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RSS feedMay 2023
Generally Available: Azure Monitor announces managed services for Prometheus
Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus delivers the best of the open-source ecosystem while automating complex tasks such as scaling, high-availability, and long-term data retention.
Public Preview: Azure Log Alerts support for Azure Data Explorer
Azure Monitor Log Alerts is expanding to support monitoring based on data that stored in Azure Data Explorer (ADX) tables, empowering customers to leverage ADX without compromising their service monitoring.
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.
Public preview: Optimize your workloads for reliability using new workbook template in Azure Advisor
Evaluate the reliability posture of your workloads, assess risks and plan improvements using the new Reliability workbook template which is now available in Azure Advisor.
General Availability: Azure Center for SAP solutions
Target availability: Q2 2023
Azure Center for SAP solutions brings together an integrated set of capabilities for deploying and managing SAP landscapes by making Azure SAP aware. You can take advantage of the management capabilities for both new and your existing Azure-based SAP systems.
General Availability: Azure Automation supports Python 3.8 runbooks
Azure Automation support for Python 3.8 runbooks is now Generally Available.
Azure Advisor data in Azure Resource Graph is now available in Azure China and US Government clouds
Advisor recommendations are now available in Azure Resource Graph in Azure China and US Government clouds.
Generalized Azure Compute Gallery custom image support in Update management center
VM Image support for Update management center has expanded with the addition of support for generalized Azure Compute Gallery custom images.
April 2023
Azure Advisor VM/VMSS right-sizing recommendations with custom lookback period
You can now customize the right sizing recommendations for virtual machines and virtual machine scale sets to make them more relevant and actionable for your workloads.
Public Preview: Support for Azure VMs using Premium SSD v2 in Azure Backup
Target availability: Q2 2023
Public preview for the support for Azure VMs using Premium SSD v2 in Azure Backup.
Hotpatch is now available on preview images of Windows Server VMs on Azure with the Desktop Experience installation mode
Hotpatch is available for preview images of Windows Server Azure Edition VMs running the Desktop Experience installation mode.
Generally available: Large disk support for disaster recovery of Hyper-V VMs using Site Recovery
Target availability: Q2 2023
You can now enable disaster recovery for Hyper-VMs with data disks up to 32 TB in size.
Public Preview: Support for Azure VMs using Ultra disks in Azure Backup
Target availability: Q2 2023
Public preview for the support for Azure VMs using Ultra disks in Azure Backup.
Public preview update: Azure Automation supports PowerShell 7.2 and Python 3.10 runbooks
Azure Automation has expanded Public preview support for PowerShell 7.2 and Python 3.10 runbooks.
March 2023
Generally available: Azure Site Recovery - Migrate Azure Automation account's authentication from Run As accounts to Managed Identity
This article describes a new feature update for Azure Site Recovery.
Generally available: Simpler way to renaming Network Interface (NIC) and Disks for protected VMs in Azure Site Recovery
This article describes a new feature update for Azure Site Recovery.
Public preview: Listener TLS certificates management available in the Azure portal
You can now manage the TLS certificates associated with Listeners through Azure portal.
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.
February 2023
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.
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.
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