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April 2024

15 Apr

GA: New Property for Disks-LastOwnershipUpdateTime

NOW AVAILABLE

Introducing LastOwnershipUpdateTime for Disks in Azure Portal, PowerShell, and CLI. It indicates the last state change time for the Disk, useful for tracking its current state and when it was last updated.

  • Managed Disks
  • Azure Disk Storage
  • Features
8 Apr

Public preview: Backup and restore of virtual machines with private endpoint enabled disks

IN PREVIEW

Azure Backup can now help you back up virtual machines using private endpoint-enabled disks. You can now also specify network settings to be used by the restored disks while initiating the restore process.

  • Azure Backup
  • Security
  • Management
  • Features

March 2024

28 Mar

Preview: Improved throughput performance on Azure Disks’ Standard SSD

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Disks Standard SSD throughput limits are now 100 MB/s on disks sized 8191 GBs and lower.

  • Azure Disk Storage
  • Managed Disks
  • Services
  • Features
25 Mar

Preview: New Features in Azure Container Storage

IN PREVIEW

Azure Container Storage is a fully managed volume orchestration service built natively for containers. New capabilities include support for Temp SSD, simplified installation via AKS CLI, and scalable storage for cost-efficient workload management.

  • Azure Container Storage
  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Features
25 Mar

Public Preview: Agentless multi-disk crash consistent backup by Azure Backup for VM

IN PREVIEW

Azure VM backup now supports agentless multi-disk crash consistent backups in public preview.

  • Azure Backup
  • Compliance
22 Mar

Announcing Azure HPC Cache Retirement

Target retirement date: October 01, 2025

Azure HPC Cache is retiring. End of support is 30 September 2025.

  • Azure HPC Cache
  • Retirements
22 Mar

Announcing Avere vFXT for Azure Retirement

Target retirement date: October 01, 2025

Avere vFXT for Azure is retiring. End of support is 30 September 2025.

  • Avere vFXT for Azure
  • Retirements
21 Mar

Private Preview: Force detach zone redundant disks during zone outage

IN DEVELOPMENT

Force detach zone redundant disks during zone outage and take advantage of ZRS ability to achieve an RPO of 0.

  • Managed Disks
  • Azure Disk Storage
  • Virtual Machines
  • Windows Virtual Machines
  • Linux Virtual Machines
  • Features
5 Mar

Public preview: New Generation AMD VMs - Dasv6/Easv6/Fasv6

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q1 2024

Azure introduces the latest AMD-based VMs in public preview for the D, E, and F series VMs, built on the 4th Generation AMD EPYC™ (Genoa) CPU.

  • Pricing & Offerings

February 2024

29 Feb

General Availability: Encryption at host for Premium SSD v2 and Ultra Disks is now available in more regions.

NOW AVAILABLE

Encryption at host for Premium SSD v2 and Ultra Disks is now available in Canada East, West Europe, South Central US and West US 3.

  • Azure Disk Storage
  • Ultra Disk Storage
  • Managed Disks
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Features
27 Feb

Enable replication for added VMware VM data disks

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Site Recovery now supports enabling replication for data disks that you add to a VMware VM that's already enabled for disaster recovery.

  • Azure Site Recovery
  • Management
  • Features
19 Feb

Generally available: Support for Azure VMs using Ultra disks in Azure Backup

NOW AVAILABLE

General availability for the support for Azure VMs using Ultra disks in Azure Backup.

  • Azure Backup
  • Compliance
  • Management
  • Features
19 Feb

Generally available: Support for Azure VMs using Premium SSD v2 in Azure Backup

NOW AVAILABLE

General availability for the support for Azure VMs using Premium SSD v2 in Azure Backup.

  • Azure Backup
  • Compliance
  • Management
  • Features
14 Feb

General availability: Customer managed key encryption for Enterprise tier caches

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q1 2024

Encrypt Redis persistence files using customer managed keys.

  • Azure Cache for Redis
  • Features
12 Feb

Generally available: Zone Redundant Storage for Azure Disks is now available in Canada Central

NOW AVAILABLE

Zone Redundant Storage (ZRS) for Azure Disks is now available on Azure Premium SSD and Standard SSD in the Canada Central region.

  • Azure Disk Storage
  • Managed Disks
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Features
5 Feb

Azure Ultra Disk Storage is now available in Canada East

NOW AVAILABLE

Now available in Canada East region, Azure Ultra Disk Storage provides high performance along with sub-millisecond latency for your most-demanding workloads.

  • Ultra Disk Storage
  • Managed Disks
  • Azure Disk Storage
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Features

January 2024

31 Jan

General availability: Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL Customer-managed keys (CMK)

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q1 2024

Customer-managed keys allow you to use your own key for cluster data encryption at rest.

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Features
22 Jan

Private Preview: Support for Azure VMs using Premium SSD v2 in Azure Site Recovery

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q1 2024

Private preview for the support for Azure VMs using Premium SSD v2 in Azure Site Recovery.

  • Azure Site Recovery
  • Compliance
  • Management
10 Jan

General Availability: Premium SSD v2 and Ultra disks support with Trusted launch

NOW AVAILABLE

Trusted launch VMs now support Azure Premium SSD v2 and Ultra disks storage.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Managed Disks
  • Ultra Disk Storage
  • Services
  • Compliance
  • Security
  • Features
8 Jan

Azure Ultra Disk Storage is now available in UK West and Poland Central

NOW AVAILABLE

Now available in the UK West and Poland Central regions, Azure Ultra Disk Storage provides high performance along with sub-millisecond latency for your most-demanding workloads.

  • Ultra Disk Storage
  • Azure Disk Storage
  • Managed Disks
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Features

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