#AvePoint Cloud Backup for Azure September 2022

Release Date for the Commercial Environment: September 4, 2022

Release Date for the US Government Environment: September 11, 2022

• The Cloud Backup for Azure service is now also available in the following data centers: Canada Central (Toronto), Germany West Central (Frankfurt), West Europe (Netherlands), and UK South (London).

• Customers from a distributor with subscriptions that use AvePoint default storage can choose either to use AvePoint default storage or use their own storage to store backup data when they sign into Cloud Backup for Azure for the first time.

• You can now choose to use your own Amazon S3 storage or Amazon S3-Compatible storage to store your backup data.

• You can now submit feedback to report a bug, provide suggestions on the interface and features, and rate your experience using Cloud Backup for Azure.

• You can now submit a support ticket from the Cloud Backup for Azure interface and choose to invite an AvePoint support representative to access your service instance for troubleshooting.

• If your subscription uses AvePoint default storage, you can now configure a custom retention period for each backup scope, up to the retention policy in your subscription.

• You can now generate an index for VM backup data in the restore wizard if you want to perform a file-level data exportation.

• The Subscription Consumption report is now available to monitor your subscription details and usage.

• The Backup Scope Name and the Scope ID have been added to the recovery point details to help users to easily find backups of a specific scope from the calendar to perform a restore.

• Your trial instance of Cloud Backup for Azure will use the AvePoint default storage to store your backup data by default, with a data retention period of one month.

• [Azure Active Directory] When restoring groups with memberships (including group members, owners, and group memberships), you can also choose whether to restore the other relationships (including the license, applications, and administrator units.)