Azure updates

Public Preview - Backup for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Azure Backup is announcing public preview of Backup for AKS allowing customers to protect their applications by providing ability to backup and restore AKS clusters.

• Azure Backup
• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Features

Public Preview: Selective Disk Backup and Restore in Enhanced Policy for Azure VM Backup

Target availability: Q1 2023

We are adding the “Selective Disk Backup and Restore” capability in Enhanced Policy of Azure VM Backup.

• Azure Backup
• Virtual Machines
• Features

Generally available: Immutable vaults for Azure Backup

Target availability: Q1 2023

Immutable vaults help 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
• Management
• Security
• Features

Private Preview: Azure Backup enables vaulted backups for Azure Files for comprehensive data protection.

Target availability: Q1 2023

You can now transfer the backups of Azure Files to the vault to get complete protection against various data loss scenarios.

• Security
• Features

Public Preview: Azure Backup enables vaulted backups for Azure Blob for comprehensive data protection.

Target availability: Q1 2023

Enable scheduled backups for Azure Blob using Azure Backup to ensure business continuity and recovery from inadvertent or malicious deletion or ransomware attacks.

• Security
• Features

General availability: Azure Archive Storage now available in West US 3

Reduce spending by storing rarely accessed data to Azure Archive Storage, now in new regions.

• Archive Storage
• Storage Accounts
• Azure Blob Storage
• Azure Data Lake Storage
• Features

Azure Backup: Enhanced experience for creating and managing private endpoints for Recovery Services vaults is now available

Azure Backup now provides an improved experience for creating and using private endpoints for your Recovery Services vaults.

• Azure Backup
• Management
• Security
• 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
• Regions & Datacenters
• Open Source
• Features

General availability: Automatic Backup for App Service Environment and Azure Functions Dedicated Hosting

General availability: Automatic Backup for App Service Environment and Azure Functions Dedicated Hosting

• App Service
• Features

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

AzAcSnap Version 7 Release

• Azure NetApp Files
• Regions & Datacenters
• SDK and Tools
• 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
• Management
• Services

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
• Management
• Services
• 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