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General availability: Selective Disk Backup and Restore in Enhanced Policy for Azure VM Backup
We are adding the “Selective Disk Backup and Restore” capability in Enhanced Policy of Azure VM Backup.
Preview: Cross Region Restore (CRR) for Recovery Services Agent (MARS) using Azure Backup
Cross Region Restore for Recovery Services Agent for Azure Backup customers is now supported and is available for preview in all Azure public regions.
General availability: Azure Backup support for Azure Files in China North2, China East 2, China North 3, and China East 3
Target availability: Q3 2023
Azure Backup now supports Azure Files in China North2, China East 2, China North 3, and China East 3
General Availability: Azure SQL updates for mid-September 2023
Target availability: Q3 2023
General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in mid-September 2023
August 2023
Public Preview: Universal geo restore on Azure Database for MySQL- Flexible Server
Target availability: Q3 2023
Restore Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server to any Azure supported region.
Generally available: Cross Subscription Restore for Azure Virtual Machines
Cross Subscription Restore support for Azure VM is generally available.
Public Preview: Azure NetApp Files Cloud Backup for Virtual Machines
Azure NetApp Files datastores now supports Cloud Backup for Virtual Machines in preview
Public Preview: Azure Backup now supports Cross Region Restore for PostgreSQL backups
Cross Region Restore for PostgreSQL backups fore Azure Backup customers is now supported and is available in multiple public regions.
July 2023
Public Preview : Crash Consistent VM Restore points
For Azure partners and customers seeking to develop business continuity and disaster recovery solutions, crash-consistent VM restore points serve as feature-rich building blocks, offering an agentless solution available natively on the Azure platform.
General availability: Azure Archive Storage now available in Sweden Central
Reduce spending by storing rarely accessed data to Azure Archive Storage, now in new regions.
June 2023
Generally available: Multiple backups per day for Azure Virtual Machines
Protect Azure Virtual Machines with Recovery Point Objective (RPO) as low as four hours.
May 2023
Public preview: Soft delete of Recovery Points for Azure Backup
Azure Backup's soft delete of recovery points allows you to recover any recovery points that may have been accidentally or maliciously deleted owing to operations that could lead to deletion of one or more recovery points.
Public Preview: Azure Cosmos DB all versions and deletes change feed mode
The new all versions and deletes mode for change feed allows you to read item creates, updates, and deletes that occurred within the continuous backup period configured on your account.
Public preview: New features in Azure Container Storage
Azure Container Storage, a unique storage provisioning and management service built natively for containers, is introducing several new features in preview.
Public Preview: In-Account restore for continuous backup accounts
Customers can restore the deleted database and containers in the same continuous backup account.
Azure Backup Reports now includes support for more workloads
Azure Backup Reports now includes support for more workloads: Azure Database for PostgreSQL Servers, Azure Blobs and Azure Disks.
Private preview: Azure Backup support for confidential VMs using Customer Managed Keys
Azure Backup support for confidential VMs using Customer Managed Keys
General Availability: AzAcSnap 8 — Azure Application Consistent Snapshot tool updates
AzAcSnap Version 8 Release
Generally Available: Azure Backup Server V4
V4 is the latest upgrade for Microsoft Azure Backup Server (MABS). Azure Backup Server can now be installed on Windows Server 2022 with SQL Server 2022 as its database. MABS V4 brings key enhancements in the areas of workload support, performance and security.
April 2023
Public Preview : Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL Data Encryption with Customer Managed Keys
Data encryption with customer-managed keys (CMK) for Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL allows you to bring your own key for data protection at rest.
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