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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
January 2023
Public preview: Incremental snapshots for Ultra Disk Storage
To ensure business continuity, incremental snapshots for Ultra Disks are now available in public preview in the Sweden Central and US West 3 Azure region.
General Availability: AzAcSnap 7 — Azure Application Consistent Snapshot tool updates
AzAcSnap Version 7 Release
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…
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.
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.
Private preview: Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Backup
Azure Backup is announcing private preview of AKS Backup providing ability to backup and restore AKS clusters.
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: 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.
Azure SQL—General availability updates for mid-November 2022
General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in mid-November 2022.
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.
Generally available: Azure NetApp Files datastores for Azure VMware Solution
Azure NetApp Files for datastores is now generally available in Azure VMware Solution.
October 2022
General availability: Zone-redundant storage support by Azure Backup
Target availability: Q4 2022
Azure Backup enables you to configure cost-efficient backups while meeting your data residency requirements.
Public preview: Enhanced soft delete for Azure Backup
Enhanced soft delete helps you recover your backup data after it has been deleted, giving you protection against data loss scenarios like ransomwares, malicious actors, and accidental deletes.
Public preview: Multi-user authorization for Backup vaults
Multi-user authorization provides enhanced protection for your backup data against unauthorized critical operations.
Public preview: Immutable vaults for Azure Backup
Immutable vaults helps 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.
General availability: Azure NetApp Files application volume group for SAP HANA
With Azure NetApp Files application volume group (AVG) for SAP HANA, you are able to deploy all volumes required to install and operate an SAP HANA system according to best practices.
Public preview: Support for HANA System Replication in Azure Backup for HANA
Now, if a HANA database fails over with HANA System Replication, backups are automatically continued from the new primary, with Azure Backup for HANA.
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