Azure Backup- Reduced Protected Instance Fee for SAP HANA Backup

October 3rd 2024 Update

Public Preview: Simulate everyday interactions with your app in Azure AI Studio
IN PREVIEW

• A synthetic data generator and simulator for non-adversarial tasks is now available in public preview, accessible through the Azure AI evaluation SDK.

Public Preview: New evaluations for quality and similarity in Azure AI Studio
IN PREVIEW

• New quality evaluations using popular ROUGE, BLEU, METEOR, and GLEU metrics are now available in public preview, accessible through the Azure AI SDK today with UI support coming in October 2024.

Public Preview: Evaluations for protected material (text) in Azure AI Studio
IN PREVIEW

• Risk and safety evaluations for protected material (text) are now available in public preview, accessible through Azure AI Studio UI and SDK experiences.

Public Preview: Evaluations for indirect prompt injection attacks in Azure AI Studio
IN PREVIEW

• Risk and safety evaluations for indirect prompt injection attacks are now available in public preview, accessible through Azure AI Studio UI and SDK experiences.

Retirement: Azure Spring Apps will be retired on March 31, 2028
RETIREMENT

• Plan out your migration from Azure Spring Apps to Azure Container Apps.

Retirement: Azure Diagnostic Extensions set to Retire in 18 months
RETIREMENT

• Start using the Azure Monitor Agent instead of the Azure Diagnostics Agent before March 31st, 2026.

Generally Available: Reminder New E-mail templates for Log search alerts - API version 2021-08-01 and up
NOW AVAILABLE

• As we continue to enhance your experience with Azure Monitor, we want to remind you about an important update of Log search alerts V2 non common scheme e-mail templates.

Retirement: Azure Sphere is retiring Legacy service interfaces on September 27th, 2027
RETIREMENT

• Azure Sphere (Legacy) service interfaces will be retired on September 27th, 2027 – plan your migration to Azure Sphere (Integrated).

Public Preview: Switch to Azure Business Continuity Center for at scale BCDR management
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• Take advantage of Azure Business Continuity (ABC) Center, a streamlined, centralized management center that simplifies backup and disaster recovery across various environments (Azure, Hybrid) and solutions (Azure Backup and Azure Site Recovery).

Generally Available: Save up to 56% on the latest Linux VMs in most Azure regions for a limited time
NOW AVAILABLE

• Save an additional 15% discount on 1-year Azure Reserved Virtual Machine Instance rates for the latest Linux VMs. Offer valid from October 1, 2024, to March 31, 2025

Public Preview: Azure Virtual Network Monitoring IP address management
IN PREVIEW

• Announcing the preview of the new Azure Virtual Network Manager feature, enhancing your network management capability.

Public Preview: Azure NVads V710 v5-series virtual machines
IN PREVIEW

• The NVads V710 v5-series virtual machines are powered by AMD Radeon Pro V710 GPUs and AMD EPYC 9374 F (Genoa) CPUs, providing five VM sizes from 1/6 to a full V710 GPU with NVMe support for ephemeral local storage. These VMs are ideal for demanding GPU-accelerated graphics applications, cloud-based virtual desktops, high-quality gaming experiences, and small to medium AI/ML inference workloads.

Public Preview: Azure NMads MA35D-Series virtual machines
IN PREVIEW

• The Azure NMads MA35D-Series virtual machines (VM) are now in public preview in the East US region, offering specialized hardware for optimized video transcoding workloads. This VM series provides higher throughput, lower latency, and access to modern codecs like AV1, making it an ideal choice for video transcoding on the cloud.

Generally Available: Azure Backup- Reduced Protected Instance Fee for SAP HANA Backup
NOW AVAILABLE
Azure Backup for SAP HANA Database Delivers More Value at Lower TCO with Reduced Protected Instance Fees starting Sept 1st, 2024

Retirement: SQL Data Sync will be retired on September 30th, 2027
RETIREMENT

• Important Notice: Support for SQL Data Sync service will be retired on September 30th,2027.

**Retirement: Azure Orbital Ground Station Retirement
RETIREMENT**

• Azure Orbital Ground Station (AOGS) will be retired on December 16th, 2024. This includes 1st party antenna support and 3rd party partner network scheduling capabilities.

Retirement: End of life for NCv3-series VM family support in Azure Batch pools
RETIREMENT
Support for NCv3-series VM family will be retired for Azure Batch pools on September 30th, 2025.

Retirement: Planned Service Retirement - Azure Automation State Configuration on September 30, 2027
RETIREMENT

• This article contains important information about required actions related to the retirement of Azure Automation State Configuration on September 30, 2027.