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Quick create Azure Front Door endpoints for Azure Storage accounts
Azure Storage is announcing native integration with Azure Front Door for content delivery with blob storage as your origin
Public Preview: Azure Elastic SAN Updates: Private endpoints & shared volumes
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.
Generally available: Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage is now available in more regions
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.
Generally available: Azure Blob Storage Cold Tier
Azure Blob Storage Cold Tier is an online tier specifically designed for efficiently storing data that is infrequently accessed or modified, all while ensuring immediate availability.
Generally available: Zone Redundant Storage for Azure Disks is now available in East Asia
Zone Redundant Storage (ZRS) for Azure Disks is now available on Azure Premium SSD and Standard SSD in East Asia
July 2023
Generally available: Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage is now available in more regions.
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.
General availability: Azure Archive Storage now available in Sweden Central
Reduce spending by storing rarely accessed data to Azure Archive Storage, now in new regions.
June 2023
Preview Updates: Azure Elastic SAN Public Preview improvements
Introducing the latest update to Azure Elastic SAN (in preview), which now offers expanded range of regions, increased support for diverse workloads, and an array of new features.
Generally available: Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage in Southeast Asia, UK South, South Central US and West US 3
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.
General availability: Azure Queue Storage SDK for Go
The new Azure Queue Storage SDK is now generally available for Go, allowing developers to build Go apps that can store and retrieve messages in Azure Queue Storage.
General availability: Azure Blob Storage SDK for Go
The new Azure Blob Storage SDK is now generally available for Go, allowing developers to build Go apps that interact with objects in Azure Blob Storage.
Generally available: Zone Redundant Storage for Azure Disks is now available in Japan East and Korea Central
Zone Redundant Storage (ZRS) for Azure Disks is now available on Azure Premium SSD and Standard SSD in Japan East and Korea Central.
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.
May 2023
Generally available: Azure Files scalability improvement for Azure Virtual Desktop and other workloads that open root directory handles
Target availability: Q2 2023
Azure Files has increased the root directory handle limit per share from 2,000 to 10,000 for standard and premium file shares.
Public Preview: Azure Files geo-redundancy for standard large file shares
Target availability: Q2 2023
Azure Files geo-redundancy for large file shares is now in public preview for standard SMB file shares.
Public preview: New features in Azure Container Storage
Azure Container Storage, a unique storage provisioning and management service built natively for containers, is introducing several new features in preview.
Public preview: Azure Cold Storage
Target availability: Q2 2023
Azure Cold Storage, as the most cost-effective access tier with near real-time read latency for infrequently accessed unstructured data is available for public preview.
April 2023
General Availability: Support for Linux clients to use identity-based access to Azure file shares over SMB
Target availability: Q2 2023
Linux SMB clients can now use Azure Files identity based authentication and authorization. This capability is available to devices that are domain joined to either customer-managed Microsoft AD DS or Azure AD DS.
Regional expansion: Azure Elastic SAN Public Preview is now available in more regions.
Azure Elastic SAN (preview) is now available in Australia East, North Europe, Sweden Central, UK South, West Europe, East US, East US 2, South Central US, and West US 3.
Azure Storage Mover is now Generally Available
We are excited to announce that Azure Storage Mover is now generally available.
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