Azure SQL—General availability updates for December 2021

In December 2021, the following updates and enhancements were made to Azure SQL: 

• Enable long-term retention on your Azure SQL Managed Instance to store full backups for up to 10 years.
• Limits network traffic from Azure SQL to a customer defined list of storage accounts using outbound firewall rules.
• Configure backup storage redundancy for Azure SQL Database to store backups on local, zone, or geo redundant storage.