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November 2023

20 Nov

General Availability: Encryption at host for Premium SSD v2 and Ultra Disks

NOW AVAILABLE

Encryption at host for Premium SSD v2 and Ultra Disks

  • Azure Disk Storage
  • Managed Disks
  • Ultra Disk Storage
  • Features
15 Nov

GA: Ultra Disk performance updates

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Ultra Disk Storage now provides maximum throughput of up to 10 GBps and IOPS of up to 400K IOPS per disk.

  • Ultra Disk Storage
  • Managed Disks
  • Azure Disk Storage
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
15 Nov

Azure Container Storage is now available with Azure Linux container host

IN PREVIEW

Azure Container Storage (in preview) offers volume management built natively for containers. With the latest update, you can deploy Azure Container Storage on Azure Linux container host.

  • Azure Container Storage
  • App Service (Linux)
  • Managed Disks
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
6 Nov

Preview: Azure Container Storage in AKS

IN PREVIEW

You can now easily deploy and use Azure Container Storage (in preview) seamlessly via the Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) preview CLI experience.

  • Azure Container Storage
  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Managed Disks
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Features
6 Nov

Latency metrics for disks and performance metrics for temporary disks on Azure Virtual Machines

NOW AVAILABLE

New latency metrics on OS, data and temporary disks are now available in preview, allowing you to see how long it takes to complete input/output (IO) requests to Azure Disks . In addition, new performance metrics for temporary disks are generally available now and allow users to see the IOPS, throughput and queue depth for virtual machines with temporary disks.

  • Azure Disk Storage
  • Managed Disks
  • Virtual Machines
  • Features
2 Nov

Generally available: Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage is now available in more regions

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage is now available in more regions and offers the most advanced general-purpose block storage solution with the best price performance

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

October 2023

19 Oct

Generally available: Zone Redundant Storage for Azure Disks is now available in more regions

NOW AVAILABLE

Zone Redundant Storage (ZRS) for Azure Disks is now available on Azure Premium SSD and Standard SSD in Norway East and UAE North regions.

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

September 2023

28 Sep

Generally available: Zone Redundant Storage for Azure Disks is now available in more regions

NOW AVAILABLE

Zone Redundant Storage (ZRS) for Azure Disks is now available on Azure Premium SSD and Standard SSD in China North 3, India Central, Switzerland North, South Africa North and Sweden Central regions..

  • Managed Disks
  • Azure Disk Storage
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Features
7 Sep

Generally available: Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage is now available in more regions

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage is now available in more regions and offers the most advanced general-purpose block storage solution with the best price performance

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

August 2023

16 Aug

Public Preview: Azure Elastic SAN Updates: Private endpoints & shared volumes

IN PREVIEW

Introducing the latest updates to Azure Elastic SAN (in preview), private endpoint support and volume sharing support via SCSI (Small Computer System Interface) Persistent Reservation.

  • Azure Elastic SAN
  • Storage Accounts
  • Managed Disks
  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Features
16 Aug

General Availability: Incremental snapshots for Premium SSD v2 Disk and Ultra Disk Storage

NOW AVAILABLE

Incremental snapshots for Premium SSD v2 and Ultra Disk Storage with instant restore capability are now generally available (GA)

  • Azure Disk Storage
  • Managed Disks
  • Ultra Disk Storage
  • Features
10 Aug

Generally available: Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage is now available in more regions

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage is now available in more regions and offers the most advanced general-purpose block storage solution with the best price performance.

  • Azure Disk Storage
  • Managed Disks
  • Storage Accounts
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Features
2 Aug

Generally available: Zone Redundant Storage for Azure Disks is now available in East Asia

NOW AVAILABLE

Zone Redundant Storage (ZRS) for Azure Disks is now available on Azure Premium SSD and Standard SSD in East Asia

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

July 2023

18 Jul

Public Preview : Crash Consistent VM Restore points

IN PREVIEW

For Azure partners and customers seeking to develop business continuity and disaster recovery solutions, crash-consistent VM restore points serve as feature-rich building blocks, offering an agentless solution available natively on the Azure platform.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Linux Virtual Machines
  • Managed Disks
  • Features

March 2023

13 Mar

General availability: Ephemeral OS disks supports encryption at host using customer managed keys

NOW AVAILABLE

Create Ephemeral VMs with customer managed key encryption types for encryption at host.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Managed Disks
  • Features

November 2022

2 Nov

General availability: Ephemeral OS disk support for confidential virtual machines

NOW AVAILABLE

Create confidential VMs using Ephemeral OS disks for your stateless workloads.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Managed Disks
  • Features

August 2022

30 Aug

Public preview: Ephemeral OS disks supports host-based encryption using customer managed key

IN PREVIEW

Create Ephemeral VMs with customer managed key encryption types for host-based encryption.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Virtual Machine Scale Sets
  • Managed Disks
  • Features

July 2022

5 Jul

Public preview: Ephemeral OS disk support for confidential virtual machines

IN PREVIEW

Create confidential VMs using Ephemeral OS disks for your stateless workloads.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Managed Disks
  • Features

June 2022

7 Jun

General availability: Trusted launch support for virtual machines using Ephemeral OS disks

NOW AVAILABLE

Trusted launch virtual machine (VM) support for VMs using Ephemeral OS disks improves the security of generation 2 VMs in Azure.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Virtual Machine Scale Sets
  • Managed Disks
  • Features

April 2022

28 Apr

Generally available: Automated key rotation in Azure Key Vault

NOW AVAILABLE

Key Vault now enables you to automatically rotate keys for encryption of your data.

  • Key Vault
  • Storage Accounts
  • Managed Disks
  • Security
  • Features

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