#AvePoint Cloud Backup for IaaS + PaaS December 2023

Release Date for the Commercial Environment: December 3, 2023

Release Date for the US Government Environment: December 10, 2023

• Native Azure SQL backup monitoring and configuration is now available.

• If you have a Trial subscription for the native Azure SQL monitoring and configuration functionality, you can configure one backup scope to protect up to five databases.

• Account Management is now available in the Cloud Backup for IaaS + PaaS interface for permission management with security groups. To cater to the diverse administrative needs, administrators can create security groups with a custom permission scope. The standard users added to a security group can inherit the group permissions automatically.

• When you choose to use AvePoint default storage, the AvePoint hosted Amazon S3 storage is now an available option. This option is available for both Trial and Enterprise subscriptions.

• You can now use custom app profile authentication for Microsoft Entra ID service and Admin Portal Settings service.

• You can now use a custom Azure app with delegated permissions for the Azure VM service, Azure Storage service, and Azure SQL service.

• When you re-authorize the Microsoft Delegated App used by the Azure VM service, Azure Storage service, and Azure SQL service, you can now choose to use the end-user consent.

• Microsoft Entra ID service now supports protecting the extension attributes for users, groups, administrative units, app registrations, and devices.

• Microsoft Entra ID service now supports the backup and export of Sign-in Logs and Audit Logs.

• Improved the user experience for the notifications on the interface and the email alerts, when we detect the customer has updated the subscription from using AvePoint default storage to BYOS.

• Azure VM service now supports protecting the Azure VMs with Data access authentication mode enabled.

• When restoring the Amazon EC2 instance, you can now choose whether to add the restored instance to the load balancer.

• When you are configuring the app registration in AvePoint Online Services interface for using the Cloud Backup for IaaS + PaaS public APIs, you can now add client secrets, in addition to the certification file to identify the app to the authentication service.