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2026 (5)

November (2)

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Multi-disk crash-consistent VM restore points for Premium SSD v2 and Ultra Disks on VMs with SCSI disk controller

Azure Updates

2026-11-04

Azure VM public preview adds multi-disk crash-consistent restore points for Premium SSD v2 and Ultra data disks on VMs using SCSI disk controllers. It supports agent-less capture of crash-consistent restore points.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Extend immutability for PITR backups for Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Managed Instance

Azure Updates

2026-11-03

Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Managed Instance now support extending immutability for PITR backups in public preview. This lets you lock backup retention to the configured PITR retention period instead of only the default 7 days.

October (1)

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Azure Backup for PostgreSQL flexible server and elastic cluster (v2)

Azure Updates

2026-10-05

Azure Backup for PostgreSQL flexible server and elastic cluster (v2) is now in preview. It uses physical backups from managed disk snapshots and stores them in an Azure Backup vault for long-term retention.

September (2)

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Long-term retention (LTR) v2 for Azure Database for PostgreSQL

Azure Updates

2026-09-29

LTR v2 for Azure Database for PostgreSQL is in public preview. It replaces LTR v1’s logical pg_dump/pg_restore backups with physical snapshot-based backups integrated with Azure Backup Vaults.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Instant Access for VM restore points

Azure Updates

2026-09-24

Instant Access for application-consistent restore points on Azure virtual machines is now generally available. It lets you start restoring a disk from a restore point before the underlying snapshot copy completes, for VMs using Premium SSD v2 or Ultra disks as data disks.