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April saw a number of updates to the Cloud Adoption Framework<\/a> documentation. One really useful change is bringing all the tools, templates and assessments together into one place. There has also been considerable work done on the Landing Zones guidance incorporating guidance on refactoring templates and incorporating Test Driven Development.<\/p>\n For more information on what’s new to the CAF, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In April Microsoft Azure announced the\u00a0<\/span>preview of<\/span>\u00a0Cross Region Restore<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>(<\/span>CRR<\/span>)<\/span>\u00a0for Azure VMs using Microsoft Azure Backup<\/span><\/a>. What does this mean for you? It means\u00a0<\/span>you can now initiate back up data restores in a secondary region at will to\u00a0mitigate real downtime disaster in the primary region for\u00a0<\/span>you<\/span>r environment. This makes the secondary region restores completely\u00a0<\/span>customer-controlled<\/span>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Custom<\/span><\/i>e<\/span><\/i>r controlled CRR. Source:\u00a0<\/span><\/i>Microsoft<\/span><\/i><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Key features available with the preview include:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n You can read the full announcement\u00a0<\/span>here<\/span><\/a>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Following the preview back in September, <\/span>Microsoft Azure <\/span>have now <\/span>announced<\/span><\/a> the general availability of incremental snapshots of <\/span>Azure Managed Disks<\/span><\/a>. Incremental snapshots are a cost-effective, point-in-time backup of managed disks. Unlike current snapshots, which are billed for the full size, incremental snapshots are billed for the delta changes to disks since the last snapshot and are always stored on the most cost-effective storage<\/span>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n You can have a read of the full announcement in more detail <\/span>here<\/span><\/a>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Each month Microsoft Azure listen to the challenges we face when it comes to managing cloud costs and, based on our feedback, make improvements and updates to Azure Cost Management + Billing. April\u2019s improvements include:<\/p>\n Read about the above improvements, and many more, in their blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n According to Azure users, increased cost optimisation and increased performance are two of the most importance features of data lake architecture on Azure. Not ones to make us pick one or the other, Microsoft Azure have announced a new capability of Azure Data Lake Storage which improved both performance and cost.<\/p>\n Interested in finding out more? Have a read of their full announcement<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\nCROSS REGION RESTORE FOR AZURE VMs SUPPORT USING AZURE BACKUP NOW IN PREVIEW<\/h3>\n
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ANNOUNCING GENERAL AVAILABILITY OF INCREMENTAL SNAPSHOTS OF MANAGED DISKS<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n
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IMPROVE PERFORMANCE AND COST WITH QUERY ACCELERATION FOR AZURE DATA LAKE STORAGE<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n
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