Azure Backup – Automation updates – 2021
Summary of key automation updates for Azure Backup in 2021
10/01/2022
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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, 202631/03/2023Improvements 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.18/07/2017General availability: Azure Automation in Korea Central and West US 2 regions
Azure Automation is now available in the Azure Korea Central and West US 2 regions.09/08/2018Start/Stop VMs during off-hours in Azure Automation has been updated
Start/Stop VMs during off-hours in Azure Automation has been updated in the areas of email functionality, dependent modules, and runbooks.16/06/2018General 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.21/09/2021New look for Azure Storage overview blade in the portal
In the Azure portal, the overview blade for storage accounts now loads faster, allows quickly accessible links to storage services, and includes upgraded metrics charts.26/07/2017Public preview: Management Group Scope for Azure Reservations
You can now purchase and change existing reservations to scope them to a management group.20/09/2021Manage stored access policies for storage accounts from within the Azure portal
You can now manage the stored access policies for your storage accounts from within the Azure portal.05/09/2017Az module support in Azure Automation is now available
Azure Automation now supports Az-module by default for all new Automation Accounts.29/09/2021Azure 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.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