storage provisioning and management service built natively for containers, is introducing several new features in preview.
General Availability: AzAcSnap 8 — Azure Application Consistent Snapshot tool updates
AzAcSnap Version 8 Release
Generally Available: Azure Backup Server V4
V4 is the latest upgrade for Microsoft Azure Backup Server (MABS). Azure Backup Server can now be installed on Windows Server 2022 with SQL Server 2022 as its database. MABS V4 brings key enhancements in the areas of workload support, performance and security.
April 2023
Public Preview: Support for Azure VMs using Premium SSD v2 in Azure Backup
Target availability: Q2 2023
Public preview for the support for Azure VMs using Premium SSD v2 in Azure Backup.
Public Preview: Support for Azure VMs using Ultra disks in Azure Backup
Target availability: Q2 2023
Public preview for the support for Azure VMs using Ultra disks in Azure Backup.
March 2023
Transition to built-in Azure Monitor alerts for Recovery Services vaults in Azure Backup by 31 March 2026
Target retirement date: March 31, 2026
Classic alerts for Azure Backup will be retired on 31 March, 2026
Public Preview - Backup for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Azure Backup is announcing public preview of Backup for AKS allowing customers to protect their applications by providing ability to backup and restore AKS clusters.
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