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RSS feedNovember 2022
Generally available: PostgreSQL 15 support in Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL
Now you can select PostgreSQL 15 when creating PostgreSQL clusters in Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL, a managed service for distributed Postgres database.
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.
Generally available: Encrypt managed disks with cross-tenant customer-managed keys
Protect your data by encrypting Premium SSD, Standard SSD, and Standard HDD managed disks with cross tenant customer-managed keys.
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.
October 2022
Generally available: Premium SSD v2 disks available on Azure Disk CSI driver
Premium SSD v2 support is now generally available on AKS.
General availability: Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage
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.
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.
Public preview: Support for HANA Instance snapshot integrated with backint logs
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.
September 2022
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.
Public preview: Encrypt managed disks with cross-tenant customer-managed keys
Protect your data by encrypting Premium SSD, Standard SSD, and Standard HDD managed disks with customer-managed keys.
August 2022
Public preview: Ephemeral OS disks supports host-based encryption using customer managed key
Create Ephemeral VMs with customer managed key encryption types for host-based encryption.
July 2022
Public preview: Azure Active Directory authentication for exporting and importing Managed Disks
Improve security with the new integration to Azure Active Directory (AD) used to export and import data to Azure Managed Disks.
June 2022
Public preview: Network Watcher packet capture support for virtual machine scale sets
Azure Network Watcher packet capture announces support for virtual machines scale sets. This is as an out of the box, on-demand capability, enabling faster diagnostics and troubleshooting of networking issues.
March 2022
Generally available: Cross-region snapshot copy for Azure Disk Storage
Cross-region snapshot copy allows you to copy disk snapshots to any region for disaster recovery.
February 2022
Public preview: Azure NetApp Files - application consistent snapshot tool v5.1
Application consistent snapshot tool is a command-line tool for simplifying data protection for third-party databases in Linux environments.
Generally available: Azure Site Recovery update rollup 60 - January 2022
Review the improvements and fixes provided in Update Rollup 60.
General availability: Enhanced storage configuration with tempdb
Manage your SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machine storage configuration with tempdb directly from the SQL virtual machine blade in the Azure portal.
January 2022
Generally available: Azure Site Recovery support for ZRS Managed Disks
With ASR, you can protect your VMs that uses ZRS managed disks by replicating them to a secondary region of your choice.
Azure Backup - Automation updates - 2021
Summary of key automation updates for Azure Backup in 2021
December 2021
Public preview availability of Virtual Machine restore points
Take multi-disk consistent point in time snapshots of all the disks attached to a VM for backup and disaster recovery purposes.
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