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Azure Data Box Disk is now available with hardware encryption
Target availability: Q2 2024
Azure Data Box Disk is now Generally Available with hardware encryption.
October 2023
Azure Files has been improved to support all valid Unicode characters
Azure Files now supports an expanded character set enabling file and directory names with all valid Unicode characters.
April 2022
Generally available: Automated key rotation in Azure Key Vault
Key Vault now enables you to automatically rotate keys for encryption of your data.
December 2021
Automated key rotation in Azure Key Vault is now in public preview
Automated key rotation in Key Vault allows security officers to improve data security.
November 2020
More IOPS at no additional cost for Azure Files premium tier
All premium shares get additional baseline and burst input/output per second (IOPS) at zero cost, providing better performance and lower cost of deployment.
SMB Multichannel preview is now available on Azure Files premium tier
Lower your deployment cost and increase your Server Message Block (SMB) 3.x client’s performance with Azure Files SMB Multichannel.
October 2020
Azure Files premium tier is now available in more regions with LRS, ZRS, and NFS support
More Azure Files premium tier regions - more premium files regions with locally redundant storage (LRS), zone redundant storage (ZRS) support, and Network File System (NFS 4.1) public preview support.
Announcing new lower pricing for Azure Files premium tier
Azure Files premium tier price is dropped by more than 33% in all regions and for all redundancy options.
January 2019
Preview refresh: Azure Backup supports PowerShell and ACLs for Azure Files
You can now retain your backup of Azure Files shares for ten years by using Azure Backup and PowerShell.
September 2018
Azure Data Box: Expanded availability, plus support for NFS and RBAC
The Azure Data Box service is now available for data ingestion to France regions, along with support for NFS and RBAC.
May 2018
General availability: Soft delete for Azure Storage blobs
Soft delete for Azure Storage is available in all regions for public, government, and sovereign clouds.
Azure Storage Explorer
Explorer allows users easily manage different storage entities in one place from Linux, macOS, and Windows.
April 2018
Azure Backup now supports network-restricted storage accounts
Azure Backup now supports storage accounts that are secured with Azure Storage firewalls and virtual networks.
March 2018
Public preview: Soft delete for Azure Storage blobs
Soft delete for Azure Storage Blobs is in public preview. The feature is one part of a complete data protection strategy and can help prevent inadvertent data loss.
December 2017
Azure Archive Storage and blob-level tiering
Azure Archive Storage is now generally available. Archive storage will provide a cold storage option for customers interested in lowering their storage costs for long-term data that’s rarely accessed.
September 2017
Preview: Azure Data Box
The Azure Data Box service is in preview. You can use it to move hundreds of terabytes of data into Azure with high speed, by using secure transfer appliances.
Azure Data Box
The Azure Data Box is a secure, ruggedised, tamper resistant appliance created by Microsoft to help customers transfer large amounts of data into Azure Storage.
StorSimple 8000 series available only in the Azure portal from October 2017
Beginning October 2017, you need to use the new Azure portal to manage your StorSimple 8000 series devices. The Azure classic portal is no longer supported.
Support for blob storage lease management from the Azure portal
You can conveniently manage leases on containers and blobs of storage accounts right from the Azure portal.
Manage stored access policies for storage accounts from within the Azure portal
You can now manage the stored access policies for your storage accounts from within the Azure portal.
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