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February 2023

15 Feb

Public preview: VBS enclaves for Always Encrypted in Azure SQL Database

IN PREVIEW

VBS enclaves enable you with the flexibility to use Always Encrypted with secure enclaves in all Azure SQL Database offerings.

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Security
  • Management
  • Features

January 2023

30 Jan

Chaos studio - Public preview updates for January 2023 

IN PREVIEW

Public preview enhancements and updates released for Chaos Studio in January 2023.

  • SDK and Tools
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Services
  • Management
24 Jan

Generally available: Indirect enterprise agreement on Azure Cost Management and Billing

NOW AVAILABLE

Manage your enrollment hierarchy, view account usage, and monitor costs directly from the Azure Cost Management and Billing menu on the Azure portal (for indirect enterprise agreement customers)

  • Azure Cost Management and Billing
  • Management
18 Jan

Public preview: Azure Database for MySQL - Logic Apps and Power Automate integration

Use the Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server connector to connect to MySQL data and build with Power Automate and Logic Apps.

  • Azure Database for MySQL
  • Open Source
  • Management
  • Features
12 Jan

Public Preview: Azure Automation Visual Studio Code Extension

IN PREVIEW

Use the Azure Automation extension to perform local authoring and management of automation runbooks using VS Code

  • Automation
  • Management
  • Features
9 Jan

At-scale monitoring for Azure Site Recovery with Backup center

NOW AVAILABLE

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
9 Jan

Azure VM backup: General availability updates for Dec, 2022

NOW AVAILABLE

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
4 Jan

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

NOW AVAILABLE

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

December 2022

15 Dec

General availability: Azure Arc-enabled servers in Azure China

NOW AVAILABLE

Secure, govern, and manage your hybrid servers from Azure

  • Azure Arc enabled servers
  • Azure Arc
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Management
12 Dec

Public preview: Use tag inheritance for cost management

IN PREVIEW

Use tag inheritance preview to automatically apply subscription and resource group tags to child resource usage records.

  • Azure Cost Management and Billing
  • Management
8 Dec

Generally available: Software inventory & agentless dependency analysis generally available with Azure Migrate

NOW AVAILABLE

Now generally available for Hyper-V virtual machines and bare-metal servers

  • Management
  • Features
5 Dec

General Availability: Azure Automation Hybrid Runbook Worker Extension

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Automation announces General Availability of Azure Automation Hybrid Runbook Worker Extension

  • Management

November 2022

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
16 Nov

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

NOW AVAILABLE

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

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Management
  • Features
16 Nov

Generally available: Azure SQL Managed Instance link for SQL Server 2022

NOW AVAILABLE

The link feature in Azure SQL Managed Instance connects your SQL Servers hosted anywhere to SQL Managed Instance, providing hybrid flexibility and database mobility.

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Management
  • Features
9 Nov

Public preview: Intra-account container copy for Azure Cosmos DB

IN PREVIEW

Intra-account container copy helps you create offline copies of containers within Azure Cosmos DB SQL API and Cassandra API accounts.

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Management
  • Features
9 Nov

General availability: New cost recommendations for Virtual Machine Scale Sets

NOW AVAILABLE

You can use new cost recommendations for Virtual Machine Scale Sets for optimisation.

  • Azure Advisor
  • Management

October 2022

31 Oct

Public preview: Azure Automation supports PowerShell 7.2 and Python 3.10 runbooks

IN PREVIEW

Azure Automation now supports runbooks in latest Runtime versions - PowerShell 7.2 and Python 3.10 in public preview.

  • Management
  • Features
26 Oct

Public preview: Read replicas for Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server

IN PREVIEW

Read replicas are used to offload read workloads and for disaster recovery scenarios in Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server, a managed service running the open source Postgres database.

  • Azure Database for PostgreSQL
  • Management
  • Features
26 Oct

General availability: Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB data plane RBAC

NOW AVAILABLE

Create users and roles and configure fine-grained access to your database account data for Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB data plane.

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Management
  • Features

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