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RSS feedJuly 2022
Public preview: Enhanced experience to opt in to improved backup alerting
Move to Azure Monitor based alerts for Azure Backup with just a few clicks.
Generally available: Tag filtering in Azure Advisor
Tag filtering is now available in Azure Advisor
Generally available: Premium-series hardware for Azure SQL Managed Instance
Leverage new Azure SQL Managed Instance premium-series hardware based on the latest Intel CPUs that offers significantly improved performance and scalability.
Limited preview: Smart tiering to vault-archive tier for Azure Backup
You can now configure your backup policy to move all your eligible and recommended recovery points to vault-archive tier for Azure Virtual Machines, SQL Server/SAP HANA in Azure Virtual Machines.
June 2022
Generally available: Azure Backup multi-user authorization for recovery services vaults
Multi-user authorization for Backup provides enhanced protection for your backup data in recovery services vaults against unauthorized critical operations.
Public preview: Multiple backups per day for Azure Virtual Machines
Target availability: Q2 2022
Protect Azure Virtual Machines with mission critical applications with low recovery point objective.
Public preview: Create an additional 5000 Azure Storage accounts within your subscription
Azure Storage is announcing public preview of the ability to create additional 5000 storage accounts per subscription per region.
General availability: Azure Key Vault secrets provider on Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes
Enable fetching secrets from an Azure Key Vault directly into the workload running on an Arc connected Kubernetes cluster.
General availability: Azure Advisor support for Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server
Get personalized recommendations based on your Azure Database for MySQL Flexible Server usage.
Public preview: Continuous backup enhancements in Azure Cosmos DB
Azure Cosmos DB accounts can now take advantage of continuous backup with seven-day data retention and point-in-time restore capabilities.
Generally available: Azure Cosmos DB Core (SQL) API Query Engine improvements
Query your Azure Cosmos DB containers even more efficiently with new query engine optimizations.
General availability: Azure GitOps with Flux v2
Target availability: Q2 2022
Announcing the general availability of GitOps with Flux v2 in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes (Arc K8s).
Public preview: Azure Arc-enabled System Center Virtual Machine Manager
Azure Arc-enabled System Center Virtual Machine Manager enables on-premises System Center Virtual Machine Manager environments to be connected to Azure, unlocking Azure-based self-service for end users and developers.
General availability: Updates for resource configuration changes
Target availability: Q2 2022
Resource configuration changes enables you to query across your subscriptions and tenants to discover changes to your resources with Azure Resource Graph.
May 2022
Generally available: Budget alert supports action groups with common alert schema
Azure cost management budget alert now supports action groups with common alert schema.
Public preview: Automate scheduled emails of your saved cost views via API
Automate the creation and management of Azure Cost Management scheduled emails with the ScheduledActions API.
General availability: Azure Backup supports backup of Write Accelerator enabled disks
Target availability: Q2 2022
Azure Virtual Machine backup protects Write Accelerator enabled disks
Public preview: Azure Synapse Link for SQL
Synapse Link for SQL enables seamless near-real-time data movement from relational sources to analytical stores without the need to build ETL pipelines.
General availability: Azure Backup support for trusted launch Azure Virtual Machines
Target availability: Q2 2022
Configure backup of your trusted launch Azure Virtual Machines through enhanced policy
Generally available: Minor versions upgrade for Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server
Run the most stable, compliant, and secure MySQL community versions 8.0.28 and 5.7.37 on Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server.
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