General availability: Azure SQL updates for late-May 2024
Published date: May 21, 2024
In late-May 2024, the following updates and enhancements were made to Azure SQL:
Use update policy for Azure SQL Managed Instance to choose between getting access to all new SQL engine features as soon as they are released in Azure or receiving only fixes and small functional improvements of the latest major release of SQL Server.
Enable disaster recovery for Azure SQL Database at a lower cost using standby replica which does not incur license costs.