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Public preview: VBS enclaves for Always Encrypted in Azure SQL Database
VBS enclaves enable you with the flexibility to use Always Encrypted with secure enclaves in all Azure SQL Database offerings.
January 2023
Chaos studio - Public preview updates for January 2023
Public preview enhancements and updates released for Chaos Studio in January 2023.
Generally available: Indirect enterprise agreement on Azure Cost Management and Billing
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)
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.
Public Preview: Azure Automation Visual Studio Code Extension
Use the Azure Automation extension to perform local authoring and management of automation runbooks using VS Code
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 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 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…
December 2022
General availability: Azure Arc-enabled servers in Azure China
Secure, govern, and manage your hybrid servers from Azure
Public preview: Use tag inheritance for cost management
Use tag inheritance preview to automatically apply subscription and resource group tags to child resource usage records.
Generally available: Software inventory & agentless dependency analysis generally available with Azure Migrate
Now generally available for Hyper-V virtual machines and bare-metal servers
General Availability: Azure Automation Hybrid Runbook Worker Extension
Azure Automation announces General Availability of Azure Automation Hybrid Runbook Worker Extension
November 2022
General Availability of Cross Zonal Restore of Azure Virtual Machines from Azure Backup
Cross Zonal Restore for Azure Virtual Machines helps to restore to any zone of your choice.
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.
Generally available: Azure SQL Managed Instance link for SQL Server 2022
The link feature in Azure SQL Managed Instance connects your SQL Servers hosted anywhere to SQL Managed Instance, providing hybrid flexibility and database mobility.
Public preview: Intra-account container copy for Azure Cosmos DB
Intra-account container copy helps you create offline copies of containers within Azure Cosmos DB SQL API and Cassandra API accounts.
General availability: New cost recommendations for Virtual Machine Scale Sets
You can use new cost recommendations for Virtual Machine Scale Sets for optimisation.
October 2022
Public preview: Azure Automation supports PowerShell 7.2 and Python 3.10 runbooks
Azure Automation now supports runbooks in latest Runtime versions - PowerShell 7.2 and Python 3.10 in public preview.
Public preview: Read replicas for Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server
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.
General availability: Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB data plane RBAC
Create users and roles and configure fine-grained access to your database account data for Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB data plane.
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