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AWS – Improve availability of SAP HANA systems on AWS with Host Auto-Failover
You can now deploy SAP HANA systems with Host Auto-Failover on AWS. Host Auto-Failover is a fully automated host fault recovery solution for SAP HANA that allows you to add one or more hosts in standby mode to an SAP HANA system. Using Host Auto-Failover, SAP HANA can automatically detect host failures (EC2 instance, OS-level, or SAP […]

Azure – General availability: Azure NetApp Files application volume group for SAP HANA
With Azure NetApp Files application volume group (AVG) for SAP HANA, you are able to deploy all volumes required to install and operate an SAP HANA system according to best practices. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Gateway Load Balancer launches new option to rebalance flows when target fails or deregisters
Today we are launching a new feature that provides an option to define flow handling behavior for AWS Gateway Load Balancer. Using this option, customers can now rebalance existing flows to a healthy target, when the target fails or deregisters. This helps reduce failover time when a target becomes unhealthy, and also allows customers to […]

AWS – AWS Launch Wizard now automates deployment of SAP Solution Manager
AWS Launch Wizard now supports deployment of SAP Solution Manager 7.2 alongside SAP S/4HANA,BW/4HANA and NetWeaver on HANA solutions. Read More for the details.

Azure – General availability: Azure Monitor predictive autoscale for Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets
Predictive autoscale manages and scales your virtual machine scale sets by observing and learning from historical CPU usage patterns. Read More for the details.

Azure – General availability: Azure Sphere OS version 22.10 expected on October 25
Participate in the retail evaluation now to ensure full compatibility. The OS evaluation period provides 14 days for backward compatibility testing. Read More for the details.

Azure – General availability: Custom network interface name configurations of private endpoints
Azure private endpoint (PE) support of custom network interface (NIC) names is now generally available. With this feature you can now deploy PE NICs without the GUID suffix. Read More for the details.

Azure – General availability: Static IP configurations of private endpoints
Azure private endpoint support of statically defined IP addresses is now generally available allowing you to provide static IP addresses when configuring your private endpoints. Read More for the details.

Azure – Generally available: Windows Admin Center for Azure Virtual Machines
Windows Admin Center for Azure Virtual Machines is now generally available for you to manage the Operating System of your Windows Server infrastructure in Azure. Read More for the details.
Azure – Generally available: Azure Site Recovery update rollup 64 – October 2022
This update provides the improvements for the latest version of Azure Site Recovery components. Read More for the details.