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December 2022

14 Dec

Public Preview: Azure Site Recovery Higher Churn Support

IN PREVIEW

Azure Site Recovery High Churn Support

  • Azure Site Recovery
  • Features
6 Dec

Public preview: New Memory Optimised VM sizes - E96bsv5 and E112ibsv5

IN PREVIEW

New VM sizes provide the best remote storage performance of any Azure VMs to date. You can now process more data with fewer vCPUs while potentially reducing software licensing costs.

  • Pricing & Offerings

November 2022

30 Nov

Generally available: PostgreSQL 15 support in Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL

NOW AVAILABLE

Now you can select PostgreSQL 15 when creating PostgreSQL clusters in Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL, a managed service for distributed Postgres database.

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Features
30 Nov

General Availability of Cross Zonal Restore of Azure Virtual Machines from Azure Backup

NOW AVAILABLE

Cross Zonal Restore for Azure Virtual Machines helps to restore to any zone of your choice.

  • Azure Backup
  • Management
  • Features
29 Nov

Private preview: Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Backup

IN PREVIEW

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

  • Azure Backup
  • Features
22 Nov

Public preview: Cross Subscription Restore for Azure Virtual Machines

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q4 2022

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

  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
14 Nov

Generally available: Encrypt managed disks with cross-tenant customer-managed keys

NOW AVAILABLE

Protect your data by encrypting Premium SSD, Standard SSD, and Standard HDD managed disks with cross tenant customer-managed keys.

  • Azure Disk Storage
  • Features
14 Nov

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

IN PREVIEW

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

  • Services
  • Features
2 Nov

General availability: Ephemeral OS disk support for confidential virtual machines

NOW AVAILABLE

Create confidential VMs using Ephemeral OS disks for your stateless workloads.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Managed Disks
  • Features

October 2022

26 Oct

Generally available: Premium SSD v2 disks available on Azure Disk CSI driver

NOW AVAILABLE

Premium SSD v2 support is now generally available on AKS.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Azure Disk Storage
  • Features
19 Oct

General availability: Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage

NOW AVAILABLE

Premium SSD v2 is the next generation Azure Premium SSD Disk Storage. It offers the most advanced general-purpose block storage solution with the best price-performance.

  • Azure Disk Storage
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Services
  • Pricing & Offerings
12 Oct

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

IN PREVIEW

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
12 Oct

Public preview: Support for HANA Instance snapshot integrated with backint logs

IN PREVIEW

Protect your large HANA databases in Azure Virtual Machines and recover them instantly with Azure Backup for HANA backint certified solution which now supports HANA snapshots.

  • Azure Backup
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Services
  • Features

September 2022

23 Sep

Azure unmanaged disks will be retired on September 30, 2025

Target retirement date: September 30, 2025

Migrate your data from Azure unmanaged disk storage to managed disks before September 30, 2025.

  • Retirements
19 Sep

Generally available: Azure Ultra Disk Storage in Qatar Central

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Ultra Disk Storage provides high-performance along with sub-millisecond latency for your most demanding workloads, now available in Qatar Central Azure.

  • Ultra Disk Storage
  • Azure Disk Storage
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Features
14 Sep

Public preview: Encrypt managed disks with cross-tenant customer-managed keys

IN PREVIEW

Protect your data by encrypting Premium SSD, Standard SSD, and Standard HDD managed disks with customer-managed keys.

  • Azure Disk Storage
  • Features
13 Sep

Generally available: Azure Dedicated Host support for Ultra Disk Storage

NOW AVAILABLE

Introducing support for ultra disks on Azure dedicated host.

  • Features

August 2022

31 Aug

Generally available: Live resize for Premium SSD and Standard SSD Disk Storage

NOW AVAILABLE

Dynamically increase your disk storage capacity without any application downtime with the Azure Disk Storage live resize feature.

  • Azure Disk Storage
  • Features
30 Aug

Public preview: Ephemeral OS disks supports host-based encryption using customer managed key

IN PREVIEW

Create Ephemeral VMs with customer managed key encryption types for host-based encryption.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Virtual Machine Scale Sets
  • Managed Disks
  • Features
3 Aug

Public preview: Azure Dedicated Host support for Ultra SSD

IN PREVIEW

Introducing support for Azure Ultra Disks on Azure Dedicated Host.

  • Azure Dedicated Host
  • Features

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