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General availability: Announcing lower pricing for provisioned throughput on Azure Ultra Disks
Provisioned throughput price on Azure Ultra Disks is reduced by 65% in all regions where Ultra Disks are available
March 2021
General availability: Virtual machine (VM) level disk bursting available on all Dsv3 and Esv3 families
Virtual machine (VM) level disk bursting enables your workloads to handle unforeseen disk traffic spikes smoothly without the need to overprovision your virtual machine. The feature is now enabled on all Dsv3-series and Esv3-series virtual machines.
Backup for Azure Managed Disk is now generally available
Azure Disk Backup offers snapshot lifecycle management to Azure Managed Disk by automating periodic creation of snapshot and retain it for configured duration using Backup policy.
Public preview: Change performance tiers for Premium SSD managed disks with no downtime
Premium SSD managed disks now enables you change performance tiers without any downtime to your applications.
Zone Redundant Storage (ZRS) option for Azure managed disks in limited preview
Zone Redundant Storage (ZRS) option for Azure managed disks protect disks from zonal failures which may occur due to natural disasters or hardware issues.
Public preview: Automatic key rotation of customer-managed keys for encrypting Azure managed disks
Azure Disk Storage now enables you to automatically update keys for encryption of your data.
On-demand disk bursting for Premium SSDs now in public preview
On-demand disk bursting is available in preview for Premium SSDs, allowing you to scale performance to meet demand whenever needed and optimize costs.
February 2021
New disk bursting metrics
New disk bursting metrics that help you gain insight into your disks IO and bandwidth limits for your provisioned and bursting performance and inform you of how much of your bursting credit have been used. These allow you to see your disk's limits for performance as well as see how you have been using your bursting capabilities in the past.
January 2021
Backup for Azure Managed Disk is in limited preview
Target availability: Q1 2021
Azure Backup offers snapshot lifecycle management to Azure Managed Disk by automating periodic creation of snapshot and retain it for configured duration using Backup policy.
November 2020
Performance tiers for Premium SSDs is now generally available
Achieve higher performance and cost savings on Azure Disk Storage with performance tiers.
September 2020
Azure Ultra Disk is now available in more regions
Azure Ultra Disk is now available in Australia Central, India Central, Korea Central and US Gov Texas.
512 Sector Size support on Azure Ultra Disks is now available
Azure Ultra Disks now support 512 sector sizes.
Export and import securely to Azure Disk Storage with Azure Private Links integration (GA)
Azure Disk Storage now enables enhanced security options for export and import via integration with Azure Private Links
Achieve higher performance and cost savings on Azure Disk Storage with performance tiers
Azure Disk Storage now enables you to set performance tiers (public preview) for a chosen duration of time based on workload demand.
New disk IO and Bandwidth metrics to identify bottlenecks
New disk IO utilization metrics that help users gain insight into their disk IO and bandwidth bottlenecks have been released. These metrics simplify identifying resources that are limiting application s performance. Now with a couple of metric views, users can make informed decisions on how to upgrade their products to and see a direct impact to their performance.
Virtual Machine (VM) level Disk Bursting on Dvs3 and Esv3 VMs
Virtual Machine (VM) level Disk Bursting is now enabled on for our Dsv3 and Esv3 virtual machines, allowing customer s workloads to handle unforeseen disk traffic spikes smoothly without the need to overprovision their virtual machine.
August 2020
Azure Ultra Disk is now generally available in more regions and Availability Zones
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.
July 2020
Azure ultra disks are now available in the US Gov Arizona region
Azure ultra disks are now available in the US Gov Arizona region.
Performance tiers for Azure Disk Storage are in limited preview
Azure Disk Storage now enables you to set performance tiers (in limited preview) for a specific duration of time based on workload demand.
Shared disks in Azure Disk Storage are now available
Shared disks are now available in Azure Disk Storage—the only shared block storage in the cloud that supports both Windows and Linux-based clustered or high-availability applications.
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