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Public Preview: Azure Backup enables vaulted backups for Azure Files for comprehensive data protection.
Target availability: Q1 2024
Azure Backup now supports transferring Azure Files backups to the vault for comprehensive protection against severe data loss scenarios like ransomware attack.
March 2024
General Availability: Azure Files geo-redundancy for standard large file shares
Target availability: Q1 2024
Azure Files geo-redundancy for 100TiB standard SMB file shares is now generally available.
General Availability: App Service Backup and Restore over Azure Virtual Network
Customers can now use custom backups, to back up their web app's files and configuration data to a firewall-protected storage account.
February 2024
Mount Azure Storage as a local share in App Service Linux Now supports NFS
NFS support is now available for App Service Linux code and container when mounting a Azure File share as a local share for the web app.
January 2024
Improved exports experience
Target availability: Q1 2024
Introducing an improved exports experience that makes FinOps easier and more efficient with access to additional datasets and optimized for handling large data. You can also create and manage your exports with a few clicks, download your cost data in FOCUS format, and maintain compatibility with previous schema versions, enhance your security and compliance while saving time and money.
General Availability: Customer-managed keys for Azure NetApp Files volume encryption
Azure NetApp Files volumes supports encryption with customer-managed keys (CMK), using Azure Key Vault for key storage, to enable an extra layer of security for data at rest.
November 2023
General Availability: User and group quota management in Azure NetApp Files
Default and individual user/group quotas allows you to stay in control of capacity consumption on volumes; the feature is now Generally Available (GA)
Public preview: Confidential temp disk encryption for confidential VMs
Confidential temp disk encryption is now available for all confidential VMs.
Azure NetApp Files datastores for Azure VMware Solution is available in US Government regions.
Azure NetApp Files datastores for Azure VMware Solution is available in US Government (VA, AZ) regions.
October 2023
Public preview: Azure NetApp Files standard storage with cool access
Azure NetApp Files standard storage with cool access is now in public preview. With the new cool access feature, you can enable standard volumes with the ability to transparently store data more cost-effectively on Azure storage accounts based on its access pattern.
Azure Files has been improved to support all valid Unicode characters
Azure Files now supports an expanded character set enabling file and directory names with all valid Unicode characters.
App Service: Backup and Restore over Azure Virtual Network
Customers can now use custom backups, to back up their web app's files and configuration data to a firewall-protected storage account.
September 2023
Retirement notice: The legacy Azure Storage Java client libraries will be retired on 13 September 2024
Target retirement date: September 13, 2024
Upgrade to the latest version of the libraries before the Legacy Azure Storage Java client libraries are retired on 13 September 2024.
Retirement notice: The legacy Azure Storage Python client libraries will be retired on 13 September 2024
Target retirement date: September 13, 2024
Upgrade to the latest version of the libraries before the Legacy Azure Storage Python client libraries are retired on 13 September 2024.
August 2023
General availability: Terraform support for Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL
Target availability: Q3 2023
Now you can use Terraform for unified inventory and management operations for Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL clusters.
Public Preview: Azure NetApp Files Cloud Backup for Virtual Machines
Azure NetApp Files datastores now supports Cloud Backup for Virtual Machines in preview
Public preview: Azure Storage Mover support for SMB and Azure Files
Migrate your SMB shares to Azure file shares with Azure Storage Mover.
General availability | Azure NetApp Files: SMB Continuous Availability (CA) shares
Azure NetApp Files SMB Continuous Availability (CA) shares is now Generally Available (GA)
July 2023
Azure Managed Lustre now generally available
Reduce infrastructure setup with a managed file system optimized for HPC and AI workloads.
June 2023
Public Preview: Azure AD Support for Azure Files SMB shares REST API
With this announcement, cloud native and modern applications that use REST APIs to access Azure SMB shares can utilize identity-based authentication and authorization to access file shares.
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