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April 2024

1 Apr

Public Preview: Azure Backup enables vaulted backups for Azure Files for comprehensive data protection.

IN PREVIEW

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.

  • Security
  • Features

March 2024

27 Mar

General Availability: Azure Files geo-redundancy for standard large file shares

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q1 2024

Azure Files geo-redundancy for 100TiB standard SMB file shares is now generally available.

  • Azure Files
  • Storage Accounts
  • Features
7 Mar

General Availability: App Service Backup and Restore over Azure Virtual Network

NOW AVAILABLE

Customers can now use custom backups, to back up their web app's files and configuration data to a firewall-protected storage account.

  • Features

February 2024

5 Feb

Mount Azure Storage as a local share in App Service Linux Now supports NFS

NOW AVAILABLE

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. 

  • App Service
  • Features

January 2024

29 Jan

Improved exports experience

IN PREVIEW

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.

  • Management
  • Features
11 Jan

General Availability: Customer-managed keys for Azure NetApp Files volume encryption

NOW AVAILABLE

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.

  • Azure NetApp Files
  • Services
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Features

November 2023

21 Nov

General Availability: User and group quota management in Azure NetApp Files

NOW AVAILABLE

Default and individual user/group quotas allows you to stay in control of capacity consumption on volumes; the feature is now Generally Available (GA)

  • Azure NetApp Files
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Features
15 Nov

Public preview: Confidential temp disk encryption for confidential VMs

IN PREVIEW

Confidential temp disk encryption is now available for all confidential VMs.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Services
  • Security
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
7 Nov

Azure NetApp Files datastores for Azure VMware Solution is available in US Government regions.

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure NetApp Files datastores for Azure VMware Solution is available in US Government (VA, AZ) regions.

  • Azure NetApp Files
  • Azure VMware Solution
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Features

October 2023

25 Oct

Public preview: Azure NetApp Files standard storage with cool access

IN PREVIEW

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 NetApp Files
  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Features
10 Oct

Azure Files has been improved to support all valid Unicode characters

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Files now supports an expanded character set enabling file and directory names with all valid Unicode characters.

  • Azure Files
  • Services
  • Features
5 Oct

App Service: Backup and Restore over Azure Virtual Network

IN PREVIEW

Customers can now use custom backups, to back up their web app's files and configuration data to a firewall-protected storage account.

  • App Service
  • Features

September 2023

29 Sep

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.

  • SDKs
  • Storage Accounts
  • Retirements
  • SDK and Tools
22 Sep

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.

  • SDKs
  • Storage Accounts
  • Retirements
  • SDK and Tools

August 2023

16 Aug

General availability: Terraform support for Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q3 2023

Now you can use Terraform for unified inventory and management operations for Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL clusters.

  • Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL
  • Features
15 Aug

Public Preview: Azure NetApp Files Cloud Backup for Virtual Machines

IN PREVIEW

Azure NetApp Files datastores now supports Cloud Backup for Virtual Machines in preview

  • Azure NetApp Files
  • Azure VMware Solution
  • Services
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Features
8 Aug

Public preview: Azure Storage Mover support for SMB and Azure Files

IN PREVIEW

Migrate your SMB shares to Azure file shares with Azure Storage Mover.

  • Azure Storage Mover
  • Services
  • Management
  • Features
3 Aug

General availability | Azure NetApp Files: SMB Continuous Availability (CA) shares

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure NetApp Files SMB Continuous Availability (CA) shares is now Generally Available (GA)

  • Azure NetApp Files
  • Services
  • Features

July 2023

10 Jul

Azure Managed Lustre now generally available

NOW AVAILABLE

Reduce infrastructure setup with a managed file system optimized for HPC and AI workloads.

  • Azure Managed Lustre
  • Services
  • Pricing & Offerings

June 2023

6 Jun

Public Preview: Azure AD Support for Azure Files SMB shares REST API

IN PREVIEW

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.

  • Azure Files
  • SDKs
  • Storage Accounts
  • SDK and Tools
  • Features

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