August 2021 Azure Updates – Week 1

Get the latest updates on Azure products and features to meet your cloud investment needs.

General availability: Azure Backup now supports Archive Tier for backups of SQL Server in Azure VMs

Azure Backup now provides the capability to move long term retention(LTR) recovery points to low-cost archive tier for SQL Server for Azure VM.

Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server: Same-zone high availability in public preview

Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server enables the creation of a high availability server in the same zone as the primary server.

Azure SQL—general availability updates for early August 2021

General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL Managed Instance in early August 2021.

Private DNS integration zone integration for Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server in public preview

Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server now supports private DNS zone integration in preview.

Public preview of Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server now offers reserved instance pricing

Prepay and commit to Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server for one- or three-years’ worth of steady hourly service consumption at a lower per-hour price point.

Public preview of Azure Database – Flexible Server now available in new regions

The public preview Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server (Preview) is now supported in two additional regions—West US and Germany West Central.

Public preview of Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server now offers reserved instance pricing

Prepay and commit to one- or three- years’ worth of steady hourly service consumption on Hyperscale (Citus) for Azure Database for PostgreSQL, a managed service running the open-source Postgres database.

Private DNS zone integration for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server in public preview

Private DNS zone integration is now available for Flexible Server on Azure Database for PostgreSQL, a managed service running the open source Postgres database.

Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus) support for PostgreSQL versions 13.3 and 12.7 in public preview

Hyperscale (Citus) now supports the latest PostgreSQL minor versions 13.3 and 12.7 for Azure Database for PostgreSQL, a managed service running the open-source Postgres database on Azure.

General availability: Azure Red Hat OpenShift support for OpenShift 4.7

Benefit from new features and enhancements in OpenShift release 4.7.

Software inventory and agentless dependency analysis generally available with Azure Migrate

You can inventory installed applications, roles and features and perform dependency analysis on discovered Windows & Linux servers without installing any agents.

Azure Defender for SQL now in general availability on the Azure SQL Virtual Machine blade

Configure Azure Defender to view and manage your security concerns for SQL Server on Azure virtual machines.

General availability: Azure Monitor IT Service Management Connector is now certified with ServiceNow Quebec version

The Azure IT Service Management Connector is certified on the Quebec version of ServiceNow, enabling alerts integration with ITSM products.

General availability: Lower capacity reservation tier for Azure Monitor dedicated clusters

Leverage advanced features in Azure Monitor like customer-managed key, Lockbox, infrastructure encryption for lower capacity reservation commitment.

Azure SQL—public preview updates for early August 2021 

Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL Managed Instance in early August 2021.

Public preview: Azure Monitor Scheduled Query Rules API 2021-02-01-preview

Scheduled Query Rules API version 2021-02-01-preview is now available and is replacing API version 2020-05-01-preview.

General availability: New Australia Central region added to Azure HDInsight

HDInsight is now generally available for Australia Central customers.

General availability: Azure Managed HSM Private Link

You can now use Private Link for Azure Managed HSM to protect sensitive traffic between different Azure and on-premises services.

Azure AD support for Azure Automation is coming soon

Use Azure AD based authentication for Automation public endpoints

Powershell 7 support in Azure Automation is coming soon

Execute Automation runbooks for production scenarios using PowerShell 7.1

Azure Automation Hybrid Worker Extension for Azure and Arc machines is coming soon

Onboard Azure automation hybrid workers using hybrid extension for Azure and Arc machines

Availability Zone support for Azure Automation is coming soon

Achieve higher reliability and resiliency through Availability Zones in Azure Automation.

Az module support in Azure Automation is coming soon

Use the latest Az modules in the Automation runbooks

General availability: Azure ExpressRoute Global Reach: 2 new locations

ExpressRoute Global Reach allows you to link ExpressRoute circuits in different locations together to make a private network between your on-premises networks.

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