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Monthly updates for August 2020

19 Aug

Azure Ultra Disk is now generally available in more regions and Availability Zones

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Ultra Disk is now available in Australia East, East Asia, Brazil South, and Canada Central, while Azure Ultra Disk support has been expanded to the 3 Availability Zones in US East 2 and Japan East.

  • Azure Disk Storage
  • Managed Disks
  • Regions & Datacenters
17 Aug

Public preview: CSI storage driver support in Azure Kubernetes Service

IN PREVIEW

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) now supports Container Storage Interface (CSI), a standard for exposing arbitrary block and file storage systems to containerized workloads on Kubernetes. This offers more flexibility in exposing storage systems in Kubernetes.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Features
17 Aug

Public preview: Ephemeral OS disk support in AKS

IN PREVIEW

AKS now supports ephemeral OS disk for AKS agent nodes in public preview.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Features
12 Aug

Azure Data Box Disk is now generally available in South Africa and China

NOW AVAILABLE

The Microsoft Azure Data Box Disk solution lets you send terabytes of on-premises data to Azure in a quick, inexpensive, and reliable way.

  • Data Box Disk
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Services
  • Pricing & Offerings
12 Aug

Improvements to Azure VM backups are now available

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Backup now supports restoring unmanaged VMs/Disks as Managed Disks, backup for Virtual Machine Scale Sets, and allows replacing existing disks for VMs with Managed Service Identity

  • Azure Backup
  • Features
6 Aug

Selective disks backup for Azure Virtual Machine is in public preview

IN PREVIEW

Optimize your costs and enjoy faster backup and restore operations by selectively backing up a subset of the data disks in a VM.

  • Azure Backup
  • Features
5 Aug

SQL Server FCI on Shared Disks for SQL Server on virtual machines

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Shared Disks for SQL Server Failover Cluster Instance (SQL FCI) on Azure IaaS is now in general availability.

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Features

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