Azure updates

General Availability: AzAcSnap 7 — Azure Application Consistent Snapshot tool updates

AzAcSnap Version 7 Release

• Azure NetApp Files
• SDK and Tools
• Regions & Datacenters
• Features

At-scale monitoring for Azure Site Recovery with Backup center

The new enhancements released in Backup center enable you to monitor replicated items, jobs and manage them across subscriptions, resource groups and locations from a single view.

• Azure Site Recovery
• Management

Azure VM backup: General availability updates for Dec, 2022

Azure VM backup now takes a SQL COPY_ONLY_FULL snapshots in SQL Virtual machines to avoid reset of Log sequence numbers and reduce snapshot delays

• Azure Backup
• Services
• Management

Azure Backup for SAP HANA: General availability updates for Dec 2022

In Dec 2022, the following updates and enhancements were made for Azure Backup for SAP HANA – a backint certified database backup solution for SAP HANA databases in Azure VMs.Long term retention for…

• Azure Backup
• Services
• Management
• Features

General availability: Encryption using CMK for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server

Use infrastructure encryption to add an additional layer of encryption for data at rest using customer-managed keys.

• Azure Database for PostgreSQL
• Features

Private preview: Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Backup

Azure Backup is announcing private preview of AKS Backup providing ability to backup and restore AKS clusters.

• Azure Backup
• Features

Public preview: Cross Subscription Restore for Azure Virtual Machines

Target availability: Q4 2022

Cross Subscription Restore for Azure Virtual Machines is provides flexibility to choose any subscription during restore.

• Microsoft Ignite
• Features

Generally available: Azure SQL Managed Instance backup portability to SQL Server 2022

Backup of your Azure SQL Managed Instance database can now be restored to a SQL Server 2022 instance.

• Azure SQL Database
• Management
• Features

Azure SQL—General availability updates for mid-November 2022

General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in mid-November 2022.

• Azure SQL Database
• Features

Limited preview: Azure Backup support for confidential VMs using Platform Managed Keys

You can use this feature to back up confidential VMs using Platform Managed Keys.

• Services
• Features

Generally available: Azure NetApp Files datastores for Azure VMware Solution

Azure NetApp Files for datastores is now generally available in Azure VMware Solution.

• Azure VMware Solution
• Features

Public preview: Enhanced soft delete for Azure Backup

Enhanced soft delete helps you recover your backup data after it has been deleted, giving you protection against data loss scenarios like ransomwares, malicious actors, and accidental deletes.

• Azure Backup
• Security
• Microsoft Ignite
• Management
• Features

Public preview: Multi-user authorisation for Backup vaults

Multi-user authorisation provides enhanced protection for your backup data against unauthorised critical operations.

• Azure Backup
• Security
• Microsoft Ignite
• Management
• Features

Public preview: Immutable vaults for Azure Backup

Immutable vaults helps you protect your backups against threats like ransomware attacks and malicious actors by ensuring that your backup data cannot be deleted before its intended expiry time.

• Azure Backup
• Security
• Microsoft Ignite
• Management
• Features

General availability: Azure NetApp Files application volume group for SAP HANA

With Azure NetApp Files application volume group (AVG) for SAP HANA, you are able to deploy all volumes required to install and operate an SAP HANA system according to best practices.

• Azure NetApp Files
• Features

Public preview: Support for HANA System Replication in Azure Backup for HANA

Now, if a HANA database fails over with HANA System Replication, backups are automatically continued from the new primary, with Azure Backup for HANA.

• Azure Backup
• Microsoft Ignite
• Services
• Features

Public preview: Infrastructure encryption using customer managed key for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server

Infrastructure encryption with customer managed keys adds a second layer of encryption for your data at rest using customer managed keys.

• Azure Database for PostgreSQL
• Microsoft Ignite
• Open Source
• Features