The latest updates to Elastic Cloud, version 7.13, enhance its integration with Microsoft Azure by introducing the public preview of Azure portal integration, allowing users to easily deploy and manage Elasticsearch within Azure. This integration offers benefits such as simplified log ingestion, consolidated billing, single sign-on, and support for Azure Private Link, which is now in private beta, providing secure, private connectivity for Elastic deployments. Additionally, Elastic Cloud has added support for two new Azure regions and has made the frozen tier generally available, enabling cost-effective data storage using object storage solutions like Azure Blob Storage. The frozen tier, powered by searchable snapshots, allows users to store large volumes of data without the need for deletion, while Fleet, now in beta, offers scalable management of Elastic Agents independently from Kibana. Users can access these features through the Elastic Cloud console or sign up for a trial to explore the improvements.