Azure Weekly Updates - July 4th, 2022

Create an additional 5000 Azure Storage accounts within your subscription

Azure Storage is announcing public preview of the ability to create an additional 5000 Azure Storage accounts per subscription per region. This is a 20 times increase from the current limit of 250 and helps you create several hundred or thousand storage accounts to address your storage needs within a single subscription, instead of creating additional subscriptions.

Availability: IN PREVIEW

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Multiple backups per day for Azure Virtual Machines

Azure Virtual Machine Backup enables you to create an enhanced policy to take multiple snapshots a day. Understanding your need to protect mission-critical workloads in Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Backup now previews low recovery point objective (RPO) to as low as four hours.

With this capability, you can define the duration in which your backup jobs would trigger and align your backup schedule with the working hours when there are frequent updates. Understanding your need for higher retention in instant restore, enhanced policy is designed to offer instant restore retention with default of seven days retention and maxmimum of 30 days. This ensures minimal data loss in the event of corruption or updates.

Availability: IN PREVIEW

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Export device data under an organization in Azure IoT Central

You can now apply a filter to limit exporting device data including telemetry, property changes, and device events from devices under an organization in your Azure IoT Central data exports. To apply this filter, use the organizations filter, under operator, and specify the organizations path as value in your Azure IoT Central data export. You can also include the entire organizations path in the export message. To include the organizations path, use the data transformation capability in data export to pass the "organizationPaths" in the outgoing message.

Availability: NOW AVAILABLE

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MATCH clause for Query

The MATCH clause is a query offering that allows you to specify which pattern should be followed while traversing relationships in the Azure Digital Twins graph. The MATCH clause allows you to run variable hop and/or bi-directional queries in your solution.

Availability: NOW AVAILABLE

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Microsoft Purview data sharing for Azure Storage

Microsoft Purview data sharing for in-place data sharing for Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS Gen2) and Azure Blob Storage is now in public preview. Data providers can now share data in-place from Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 and Blob storage accounts, both within and across organizations without data duplication, and centrally manage sharing activities within Microsoft Purview. Data consumers can now have near real-time access to shared data. They can also use this shared data for any of their processing and insights needs and gain value at cloud scale faster than ever before. Storage data access and transactions are charged to the data consumers based on what they use, and at no additional cost to the data providers.

This public preview is initially available for storage in Canada Central, Canada East, UK South, UK West, Australia East, Japan East, Korea South, and South Africa North Azure regions.

Availability: IN PREVIEW

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