Azure Backup – Automation updates – 2021
Summary of key automation updates for Azure Backup in 2021
10/01/2022
Public preview: Azure Automation watcher tasks
Watcher tasks deliver the ability to author a watcher runbook that polls a system in your environment and then call an action runbook to process any events found.
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Transition to built-in Azure Monitor alerts for Recovery Services vaults in Azure Backup by 31 March 2026
Classic alerts for Azure Backup will be retired on 31 March, 202631/03/2023Preview: Update management, inventory, and change tracking in Azure Automation
Azure Automation now supports update management, inventory, and change tracking. These capabilities are currently in preview.12/10/2017General availability: Oracle consistent snapshots using Azure VM Backup
Azure Backup provides packaged pre-post scripts for Oracle VMs that can be used to instantly backup, create instant clones, reduce backup storage cost, and performance impact.21/09/2021Public preview: Python 2 support and Hybrid Runbook Workers for Linux
Python 2 support and Hybrid Runbook Workers for Linux are both publicly available in preview for Azure Automation.24/10/2017Improvements to blob upload blade in Azure portal
There are multiple enhancements and fixes to the blob upload experience for storage accounts in the Azure portal.18/07/2017Public preview: PowerShell in Azure Cloud Shell
PowerShell in Azure Cloud Shell is available in public preview. It provides an alternative to the existing Bash experience (also in public preview) while retaining the benefits of Cloud Shell.26/09/2017Generally available: Monitor your spending through forecasted cost alerts with Azure Cost Management and Billing
Prevent cost overruns with Azure budget alerts on forecasted costs17/03/2021Name changes: Automation DSC
For Azure Automation DSC, the names of the billing meters have changed.16/11/2017Azure custom role creation in the Azure portal is now generally available
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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.26/04/2023Azure Policy for AKS is now in public preview
Azure Policy now has the capability of adding policy controls inside your AKS clusters including pods, namespaces and ingress06/05/2019